WASHINGTON STATE SOCIETY
FOR HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING

PUGET SOUND CHAPTER
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, WA
September 7, 2007

MINUTES

Present:
Mike Dodson (President), Russell Kent (Pres. Elect), Jim Mead (Secretary/Treasurer), Bruce Holliday (Financial consultant), Tim Mason (Ed. Committee Chair), Robert Blakey (Educational coordinator), Glenna Peterson (PPSF board member Guest)

Absent:
Don Rainey (Past Pres.), Myra Gudge (Asst. Secretary)

Call to Order:
Mike Dodson called the meeting to order at 8:00 am at the Rhododendron Inn at Virginia Mason Medical Center, 1006 Spring St. 

Approval of Minutes:
Minutes from August approved.

Treasurer’s Report:
Attached is the updated financials as reported by Bruce Holliday as of 08/30/07.
Current assets; $13,286.73
2007 net income $7,644.76

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 Fred Hutchinson CRC. Topics are Chiller Optimization and Winter Maintenance and Controls strategies. A Efficiency “Corner” and panel discussions will also be conducted.

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

2) Golf Tourney update:
The golf tourney was a great success, although we are very in the red at the time. There is $5,690 still uncollected invoices and the PayPal account of $4, 618.96 was not transferred over to the checking account until Jim went in and was able to communicate with a person to guide him through the transfer process. Bruce had to work with the bank so as not to receive a penalty for NSF as a $4K check was returned to Washington National. This was resolved when the PayPal money was transferred. Concerted efforts will be made to collect all monies due.

3) PPSF update:
The board meeting for the PPSF will be held immediately after the WSSHE board meeting. Two members will be awarded scholarships to the Annual in Yakima this year as no profit from the golf tournament has been realized yet.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Agenda items for the state board meeting include
    1. Alternate member voting rights
    2. By-Laws
    3. website issues
  • Holiday Party at Robert’s new neighborhood community club room will not happen this year. Mike will look into reserving the Lake Union Rowing Club again this year.

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:
Nov. 2, 2007. The meeting will be held at Rhododendron Inn Café, 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