UTAH CLMA Board Meeting

Wednesday, 31 January 2001

Convened: 0900 a.m.

Present: Dave Young, JoD Fontenot, Noel Ladle, Hyde Frederickson, Kathy Logan, Paul Keoppel, Annie Tesori, and Beth Lingenfelter

Agenda Item	Discussion	Action
1. Review of recent CCP meeting	Chapter presidents now have access to membership listings. You can now see memberships that have lapsed in the last two months and memberships that will lapse in the next month.	This will allow chapters to be proactive in contacting members prior to their renewal date.
2. The executive VP of CLMA, Bob Neri, visited.	It is hoped that Mr. Neri will attend the 2001 Utah CLMA Spring Meeting.
3. Dave Young, former Utah CLMA chapter president, was highlighted in the VantagePoint.	Dave was recognized for his contribution to the CLMA silent auction at the National meeting. Utah’s donation for the silent auction was a basket containing day ski passes at Snowbasin, two nights hotel stay, various Olympic pins, local Utah food items, and an IOMEGA Zip Drive.	Discussion was held concerning the continuation of this practice for the 2001 National CLMA meeting. It was decided to again sponsor another item for the silent auction. Kathy Logan will chair up the submission for the silent auction.
4. 2001 nominations for Utah Chapter CLMA Board of Directors	Dave Young discussed the various candidates that have been nominated for the Board of Directors.	Any other additional candidates should be submitted to Dave Young.
5. Applications for members for National Chapter Board of Directors	Dave Young is also in charge of taking applications for positions for the National Chapter Board.	If interested in serving on any of the National committees, please contact Dave Young.
6. On-line Chapter survey	Paul discussed that 17 responses out of 80 members have been obtained since the Chapter survey was posted on the web site. The survey needs to be completed by Sunday, February 4th. The survey will be included in the Chapter of the Year application.	Board members are asked to call those members on their Hot List and remind them to complete the survey. All members completing a survey will be entered in a drawing for a $50.00 gift certificate to a Gastronomy restaurant. The survey is needed to obtain feed back on educational topics and input on chapter functions.
Agenda Item	Discussion	Action
7. 2001 Utah Chapter Spring Meeting	The Spring Meeting is tentatively scheduled for April 20th at the Grand Summit at the Canyons. Various possibilities for speakers were discussed. Bob Neri, executive VP of CLMA, will speak on the vision of CLMA. Other ideas are HIPA regulations, regulatory (CAP, JCAHO, CLIA, OSHA) and accreditation viewpoints on laboratory safety, and generation differences in employees.	Lunch will be held in a separate room this year. No presentation will be made during lunch. This will allow for an increase in the time for networking with colleagues. Contact Paul or Hyde with any ideas for presentations.
8. Vendor relations	3-4 vendors are needed to support the Spring meeting. Vendors are asked to prepare a 15-minute presentation. The vendor sponsorship charge will remain at $250.00. Vendors who have previously sponsored the Spring and Fall meetings will be recognized at the Spring meeting.	Kathy Logan will arrange vendor support for the Spring meeting. The vendors will be recognized at lunch with a small gift.
9. Membership Committee	Colleen Rumsey, Trish Buroker, Darrell Yamane, and Noel Ladle make up the membership committee.	The committee is recruiting IHC and ARUP employees. They are calling and giving personal invitations to attend CLMA meetings and join. They are also calling lapsed members. An additional 3 or 4 members joined the Utah CLMA chapter last month.
10. Financial report	JoD gave the financial report. The chapter is currently $415.89 under budget.
11. Susan Moesch Educational Scholarship	It was discussed if the chapter wanted to sponsor a scholarship in honor of Susan Moesch. Discussion was held whether it should be a one-time scholarship and how money should be donated to fund the scholarship.	Decision on whether this should be done was tabled until further discussion at a future meeting.
12. Chapter of the Year	Hard copies of the various Chapter of the Year assignments were turned in to Kathy Logan.	Send Kathy Logan electronic copies of COY assignments. Kathy and Beth will meet on 16 Feb to work on putting the application together.
13. Newsletter	The next newsletter will be sent out in March.	Be thinking of articles that you would like to see in the newsletter. This newsletter will be submitted in our COY application. Forward any articles to Paul Lewis.