Section 1304
Minutes of 11-10-09 ASQ Leadership Committee Meeting
At Rizzo’s in St. Louis, MO
Prepared 11-10-09 by Kim Rochetti
Participants: Steve Mundwiller, John O’Reilly, Kunita Gear, Tony Indihar, Chris Anderson, Mary Ellen Rowland, Randy Thompson, Linh Dye, Eric Schellenberg, Jim Ebone, Denise Arthur, and Kim Rochetti.
1) Meeting called to order at 6:06 PM by Steve Mundwiller.
2) September 09 Minutes Approved as Prepared - It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept the minutes as prepared.
3) Financial and Treasurer’s Report by Resa. - Our total value is $81,077.52, checking is 16,113.59, and CD is 65,163.97. Do we want to transfer some of our money from checking to the CD? A no-risk CD gives 2% interest for a 2-year CD. We have not been unable to contact Bev Senegog. Another option is an opt-up CD for 1.45%. A motion and second was given to take $10,000 out of checking and move into a 2-yr 2%CD, and approved.
4) Workshops/ASQ courses - SEM - Both workshops in October cancelled due to low attendance. A) Email blasts may need to happen to promote the ASQ courses and workshop more. B) Website details can be added to promote as well C) Elevate the status D) Move certification classes from SLCC to another location for flexibility. We can offer Saturdays or something different. We can use Bizmanual’s training room on any evening or weekend for no charge. County libraries have free meeting rooms for free and restaurants and hotels have large rooms available if we order food or pay a small fee. We need to promote the increased passed rate for people that take the classes, the flexibility, the trainer’s experience, and a second test at reduced rate.
5) Nov/Dec Meeting - by John and Jim - Jim will emcee the trivia game meeting. Please send quality-related questions and answers to Jim for the event so members can earn RUs.
6) 2010/2011 decision on officers - Chair elect, treasurer, and secretary are open. There are a few members that Steve M. would like to pursue and elections will be in March. At January meeting, candidates will be announced. Directions will be sent in an email and be of good ASQ member standing to get on the ballot 60 days prior to the elections.
7) Jim as Section Auditor - They talked about Jim doing the auditor role.
8) New LC members - Let us know if you plan on not continuing your leadership roles or know of someone who wants to participate in the LC, let Steve and John know.
9) 2010 Programs -
January: Dr. Ed Weisbart on PowerPoint presentation optimization, Express Scripts
February: Ed Vallorani, Avanti Improvement Solutions; (Speaker to be Provided by Tom Gantzert, Missouri Enterprise) Value Stream Mapping
March: (Speaker to be Provided by Tom Gantzert, Missouri Enterprise) Training Within Industry, elections and awards night at Dave and Busters;
April: Tom Crespi, Graybar Electric, Managing Your “Bucket of Squirms”; the Formula for Survey Success; (Speaker to be provided by Tom Gantzert, Missouri Enterprise)
May: speaker from ASQ.org that are coming into the conference, at Engineer’s club,
June: APICs joint meeting. Possibly invite David Spong, retired-Boeing Support Systems, President, who will be here for the board meetings.
Send award candidates to Steve M. for March meeting.
10) WCQI by Chris - There are 71 volunteers identified vs. the need of 90. Doing advanced planning work now until first quarter and will get more detailed. Chris is on schedule; more to follow.
11) Exams by Eric: Know of a few people passed exams so far; 23 signed up, 19 took the exam. Mary Ellen and Eric are serving as a shared certification role. They are cross-training now.
Steve Hyland had resigned from the LC for medical reasons. He will try to continue at a later date.
12.) Around the Table
John - Hope all continue on LC; Resa will be at registration at next meeting and needs help; Eric and Mary Ellen can help,
Eric - Had their book audit for ISO certification at work: heard that companies doing Lean are not including Quality as part of their initiative.
Jim - have received many quality engineer resumes for a QE position at his place of work. is it ok to invite them to our meetings? The LC says it’s ok to offer our meetings.
Linh - website: who will pay the fees for the support, need support to improve the content; need some marketing items for next meeting, didn’t pay for the last meeting and system charged: are we checking who is really paying. Contact Shalish to help resolve.
Resa - storage of records will be done at Interqual; refunds for workshops need to be given to those that didn’t attend, attendance prizes: gift bags and find miscellaneous gifts
Kim - none
Kunita - don’t have expenses ready, we had 17 new members for Oct., trip to Colorado was good and worthwhile and a possible topic for one of our members.
Tony - none
Mary Ellen - none
Randy - Member attendance is going well, Satisfaction is good, for section members we have 970 vs. a goal of 830 paid members, renewel/retention is high, workshops will be made up in 2010, we’ve added sr. members 4.
Chris - speaking at Lean Six Sigma conference
Denise - none
12) Meeting adjourned at 8:21.
