Board Members Present: Kim Burke, Patricia Stolee, Kathryn Koch, Tracy Larsen, Roxanne Adamczak, Wayne Lindberg, Bonnie Ratajek, Sandy Shea, Sandy Danmeier, Jennifer Mencl, Kathy Chalupsky, Steve Korby

Absent: Jannifer David, Missy Kuhlmey

The meeting was called to order at 12:00 p.m., by President Kim Burke.

MINUTES:

The December meeting minutes were reviewed and discussed. Motion was made by Bonnie Ratajek to approve, Kathryn Koch seconded. Board approved; motion carried.

NEW BUSINESS:

Website Issues:
Patricia Stolee talked about the huge time commitment of maintaining the Northland Web Site. Much discussion took place. One of the options available is to connect with the State SHRM and convert to their web site. They would pay for it and they would maintain it. There was concern about the ability to have the same features that our current Website has. Patricia will get more specific information from the State SHRM to see exactly what they can do for us and report back at the next board meeting.

Duluth News Tribune HR Column - Newspaper Committee Kathy Chalupsky reported that the newspaper committee currently consists of Jannifer David, Kathy Chalupsky and Kathryn Koch. They are looking for one more volunteer to be on the newspaper committee. Patricia will send out an inquiry to the full membership to see if anyone else is interested.

Assistant VP of Finance - Kim Burke discussed the need to fill the vacancy on the board of the Assistant VP of Finance. Tracy Larson volunteered.

Physical Address for NHRA:
For IRS purposes, we really need to have a street address for the physical location address for the Northland Association other than a PO Box. The physical location can be different than your mailing address. Patricia did some research and provided a summary of a storage proposal from Wherley Storage. By renting a box or several boxes, they could store all of our records. The positive would be that our records would remain in one location and it wouldn't change from year to year. Much discussion took place. Kathryn Koch made a motion, Roxanne Adamczak seconded, to go ahead and secure a box with Wherley Storage. Board approved; motion carried. Kim Burke will ensure that Wherely Storage will be provided with a list of board members so all board members would have access.

Committee Goals for 2007:
Kim Burke suggested that each committee set their own goals. Each committee needs to think about what their goals should be. This will be discussed at the next board meeting.

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

Financial Report:
Bonnie Ratajek distributed the December 31, 2006 Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Statement. Roxanne Adamczak moved to approve the financial report, seconded by Kathryn Koch. Board approved; motion carried.

Professional Development:
Kathy Chalupsky reported on the upcoming meetings. The February program has been approved for certification. The program will be a Minnesota OSHA update. The meeting for March will be Kathy Bray talking about Managing Your Work Comp Risk. The April meeting will be with the Student Chapter. Patricia Stolee talked with ASTD about the joint meeting which is typically held in June. ASTD would like to have it on our regular meeting date; same time and place. They are suggesting having Earl Hipp talking about "Building Professional Esteem".

College & Univ Relations:
Jennifer Mencl reported on the scholarship application. She handed out a copy of the application that was used last year. She discussed if we award the scholarship at the April meeting (which is the joint meeting with the Student Chapter) that we should be reviewing applications at the March Board meeting. Discussion about the application took place and she will add a disclaimer to the application that no one on the board or family members are eligible to apply. In addition, discussion took place about appropriate criteria to make the award. Sandy Shea will get an example of some criteria. Jennifer will hand out the application (with the disclaimer) at the upcoming Student Chapter meeting.

Communication:
Tracy Larson reported that Pam Grover signed up to be in the new member spot light. Patricia will check with the newspaper about the publishing of the new board members and when will that happen.

Community Involvement:
Missy Kuhlmey was not present at the meeting, however sent a report via e-mail. She left some messages with the high school DECA teachers in regards to assisting with mock interviews/resume writing with students. She will keep us posted. Wayne brought up the Imagine It Days at Esko High School. Patricia mentioned that when we do any community involvement such as above we need to document so that we can get credit for the CAP. Kim will talk with Missy and perhaps send out an e-mail to all members to let Missy know of any community involvement so that it can be documented.

Patricia is willing to advertise information on our Website such as announcing the ASTD monthly meetings or if you have any pertinent news from your company.

Discussion on gift cards for speakers - Kathy will ensure that we have gift cards for speakers for the upcoming meetings.

Membership:
Roxanne Adamczak reported that new members keep coming in. Invoices will be going out shortly for renewal of memberships. Roxanne talked about the post office box and she is willing to continue to get the mail from the box.

OTHER BUSINESS:

Wayne received an e-mail from a concerned party who has been attending the monthly meetings. Their issue surrounded the length of the meetings in that it is hard to carve out 2 hours of your day. In order for us to receive certification credits the meeting needs to have a full hour not including lunch. Kim will bring up at the meeting for discussion.

Patricia reported for purposes of receiving credit for Cap the following areas (certification, college relations, and business) were are doing great. However, we were weak in the areas of diversity and legislative. She suggested that we could possibly have a legislative person who could maybe give us a quick 5 minute update on a quarterly basis. Wayne volunteered to provide that update. Sandy Shea volunteered to be the diversity director to try to include some diversity into our programs.

A motion was made to adjourn the meeting at 1:00 PM by Sandy Danmeier and seconded by Jennifer Mencl.

Respectfully submitted,

Sandy Danmeier
VP of Administration