ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES
October 15, 2011
Business meeting was called to order at 8am by president Ed Kircher CST/CFA. A quorum was established.
Introduction of Officers and board in attendance were Ed Kircher, Bob Bush, Mimi Conway, Donna Mitchell, Karena Starr , Monica Cervi. And Danita Bennette
The business meeting was then recessed, opened again for voting at lunch, recessed and reconvened towards the end of the educational session. The secretary’s abbreviated minutes from 2009 and 2010 were accepted. A power point presentation by the treasurer for 2009 and 2010 was given and accepted.
Old Business
We are officially incorporated AZSA of the AST .We also have non-profit status of 501C. Several members have helped out with education in surgical tech programs around the state as well as spoke at career fairs, classrooms and the HOSA event this past year. The education committee was able to connect with the entire surgical tech programs this past year. Once again we were able to secure surgical tech week from our governor.
New Business
We have voted and re elected Ed Kircher CST/CSFA for President, Donna Mitchell CST/CSFA for vice president, Robert Bush CST/CSFA for treasurer. May Baird CST was elected to the board of directors. Everyone including students are asked to check the web page for upcoming events as well as volunteer opportunities. We encourage all techs to become involved and to help in our next year’s annual meeting to be held in the Phoenix area. Congratulations to Student Angela Chalfoux of Brown Mackie in Tucson for winning the 50/50 raffle of $39.00. The State Assembly continues to work towards the goal of hiring a lobbyist to pursue our goal of certification to become mandatory in Arizona. Next Open Board meeting March 2012.Check web site for time and location.
Meeting adjourned 2pm.
AZSA-AST Quarterly Board Meeting
Minutes of September 10, 2011
Call to order: Ed Kircher, President 9:45 am
Attendance: bob bush, Mimi Conway, Donna Mitchell, Ed Kircher, Monica Cervi
Excused absence: Danita Bennett, Karena Starr
Secretary report: Mimi Conway provided the secretary. It was accepted.
Treasurer report: bob bush presented the treasurer report. It was accepted.
Old Business:
A. Ed Kircher and Donna Mitchell will be running for President and Vice President. Bob Bush plans to run for Treasurer from the floor and Monica Cervi is still considering running for the president at the annual meeting of the workshop. No other Consent to Serve papers has been received.
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C. Donna Mitchell has a photo of our quilt winner and will send a copy to Karen to post on the web page.
D. Our workshop has been approved for 5 CE’s and Ed has all Bios with one needing a little more information. Information I on our web page, as well as the AST publication.
E. Our caterer needs a final workshop lunch count by the 10th. Ed will provide them with the current information. We will also include our speakers and guests as well as Brown Mackie staff helping as our cost.
New Business:
A. Workshop October15th at Brown Mackie College in Phoenix. 7:15 am registration. Start time of 8am with 5 speakers, business meeting and voting if quorum reached. A target workshop of ending time of 4:15 will be strived for. Lunch and morning coffee and pastries provided. All board members and officers are expected to meet at 6:30 am. Bob and Mimi will be at the registration desk along with several Brown Mackie students. Mimi will be on the Tellers committee with several students.
B. Bob and Monica secured door prizes for the event. Monica will purchase gift cards as speaker gifts. We will also have a 50/50 raffle with ticket sales a $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00. Also on hand will be hats and goggles for sale.
C. Next years registration form will include a place for e-mail address so we can send a copy of registration via the net. It was suggested we start the workshop earlier net year and begin topics at our first board meeting. Several schools did nor receive our workshop information and Ed will be contacting the area surgical tech programs.
D. Officers and board present at the meeting agreed to provide money toward ABHES student scholarships. AST only offers CAAHEP. We will provide two $250.00 scholarships.
E. We have agreed to let our safe deposit box go and use a fire safe, waterproof lock box to house the important original documents. A box costs $50.00 and will be the same cost as a safety deposit box in two years time.
F. Board members are reminded to please respond to emails by your president.
Next meeting: 10/15/11 at Brown Mackie College, 13430 N. Black Canyon Highway, Phoenix, AZ 85029 at 6:30 am
Meeting adjourned as 11:25am
AZSA-AST Quarterly Board Meeting
Minutes of June 18, 2011
Call to order: Ed Kircher, President 10:00 am
Attendance: Bob Bush, Mimi Conway, Donna Mitchell, Ed Kircher, Monica Cervi , Danita Bennett, Karena Starr, Mary Baird
Guests: Corey Hinton, Patrick Bindis Instructors for Bryman and Pima College
Secretary report: Mimi Conway provided the secretary report. It was accepted.
Treasurer report: Bob Bush presented the treasurer report. It was accepted.
Old Business: A. Logo and letterhead have been decided upon. Bob Bush and Ed Kircher will do a few minor tweaks. Board voted to accept and complemented new logo as well as letterhead. Logo can be transferred to many items and is clean and simple. Copies of letterhead were sent out to all board members and also provided at meeting.
B. Web site has been updated and is keeping current with board news. As soon as a photo is available of quilt winner it will be sent to Karen for posting.
C. 501C3 has been received for our non-profit status. Thank you Bob and Ed for your hard work on achieving this.
D. We have $1500 in student scholarship money. This money will roll over to the next year if not used.
E. Ed was a speaker at EVIT graduation.
New Business: A. Workshop October 15th at Brown- Mackie College in Phoenix. 7:15am registration. Start time of 8am with 5 speakers, business meeting and voting if quorum reached. A target workshop ending time of 4:15pm will be strived for. Lunch and morning coffee and pastries provided.
B. Bios are needed for the speakers .We are also looking for any freebies from local vendors. Please contact Ed if you have any leads or items to provide. Monica has agreed to provide the thank you gift cards for our speakers. A $25.00 price was agreed on. We will also hold a 50/50 raffle and a few gift cards but no baskets this year.
C. Ed will speak to Brown- Mackie of having access to the building earlier as we were too pressed for time as well as having another room for lunch and voting as it was disruptive setting up lunch in the back of the room during a speaker. A suggestion of having a student game contest with opposing schools battling knowledge on core curriculum. Both Corey and Patrick were on board with this idea. This would be held during voting or sometime during the workshop.
D. A huge Thank You to Mary Baird for being our delegate and working the sales booth at National convention. A huge lifesaver. She came to our rescue as several appointed delegates were unable to attend at the last minute. We were able to make a profit on our quilt raffle, surgical caps and safety glasses. Bob has the entire breakdown for your viewing in his treasurer report. Mimi and Linda will have a booth at the Tucson High School career fair January 27, 2011. Thank you Donna and Danita for much needed supplies for our show and tell at the booth.
E. Travel reimbursements for those board members seeking gas money for attending board meetings has been decided on 14 cents a mile with anything under 25 miles round trip to be excluded. This is an effort to try and not deplete our case reserve.
F. A power point was shown by Ed as an idea to have it playing during registration for our workshop. It was a short presentation introducing the board and featured speakers. Some ideas suggested were to add music, photos and change all lettering from multi -color to black for easier reading. Ed will continue to work on this project as all agreed this was a nice touch.
G. Elections for officers will be held in October at the workshop. Ed has turned in his paperwork for the office of President. Donna has turned in her paperwork for the office of Vice President. Bob is undecided if he will seek re election of Treasurer. Mimi is secretary one more year as well as Danita and Karena for there board positions. Anyone else wishing to run for offices please contact Ed or Mimi for Paperwork or send paperwork directly to Mimi.
H. Bob presented an idea about jar openers to be sold with our logo on them, this idea was not deemed profitable and rejected. Bob also asked if he could have a portion of our table to present information about First Assisting/ASA. All board was in favor of that idea. Bob was recently elected to the ASA National Board of Directors. Meeting was opened to visitors for discussion Corey Hinton CST/CFA the new instructor for Bryman in Peoria asked that a board member talk to his students. After a discussion of what is appropriate and how to handle certification inquiries Ed agreed and will get with Corey on when he will speak. Corey would also like to have us promote AST and invite his students to become associate members and to come and promote the profession. We need to proceed with baby steps to get everyone on board and strive for the same goal. Patrick Bindis CST the new instructor for Pima Community College in Tucson would also like a speaker to come and talk to his students. Bob and Mimi agreed. It’s our goal to get the students active and educated on the state assembly and recruit new members.
Next Meeting: 9/10/11 at Brookline College, 1140 S Priest Dr, Tempe 85281 Meeting adjourned at 11:45am.