WASHINGTON STATE SOCIETY
FOR HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING

PUGET SOUND CHAPTER
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

9th St. Grille
Seattle, WA
July 6, 2007

MINUTES

Present:
Russell Kent (Pres. Elect), Jim Mead (Secretary/Treasurer), Myra Gudge (Asst. Secretary), Tim Mason (Ed. Committee Chair), Robert Blakey (Educational coordinator)

Absent:
Mike Dodson (President), Don Rainey (Past Pres.), Bruce Holliday (Financial consultant)

Call to Order:
Russ Kent called the meeting to order at 8:00 am at the 9th St Grille. 

Approval of Minutes:
Minutes from June approved with some minor editing.

Treasurer’s Report:
Attached is the updated financials as reported by Bruce Holliday as of 07/04/07.
Current assets; $12,373.76
2007 total income $6,731.06

Secretary’s Report:
The new mailbox has been leased. The address is:
P.S. WSSHE
14419 Greenwood Ave. N
PMB 357
Seattle, WA 98133
Myra and Jim Mead have keys to this box. Jim will look into leasing a storage unit at this same location.


Old Business:
1) Education committee:
Tim briefed the board on the education committee. The next meeting on Tuesday will be to discuss the relationship developing with NEEA about the specifics of energy efficiency in healthcare.
Future program possibilities were discussed. Dave Swanson of Reid Middleton could give an 8 hour ATC course, but we have covered seismic issues pretty well in the recent past. Another topic of fuel issues in emergency generators offered by Randy Lukkasson of NC Power is possible.

A discussion about having the day-long educational meeting on one topic would be better and easier to conduct. Some thought that the last meeting with three topics worked very well and all discussed that perhaps this will work out if the topics are somewhat related.

2) Golf Tourney update:
The tournament will be held August 28 at Washington National Golf Course. Jim Fry will signed the contract and there is no deposit needed. The golf committee consists of Mark Howell, Jim Fry, Myra Gudge, Gary Welch, and Jody Runge. Myra will send out a notification to the members soon. Eventbright and Paypal accounts were set up to help in the organization of the tournament. Jim will be the one to purchase the trophies.

New Business:
1)  Discussion on several new topics were discussed
    • Someone suggested meeting on a day other than Friday so Jim Fry could attend, but most wanted to keep it on Friday
    • There was a suggestion to set up CEU credits for our meetings, but this would require someone to monitor and set up the system. It was determined that it would be too difficult to manage for the time being
    • Speaker certificates should be created to acknowledge our speakers. All agreed this would be a good thing to do. No action steps were discussed as there are many items on the table for each board member to do. This will be addressed again in the future.

4) Action Items:
  • Jim to get Steam course CDs to Robert and Robert
  • Jim to look into getting plaques for Past Presidents and
  • Certificates for speakers

Next Meeting:
August 10, 2007. The meeting will be held at the 9th St Grille at 8am. The State Board meeting will be held on the 1st Friday so our meeting will be shifted back one week.

Adjournment:
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 10 am.


James Mead
WSSHE PS Chapter
Secretary/Treasurer 2008
1/10/08