Call to Order 12:00 p.m

Present: Terri McGillvrey, Heather Turcotte, Wayne Lindberg, Steve Korby, Pam Grover, Bonnie Ratajek, Jennifer Mencl, Kim Burke, Kathy Chalupsky, and Wendy Sersha

Absent: Laurie Pinther, Patricia Stolee, Tracy Larsen

Review and Approval of April Meeting Minutes:
To be discussed at the June 2008 meeting.

Welcome New Board Member:
Heather Turcotte, Membership Director

New Business:

• Discussion on scheduling strategic planning retreat - A suggestion was made that the board needs to schedule a strategic planning retreat. The goal of this retreat would be to discuss new ways to grow as well as to evaluate the goals of the board. Suggestions were made on ways to improve that included: being more prepared, giving information to NHRA earlier, drawing people in by having information available earlier, evaluating positions of the board and their job descriptions (as some people are overloaded and some don.t understand what they should be doing), and better prioritization. This would potentially be a 4-hour retreat with an agenda in place. An email will be sent to the board with possible dates and the retreat will be scheduled on a date that works best for the majority of board members. schedules.
• Change in monthly director's reporting procedure - A request was made that each director write a report of what they would like to discuss at the next meeting. The report should be sent to Kathy, Tracy, and Wendy by Monday of the week of the scheduled meeting and should list discussion items for the next meeting. The secretary will then put all items together in 1 document and send it to everyone before the scheduled meeting. This would assist with the flow of our monthly meetings, topics of discussion, and action items.
• Professional Development Update - Roxanne Adamczak was previously the Director for Professional Development. Roxanne has accepted a new job and because of a busy schedule, has decided to resign from the NHRA board.
  • The Joint ASTD (American Society of Training and Development) meeting is scheduled for June 18th. Patricia will be assisting with the marketing. The meeting will be on marketing your company to recruit and retain talent.
  • There are no speakers planned for July, August, November and December. October is Jim Laumeyer. Kim Burke volunteered to work on the unscheduled meetings.
• SHRM Leadership Conference Update:
  • It was suggested at the State Council Meeting that we have our books reviewed annually by a CPA. Laurie is looking into this and will report on it.
  • A question was asked about looking into general property and liability coverage. The question is if we hold a function somewhere, who's held liable? NHRA or the place we hold the conference? It's suggested that each chapter have general liability insurance but it's not required. Terri volunteered to look into this.
  • Patricia will take a list of NHRA board members to the state board.

  Financial Report:

  • A question was asked regarding interest earned over $1,000 in one month. The answer was that there was a savings certificate that matured and was renewed with a new maturity date of 1/13/09.
  • $2,000 was moved from savings to checking to cover HR games as it wasn't in the budget.
  • There are still uncollected membership dues. They will either be collected or written off as unpaid dues.
  • Chart of Accounts: An area called "events" will be added with a subtitle of "social" to cover the spring social.
  • The board will approve the financial statement at every monthly meeting as a double-check, rather than having 2 signatures on checks. Kim made a motion to approve the financial reports and Pam seconded.

  
  
  Past President Report and Professional Development: (Kim Burke):
  Kim will line up speakers for the November and December NHRA meetings.
  
  Community Relations (Terri McGillvrey):
  Terri will be meeting with Linda from the Chamber to discuss NHRA and what we do. The discussion will include ideas of what role the Chamber could play in the fall conference in regard to presenters, their participation, having a booth, etc.
  
  College Relations (Jennifer Mencl):
  School is out! New officers were elected for the next academic year and one of them passed the PHR.
  
  Legislative Affairs (Wayne Lindberg):
  Wayne discussed a genetics bill that was passed and goes into place in 12 to 18 months. He has a presentation for an update.

  • Fall Conference: September 11, 2008 at the Inn on Lake Superior. Three rooms were available at a cost of $570. No deposit is needed. Jen Mencl will cancel the September NHRA meeting. Don Ness will be the keynote speaker and we.re waiting to hear back from the EEOC. Attendees of 60 or more are anticipated. Cost would be between $35-50 per person. Savories caters breakfast and lunch, which comes to $25 per person. The planning committee is open to input and ideas for speakers.

  Golf Outing (Steve Korby):
  The course is reserved and the date is set. The flier has been updated and Steve will send it to everyone. It was suggested that as far as donations, we should do the same organization 2 years in a row and then go to somewhere else. Kim made a motion and Steve seconded to give the donation to MRC.
  
  Marketing Report: (Patricia Stolee absent)
  
  Other Business:
  

  • Ask HR Column: A question was asked about the articles, where to go for ideas, and what articles have been done previously. Wendy will write an article on what HIPPA is and how it impacts companies.

  Meeting adjourned.