SDSNA Board Meeting conference call 11/29/11 minutes
South Dakota School Nurses Association
BOARD MEETING
CONFERENCE CALL 11-29-11
1. Meeting was called to order by President Marcia Potts at 3:04 pm MST. Members present on the call were: Marie Huether, Carrie Clarke, Gayle Bates, Susan Kelts, Randi Oviatt, and Marcia Potts.
2. Secretary’s report: The minutes were read and a change was made to say that for fundraising at our summer conference, things other than purses can be brought for auction.
3. Treasurer’s report: We received $231.00 from NASN dues. We paid out $189.00. $100 was for our annual NASN dues and $89.00 was for our last board conference call. It is noted that the conference calls save the board money rather than meeting in person because of travel costs. As of 11-22-11 the balance is $11,948.31. The balance of the CD is 7,083.34.
4. Director’s report: See attached. Susan has been working on the wording of the NASN position statement on sexual minority students and parents. The wording and statement has been controversial and has taken a lot of discussion and time. We currently have 46 members of SDSNA-NASN which is a 6% increase in membership. The NASN summer conference will be held earlier this year from June 23-26 in San Francisco. The next board of directors meeting is in Washington, D.C. in January.
5. President’s report: See attached. S.D. is still in first place in the Voices of Meningitis Challenge. We are encouraged to send in how we want to promote meningitis vaccine administration to the link on the NASN website. We are now partnered with Midwest Dairy to promote Fuel Up to Play 60. Marcia has been working on the SDSNA website and continues to have many issues. She will see if we can use the original company “Go Daddy.com”. We need to renew now. There have been cases of chicken pox in the West River area. This would be another good reason to promote immunization.
6. Committee reports:
a. Nominations: Susan Kelts-Presented a slate of officers: President elect-Gayle Bates, Secretary-Randi Oviatt, Treasurer-Denise Roman-Cramer. We will still need a Director. Susan will send out a job description via email to the members. Generally the is 2 days during the school year that would be meeting days and traveling 2 times a year. It is good PR for your school and is a fun job. The Director’s term is 4 years.
b. Website: Discussed previously in president’s report. Marcia will be working on this.
c. Legislative: Nurse’s day at the Legislature is Feb. 6 & 7. Two members from SDSNA will attend. Hopefully this will be the President and either the legislative chair or President-elect. These attendees will need to get their info in by Jan. 23 to attend.
d. Fundraising: Marie Huether-We will have several things available at the summer conference. We discussed items to be auctioned off, T-shirts(Carrie is getting a design), Lab coats, 50/50, silent auction, school nurse in-a-box, raffling off $100 towards free registration and raffling off a Kindle or Nook. We are hoping School Health will give something to all attendees as well as a door prize.
g. SNOTY: Julie Hanson Julie will need to get nomination form and information out to our membership by January. Susan will need to take Julie’s information and nomination form to National.
h. Program: Carrie Clarke-The summer conference will start on Monday night July 16 and will continue thru Tuesday July 17, 2011. On Tuesday night we will hold the Dinner and then be done after that. They are hoping to have sponsors for meals and breaks. There will be a booklet listing speakers and their credentials. The program will be emailed to the members and then a hard copy will also be mailed to members as well as anyone working in schools as a nurse. SDNA will also send out email to all of the SDNA members and Susan will take care of that. We will pay a $50 fee to one speaker only.
g. Membership: We are at a 6% increase in our membership with 46 members.
Old Business: Previously discussed.
New Business:
a. There has been discussion with the Board of Regents about a Technical Program in Nursing. It will need to meet their approval first. This is more like a program in Technical schools.
b. An Immunization Coalition has been formed in Sioux Falls. Carrie has been active in this group. The purpose of this group is to bring awareness and a mandate for certain immunizations. Carrie would like us to send letters of support for this coalition. There is a form letter to sign. Because this is a political issue, you may want to check with your supervisor or superintendent before signing. Dr. Candace Nelson will be presenting to the Department of Health.
c. The next board meeting will be April 17, 2012 via conference call. The summer conference will be held in Sioux Falls on July 16 and 17, 2012. The board will meet from 4:30-6pm and then will have dinner. The conference will start with a speaker from 7-8:30pm.
7. Adjourn-the meeting was Adjourned at 3:50pm MST.
Respectfully submitted,
Randi Oviatt, RN secretary
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