AST Quarterly Meeting

Minutes of June 12, 2010

Call to order: Ed Kircher Vice President 10:05 am

Attendance: Bob Bush, Linda Morey, Donna Mitchell, Ed Kircher, Mimi Conway, Karena Starr, Monica Cervi , Danita Bennett. (Excused absent Robert Goodrich, family emergency, Michele Schmidt, illness in family)

Secretary report: Mimi Conway read the secretary report. It was accepted with the modification of hotel added to Linda Moreys report on prices for the October workshop.

Treasurer report: Bob Bush presented the treasurer report. It was accepted.

Committee Reports Education: Linda Morey presented an education report to Secretary Mimi Conway and these are the highlights of that report. Our October workshop has new forms and deadlines that must be met. Linda has attended organizational meetings of the surgical technologist advisory committee for Brookline College and spoke at Brown Mackie orientation class. Linda has also asked Ed, Monica and Karena to be on the October workshop planning committee.

Bylaws: Donna Mitchell informed us that changes have been made to the national bylaws that change the eligibility of people running for office. A full one-year term of office will only apply if running for president. A full disclosure of bylaws can be found on the national AST web page.

Legislation:  Ed has completed new forms and re submitted our request to Governor Jan Brewer for Surgical Technologist week September 19-25 2010.

Fundraising: Due to poor sales in this economy our Jeep raffle has been cancelled. Treasurer Bob Bush will refund all moneys collected so far. It was proposed that Linda Morey or Robert Goodrich should send a letter with the refunded money explaining the Jeep raffle cancelation. Linda feels some people may donate the ticket money. Mimi will contact Karen to post this news on our webpage.

Our booth at the national convention was a success. We paid $100 for a booth and sold $1326.00 worth of merchandise. Talk of renting another booth at next years convention was met with enthusiasm. If possible it would be nice to have credit card sales at this booth as numerous people wanted to charge items and that would have increases sales further. Bob Bush will check with Wells Fargo and see if anything like this can be run thru our account. Our Quilt winner was Toren Bell, Spring Hills, TN Second place winner of $150.00 was Pam Miller, Casa Grande, third place winner of $100.00 was Linda Morey Casa Grande, AZ.

Bob Bush and Karena Starr showed off t-shirts purchased from other AST booths. One was a No Fear and the other a Hard Rock Café. Round table talk of selling this type of wear is considered for next year’s booth and checking with Michele Schmidt as she has a t-shirt connection. Bob Bush will contact Café Express our web site connection for selling merchandise and see about putting items on for sale so we do not have to keep them in stock. We do not know the % Café Express takes of these sales and if they would be able to sell safety goggles.

Communications: Mimi Conway has asked Karen Saliski to post photos from National convention on the web page. Linda Morey has met with Karen and she has been able to update her email files and efficiently send emails to members. Bob Bush is contacting Linda with any returned mail. Donna said Karen has her October workshop photos on a disk file and hopes they will be uploaded soon.

Old Business:

Jeep Raffle sales are poor. All money is due at this meeting. We need $26,000.00 to break even as of today we have $1,525.00.

October workshop is scheduled in Phoenix, October 9^th 2010. Tentative times are 8am to 3pm followed by a business meeting and voting. Location to be at Brown Mackie College 13430 North Black Canyon Highway, Phoenix, AZ 85029. Cost for AST members will be $65.00 and $75.00 for all others.

New Business:

Delegates Karena Starr and Monica Cervi presented reports and were given a check for one nights hotel stay at the national convention in Dallas. Bob Bush read his report and Ed Kircher declined reimbursement for serving as a delegate. Bob Bush also issued checks to Donna Mitchell and Karena Starr for gas reimbursement to attend board meeting. All other board members declined payment. Delegates reported it was overall a good convention but not stellar as in past years. Booth sales were great and everyone felt we should have another booth next year. Next years AST convention to be held in San Francisco, CA May 31-June 4^th. Hotel across the street is accepting room reservations now and it is much cheaper than Hotel Convention will be held in.

We are still in need of a new logo. Our current logo does not shrink down, can be hard to read and is dark. All ideas are encouraged and please send ideas around to fellow board members keeping in mind something small, simple and related to Arizona. Ideas were a Saguaro with a mask, our State bird the cactus wren or the roadrunner.

It was brought up that our web site is much better now thanks to Karen Saliski but still needs more current information posted. Some new photos are on the gallery but we would like to see the October workshop and Dallas photos included. A wish list for the web page is to get all 2009 and 2008 information off. Have President Robert Goodrich post a current letter from the president, an explanation of cancelled Jeep raffle, post surgical tech week Sept19-25 on site. Have one or two other people help maintain the web page, as it is time consuming. Post new National information as well as our next board meeting September 11, 2010 (same location and time). Bios listed for those who wrote them.

Elections will be taking place at our annual meeting/workshop in October. Ed will contact Richie Zamora from National to check on how we handle these as we did not meet a quorum at our last annual meeting and several officers and board members are in positions that have ended last year. According to our records we have all officers ending their terms.  We must post names for elections and mail post cards informing members 90 days before elections. The date to get these out is July 9^th. Danita  Bennett was given the paperwork  to run for a board member position.

Meeting adjourned 12:15pm

Next meeting dates September 11th, 2010 10am

Paradise Valley Hospital  cafeteria/ board room 3929 E. Bell Road Phoenix ,AZ 85032

                                                        Quarterly Board Meeting

March 2010

Call to order: Robert Goodrich, President 10:07 am

Attendance: Robert Goodrich, Bob Bush, Linda Morey, Donna Mitchell, Ed Kircher, , Mimi Conway ,Karena Starr, ( absent due to funeral Michelle Schmidt, Monica Cervi unexcused absent.)

 Secretary report: Mimi Conway read the secretary report. It was accepted .

Treasurer report: Bob Bush presented the treasurer report. It was accepted.

Committee Reports 

Education: Linda Morey met with surgical tech students at Gateway Community College. She participated in EVIT’S Tech fest. Linda Morey ,Mimi Conway ,Margarthe May ,Kathleen Brochla and 4 gateway students participated in Tucson area high school Career fair. Made a wonderful connection with Brown Mackie Phoenix school.

Bylaws: Donna Mitchell has no news regarding bylaws.

Legislation: Ed Kircher and Robert Goodrich have talked to Cathy Sparkman and have pushed our Lobbyist on hold until Jan of 2011. We were able to gain support but not money from EVIT. The board agreed we did not have enough time or money to push legislation thru by January 2010. AST National will help with ½ the money needed for legislation and Cathy Sparkman thinks she can get our lobbyist bill down to$ 24,000 from the $30,000 that was initially proposed. We will begin fundraising and everyone will be needed to help in letter writing, meeting legislators and numerous other duties. Ed Kircher has a fact sheet written up, but we need to do ground work-involving educators, physicians, infection control nurses. Is there any study about the infection rate using a non-certified tech in the OR?

Fundraising: Bob Bush has contacted Jim Click in Tucson a local car dealer. He has arranged a 4 door white Jeep Cherokee for our car raffle. Bob Bush, Ed Kircher and Robert Goodrich have held meetings arranging this endeavor. We will order the jeep with a base price of $27,000. Jim Click will not make us sign any commitment. We plan to sell tickets for the raffle for $50.00 each or 3 tickets for $125.00. The winner is responsible for taxes, license, registration and delivery fees. The winner also has the option of taking the jeep, or going to Jim Clicks and use the money for another auto or taking the cash. The end of May will be our delivery and we will sell tickets at National convention in Dallas. It is our hope to have a jeep of the same kind from a local dealer on display in Dallas. We will have a maximum sale of 1,000 tickets and all money and stubs will need to be turned into Ed Kircher before June 20th (Fathers day) as that is the tentative date of our raffle. Quilt raffle tickets are printed and ready to go on sale. Ed Kircher also included a second prize of $150.00 and third prize of $100.00. Tickets are $2.00 or 3 tickets for $5.00 drawing date is May 28th and you do not need to be present to win. Please have all money, unsold tickets and stubs to Ed Kircher by May 21st. Any checks are to be made out to AZSA. Ed Kircher has secured a booth for AZSA at National. We will have safety glasses on sale for 10.00 each, Surgical Hats for $8.00 for woman’s and $7.00 for men ‘s hats. Quilt raffle tickets and Jeep raffle tickets.

Old Business Mimi Conway ,Linda Morey, Margrethe May, Kathleen Brochla and 4 Gateway students were presenters Tucson’s Key to Employment for the 21st Century career fair for high school students January 28,2010. It was a great success with 950 students attending. We plan to present again next year. Linda Morey will be working with Karen Saliski on her letters going out to members. Karen is trying to set up a way to contact members without member’s addresses showing up. in the address ledger. Karen will also help Mimi Conway send out our newsletter on line and not in an attachment. This will save time and money as AST provides all the email address.

New Business Deligates were voted on for National Convention Robert Goodrich, Ed Kircher, Karena Starr, Michelle Schmidt, Bob Bush No alternates at this time. All delegates will receive money for one nights stay upon receiving a report on the convention. Robert Goodrich would like to donate his stipend to a student as his hotel is covered thru his employer. If anyone wants to attend the state leadership AZSA will pay for that as well. It was brought up that our web site is still not current. If we are to direct people to this site it must be maintained. We still have 2009 information on the page and must add some new photos to the photo gallery. Bob Bush said he will talk to Karen Saliski about this and see what he can do. Linda Morey provided information gathered for our October workshop. With all the expenses the cost would be about $75.00 each for approximately 40 people to break even. Linda Morey made a wonderful contact, Mr. William Brittan with Brown Macke in Phoenix on the black canyon Freeway. They have agreed to let us use their facility for no cost and provide lunch for 40 people. This will reduce our cost a great deal. A tentative date of October 9th was agreed upon. This workshop will be called Cutting Edge Arizona and focus on robotics. Numerous ideas were discussed regarding speakers. Linda Morey, Ed Kircher and Karena Starr will put this workshop together.

Meeting adjourned 12:15pm

Next meeting dates June 12th 10am Paradise Valley Hospital Surgery Lounge 3929 E. Bell Road Phoenix,AZ 85032 .

AST Bi-Monthly

Meeting December 2009

                                               AST Bi-Monthly Meeting 
                                            October 2009

Call to order: Robert Goodrich, President 7:05pm

Attendance: Robert Goodrich, Bob Bush, Linda Morey, Donna Mitchell, Margrethe May, Ed Kircher, Mimi Conway (Karena away on Vacation, Monica had a death in the family-both excused)

Secretary report: Mimi Conway read the secretary report. It was accepted without modification. Treasurer report: Bob Bush presented the treasurer report noting that paypal charges $1.50 access fee per transaction. Report was accepted noting a powerpoint report would be shown at the annual meeting the following day. Bob also noted we have 16 active members signed up for our workshop and we need 20 active members for a quorum.

Committee Reports

 Education: Linda and Karena have visited all 5 CHAAP surgical tech schools this year and provided them with surgical supplies to be used for teaching. Karena has been asked by Susan Wallen of Gateway Community college to give a presentation on eye surgery. Linda sent out 6 emails promoting our workshop.

Bylaws: Sharyl has moved to Texas and Donna will take over this committee. Legislation: Ed received Governor Jan Brewer's certificate promoting Surgical Technologist Week the third week of September and we have a framed copy for display.

Fundraising: Ed requested the quilt raffle be changed from $5.00 to $2.00 or 3 tickets for $5.00 in the hopes of selling more tickets at the Dallas National Convention in May. All board members present at the meeting approved his request. Bob has the safety glasses and several pairs have been sold. The glasses will also be for sale at our booth at the National convention for $10.00 a pair.

Bi-monthly meetings: The board decided to end having speakers at the bi-monthly meetings as our turn out has not been good. It had been our hope to attract more members by offering a CE at these meetings. It was determined this idea did not work out. We will return to having our meetings in a cozier environment. They are still open to all members and will be posted on the web page with the location and time of each board meeting.  Old Business Linda was successful in her Surgical Tech Week promotion with an event at her Casa Grande Hospital as well her local newspaper. Ed brought cake to one of his hospitals. Robert had a radio spot with one of his students talking about becoming a surgical tech on a local Lake Havasu radio show. No other newspapers ran articles sent to them in regards to Surgical Tech Week.

Website update: The web site has been updated and Bob and Ed will talk to Karen tomorrow about fixing Karena's misspelled name on the site.

New Business Mimi asked if we would like to be part of an event in Tucson in January for high school students to learn about different jobs. Linda and Margrethe both said they would like to be involved. Mimi will contact the group and get with Linda and Margrethe . Supplies will be needed to showcase surgical items. Linda was asked to be part of Gateway Community College class project in the spring. It may include a mock surgery at the capital building,letter writing campaign and visiting legislators. She will have more information at a later date.

Next Board Meeting: December 12th location TBA.

 Meeting adjourned 8:40pm

AZSA Board Meeting and Lecture

AUGUST 2009

 Call to order Robert  Goodrich, president 11:15am

Attendance:  Robert Goodrich, Bob Bush, Linda Morey, Karena Starr, Donna Mitchell, Sharyl Fields, Monica Cervi,  Margrethe May, Ed Kircher, Mimi Conway

Secretary report:  Mimi Conway read the secretary report. It was accepted without modification

Treasurer  report:  Bob Bush presented the treasurer report by power point and it w was accepted without modification. It was noted we have enrolled in a rewards program from the band for using our credit card. We will use any proceeds  towards speaker gifts.

Committee reports:

Education:   Linda presented a thought to promotional programs of a phone interview with a member with 20 plus years of AST membership to include in newsletters and our website.All donated surgical supplies have been delivered to surgical tech programs. Inquiry from Nancy Hartwell about our CEU’s at BOD meetings. She misunderstood these were  single credits and not full workshops.

Bylaws:  Sharyl is working with the standards booklet. We will discuss at the fall workshop if we will continue to book speakers at the BOD meetings.

Legislation: Ed wrote to governor Jan Brewer to receive approval of Surgical Tech week September 2 0-26^th.  It was granted and mailed to the Arizona State Assembly’s  P.O. box.  It will be scanned by Bob Bush and sent to all in a PDF file. Ed passed out extra surgical tech week posters he purchased  from National. He will try again this year to get something posted in the area newspapers regarding Surgical tech week

Sharyl will try in the Tucson area as well and also for the upcoming October workshop .Robert talked to Catherine Sparkman about the process of legislation for certification in our state requiring surgical tech to be certified. We will need to hire a lobbyist at roughly 2,500 a month to work towards our goal. It would also be helpful to get our employers, doctors and nurses for support. National will aide us with 50% of the money for legislation but we will still need to fundraise as 6,000 is our annual income. It is believed the CST and CFA may require two sets of licenses.  Robert will check with Catherine regarding this topic.

Fundraising:  Ed brought the beautiful quilt his wife made for our fundraiser in Dallas. They have donated all materials and time involved. We are extremely grateful to receive such a fantastic gift. Tickets will be sold for 5.oo and we will include postage and insurance to the winner of the quilt provided they cannot carry such a large item with them on a plane. Mimi will send Betsy Kircher a thank you for all of her efforts.

Bob will order 100 pairs of safety glasses with a variety of bi focal strengths to be sold as another fundraiser. There will also be a few pairs without correction. This will cost about 800.00 and we will sell them at the October workshop as well as our booth in Dallas at convention in May 2010.

Sharyl, Monica  and Ed will see what items such as I Pods they could get donated or at a reduced rate to also raffle at the National Convention.

Old Business

A) The AZSA annual meeting has been changed to Oct 24 due to a conflict with Dr. Goodrich’s schl.  The cost of the workshop is 50.00 for preregisters,25.00 for students and 65.00 at the door. Lunch is included and it will be held at Pima College Desert Vista Campus in Tucson. Mimi will send flyers out to all officers and board members

B) Bonding of the treasurer and officers is still in the works. Donna has not had much luck in calls and emails being returned. She will continue to try and get answers for us 103.00 is the cost for our bonding at the upcoming workshop.

C) Web site update; To date the web site is one year behind. Robert will call Karen as she has not been able to attend board meetings due to her work schl.  Bob and Ed are going to try to work on the web page as well as Dr. Goodrich’s work study student.

D) Records in Safety have deposit box.

          Bob said   it would cost 20.00 to put our incorporation papers in a box. We will go ahead and do this.

E) Contracts with risk managers/schools

Linda has given talks to Lamson and donated supplies for the tech programs. She would like all to give Risk managers a copy of an article from the Edge magazine.  Brown  Mackie has been granted Able PHES certification and able to sit for  the surgical tech national test.

F) Promoting Certification

Linda is attending surgical tech schools, the board is offering free credits at any board meeting and we are asking program directors to give extra points to students who attend meetings and workshops. The web site will be updated with upcoming events.

          We are losing members to NCCT due to cost.

  NEW business

A)          Surgical tech week 9/14-18

B)              Linda has letter templates to be used to invite new students and a letter for members who have dropped out will be sent to all to tweak.

C)              SALF

           Dr. Goodrich program is the only surgical tech group in Arizona to reach galaxy status.  75% of all students have become members to AST. Mimi will send a letter of congratulations to the group.

D)       October elections;  President, Vice President, Treasurer and two board positions are up. All are two year terms to be voted on at the October Annual meeting. An election statement ,consent to serve ,resume or CV (curriculum vitae) is needed.

Next Board meeting:  Oct. 23 ,2009 in Tucson  7 pm in Donnas Hotel room.  All will be notified of room number.  Meeting adjured 1;10pm

AZSA Board meeting and Lecture

April 18, 2009

Bruce Sleboda, Senior Technical Specialist for SPSmedical, was our guest speaker at our April 8 Board of Directors meeting. SPSmedical is the largest sterilizer testing laboratory in North America, with over 55 sterilizers. SPS is a corporate member of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation and OSAP (its dental association equivalent). Mr. Sleboda spoke on sterilization and its role in infection control. He stated that sterilization requires a systems approach, one that involves those of us in the O.R., central sterile personnel in decontam, sorting and wrapping, and appropriate sterilization , and the infection control officer doing audits. He discussed the new standards for weight limits and the parameter changes necessary to accommodate those standards. He also covered Flash sterilization, including the hazards of biofilms on instruments, the importance of having written manufacturer's recommendations for specialty trays consigned to each institution, and recommended that we investigate scholarship programs from various companies that lead to the certification of CSPD personnel. Comments on the presentation included: "After 21 years in the biz, he brought me some new info." "You dropped a few bombs that will change the scope of practice at my hospital." This is scary stuff." "Need more on different cycle times for implants and instruments." "Wish there were more time…for greater depth." Our business meeting covered reports from the education committee, government affairs, and fundraising committees. Our next business meeting will be in Tucson on June 13. (Location to be announced.) Delegates' reports from National Conference will be due at that time. The Board of Directors meetings are open to the public, and we encourage comments and suggestions from everyone.

AZSA Board Meeting & Lecture

February 14, 2009

Our February board meeting had a great turnout even though we held it on Valentines day. Dr. Marks, MD and Robert Bush, CFA presented Vasectomy Reversals in an outpatient setting for our educational topic. We received many complements about the board meetings containing a free educational session. If you have not attended please plan to attend our April meeting on April 18th in the Phoenix area. Our Board meetings are open to all surgical technologist but you must be a board member to vote on issues. You may present your ideas and opinions and these will be used by our board to help us in running YOUR State Assembly. The board is your voice, but if you do not give us your input we can only do what we feel is best for our state. You are a professional and we need your input. 

AZSA Board Meeting & Lecture

December 13, 2008

Our first open board meeting in Casa Grande was great. We did not get as large a turn out as expected, but the educational session was worth the time and travel. Our guest speaker, Dr. Frank Salisbury, MD,  continued on with the topic of Women's Health Pregnancy Complications and was very informative. The amount of information was great, but I wished he had more time for his lecture and slides. If you wish to attend our Board Meetings and educational sessions please check our  workshops section of our web page.

                             Women's Health Workshop

The October 4 workshop on Women's Health Issues went off without a hitch.  Our first speaker reviewed gynecological anatomy, followed by a speaker on ectopic pregnancies, a lecture on ovarian cancer, and an update on treatments for breast disease.  Post-lunch  speakers covered the reversal of tubal ligation, and fertility surgeries.

At our annual business meeting, the assembly voted to correct one of our by-laws to come within National AST's guidelines.  We then elected new officers and board members.  They are:

      President:             Robert Goodrich, MD, CST

      Vice-President:    Sharyl Fields, CST

      Secretary:             Mimi Conway, CST

      Treasurer:             Robert Bush, CST, CFA

      Board Members:  Ed Kircher, CST, CFA

                                   Karena Starr, CST

                                   Donna Mitchell, CST

                                   Monica Cervi, CST

                                   Linda Morey, CST

Our next Board meeting will be in Casa Grande on December 13.  This is open to all AST members who wish to observe.

AST Quarterly Meeting

Minutes of June 12, 2010

Call to order: Ed Kircher Vice President 10:05 am Attendance: Bob Bush, Linda Morey, Donna Mitchell, Ed Kircher, Mimi Conway, Karena Starr, Monica Cervi , Donita Bennette. (Excused absent Robert Goodrich, family emergency, Michele Schmidt, illness in family)

 Secretary report: Mimi Conway read the secretary report. It was accepted with the modification of hotel added to Linda Moreys report on prices for the October workshop. Treasurer report: Bob Bush presented the treasurer report. It was accepted.

Committee Reports Education: Linda Morey presented an education report to Secretary Mimi Conway and these are the highlights of that report. Our October workshop has new forms and deadlines that must be met. Linda has attended organizational meetings of the surgical technologist advisory committee for Brookline College and spoke at Brown Mackie orientation class. Linda has also asked Ed, Monica and Karena to be on the October workshop planning committee.

Bylaws: Donna Mitchell informed us that changes have been made to the national bylaws that change the eligibility of people running for office. A full one-year term of office will only apply if running for president. A full disclosure of bylaws can be found on the national AST web page.

Legislation:  Ed has completed new forms and re submitted our request to Governor Jan Brewer for Surgical Technologist week September 19-25 2010.

Fundraising: Due to Poor sales in this economy our Jeep raffle has been cancelled. Treasurer Bob Bush will refund all moneys collected so far. It was proposed that Linda Morey or Robert Goodrich should send a letter with the refunded money explaining the Jeep raffle cancelation. Linda feels some people may donate the ticket money. Mimi will contact Karen to post this news on our webpage.

Our booth at the national convention was a success. We paid $100 for a booth and sold $1326.00 worth of merchandise. Talk of renting another booth at next years convention was met with enthusiasm. If possible it would be nice to have credit card sales at this booth as numerous people wanted to charge items and that would have increases sales further. Bob Bush will check with Wells Fargo and see if anything like this can be run thru our account. Our Quilt winner was Toren Bell, Spring Hills, TN Second place winner of $150.00 was Pam Miller, Casa Grande, third place winner of $100.00 was Linda Morey Casa Grande, AZ.

Bob Bush and Karena Starr showed off t-shirts purchased from other AST booths. One was a No Fear and the other a Hard Rock Café. Round table talk of selling this type of wear is considered for next year’s booth and checking with Michele Schmidt as she has a t-shirt connection. Bob Bush will contact Café Express our web site connection for selling merchandise and see about putting items on for sale so we do not have to keep them in stock. We do not know the % Café Express takes of these sales and if they would be able to sell safety goggles.

Communications: Mimi Conway has asked Karen Salinski to post photos from National convention on the web page. Linda Morey has met with Karen and she has been able to update her email files and efficiently send emails to members. Bob Bush is contacting Linda with any returned mail. Donna said Karen has her October workshop photos on a disk file and hopes they will be uploaded soon.

Old Business:

Jeep Raffle sales are poor. All money is due at this meeting. We need $26,000.00 to break even as of today we have $1,525.00.

October workshop is scheduled in Phoenix, October 9^th 2010. Tentative times are 8am to 3pm followed by a business meeting and voting. Location to be at Brown Mackie College 13430 North Black Canyon Highway, Phoenix, AZ 85029.

.New Business; Delegates Karena Starr and Monica Cervi presented reports and were given a check for one nights hotel stay at the national convention in Dallas. Bob Bush read his report and Ed Kircher declined reimbursement for serving as a delegate. Bob Bush also issued checks to Donna Mitchell and Karena Starr for gas reimbursement to attend board meeting. All other board members declined payment. Delegates reported it was overall a good convention but not stellar as in past years. Booth sales were great and everyone felt we should have another booth next year. Next years AST convention to be held in San Francisco, CA May 31-June 4^th. Hotel across the street is accepting room reservations now and it is much cheaper than Hotel Convention will be held in.

We are still in need of a new logo. Our current logo does not shrink down, can be hard to read and is dark. All ideas are encouraged and please send ideas around to fellow board members keeping in mind something small, simple and related to Arizona. Ideas were a Saguaro with a mask, our State bird the cactus wren or the roadrunner.

It was brought up that our web site is much better now thanks to Karen Salinski but still needs more current information posted. Some new photos are on the gallery but we would like to see the October workshop and Dallas photos included. A wish list for the web page is to get all 2009 and 2008 information off. Have President Robert Goodrich post a current letter from the president, an explanation of cancelled Jeep raffle, post surgical tech week Sept19-25 on site. Have one or two other people help maintain the web page, as it is time consuming. Post new National information as well as our next board meeting September 11, 2010 (same location and time). Bios listed for those who wrote them.

Elections will be taking place at our annual meeting/workshop in October. Ed will contact Richie Zamora from National to check on how we handle these as we did not meet a quorum at our last annual meeting and several officers and board members are in positions that have ended last year. According to our records we have all officers ending their terms.  We must post names for elections and mail post cards informing members 90 days before elections. The date to get these out is July 9^th. Donita  Bennette was given the paperwork  to run for a board member position.

Meeting adjourned 12:15pm

Next meeting dates September 11th, 2010 10am

 Paradise Valley Hospital  cafeteria/ board room 3929 E. Bell Road Phoenix ,AZ 85032

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