Section 1304
Minutes of 3-10-09 ASQ Leadership Committee Meeting
At Kobe Japanese Grill, 12th Floor of the Westport Gold Tower, Maryland Heights, MO
Prepared 3-29-09 by John O’Reilly
Participants: Steve Mundwiller, Steve Hyland, Kim Rochetti, Tony Indihar, Randy Thompson, Denise Arthur, Eric Schellenberg, Resa Manson, Kunita Gear, and John O’Reilly
1) Meeting called to order at 6:13 PM by Steve Mundwiller.
2) February 09 Minutes Approved as Revised - John had corrected some earlier information from Sally Young, the “Around the Table” section. A motion was made and seconded to approve the revised version of the minutes. The motion was approved.
3) Additional Proposed Elected Officers by John - There have been no other candidates nominated for section offices. Our candidates are:
Chair - Steve Mundwiller; Vice Chair - John O’Reilly; Secretary - Kim Rochetti; Treasurer - Resa Manson. We still have an opening for Chair-Elect.
4) Treasurer’s Report by Resa - We have a checking balance of $84,929. This reflects the investment account move-over to checking of $82, 174. The Treasurer’s report was accepted as presented.
5) Additional Financial Information by Resa - We have decided to stop paying the yearly fee associated with the credit card machine. Since we have gone to 123SignUp for meeting registration, we were only using the credit card machine for book sales at the Spring Conference. Cash or check at the bookstore, an ATM is at the Crowne Plaza. We may list the credit card machine on Craigslist or EBay, no decision at this time. Resa found that US Bank does not offer very good CD rates, and charges us $10/month for a business checking account. She’s looking at other banks, in addition to Bank of America, which has a good program called Business Advantage. Kunita will check with Costco, they may offer a similar program. No audit report back from Kathy yet.
6) General Feedback by Steve Mundwiller - A) Beth Cudney needs 2 volunteers for the IIE Conference coming to St. Louis this fall. [John O'Reilly has volunteered and been accepted to serve.] These volunteers are expected to find 3 speakers and moderate a conference session. In return, they receive a discounted price to attend the conference. They also need to participate in a monthly conference call. Talk to Steve Mundwiller or Beth if you’re interested. Our ASQ section can be a sponsor at no cost by providing two volunteers with duties as described above. RU points are available.
B) The SIU - Carbondale Student Chapter contacted Steve with an appeal for speakers at their Spring Conference on Thursday, April 16th. In past years, members the St. Louis Section have supplied most, if not all of the speakers for their conference. Kim may be interested in speaking, she is working with them. Brenda Bishop may also be interested. They are looking for quality or business topics.
C) Steve feels we should attempt no other conferences in 2009/2010. Between the IIE conference this fall, and the ASQ WC in spring of 2010, we’ll be busy. [Chris Anderson has been nominated and elected to serve as our Volunteer Coordinator for the 2010 WC.] Let’s concentrate on mini-workshops.
D) Steve discussed our plan for travel to this year’s WC in May. We’re renting an SUV and have room for passengers. There’s room for officers and others who are interested in attending. Talk to Steve if you’re interested. Right now, Steve and JO’R are attending; Resa and Steve Hyland have conflicts and are not attending. We need to plan on driving up Friday and returning Wednesday or Thursday. If no one else is interested in riding with us, we’ll probably fly.
7) Spring Conference Update by Steve Hyland, John, and Resa - Right now we’ve got the hotel (Crowne Plaza), all speakers on board, 3 paying vendors, one sponsor (ABB), and Bizmanualz is trading a vendor fee for a workshop. We got the brochures mailed out. Our Chief Proctor is Eric and he’s got one other proctor lined up. 31 people signed up to take an exam [97 as of 3/29!] We have $700 in books ordered and here. We’ve got everything but people, only 4 signed up. Steve Mundwiller recommends we cancel the Spring Conference. Matter was discussed by LC, with Tony and Kunita coming out in favor of holding the conference and offering cut rate prices if need be to bring in more attendance. At this point, it could be smaller than a monthly meeting. We need 60 paying people to break even. We will try to email non-members who attended last year.
Education by Kim and Denise - CQE refresher class is a go, to be taught by Bill Bishoff. CQA not a go, but a week or so left to sign up. Deadline is March 20th. Classes would start April 7th. What would generate more interest?
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14) Membership by Kunita - We’ve done 3 certification mailings for the March meeting. 50 invitations sent. 76 New member letters mailed out inviting them to a meeting, 4 people have attended a meeting. We discussed general membership incentives including Savis Center night, Cardinals night, bring a friend, and a meeting at the art museum or science center.
15) Doctor Bob by Steve - Sally and Steve will hold this at the March meeting next week. Steve was unable to locate any of Dr. Bob’s family. Sally contacted Florissant Valley Community College, but they were also shocked to hear of his passing.
11) Scholarships by Tony - An impartial selection was held. The two scholarship winners for 2009 are Stephanie Mundwiller and Brenda Bishop. Tony is preparing the awards and recognition brochure for next week’s meeting at Dave and Busters.
12) Awards - The awards were discussed and distributed and can now be put into the minutes: Ed Lanser received the Dr. Robert Deufel Extra Measure Award,
Rob Herhold received the Vezeau Award, Steve Mundwiller received the Kauffman Award, and Shailesh Panth received the Volunteer Excellence Award. Ed Lanser is in hospital (open heart surgery) and will receive his later, but the other 3 were surprised and delighted!
17) Around the Table -
Steve Hyland - Pass
John - Everybody recruit people for the Spring Conference.
Eric - 5 people took an exam last Saturday at the Engineer’s Club. Even Denise Arthur is in the alt section. We need to look at this and try to get our area members to select section 1304, so we get a dues rebate from them.
Randy - Pass
Tony - Can we put Award winners and Scholarship winners on our website?
Resa - Pass
Kim - We need to get the May mini-workshop on the section calendar.
Kunita - Our section meetings are now on the ASQ National Calendar.
Steve Mundwiller - Let’s adjourn, it’s 8:40.
Later additions to minutes: Elections were held at the March section meeting at Dave and Busters on 3/17/09. Elected were:
Steve Mundwiller - Chair
John O’Reilly - Vice Chair
Secretary - Kim Rochetti
Treasurer - Resa Manson
We still have an opening for Chair-Elect. Talk to one of the LC members or Steve Mundwiller if you’re interested.
