GOVERNING BOARD WORKING SESSION

January 25, 2007, 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Riverwood Inn, Monticello, MN

 

Tentative Schedule

 

4:00pm      Training (Brown)

                  How to run a meeting (Robert’s Rules of Order)

                  Finances …or “The Expense of Having Revenues”

                  Budget vs. Business Plan

 

5:00pm      Governing Documents – Part 1 (Brown)

                  Bylaws

                  Section Structure

                  Districts

5:20pm      Governing Documents – Part 2 (Cockriel)

                  Policies/Procedures

                        Position Descriptions

                                    Executive Board

                                    District Trustees

                                    Council Chairs

                  Strategic Plan

                        History

                        Breakout session - Do we need to update?

                  Business Plan

 

                   Dinner at 7pm

 

Forums -  (Chairs and trustees discuss with board about what’s coming up for their groups. What have been their successes and failures?  Where is help needed and what are they proud of?  What is the good, the bad and the ugly?)

 

8:00pm      Council Chair Forum

      Administrative and Policy (Cockriel)

      Conference (Schultz)

      Should we move the dates? Are there any conflicts with other exhibitions?

      Exhibition & Social – Exhibit hall location in 2007 and 2008

      MAC (Norton)

                        ACE MN Section Breakfast – Mo 6/25/07 or Tu 6/25/07 (Norton)

      Public Affairs (Volker)

      Training (Spain)

      Water Utility Council (Johnson)

 

8:40pm      District Trustee Forum

NW District (Bergentine)

                        NE District (Lubovich)

                        Central District (Stai)

                        Metro District (Blommel-Johnson)

                        SW District (Moulton)

                        SE District (Huschle)

 

9:15pm      Open Forum (Anderson)

                  What do you as board members see that we should discuss. Where do we need to improve???

                  Some ideas:

                        The Dec 2006 Strategic/Business Planning meeting

                         – did it meet the need? What is the need?

                        Membership and the database – what’s in it? What does it tell us? What do we do with it? How can we us it?

                        Section Website demonstration

                        Annual District Business meetings

                        Do we change our current districts?

                        Travel and reimbursement policies

                        Should we provide “Elected Officials Training” at LMC conference

                        How do we get, keep and support an active volunteer base?

                 


GOVERNING BOARD MEETING

January 26, 2007, 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Riverwood Inn, Monticello, MN

 

AGENDA

 

1.         CALL TO ORDER (Anderson)

 

2.         ROLL CALL (Brown)

 

3.         CONSENT REPORT (Anderson)

 

            MINUTES APPROVAL

            FINANCIAL REPORT (Brown)

            ASSOCIATION DIRECTOR'S REPORT (Gerads)

            DISTRICT REPORTS

                        NW District (Bergentine)

                        NE District (Lubovich)

                        Central District (Stai)

                        Metro District (Blommel-Johnson)

                        SW District (Moulton)

                        SE District (Huschle)

            COUNCIL/COMMITTEE REPORTS

                        Administration Council (Cockriel)

                        Conference Council (Schultz)

                        Manufacturers Council (Norton)

                        Public Affairs Council (Volker)

                        Training Council (Spain)

                        Water Utility Council (K. Johnson)

 

4.         UNFINISHED BUSINESS

A.         Strategic/Business Plan update (Lapointe)

B.         Exhibition and WFP Golf Tournament (Norton)

C.        Hamline Educational CD (Spain)

D.        Value of Membership CD (Cockriel)

E.         Policy/Procedure Update (Cockriel)

Section Travel

Fundraising

F.         Small Systems New Chair / Recruiting / Survey (Spain)

G.        Safety Committee (Spain) – adding security

 

5.         NEW BUSINESS

            A.         2006 Regional Officers Meeting, Recap & Review (Anderson)

            B.         2007 Association Meetings – Who’s going? (Anderson)

                                    Membership Summit – Feb 2nd and 3rd, 2007 in Phoenix, AZ

                                    Washington Fly-in – Apr

                                    ACE – Jun 24 – 28, 2007 in Toronto, ON, Canada – Get your passports ready!!

                                    WFP Summit – Jul

                                    Summer Workshop – Jul 28 – 29, 2007 near Denver

                                    Regional Meeting of Section Officers (RMSO) – Oct

            C.        ACE Breakfast / Speaker (Norton)

            D.        Annual Fall Conference (Schultz)

            E.         Water for People Memo of Understanding (Volker)

            F.         IMAX movie financial support (Brown)

            G.        Travel Policy (Cockriel)

 

6.         NEXT BOARD MEETING

            Friday May 18, 2007 at (Hosted by Metro District this year), MN

 

7.         ADJOURNMENT