Section 1304
Minutes of 6-09-09 ASQ Leadership Committee Meeting
At Favazza’s on The Hill, St. Louis, MO
Prepared 7-12-09 by John O’Reilly
Participants: Steve Mundwiller, Steve Hyland, Will Meyer, Randy Thompson, Denise Arthur, Resa Manson, Shailesh Panth, Eric Schellenberg, Tony Indihar, Kim Rochetti, and John O’Reilly
1) Meeting called to order at 6:14 PM by Steve Mundwiller. We held off a little due to rain in the area.
2) April 09 Minutes Approved as Prepared - It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept the minutes as prepared.
3) Treasurer’s Report by Resa - We have a checking balance of $74,172.55. Most Spring Conference bills are paid, including the Crowne Plaza SC bill and World Conference expenses for John O’Reilly and Chris Anderson.
4) Investment Plan by Resa - Resa moved we switch from US Bank to Bank of America. They offer a business account with no monthly fees; our current US Bank account carries a monthly fee of $10. This was seconded and approved.
Resa also moved we transfer $65,000 from checking to a “no risk” CD at Bank of America. It carries a slightly lower interest rate, but can be moved into a move permanent CD at any time. There was a discussion about how much to leave in checking. It was moved to leave $10,000 in checking and put the rest in the “no risk” CD. This was seconded and carried.
5) SMP Metrics by Randy - SMP metrics are due for submittal to National ASQ in August. We need 6 of 8 metrics to achieve the “Gold Quality” level as we did for 2007/2008. Discussed current status, some numbers are incomplete. It was decided to meet next week to see where we’re at and where we need to be on some of these metrics. SMP results will be finalized at the July LC meeting.
6) Certification Exams by Eric - 46 people took an exam on June 6, out of 56 registered. Exam went well. There was a brief discussion of alternate exam sites.
7) Education by Kim and Denise - 10 People attended May mini-workshop. There were good reviews and comments that we had better marketing than previous workshops. Steve mentioned that the transition to ISO 2008 is a class we need.
8) General Comments by Steve Mundwiller - LC meeting expenses are down from $350 last year to 275 per meeting this year. We should target to have 6 mini-workshops next year. In the past, members of the LC attended section meetings at no charge. Steve would like to go back to this, and is talking to Rob about it. The electronic newsletters still don’t reach a lot of people. We may have to go back to 2 or 3 hardcopy newsletters. Steve distributed data from other sections in region 13. Our section membership is holding up pretty well compared to others.
9) LC members for next year -
Education - Steve Hyland will do the refresher for certification half and Denise will run the mini-workshop half.
Secretary - Kim Rochetti elected to this position.
Program Chair - This will be a team position. Randy will bring the audio visual stuff. Denise will do awards and recognition. Kim, Jim Ebone, Steve Hyland and John will line up speakers.
Arrangements - Tony
Vice Chair - John O’Reilly has been elected and is interested in nomination as section chair in next election. Steve Mundwiller will work with him this year to teach him what he needs to know.
Membership - Kunita
Shailesh - Will be working with Chris Anderson on the WC volunteer effort.
Will - Recertification Chair and Boeing representative.
Eric - Certification Chair
Need someone to print nametags and meeting registration list. This could be done by the website person. Not sure who will be filling this role. Patty has conflicts on Tuesday nights. Sally will be working with Chris Anderson and a project at her church. Resa wants to improve the meeting registration process. We need three people per meeting and timely arrival of nametags, receipts and registration list.
10) Distribution of RU letters for 2008/2009 and officer’s pins for 2007/2008 by Steve Mundwiller.
11) Around the Table
Will - New pharmaceutical auditing certification has a very broad Body of Knowledge. QCI does not plan on developing a primer but there may be a big interest in St. Louis. We should look at a possible training class. I’m trying to recertify 17 people in our section whose certs expired 12/31/08. They need to recertify by June 30. 46 people have certifications due 6/30.
Denise - Pass
Kim - Will transition my education stuff to Denise.
Shailesh - Ready to transition to my replacement when they are determined.
Randy - Pass
John - Gave brief WC report. Thanked the section for sending me as their representative.
Steve Mundwiller - We’re also helping with Rob Herhold’s expenses as needed since we had budgeted for 4 attendees from our section.
Steve Hyland - Thanks again for everyone’s help with the Spring Conference.
Eric - Pass
Resa - we need to do financial audit in July. Steve - Jim Ebone will be in charge of the audit.
Tony - We need to think about the number and size of scholarship(s) for next year.
Steve - Let’s adjourn, it’s 8:18 PM.
