RMSSAMT Fall Board of Director Meeting

Saturday, October 7, 2017

Wine Country Inn – Palisade Colorado

President Celeste Grande called the RMSSAMT springboard of directors meeting to order at 4:22 pm. Board Members answering the roll call as follows: President Celeste Grande, MT (AMT), Vice-President Rhonda Furney, RMA (AMT), Secretary Nickolette Perschino,RMA(AMT), Treasurer Marty Hinkel, MT (AMT), Lucy Leyva, RPT(AMT),Legislative chair George Cook, MT (AMT),Anita Ott,RMA (AMT),and Mary Newell, RMA (AMT).

Board members joiningby phone wereJill Carlson, RMA (AMT)and Jacquetta McFarland, RMA (AMT).

There were a total of 10 board members and 3 guests present.

Vote Count is10.

Nickolette Perschino, RMA (AMT) presented the BOD minutes from Saturday, April 1, 2017 in Pueblo, CO There were no additions or corrections.

Motion to accept minutes as presented by George Cook,2ndLucy Leyva: Motion passed unanimously, vote count 10.

Old Business

  • Meeting planning do’s and don’ts- Check list to assist the committee with meeting planning-Update from Anita Ott.
  • This needs to be updated and was not used in planning this meeting
  • Anita will update the planning check list
  • Financial updates since banking through home office
  • We have not been depreciating our assets.
  • We will make a change to RMSSAMT inventory list and not list the purchase price on the asset log, we will only list each item by name.
  • This will be updated by Marty Hinkel and sent to our new Treasurer,Jacquetta McFarland.

New Business

  • Newly elected board member
  • A board member that was elected for the 1-year term is not an AMT member. Jill Carlson discovered this when the “member” was signing in on the speaker attendance sheet and did not enter her ID number.
  • Cat Gallager is not eligible to be a board member, she is not currently certified with AMT.
  • According to bylaws the President may appoint an open BOD position with the board members approval.
  • With board members approval President Celeste Grande chose Mindy Brown, who had the next highest vote countfrom the board members election. Mindy Brown has accepted the appointment and will serve the 1-year term.
  • Committee Chairs’ comments
  • They have reached out to the members who signed up to be on the committees during the spring meeting, there was only one response.
  • We need more help with all the committees to get themembers involved.
  • The committee chairs will reach out again to those who had signed up for committees during the spring meeting in Pueblo, CO.
  • 2017 National meeting in Kansas City, MO recap
  • Every member displayed professionalism.
  • Discussion was held on the delegate responsibilities and the Code of Conduct prior to the National meeting is something that should be brought up at each spring meeting.
  • Reminders will be placed in the newsletter, email blasts, and on the website that if you’re thinking about going to the Nationalmeeting start planning now (i.e. saving now, asking for time off,etc.)
  • One member has not reimbursed RMSSAMT for the pre-registration fee that was paid for her to attendthe 2017 National meeting.
  • Celeste Grande will reach out to her again.
  • If the member doesn’t repay the state society, she will not be eligible to be a delegate in the future.
  • Three members did contact the home office for a refund and payed the twenty-five dollars processing fee back to RMSSAMT.
  • The national meeting next year will be held in Washington D.C., July 1-6 2018- Selection of Delegates
  • Send out a blast email to members earlier andmore frequent to have them start thinking about being a delegate earlier.
  • This will remind them to start planning and saving for the upcoming National meetingin 2018.
  • Spring 2018 meeting
  • Casper, Gillette, and WorlandWyoming weresuggested.
  • No members in Casper or Gillette to organizethis meeting.
  • Worland was chosen, Marty Hinkel to head the planning committee either the week of April 6-7 or 13-14, 2018.
  • Speakers may include: Wound care, mental health, or asthma/allergy
  • National Award Nominations
  • The Becky Award
  • Barb Garrito

Motion on the floor to accept the one nominee by Marty Hinkel, 2nd by George Cook: Motion passed unanimously, vote count 10

  • Distinguished Achievement Award
  • Barb Lafferty andNickolette Perschino

Motion on floor toaccept the two nominees By Marty Hinkel, 2nd by Anita Ott: Motion passed unanimously, vote count 10

  • ExceptionalMerit Award
  • Lucy Leyva

Motion on floor to accept the one nomineeby Marty Hinkel, 2nd by Anita Ott: Motion passed unanimously, vote count 10

  • Pillar Award
  • Jill Carlson

Motion on floor to accept the one nominee By George Cook, 2ndby Marty Hinkel: Motion passed unanimously, vote count 10

  • Silver Service Award
  • Bob Newberry

Motion on floor to accept the one nomineeby George Cook, 2nd by Anita Ott: Motion passed unanimously, vote count 10

  • MT of the Year
  • Celeste Grande

Motion on floor to accept the one nomineeby Jill Carlson, 2ndby Rhonda Furney: Motion passed unanimously, vote count 10

  • RMA of the Year
  • Rhonda Furney, Jacquetta McFarland, Anita Ott were nominated for RMA of the year

A vote count of six,by raising of hands and vocally from the BOD members joining by phone, to nominate Rhonda Furney as RMA of the Year

  • RPT of the Year
  • Barb Lafferty

Motion on floor to accept the nomineeby George Cook, 2ndby Rhonda Furney: Motion passed unanimously, vote count 10

  • OC Skip Skinner
  • George Cook

Motion on floor to accept the nomineeby Marty Hinkel, 2ndby Lucy Leyva: Motion passed unanimously, vote count 10

Open Discussion

Increasing the award amount of the student essay contest to help get students to the National meeting.

Current Award amount:

1. Pay for registration

2. Pay for 4 nights at the hotel at half the rate

3. Two hundred and fitty dollars towards air fare

Proposedrevisions to the award amount:

1. Pay for registration.

2. Pay for hotel stay at half the room rate.

3. Five hundred dollars (capped)towards air fare.

Cash award will remain at two hundred fifty dollars.

Motion on floor to accept the above increase under #3by Marty Hinkel, 2nd by George Cook: Motion passed unanimously, vote count 10.

RMSSAMT has a need for a computer to use at state meetings for the guest speakers to use. Most venues do not provide a computer. Consensus for board members is to table this matter for further discussion at a later time.

Can we get more members to attend state meeting by not charging a registration fee or even dropping the fee? Drop to ten dollars for pre-registration and fifteen at the door. If you are on the meeting committee you do not pay a registration fee. This may also get more members to help.

Motion of the floor to decrease pre-registration fees to ten dollars, fifteendollars at the door, students and guests remain at five dollars. The meetingcommittee members is free (cappedat three members)by George Cook, 2nd by Rhonda Furney. Motion passed unanimously: vote count 10

Anita had another suggestion. That RMSSAMT has a lot of state pins and would like to give them to the first timers at state meeting. We also have a lot of other stuff that we could give the first timers. There are AMT shirts available on the home office website that can be purchased for our members. This will be at the president’sdiscretion as what to be given at future meetings.

Motion on the floor the president can go to the AMT store and purchase up to two hundred dollars of AMT merchandise of our state meetings by Lucy Levya, 2nd by Marty Hinkel. Motion passed unanimously: vote count 10

Bob Newberry spoke on some changes that the AMT Board is going to make for Legislative Days.

  1. Increase the amount of people they send with financial assistance. They now only pay for two. They do pay up to fifty percent to states that say that have a person to go but cannot afford to go.
  2. Application to go the Legislative Days will be used for the upcoming meeting.

Motion by George Cook,2nd by Anita Ott to adjourn the board meeting at 6:10 pm. Motion passed unanimously: vote count 10

Respectfully Submitted,

Nickolette Perschino RMA (AMT)

RMSSAMT Secretary

Celeste Grande,MT (AMT)

RMSSAMT President

Attached Reports: Attendance Roster

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