WASHINGTON STATE SOCIETY
FOR HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING

PUGET SOUND CHAPTER
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

9th St. Grille
Seattle, WA
August 10, 2007

MINUTES

Present:
Mike Dodson (President), Russell Kent (Pres. Elect), Jim Mead (Secretary/Treasurer), Myra Gudge (Asst. Secretary), Tim Mason (Ed. Committee Chair)

Absent:
Don Rainey (Past Pres.), Bruce Holliday (Financial consultant), Robert Blakey (Educational coordinator)

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

Approval of Minutes:
Minutes from July approved.

Treasurer’s Report:
Attached is the updated financials as reported by Bruce Holliday as of 07/20/07.
Current assets; $10,644.40
2007 net income $5,002.43

Secretary’s Report:
The updated roster has the total paid members at 221 after nine additional renewals.


Old Business:
1) Education committee:
October 10 meeting – ATS will provide a speaker for the chiller optimization program. The meeting will be held between 12-5pm  at a location to be determined. Topics will include winter lay-up, corrosion, and water treatment. There may be a technical discussion panel. Perhaps also a NEEA conservation “corner”.

February meeting – Bill Preisler is still expecting the APIC infection control with speaker Andy Streifel.

2) Golf Tourney update:
The tournament will be held August 28 at Washington National Golf Course. Mike mentioned he will bring the PPSF trophy to the tournament. VMMC has held the trophy for the last three years. The individual trophies have been ordered from Athletic Awards by Jim. Jim will send out a message to drum up additional sponsorships. The golf committee will meet at Joey’s on 8/15/07. The eventbright page is pswsshegolftournament@eventbright.com to check the progress of the sales.

3) PPSF update:
The meeting with the lawyer regarding the legitimacy of the PPSF was discussed. In short, the lawyer found nothing illegal and suggested WSSHE work with the PPSF instead of trying to discredit it. This means that we can solicit for applicants to receive the awards for the upcoming Annual.
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New Business:
1) 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.

2) IFMA event on Sept 12 at VMMC. They have requested a panel of speakers for the event. Don Rainey said he could participate.

3) CEU units for our educational programs would be “nice” to have, but this program will be intensive to manage. We just don’t have the manpower to do this and it was agreed that we not pursue this at this time.

4) We need to start promoting for the next President-Elect and replacement Secretary/Treasurer. Clay Ciolek (Harborview) and Greg Andrews (VMMC) were mentioned as a possible nominees.

5) Agenda items for the state board meeting include
   1. Alternate member voting rights
   2. By-Laws
   3. website issues

6) Holiday Party at Robert’s new neighborhood community club room??


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:
September 7, 2007. The meeting will be held at the 9th St Grille at 8am.

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


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