Section 1304
Minutes of 4-21-09 ASQ Leadership Committee Meeting
At Favazza’s, 5201 Southwest Ave, St. Louis, MO
Prepared 5-03-09 by John O’Reilly
Participants: Steve Mundwiller, Steve Hyland, Tony Indihar, Randy Thompson, Denise Arthur, Resa Manson, Kunita Gear, Jim Ebone, and John O’Reilly
1) Meeting called to order at 6:02 PM by Steve Mundwiller.
2) March 09 Minutes Approved as Revised - John had corrected some earlier information from Sally Young, the “Dr. Bob” section. A motion was made and seconded to approve the revised version of the minutes. The motion was approved.
3) Treasurer’s Report by Resa - We have a checking balance of $82,794.88. The Treasurer’s report was accepted as presented. Next month Resa will present a report with expenses and receipts compared to our yearly budget.
4) Additional Financial Information by Resa - Resa recommends we switch over to Bank of America. She has looked into their services and expenses and there are significant savings involved. Our current account is at US Bank and besides monthly expenses, their service is poor and it is inconvenient to use them. She wants to make sure our CDs are FDIC insured, considering the current economic market. She also recommends a laddered approach with CDs due at different times. Kunita had recommended we consider COSTCO but they don’t have as many locations as Bank of America. Sam’s Club is another possibility. Kunita will send Resa the link to COSTCO Banking. June 9 is the date for the June LC meeting. Steve Mundwiller asked Resa to present an actionable motion for CD purchases at that meeting. No audit report from Kathy yet.
5) 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) Steve recommends we attempt no conferences in FY 2009-2010; concentrate on mini-workshops instead and our section’s support of the WC coming to St. Louis next spring.
C) Steve may not be able to attend WC in Minneapolis in May due to work concerns.
6) Spring Conference Update - We had good speakers, two good keynotes (the Friday Lunch presentation was not up to expected). Friday had 63 paid signups for the conference. A couple of workshops and a couple of breakouts were cancelled. Randy said survey completion was few and far between. Some of the comments were:
a) People wanted descriptions for the breakout sessions, not just the title and presenter, b) Snacks were poorly located on Friday, far from the presentations, c) we should have had individual survey forms for each breakout, but it was positive overall, just a few negatives. Steve Hyland has a few in his car to give to Randy. Good job pulling off the conference in difficult economic times. Kunita’s comments from people coming up to the registration desk: a) Meting RUs, speaker bios not available, no time to get information from speakers, Projector problems (Steve and Randy were not aware of any), no handouts, no CDs with presentations as we’ve had in the past, no certification ribbons, no receipts for book purchases, no startup meeting for volunteers. Steve and Steve discussed the problem with lack of volunteers. Chris Anderson relied heavily on the Bizmanualz staff the last couple of years. Maybe think about an every other year conference format.
7) Preliminary Spring Conference Results - At this point, it looks like we lost about $6,000. If we had pulled the plug and cancelled in March, we would have had a loss of $10 to 12K.
Ed Lanser Update by Steve Mundwiller - Ed Lanser is now back in St. Louis. He had open heart surgery March 1st in Florida. He came back to St. Louis on April 14 and is currently at St. Luke’s Rehab Center in West County. Recert material may have been mailed to him. We need Will Meyer to follow up on this. Get newsletter items to Patty.
9) Eric Report by Steve Mundwiller - Eric has nothing to report yet on alternative exam sites. St. Louis County Library may offer rooms for free. Someone suggested that we don’t hold March exams in 2011, push them to the Spring Conference in April. We had a 75% pass rate at the Spring Conference exams this year. Eric passed on his thanks to Steve, Randy, and John for their help at exam check-in.
10) Education by Denise - The mini workshop Transition to HealthCare will be held May 17th. Refresher classes for CQE and CQA are going on at this time. Can we get the mini-workshop announcement in the next email blast? Yes we can.
11) May Section Meeting by Steve - We need one or two speakers. Its beer and steaks at the Engineer’s Club. We need a repeat performance of LC workers bringing their ball caps and aprons.
June is a joint meeting with APICS. It was our turn to host, but we turned it over to APICAS for their sponsorship. It will be June 16 at the Westport Sheraton Chalet.
12) LC for 2009-2010 - We really need a Program Chairman. Steve did it this last year, but cannot do it again this next year. We also have an opening for Chair-Elect. Shailesh will not be continuing in his role, Patty will be picking this up. Kathy is audit chair, but may not be able to do it. Jim is willing to do this, but doesn’t know it ASQ National would allow it.
13) SMP by Randy - We need to average 70 per meeting at the next two meetings to make this SMP metric. We had a total of 120 at Spring Conference, so we made this metric. Not sure if we’ll make 6 of the 8 metrics.
14) Membership by Kunita - We got 42 new members in February and March. They were mailed invitations to be our guests at the May or June meeting. Steve thinks ASQ will carry unemployed members on scholarship for a year if they request it, but will confirm through ASQ.
15) Around the Table - Jim - My Company did not let email from Bizmanualz, it thought it was spam.
Denise - Pass
Resa - Pass
Steve Hyland - Pass
Kunita - Pass
John - Let’s encourage attendance for the May meeting.
Steve Mundwiller - Let’s adjourn, It’s 8:21.
