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Sept 10th Board Meeting, Renton School District Office
Agenda:
Roll Call
Minutes from GOTO Meeting
Treasure’s Report
Oct. 14th Mini Conference Planning
Sessions
Logistics
Presenters
Vendors
Website
What Attendees need to bring/system requirements/downloads
Duties
Constitution/By Laws
Organizational Structures
Unfilled Positions
General Topics
8:37 Meeting called to order by Ken Toney
Ken Toney - President
Frank Medina – Past President
Paul Scott – Pres-Elect
Terri Haworth - Treasurer
Jill VanBerkom - Secretary
Bruce McBurney – SKillsUSA Washington -- absent
Creed Nelson - Construction
Fred Donaldson- Transportation
John Anderson – Law & Public Safety
John Reid – Public Safety -- absent
Ken Mayhak – Manufacturing -- absent
Moe Broom – at Large -- absent
Paul Joraanstad – Arts, A/V & Communications -- absent
Doug Urner – Arts, A/V & Communications -- absent
Mike Fawcett – Information Technology – absent
Ron Crawford – Consultant
Jay Leviton – WAVA Representative – came and left
Ken asked for a Treasurer’s Report from Terri – presented on the overhead projector for all to see.
--Jill will ask Francine about WOVE updates – who should be getting them, and who is? Terri noted a $300 charge on 4/19/2011
--Terri will check $2,085.07 random charge to us—CLARIFIED, this was the total for 11 checks that month.
--Jill will need 2 thank you cards…
--Ken will send Denny a flyer to send out via email. This should also go to Tess for email.
--Ken will add “on site registrations $125”
Classroom 1
Classroom 2
Classroom 3
8:00-8:30am
Welcome & Registration
8:30-10:00am
Intro to Camtasia
Social Networking
10:00-10:15am
Break
Break
10:15-noon
Intro to Camtasia
Intro to Mimeo Pads – limited to 24
noon-1:00pm
Lunch with Vendors
Lunch with Vendors
Advanced Camtasia (1:00-4:00pm)
IBM VMware (1:00-3:00pm)
Mimeo Pads (1:00-3:00pm) limited to 24
Microsoft Academy (3:00-4:00pm)
--Joe needs payment for sub
--Creed and Paul will coordinate a vendor showcase/drawings at Renton HS
--Everyone needs to get to Ken by Wednesday for details. Ken will produce the e-flyer for distribution.
--Jill will check for software minimums & add software links for participants
--Terri moves that the Renton HS culinary arts program to cater the Oct. 14th for under $10 per head. Any additional funds saved will be kept by the program for scholarships. The head count will be given within 1 week of the event. Creed seconds. Motion carries with no opposition.
--Paul will contact!
--Creed will check with Jay for tables?
Additional vendors for Ron to contact
--DYMO, mimeo pad
--TechSmith, Camtasia software and SnagIt
--Vernier, Jon Anderson has the contact information. Ron could contact regarding vendors. USA based company that created a data collection and hardware, along with curriculum.
--Denny needs to contact OSPI for 7 hours of hands on clock hour.
--Jill will get bags for the event for vendors from Costco
--Ron asks vendors about freebies, specifically about bags
--A procedure and paper is needed to propose new trainings to the members. Concept paper that is filled out by the person proposing the training, presented to the board via conference call for board approval.
Marketing…
How can we take these on more formally?
WA-ACTE; membership, conference planning, and marketing
February 25th Update:
--Terri check with her presenter for the needs for the Adobe Lightroom presentation
Paul moves to finish contract through Oct 1st, then contracted on a per project basis at specified. Jill Van Berkom seconds. Frank amends to extend contract to Oct 15th, then allow for hourly projects on a per project basis. Terri amends to include specific outcome, timeline, and dollar amount. Frank accepts amendment.
Add to agenda for the following meeting—Revisit Ron’s position.
Conference wrap up and other for the follow up to Oct 14th and 15th GOTO Meeting.
Any other business for the good of the order…
Tuesday Nov 22nd 3:30pm GOTO Meeting
Frank moves to adjourn, Paul seconds.
3:55pm meeting ends
Aug 30 GoToMeeting Conference Call
AUG 30th, 3-4:30pm GO-TO-MEETING
3:00PM Roll call
Online:
Ken Toney
Paul Scott
Jill Van Berkom
Terri Haworth
Frank Medina
Creed Nelson
Moe Broom
Bruce McBurney
Dennis Wallace
Ron Crawford
Doug Urnerd
Unable to attend:
Fred Donaldson
Ken Mayhak
John Anderson
John Reid
Paul Jornstadd
Ed Crossan
Social Networking - Stephanie Thomas / Seattle Police Dept. cyberbullying -social networking -online posting sexting -the reality of teens as targets -safety tips
COMPTIA (?)
AUTO –
MFG - GreenExpo (Georgetown Campus)
Welding - (Boilermakers)
Saturday 10/15 South Seattle Community College (Georgetown Campus)
Construction – GreenExpo
Concrete finishing
Painting
Glazing
Sheetrock / Plastering (?)
Run down of offerings at Feb 25 Tri-Cities Mini Conf.
Saturday 2/25 TriTech Skills Center (Kennewick, WA)
ARTS & A/V
Adobe Light Room - Joe Dockery
MIMEO Pad - Eric Franz
Secrets of Proportion/Scale (illustration)
Social Networking
New Business
Next meeting date
Adjourn
Aug 17 Board Training in Orcas Room
Cluster meeting called to order by Ken at 8:30
Teacher cluster areas presented by Ron
Numbers are here, but we will eventually need to get to teacher names and contact information
Duplicate are avoided; morning auto/afternoon something
Denny asked for a CTE director meeting requests. New directors are noted in Ron’s packet with “x”s at the bottom.
Ron/Denny--Western Area--Mark Wagner, New Market--138
We want to contact our members in there groups. Get their feedback. Try to get to the first Fall meeting and ask for Regional Director. Can we get email addresses from our areas. Public information will be available in the coming months. Denny will keep working. The website will be our “go to” spot.
RSS feed from our website – Doug suggested
NEXT MEETING 9:00 – 10:15
Continuing with a small table discussion:
Frank Medina, Ron C, Doug Urner, Creed Nelson, Paul Joornstad, Jill Van Berkom, Moe Broom, Ken Toney, Fred Donaldson
Green connection; are we together/separate?
Fred – February ready, we will add ASAP
Additions;
Franks will contact Ventia at OSPI -- IT sessions
Nano Technology – Frank Cox – which cluster? Frank.cox@edcc.edu
Ken will make other flyers to include more sessions.
Examples online
Board blessing for release of Mike Fawcett for webhosting. Jill will take over.
Cluster Presidents. Redesign so the Cluster has a page and a presence.
Frank moves to pay Jill. Fred seconds. Motion passes with no opposition.
Amended to include: Facebook, pestering, adding industry (names, search, friend requests,) Passed on to FB. Moe suggestion WITEA site. Paul suggests adding an EXAMPLE for Camtasia!
New post on the page/webpage.
Names to add social media – CTE director, OSPI, district and the name.
Ken; we need Cluster Presidents to step up.
Paul – training/kids/regional
Doug – once we get more input to the website, we need to get kids/parents there
A voice, training, clock hours
Strategies for success in our areas
Suggestion: Whomever is the WASTS should be a WAVA member – this will provide us with access to the meetings and also membership, communication with the members, and more.
Paul is the President Elect. Ken will continue as President through these changes. This will allow the group to continue to move forward. Paul agrees to take over when Ken is ready to move on. This would mean Paul would take over summer 2012. Paul will take additional responsibilities to make this transition.
Membership Roster;
Tess has a record, cuts checks
Will we have our own membership record or continue to work through Tess?
Negative is that we then provide our names for public knowledge – completing conferences via advertising.
Frank used Tess to make the contact WA-Acte and they have this current info.
Survey WI-TEA surveyed our members covertly.
Regonline is good through Nov. 1st. Will outstanding balances continue to be served or forgotten?
Face to Face:
Saturday, Sept 10th – Renton (Paul will contact Jay)
Finalize Green Expo, update on FB, web
Google Skype for those not available.
GoTo Meeting:
Tuesday, Aug 30th 3:30-4 – Set this up with Francene
Action items: Ron will contact Francene for the costs owed for breakfast
Meeting closed at 10:30
AUG 17th, ALL WASTS Breakfast Meeting
Meeting called to order 7:35
Minutes on the tables
Agenda on the table and on the screen
Ken introduced the members present & gave excuses for those not.
Secretary report: Jill gave copies of the minutes for group.
Informal survey Facebook -- no, CTSO Facebook -- yes, and website -- yes
Treasurer report: Ron passed out copies to tables.
Small regional conferences will cover the costs of the organization
Ron is making suggestions about finding out how much the October conference will bring in
Ken reminds the group that we need your buy in for the regional workshops.
Lunch, clock hours, and drive-in-drive out
Ken entertains a motion to approve
Tom Lefrench from Forks moves to approve
Fred Donaldson seconds
Minutes are approved with no dissention
Ken entertains a motion
Doug Meyer Yelm moves to approve
Eml seconds
Discussion: do you think 30 will come? Yes! Maybe more! Paul Scott gave some examples of ways that we’d add more sessions to include more clusters for Oct 14 & 15. Construction, welding, and other industry tours. Vendor show. Saturday 1.5 or 3 hours workshops. Cement, glass, painting, construction. These will continue to add.
Discussion closed. Budget passes with not dissention
Officer nominations – official business, finalize and formalize
Paul Scott – president elect, teaches in Renton, IT 10 years, prior in Special Ed. Excited to help lead this organization to current training, new short conferences, industry updates. More than 1,600 members are available to our group, we need everyone’s help to reach our members.
Jill Van Berkom – secretary
Terri Haworth – treasurer
Ed Crossan – Arts/AV Ed worked on the Frameworks, very capable
Creed Nelson – Renton, is interested in helping to make sure the construction folks have adequate training at the mini conferences
Ken Mayhak – metal fab instructor, wants to pull together a great cluster so many ideas are heard from the state
OPEN: Education & Training, Gov’t & Public Service, and Health & Human Services
EML moves to install the candidates to WASTS office
Doug Meyes seconds the candidates
The motion carries with no opposition
FLYERS, please distribute flyers to your co-workers.
Our Camtasia training will be great for all teachers, clock hours for all
WASTS strategic plan, business plan, and we will move forward at future board meetings.
NEW BUSINESS:
Doug wants to know about working with WI-TEA for spring conference. Ken, no, too many irons in the fire. His district will make him choose between the conferences since he teaches both
EML wants to make sure the WITEA and AG get the information for our conferences, since we get theirs.
EML, send your legistature and others – Tim Knue and Tom Lott – should be part of your good news send outs.
Training for BOARD, cluster presidents, and all others that are interested…please stay for the additional training.
Greg Kilpatrick CTE curriculum developer will be a great new contact for WASTS
Motion to Adjurn from Ken Mayhak
Paul Kroon seconds
Motion passes unopposed
From Aug 5th Exec. Board of Directors.
Location: Renton School District Office
In attendance; Denny, Ron, Ken, Jill
Wa-ACTE summer conference: Jill, Paul and Frank will attend. Jon Anderson will attend, but didn’t respond..53 registered, Tom Lopp & Denny included
We need 5 delegates for Sunday, pre conference 5-6:30pm: 3 confirmed: Frank, Ken T, and Jill. Ideas for additional delegates; Jon Anderson, Ken Mehack, Doug Urner, Ed Crossan
Registration table: Jill, Frank, and Ken will work when needed. We need to advertise for breakfast too.
ASK FRANCENE – who are our 12?? 12 are already paid. We will lock in for breakfast (15 locked in)
Ken – please make a poster to advertise for the breakfast/important/what foods/come to the meeting regardless/$8 charge for food OR BYOC (bring your own coffee).
600-650 coming to the conference; FACse is down. We have 50, Ag is 12. Business has 115. Additional registrations will be added, but it’s not what it used to be.
When will Exec Board meet at Summer Conference?
Regarding the FLYER:
Tri-Tech Skills Center. Jerry Ringwold needs to be called ASAP regarding using his location for the mini-conferences in the Tri-Cities.
WAVA Board meeting—Sunday 9am; We need to get on the agenda for the CTE director meeting; contact Mike Christianson. For WASTS brochure to promote the mini-conferences. Denny will call Monday!
1. Who are area president for 2011-12?
2. Pass out a brochure – Fall area meetings and promotion of the WASTS
3. Area meetings
Are we maintaining the Clusters that we don’t serve? Hospitality, Human Services…if we delete, where are they going to? Set adrift…we need contact from the membership. Laura Tarp (will they be added to FACSe) also, Cosmetology we could easily serve this group.
TO DO: Find a location for Joe Dockery (Renton, ask Jay which facilities Limburg), pay for Joe, how many people, how many clock hours, how much the registration will be is based on the cost of the facility, $10 for lunch, (will $75 pay for the space (free), Joe, lunch, clock hours(free))– Oct 14th and 15th – registration (reg online or with Ron) **will these participants also be members of the WASTS? BY ATTENDING, you become a member! We need to develop a membership card??
Flyers will be available at the Summer conference.
GOLF tournament –Ron will need to deliver “the basket” to Francine at the Summer conference.
Minutes from June 13th Exec. Board of Directors.
Minutes from June 13th, Phone and Face-to-Face BOD Executive Meeting.
Face to Face Attendees:
Ken Toney – Pres
Frank Medina – Past Pres
Jill Van Berkom -- Sec
Phone Attendee:
Terri Haworth –Tres
Not attending:
Paul Scott—Pres Elect
Summary, as presented to Terri via phone:
Will Terri OK the mini-conference in February being held in the Tri-cities, not Spokane?
Yes, February 25th
We will need to check with Bruce McBurney for Skills conflicts
The Exec BOD wants to best use the time of Ron Crawford. Drafting a targeted list of needs for him. Directions for Ron:
February Tri-cities Conference Prep
Skill Center Research -- which labs or classrooms are available for the conference?
We hope to make this a "drive in/drive out" event, but, what transportation options exist?
What hotels are near -- group for conference attendees?
With the plan to provide lunch via gift card to a fast food location, which restaurants are near? Any deals for a mass purchase of the cards?
With Frank's input re: clock hours, what will the cost for each be? What will cover our costs, but still be doable for the members? $75? 6 clock hours?
Create a skeleton plan for the day and the registration form. Sessions and details added as known. Ron will need to run the reg-online for this event. Franciene will not be hired. (From Terri via email: Let Ron know that Reg-on-line is perfectly willing to work with him to help him learn the system. I could probably work with them to set up the page for THIS conference pretty quickly as soon as we have the answers to these questions. It is a very friendly system as far as I can tell to work with.)
As we continue, registration and call to presenters
Ken: needs to meet with Denny and Paul in Kansas City to set up dollars and details for the Nov 4th and 5th conference. Denny, Paul and Ken will conference call with Tim Knue to finalize. Many items—like the flyer, hinge on these decisions.
Jill: working on additional web updates to include more visual elements.
Frank: working on Clock hours for mini-conferences.
From Terri regarding the budget
We are paid on all but 6 participants for the Fall Lynnwood conference
We are paying for many services including Reg-online and One-on-one internet hosting. This is drawing nearly $2000 each month from the limited funds in our account. Any conferences will need to be a guaranteed profit, we cannot loose or our organization will fail.
With regard to Denny, we discussed using his input to strengthen each Cluster President's role. We need to communicate their importance as we gather data, members, and work to provide meaningful offerings (with technical upgrades) in the future. We need them to be the gathers of the data for the website and the mouthpiece of the WASTS to encourage attendance at the trainings we offer.
LONG MINUTES:
We need to review the structure of the BOD. Who needs to do what? We are unclear.
Legislative: Ken
Conferences: Frank (clock hours)
Membership: ***
Awards: ***
Marketing & PR: (Ron has a list of contacts)
Denny will provide valuable input to each of our processes, but is not a BOD Exec, nor a vote. Ron is not a vote. Cluster Presidents do no vote.
Decisions need to be made on several items from the BOD Execs (5 members who vote)
NO on the T&I Bash
The liability and costs will be prohibitive
Jill is exploring the idea of a “meet up” style group of events, hosted by the Cluster Presidents in and around Seattle during the Summer Conference to increase camaraderie and promote communication within the cluster. These would be optional, free, and pay-as-you-go for participants. For example, meet at the Freemont Troll, photo stroll, and pub stop. Approximately 10 members. Auto might find a small, free tour or something like a hot rod show, then burgers and root beer at XXX in Issaquah
Franciene will not be negotiated from our budget to handle conference registration. Ron could pay Franciene from his $5000 pre-approved budget/pay. We want Ron to handle the Reg-online system.
Conference plans must move NOW. Our purpose and goal is to cover the majority of members with technical upgrades. We cannot possibly cover each and every cluster and each and every area of the state, but when we provide a conference, it must fit this purpose. We will need to streamline and create an efficient system to keep costs low and make money on all ventures. We will NOT participate in New Market or Tumwater. The ad that Ken created was simply a brainstorm, not plans or marching orders. Our mission is to create opportunities for TECHNICAL UPGRADES for our members. Denny will be helpful to recruit good Cluster Presidents. Cluster Presidents MUST attend the meetings to learn their roles. Cluster Presidents need to step up to find and communicate opportunities for their people. This can be conferences offered online, nationally, regionally, etc. Where we see gaps or were we feel the needs of our majority membership, WASTS will also offer our own mini-conferences. Each cluster will need a leader to keep the BOD aware. Communication to the Secretary for web links and updates for members. Use the website as a digital bulletin board for these upgrade opportunities. When a mini-conference is given, clock hours will be offered. This is Frank’s current “to do”. We are working on an estimation of $75 for a day-long conference which will cover the clock hours, lunch, and all costs for the presenter/venue. Terri will be used to print a flyer (Ron’s example noted) to distribute at summer conference. This will promote each of the events to all. Ken and Jill will create an information RICH flyer that will be printed “three up”, one color. Terri prefers a .PDF. She will print “in house”, needs time if the printer is non-cooperative.
3 conferences for 2011-12
Oct 14th Green Expo, Renton
Covers clusters: Construction, Auto, Arts
Joe Dockery will provide training in Camtasia
We need to learn more about rooms and supplies needed – laptops & headsets for each? Internet or standalone?
We need to advertise to everyone, not just our members
Terri can print
Nov 4th & 5th, SeaTac
with WA-CTE
Covers clusters: will be determined after KCMO call
Plans need to be made, Ken will discuss with Paul and Denny in KCMO
Profits/costs negotiated with Tim Knue
No Microsoft roll-out, this will be done at Summer Conference
February 25th , Tri-Cities
WASTS Mini-conference
Covers clusters: to be determined based on presenters available
We will offer clock hours
Lightroom or similar, arranged by Terri
This location is superior to Spokane for membership
