Call to order at 5:35 PM
Attendees: ???
ASQ Section
Meeting minutes from September meeting was approved – all in favor.
Phil Schmidt – Ideas to Action meeting attended by Phil and Rossi. Looking to increase membership to reach 1 million. Now presently a little short of ¼ mil. This will be achieved over the next 5 years. Not sure what the follow-up will be on this incentive. Phil and Rossi take-away was how can Section 1202 incorporate this incentive into increasing our membership? It seems like there is not much of an awareness of what is available through ASQ.
Education portion: Woodland and Frische are both at initial stages. Some bumps. Racine lost their superintendent. Still interested in moving forward with quality.
Principle of St. Mary’s in West Bend (P Reger contact) was positive and was comfortable with the grant application. Allan questioned the self scoring categories. Are most schools really going to know what these techniques are? John M made motion to approve, it was seconded. All agreed. Allan will carry it forward to National for approval.
May 2008 – Pewaukee Superintendent will be speaking.
Chair items (delivered by Allan).
Business Plan was submitted late. Completed copy was passed out to the committee. Business plan for 2007-08 and budget was submitted by 10/1/07 as required. Request was made to keep all business plan items up to date throughout the year so that we are not scrambling at the end.
December meeting was originally not planned. Not even budgeted for. Dennis still trying to plan a lunch or dinner meeting for December. Rossi and Dennis were communicating about combining a meeting with IAE and only with the Board of each organization. Each member would need to pay for their own meals. Recommend to leave it up to each committee member (and spouse) if they want to attend. This is a social event, not a formal meeting. Rossi will send an email to the board to respond back to Rossi with our intent. Looking at the 10th of December.
Meeting scheduled for this Thursday night to discuss the November combined meeting with the other two organizations. George Walker is available to meet at Miller brewery. Dennis will not be able to make it. Rossi will resend email to John Montague with the speaker name and bio.
John Montague – will table the discussion for next meeting regarding the dinner arrangements changes. Dennis should request that Debbie attend the next meeting so that we get the full discussion on the table.
Followed up on unpaid advertisers – lost Certified Scale due to take-over or reorganization. Added a blurb to invite other advertisers. Several responses for years of service.
John needs John Miller’s contact information for the org chart. Newsletter was approved last week. The e-blast will be any day now.
Mike Woods – have a few people in China. The team he is working with will be coming to America. Shawn recommends that Mike works with Cam Gupta. Finding out how to meld the American organization with China. May be political red tape to build the relationship.
Allan Rothman – got together with Nick and agreed to call 240 members that did not renew to find out why. Several were retiring and the cost was too much. Some they called had never attended a meeting.
Information from Laurie Garcia was not supported by the committee leaders.
Meeting adjourned at 7:00 PM