Board Meeting Highlights - December 5, 2008

Meeting held: Arizona Country Club in Phoenix, AZ

Meeting was called to order at 9:05 am by Milli Lee, President

Attendees: Katherine Gosiger, Milli Lee, Carl Hamilton, Tim Little, Mary Bobbitt, David Bellmont, Julie Rogers, Donna Seniuk, Denis White, Vicki Allen-Buglisi, Chet Brandon, Jitu Patel, Jackie Ruggles, Clint Bragg

Guests: Toni DiDomenico, Jeremy Bethancourt, Mike Cook, Charlie Casey

Secretary
Mary Bobbitt presented the minutes from the November 2008 Board meeting. A correction to the October minutes was discussed, and Clint Bragg did attend that meeting. No changes were noted for the November minutes as written.

Budget/Finance & Accounting
David Bellmont, Treasurer, presented the treasurers report.

Summary of account transactions were distributed at the meeting. Motion to accept the report as presented was made by Denis White, and second by Mary Bobbitt. This was passed unanimously.

President
Milli Lee advised our January 2nd speaker is Dr. Brenton Gibbs on Wellness. There are currently 3 open positions on the Board. Milli will ask for volunteers at the Chapter meeting.

President Elect
Carl Hamilton advised today’s speaker is Henry Miranda from the Phoenix Light Rail System. Lunch will be macadamia crusted chicken with amoretto cheesecake for desert. We have 64 reservations.

Andrea’s Closet is the charity that will be here to accept the gifts that members are bringing to the meeting in lieu of their usual luncheon fee. This charity stocks gift closets with toys in various hospitals for children undergoing treatments for serious injuries or diseases. They also have a financial assistance fund for families to help with ongoing personal expenses. They will do a brief presentation at the meeting today.

The February through June meetings location are still being researched and organized. Some options under consideration are Airport Marriott, Chaparral Suites, and Oscar Taylors’.

Vice President/PDC
Tim Little reported that we have been advised by SCFAZ that our participation in their SafetyWorks is no longer needed. The AZ Chapter will need to organize a separate PDC for our members. He is working on some suggestions and will send the Board information in the next few weeks. Julie Rogers, Carl Hamilton, Jeremy Bethancourt, and Mike Cook agreed to help coordinate efforts with Society, NSC, NBIC, ACG, NFPA, AIHA, and NAHB to make this happen. Any contacts that anyone has with other safety organizations, the Board is asked to forward these to Tim or members of his committee.

Construction Section
Clint Bragg advised the Wild Horse Pass jobsite meeting was a success for their meeting. The December meeting will be on the 11th, and will deal with Dust Control compliance issues with Curtis Durant. The meetings have been successful with over 20 attendees each month.

Jeremy Bethancourt updated us on the NAHB seminar. There is another grant available for fall protection focusing on Ladders and Scaffold safety. It will be in March or April and he plans to request CEU’s. The last grant training session that the Chapter co-sponsored had over 90 attendees with only an 8 day notice.

Student Section
Linda Howard was unable to attend the meeting. One student attended the Leadership conference in Kentucky. Linda is pursuing two $500 scholarships for our student members.

Bylaws
Chet Brandon was unable to attend the meeting. He did advise Milli Lee that there were no changes at this time.

Nominations
Denis White reminded us to give him any suggestions for 2009-2010 officers. He asked if the current Treasurer and Secretary would be willing to sit again. Both agreed, but a suggestion was made that protégé’s be approached for these Board positions in the future.

Newsletter/Webmaster
Larry Gast reminded the Board that the more promptly he receives his information, the quicker he can get it to the website. It was suggested that a thank you gift be given to our website manager. They have been very responsive to our needs. A motion was made by David Bellmont to give him a $100 gift card, and second was provided Jeremy Bethancourt. This was passed unanimously.

Long Range Plan/Job Bank
Donna Seniuk and the Board will discuss the long range plan in January.

The job bank has 69 jobs currently listed. Last month there were over 80 jobs. More companies are contacting her to list their jobs, rather her soliciting their jobs. There were around 5900 hits on the job bank over the past year, and they are averaging 285 per day at this time.

Awards and Honors
Wayne Ziemann was unable to attend the meeting, but sent his report. He had to submit Jitu Patel’s fellowship award nomination without one of the recommendation letters to meet the deadline. The Regional SPY award is deu on January 23rd and will be ready.

Membership
Julie Rogers indicated there is still an issue with the website for membership at Society. We have 515 members. There are 61 members in the grace period at this time. One new member will attend the meeting today.

Julie also inquired about an after hours social gathering for members. She will explore setting up an online query with Larry Gast for our website.

Public Relations
This chair position is currently vacant. Millie Lee will announce at the meeting again that we are looking for a new chairperson.

Association Interface
No report.

Government Affairs
Jackie Ruggles could not attend the meeting, but Jeremy Bethancourt presented her report.

The previous safety Alliance was not renewed as required every other year. Since this one is expired, the Chapter will elect to proceed with coordinating a new safety Alliance. Jeremy has a copy of the required wording from the state to do this. They are working on it now. The Alliance will be focused on sharing safety information and developing best practices for the construction industry.

Fall protection safety on a national basis is slowing down because of the new administration. Until the new officials are in place, things are on hold. ACOSH and NAHB are working on residential fall protection training. Roofers are being pout on the spot for not using conventional fall protection. The Carpenter’s Union is now getting involved as well.

Foundation
Vicki Allen-Buglisi has scratch off lottery cards for the drawing at the meeting today.

Regional VP
No report.

Area Director
No report.

Senior Advisor to the Board
Jitu Patel reported that his invited to attend a 4th Quarterly Safety meeting of Aramco’s Pipelines Department management and key supervisory and technical staff on December 20th. He will be making a presentation on Behavior Change Safety. He will be making the same presentation to 5 other Aramco Departments on December 21st and 22nd.

Jitu is scheduled to conduct a 3-day Fire and Safety Inspection/Audit seminar for Aramco engineers and line management staff hosted by the ASSE Middle East Chapter for January 19th through 21st, 2009. He will also participate in Aramco’s Safety meeting on January 28th.

Jitu has been accepted as a speaker at the 5th PDC by the Kuwait Asse Chapter to be held on March 19th through 21st, 2009. He will also conduct a 2-day workshop on Fire and Safety Engineering.

Delegate
Katherine Gosiger advised that she has not picked up the new display board for the Chapter. This will be done in the next 60 days.

Other Business
Next Board meeting is January 2nd, 2009 at 9 am at the Arizona Country Club.

Motion to Adjourn was made by Julie Rogers and second provided by Clint Bragg. This was passed unanimously, and the meeting was adjourned at 11:07 am.

Board Meeting Highlights - November 7, 2008

Meeting held: Arizona Country Club in Phoenix, AZ

Meeting was called to order at 9:07 am by Milli Lee, President

Attendees: Katherine Gosiger, Milli Lee, Carl Hamilton, Tim Little, Mary Bobbitt, David Bellmont, Julie Rogers, Donna Seniuk, Denis White, Jackie Ruggles, Jim Gallup, Harold Gribow

Guests: Toni DiDomenico, Jeremy Bethancourt

Secretary
Mary Bobbitt presented the minutes from the October 2008 Board meeting. A correction to the attendance listing was to put Jeremy Bethancourt instead of Clint Bragg. Motion to accept as amended was made by Denis White and second by Katherine Gosiger. This was passed unanimously.

Vicki Allen-Buglisi took the minutes for the October Board meeting. Mary expressed her thanks for Vicki’s help.

Budget/Finance & Accounting
David Bellmont, Treasurer, presented the treasurers report.

Summary of account transactions were distributed at the meeting. The expenses for the month included travel costs for Jeremy Bethancourt and Toni DiDomenico to go to Washington DC. Kids Chance AZ also received a donation. This charity is for children of workers killed or seriously injured on the job. Motion to accept the report as presented was made by Katherine Gosiger, and seconded by Jeremy Bethancourt. This was passed unanimously.

President
Milli Lee passed around the survey from Terry Wilkinson at Society to arrange for discounts at hotels etc. for ROC’s and other ASSE events. She asked that any comments be added to the cover sheet and she would add those to the letter.

Milli asked that Jim Gallup discuss the Region Strategic Plan.

Vicki Allen-Buglisi has asked that someone take over the PowerPoint presentation preparation for each month meetings. Milli will ask at the Chapter meeting for volunteers.

President Elect
Carl Hamilton provided a copy of the Workbook for chapter Operations & Strategic Planning & Performance Reporting. This is the new STARS format for Chapter reporting.

The Scottsdale Health Fair was cancelled the day before it was to open due to lack of participation. It appears the economic issues are beginning to affect these types of events.

The SCFAZ is getting ready to start working on the PDC.

Vice President/PDC
Tim Little will be contacting Claudia Baker at SCFAZ for the PDC planning in the next month.

Tim advised that the live stream broadcast of our meetings is at a standstill until we have a static IP address for the Internet. This will need to be considered with the new location in February.

Construction Section
Clint Bragg was unable to attend the meeting. Jeremy Bethancourt advised the next meeting will be held at the Wild Horse Pass Hotel construction site. They have 12 RSVPs at this time. Mold was the topic at their last meeting.

NIOSH will be making a public announcement for Fall Protection very soon. Jeremy asked that we consider officially supporting the new study. This will deal with conventional fall protection in residential construction. By agreeing to support this, we are listed as a sponsor of the study. There is no financial obligation involved. In the future, the Chapter may be asked to help fund a trip for Jeremy to attend a NIOSH meeting in Las Vegas.

A formal motion was made by Jeremy Bethancourt as follows: The AZ ASSE Chapter agrees to support the proposal by NIOSH for the study of conventional fall protection from trusses in residential light construction. This was seconded by Mary Bobbitt. It was passed unanimously.

Toni DiDomenico advised there are 2 new members for the Section.

Student Section
Linda Howard was unable to attend the meeting. The roster was forwarded to Milli Lee and Mary Bobbitt.

The student that was to attend the Leadership Conference in Louisville KY was in an auto accident. If they are not able to find someone to use the ticket, they would like the Board to reimburse the student. It was agreed that the Board would do this, as it is within the previously approved limit.

Bylaws
Chet Brandon was unable to attend the meeting. He did advise Carl Hamilton that there were no changes at this time.

Nominations
Denis White reminded us to give him any suggestions for 2009-2010 officers over the next few months and he will begin his recruitment process.

Newsletter/Webmaster
No report this month.

Long Range Plan/Job Bank
Donna Seniuk and the Board will discuss the long range plan in January. We received the workbook for Chapter operations and strategic planning and performance reporting. Changes to improve our long range plan to meet the criteria in the workbook will be discussed at that time.

The job bank has 84 jobs currently listed. There are 27 Phoenix jobs, 40 Arizona jobs, and 17 out of state positions. There have been 5,062 visits to the job bank since the beginning of the year. There will be 3-4 more positions going up on the website in the next few days. We have several high profile jobs on the website at this time.

Awards and Honors
Wayne Ziemann was unable to attend the meeting, but sent his report. He is waiting on one more letter for Jitu Patel’s Fellowship nomination.

The 25 and 50 year members will be acknowledged in February. The Society sent the 5/10/15 year pins direct to the Chapter members.

The deadline for the Chapter SPY and the Executive for the Year is December 31. All nominations need to be submitted by that time.

Membership
Julie Rogers indicated there is still an issue with the website for membership at Society. We have 500 members. There are 248 regular members, 33 student members, 13 emeritus, 33 associates, and 173 professional. The Construction section still doesn’t show up.

Public Relations
This chair position is currently vacant. Millie Lee will announce at the meeting that we are looking for a new chairperson.

Association Interface
Larry Gibason was unable to attend. He advised Milli Lee that he cannot attend the meetings, but would be happy to continue his duties.

Government Affairs
Jackie Ruggles advised her committee met this morning. They are working toward contacting the Governors’ Office on the fall protection program. As Governor Napolitano may be unavailable at this time, they will also contact Senator McCain to help push this forward. They will attempt to send four people to the meetings they arrange when possible, including Jackie, Carl Hamilton, Katherine Gosiger, Harold Gribow, and Jeremy Bethancourt.

There was also discussion on creating a new Alliance in the state for safety. Carl Hamilton interjected that there is an Alliance in place, and that they should update that. Carl offered to contact the previous members of the Alliance, and advise if they are still interested. The current Alliance is vendor driven, not construction driven. This will change the dynamics of the Alliance. Jeremy Bethancourt will follow up with him later this month on the status.

Foundation
No report this month. Jeremy Bethancourt and Mary Bobbitt agreed to do the Foundation tickets for the drawing at the meeting. A 50/50 drawing will be done.

Regional VP
Jim Gallup advised that the three Chapters from the region recommended for consideration as Chapter of the Year are: Small-Snake River, Medium-Four Corners, and Large-Arizona.

2011 is the 100th anniversary of ASSE. They are expecting 10,000 attendees to the Annual Meeting which will be in Chicago.

Jim also has three task forces for the Region working toward the goals of financial independence for the region, improved informational technology, and improved CoPS efficiency. Harold Gribow is working with the financial independence team; Carl Hamilton is working with the CoPS program. The informational technology group is planning to stream future ROC’s.

Area Director
Harold Gribow advised that Tim Little assisted with the survey for dues.

Senior Advisor to the Board
Jitu Patel was unable to attend the meeting, as he is out of the country. He did send Milli Lee a copy of the Mid-East Chapter Newsletter. This was passed around the meeting for the Board to review.

Delegate
Katherine Gosiger reported on various new display boards that would update the AZ ASSE booth. It was determined that the 10-foot stand alone with 2 lights and carrying case for approximately $1,245 would be the best option for us. For additional cost we can have laminated headers and labels done at the same time. This is within the originally approved budget for the display board, and it was agreed that she should proceed. It is hoped that the display will be available by the time the symposium that Society is sponsoring in Scottsdale. There are 3 Board members that will be at the symposium offering assistance with registration.

Other Business
Next Board meeting is December 5 at 9 am at the Arizona Country Club.

Motion to Adjourn was made by Katherine Gosiger and second provided by Jeremy Bethancourt. This was passed unanimously, and the meeting was adjourned at 10:54 am.

Board Meeting Highlights - October 3, 2008

Meeting held: Arizona Country Club

Meeting was called to order at 9:16 am by Carl Hamilton, President-Elect. It was determined that there was a quorum.

Attendees: Carl Hamilton, David Bellmont, Wayne Ziemann, Denis White, Clint Bragg, Donna Seniuk, Chet Brandon, Larry Gast, Jitu Patel, Julie Rogers, Vicki Allen-Buglisi, and Tim Little

Guests: Mike Cook, Robin Orchard, Michelle Riggan

Since there are some new Board Members for 2008/2009, we did introductions. Chet Brandon is the new By-Laws Chair.

Kids’ Chance of Arizona
Carl Hamilton introduced Robin Orchard and Michelle Riggan. They attended the Board Meeting to make a presentation on behalf of Kids’ Chance of Arizona. This is an organization that provides scholarships to the children of workers who have been killed or catastrophically injured on the job. Robin told the Board about the 4th Annual 5K and Fitness Festival scheduled for Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Kiwanis Park in Tempe. They are looking for sponsors for the event and for support in advertising it to our members so they can participate.

Robin had to leave, but Michelle stayed for the remainder of the Board Meeting.

Construction Section
Clint Bragg requested to go next since he could not stay for the entire meeting. Clint shared that the Sept. meeting of the Construction Section was informative and emotional. It was held on Sept. 11, so the Section conducted a roundtable discussion of where people were on 9-11-01, who was affected, what they remember, etc. The Oct. Construction Section meeting will be held on Oct. 9 at SCF, at 7 AM. Heath Bradley will be the presenter and the topic is “Mold in Construction.” There will be a brief presentation and then an open discussion period. The Nov. meeting will be a job site visit, but it has not been confirmed. For the Dec. meeting, they are inviting someone from Maricopa County to discuss dust control and dust permits.

The Construction Section Certificate had been located and was given to David Bellmont to maintain at the ASEC Training Center.

Secretary
Carl presented the minutes in Mary Bobbitt’s absence. Motion to approve minutes as presented was made by Wayne Zieman and seconded by Julie Rogers. It was approved unanimously.

Budget/Finance & Accounting
David Bellmont, Treasurer, presented the treasurers report.

A summary of account transactions was distributed at the meeting. Motion to approve the report as presented was made by Denis White and seconded by Wayne Ziemann. It was passed unanimously.

President
Carl Hamilton presented the President’s report in Milli’s absence. There were five items:

  1. Milli has requested that Mary Bobbitt send a letter to Sheila Denney to find out her status on the Board. No one has heard from her and she has not responded to emails. We need to know if she is going to continue in the PR role or if we need to fill it with someone else. (The Board agreed that this was an important role and it needs to be filled.)

  2. Lisa Young from Gateway, asked if the Arizona Chapter would co-sponsor an ASP/CSP workshop at Gateway. (After a short discussion, the Board decided to continue to offer our own review class and politely decline the offer from Gateway.)

  3. The Board has previously approved funds to purchase a booth display. Katherine and Harold volunteered to work on this, but one has not yet been purchased. (The Board agreed that we would like to have a new display prior to the Construction Symposium to be held in Scottsdale in November. Larry Gast suggested that we used some of the information from Katherine’s STARS application as hand-outs for the booth.)

  4. Milli asked that we remind members to volunteer to work at the polls on November 4 and to vote.

  5. Milli wanted to make sure that the Board supports the can food drive for the November meeting. (The Board agreed. Vicki had already included a slide in the PP slides for the meeting. Tim Little suggested that we give a free raffle ticket to each person who brings a non-perishable food item.)

  6. Milli wanted to make sure that the Board still wants to have a toy drive at the December meeting. (Due to the restrictions issued by the various hospitals, the Board asked Mike Cook to follow up with his contact for Andrea’s Closet. This is a non-profit organization that collects toys and then distributes them to 15 different hospitals across the state. Mike Cook will find out if there is a list of items they don’t want, so we can communicate that to the members.)

Larry Gast reiterated the importance of having a PR/Volunteer Coordinator Chair to work on these projects. Denis White mentioned that one of the organizations he belong to has a “Good Works” Committee that handles such projects as food drives, toy drives and volunteer activities.

President Elect
Carl has been talking to Janet Brown, from the Southern AZ Chapter, about a joint meeting in February of 2009. They are definitely interested in partnering with us. There was a general discussion regarding possible locations for the joint meeting. Vicki will contact Rob Ott at ASU to see if there is a location on campus that we could use. Carl will contact the Southern AZ Chapter and communicate our preliminary ideas.

The November speaker is Dale Walsh. He will be discussing how IH can contribute to the “green” movement.

Newsletter/Web Master
Larry Gast asked if he could give his report since he needed to leave. He provided information regarding the traffic on the Chapter website. Since April, there have been 8700 hits, with half of those going to the Job Bank. The Meeting page received 700 hits and the Construction Section received 437 hits. The Seminars page received 700 hits and the News Archives was visited 400 times. More people visit on Tuesdays and there was more activity in September than in June – 1800 hits in September compared to 1600 in June.

Larry said that the webpage support from Society is “excellent.” Their response is quick – usually within 1 to 2 days. He said the only negative is that they haven’t been able successfully implement a Chapter email box.

Vice President/PDC
Tim Little reported that he was on a Region II Sub-Committee involved in creating financial independence for the Region. Tim reported that the Region wants to be able to fund ROC meetings so that all Chapters can host one; and to provide more opportunities for the Region VP to be able to visit Chapters to provide assistance and support. Tim reported that currently $1.00 from each member’s dues goes to the Region. He presented a question to the Board – would the Board support increasing the amount that goes to the Region to $2.00? There was a general discussion about how the ROC could raise money – they are allowed to sell merchandise and to sponsor webinars. By consensus, the Board agreed that they would support additional monies going to the Region.

Tim reported that he was told that the planning for the Phoenix Safety Works conference will begin after the Tucson conference is completed. Tim told the Board that he did not receive a lot of positive feedback from the SCF reps when he offered some ideas on the 2009 Phoenix edition of Safety Works. The Board agreed that the Chapter must have more visibility in the conference. Society does not think we are involved enough in Safety Works and they may not grant CEUs for next year.

Student Section
Linda was not present, but Vicki reported that they had discussed the scholarships that the Chapter gives to students who are attending a 2-year or certificate program. Vicki moved that the Chapter fund two $500 scholarships. Julie seconded the motion and it passed unanimously. The process for reviewing the applications will be same – Linda has formed a Committee. Denis White suggested that we contact a past recipient – Yesinia – and ask if she would speak at a Board or Chapter meeting. Vicki will pass the request on to Linda.

By Laws
Chet Brandon met with Mike Cook to do a pass down. Chet is not aware of any issues that need to be addressed so no action is currently needed.

Nominations
Denis White asked Board members to let him know of any potential candidates for the 2009/2010 Chapter year.

Long Range Plan/Job Bank
Donna Seniuk reported that the Job Bank currently has 77 job listed at this time – 27 in Phoenix, 34 in Arizona and 16 out of state. Donna also distributed a summary of the hits that the Job Bank is getting on a quarterly basis. In Q3, the Job Bank got 1400 hits. During last quarter, there were 639 first time visitors to the Job Bank. Donna brought additional copies of the job listings and will leave them on the tables during the Chapter meeting.

Donna distributed copies of the Long Range Plan and requested that Board members email comments to her prior to the November Board Meeting.

Carl commended her outstanding efforts on the Job Bank.

Awards and Honors
Wayne Ziemann reported that he still needs Jitu’s application information from Katherine, Tim and Vicki. He needs it by mid-October. He also announced that he is seeking nominations for the 2008/2009 Chapter Safety Professional of the Year (SPY) and the 2008/2009 Executive of the Year Awards. Wayne will be nominating David Bellmont for the Region SPY Award.

Membership
Julie Rogers presented the report. We currently have 493 members. She questioned that we suddenly have 22 new Student Members. We have 172 Professional Members, which is a reflection of the reclassification effort from the past year. Seven new members are attending today’s Chapter meeting.

Public Relations/Communications
Sheila Denney was not present – no report.

Association Interface
Larry Gibason was not present – no report.

Government Affairs
Jackie Ruggles was not present – no report.

Foundation
Vicki reported that the amount of the William C. Ray Scholarship administered through the Foundation has been increased to $2000. She also reminded the Board that she is looking for ideas for items to donate to the Foundation Silent Raffle at the Annual PDC in San Antonio next June. Board Members suggested an IPOD or GPS. David asked Vicki to research how much additional money the Chapter needs to donate to the Foundation to achieve the next level in scholarships.

Area Director’s Report
Harold Gribow was not present – no report.

Senior Board Advisor
Jitu Patel advised the Board of his recent activities on behalf of ASSE. He is going to Saudi Arabia on Oct. 16 to do a one day seminar on Construction Safety. (This seminar will be free for participants.) Jim Gallup is involved from a Region II standpoint. Jitu will also be returning to Bahrain to conduct two 3-day seminars on Fire & Safety Engineering sponsored by the Middle East Chapter.

Delegate
Katherine Gosiger was not present – no report.

Senior Advisor to the Board
Jitu Patel advised the Board of his recent activities on behalf of ASSE. He just returned from participating in workshops held in Saudi Arabia and sponsored by the Middle East Chapter. He is returning later this month for fire and safety engineering workshops.

Other Business
Vicki made a motion for the Chapter to donate $2500 to become a “Fitness Sponsor” for the 2009 5K and Fitness Festival to be held by Kids’ Chance of Arizona. Donna seconded the motion. The motion was passed unanimously and David Bellmont presented a check to Michelle Riggan. This level of sponsorship includes 10 free registrations for the event. We will use these as prizes for our monthly Foundation raffles. Vicki requested that Carl tell the Chapter about our sponsorship during today’s meeting.

Jeremy Bethancourt brought copies of the Oct 1 “Draft Proposal to collaborate with NIOSH to develop a “Business Case Study” for the use of fall prevention in the residential construction industry”. Jeremy requested that photos from the recent meeting with Edwin Foulke be included in the PP slide show.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:16 am.

Board Meeting Highlights - September 5, 2008

Meeting held: Arizona Country Club in Phoenix, AZ

Meeting was called to order at 9:03 am by Milli Lee, President

Attendees: Katherine Gosiger, Milli Lee, Carl Hamilton, Tim Little, Mary Bobbitt, David Bellmont, Julie Rogers, Wayne Ziemann, Denis White, Larry Gibason, Jackie Ruggles, Marilyn Moots, Jitu Patel, Jim Gallup

Guests: Mike Cook, Toni DiDomenico, Jeremy Bethancourt, Roy Staser

Secretary
Mary Bobbitt presented the minutes from the June 2008 Board meeting. Motion to accept as presented was made by Jim Gallup and second by Katherine Gosiger. This was passed unanimously.

Mary also presented the minutes from the July Executive Board Planning meeting. Motion to accept as presented was made by Denis White and second by Julie Rogers. This was passed unanimously.

Mary advised the Board she would be unable to attend the next Board meeting on October 3, 2008. Marilyn Moots has offered to take the minutes for Mary.

Budget/Finance & Accounting
David Bellmont, Treasurer, presented the treasurers report.

Summary of account transactions were distributed at the meeting. The first installment of the $20,000 loan to the ASEC was made in the amount of $5000. Motion to accept the report as presented was made by Wayne Ziemann, and second by Larry Gibason. This was passed unanimously.

The annual budget was presented as revised from the Planning meeting. General discussion was held, and it was agreed that this reflected the requested changes. The golf event was tabled for the next meeting discussion.

President
Milli Lee advised the Chapter incorporation is complete, and the copy of the incorporation papers were given to Chapter Secretary Mary Bobbitt.

Milli announced that the AZ Chapter will be sponsoring the Spring 2010 ROC. Spring 2009 ROC will be in Las Vegas NV, and the Fall 2009 ROC will be held in Reno NV. Milli and Tim Little discussed the Residential Fall Protection issue at the ROC.

Milli also reminded everyone that the ASSE Foundation will award grants for other educational purposes, not just for college credits. The 2009 seminar schedule was distributed for review.

Vicki Allen-Buglisi is Chair for the Region II Awards and Honors Committee.

Leadership Conference is October 2-4, 2008. Milli will be attending, so Carl Hamilton will handle the October Board and Chapter meeting duties.

Solutions in Construction Symposium will be held in Scottsdale November 20 and 21, 2008. ASSE Society has asked for three volunteers to help with administrative duties these 2 days. Denis White, Larry Gibason, Jeremy Bethancourt are the volunteers, and Katherine Gosiger is the alternate. Milli will report these names to Trudy Goldman Monday, September 8, 2008.

Dues increases were again discussed at the ROC. This will be going to Society Board, then to Delegates. Jim Gallup will keep the Chapter advised.

Milli also advised us to remember to find a new Student Section Chair as Linda Howard is asking to step aside at this time. Linda has graciously agreed to stay until a replacement is found.

Katherine Gosiger stated that she has done some preliminary research on the new booth table top display. The price range looks to be around $4000 for a nice one. This is within the budget of $5000 approved by the Board at a previous meeting.

President Elect
Carl Hamilton advised the Board that we have 71 attendees for today’s luncheon. Bill Sims Jr. is presenting Green Beans and Ice Cream. Lunch is London Broil with carrot cake for dessert. Apparently there is some confusion about the number of guaranteed meals, as Carl was informed there were 90 confirmed meals when he called. Carl will check on this before the next meeting, and make sure that they use the called in information in the future. Our contract did not have a set number of servings.

Carl will be obtaining the Board name badges. He has finalized the speakers through December, and has 15 potential candidates as speakers for the remaining months. Tim Little asked that he provide him with the additional names for PDC speaker candidates.

Carl also provided an up date for CoPS. They have a mission statement to develop maintain and deliver technical knowledge for the Society. There is a five member task force that will work on this at a Regional level. Carl will work to coordinate CoPS with the AZ PDC.

The Chapter Operation, Strategic Planning Annual Performance Tool provided by Society is to help streamline the STARS program. Terry Norris from Society will be providing the attachment for the Chapter of the Year submissions.

Vice President/PDC
Tim Little advised the Board of an organization called AZ Kids Chance which offers scholarships to children of parents who died on the job. Tim was going to get additional information. He asked that the Chapter consider having once of the monthly drawing we use to sponsor the ASSE Foundation be provided to this organization.

Tim also asked for any speaker suggestions that the Board or Chapter members know, be referred to him for PDC. Claudia Baker at SCFAZ is the primary connection for the PDC.

Tim suggested that we look into having a webcast of our Chapter meetings set them up as webinars. To do this will cost approximately $100 month, and we have much of the technology in place. We would need a digital video camera, and IP address, and a laptop. Mike Cook offered to allow the Chapter to use his video camera for this. Due to the commitment this would require, Tim suggested that we have a Technology Chair position on the Board.

Membership
Julie Rogers advised the Board that when she checked for an update Thursday evening and then Friday morning there was a difference of about 40 members. The Society website is not functioning correctly. We have approximately 457 members in the Chapter, 19 are new, and 33 are in the grace period. She has talked with them at Society, and they are aware of the problem and working on it.

Long Range Plan/Job Bank
Donna Seniuk was unable to attend the meeting, but sent her report. There are 81 jobs listed on the website at this time. 30 are in Phoenix, 67 in Arizona, and 14 are available nationwide.

Awards and Honors
Wayne Ziemann hopes to submit the Fellow Award for Jitu Patel by the end of October. This will allow the Society to review it and request additional information or corrections by the December 1, 2008 deadline.

Wayne also asks that we mover the SPY and Executive of the Year awards be moved up earlier in the Chapter year. Vicki Allen-Buglisi will be asked to add a slide to the Chapter slide show next month.

Wayne will be getting the Regional SPY submission and complete this process by the December 1, 2008 deadline as well. Our Chapter SPY, David Bellmont, is the nomination from our Chapter.

Wayne also advised that Society will distribute membership award pins to members with 5, 10, 15, and 20 years of service with no charge to the Chapter. Discussion was held on whether the Chapter should distribute them at meetings or have Society send them direct to our members. Due to the logistics, it was decided to allow Society to send them directly. The Chapter will investigate whether to send a post card or letter to the individuals regarding the service award.

Nominations
Denis White asked that we give him any suggestions for 2009-2010 officers over the next few months and he will begin his recruitment process.

Association Interface
Larry Gibason has reviewed the form for the Phoenix General Hospital toy drive. It is one page, and easy to complete. It was suggested that AZ Kids Chance be a recipient of the toy drive as well. Banner Hospital and the Burn and Trauma Center will also be considered. The toy drive is held in conjunction with our December meeting with other safety organizations in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Bylaws
No report this month.

Foundation
Vicki Allen-Buglisi was unable to attend the meeting today.

Government Affairs
Jackie Ruggles advised that OSHA has issued a clarification on PPE violations for per employee issues and training. There are potential changes underway for Hazardous Dusts. This is in reaction to the recent explosions in the news. Construction and confined space is an article in the Professional Safety magazine this month, and is another hot topic that Jackie is watching for changes in rules and legislation.

Because there are so many things happening in this arena, a government affairs task force is developed. Katherine Gosiger, Mike Cook and Jeremy Bethancourt with Jackie are the members.

Public Relations
Sheila Denney was unable to attend, but did contact Milli Lee. The Sols for Shoes program will probably be tied into the PDC. We were asked to consider volunteering for poll work in the General Election in November. The deadline is rapidly approaching and it will be announced at the Chapter meeting. It was suggested that a food drive be held at the November luncheon meeting. No discount for bringing food will be provided. More information on NAOSH will be provided at the next meeting. There is a program called Safety Suitcase that is geared for 4th – 6th grade students about a safety career. Tim Little provided the information. Additional research will be done to determine if the Chapter will participate.

Delegate
Katherine Gosiger reported that the STARs report has been submitted. Katherine also wanted to thank everyone for their assistance with the report. She also has the gavel for our President Milli Lee and will present this to her at the Chapter luncheon.

Regional VP
Jim Gallup provided a summary of the Rock in August. The San Juan College in Farmington NM has a 2 year degree. The Colorado Plateau Section is nearing Chapter Status. The ASEC has 47 OSHA classes scheduled for 2009 at this time. The Middle East Chapter PDC has 750 attendees. The NM Chapter is planning to add a Las Cruces Section. The Southern Colorado Chapter has a tour for every Chapter meeting. ASSE members in the northern area of Region II are extremely busy with the oil and gas boom. The Oil and Gas Show in Farmington NM attracted 5000 visitors and had 375 exhibitors. Jim also provided a list of Chapter meetings that he has attended in our Region. The goals for the Region this year are to become financially independent and to further Chapter reporting in 2009.

Area Director
No report this month.

Newsletter/Webmaster
Larry Gast was unable to attend the meeting. He asked that any information for the website be sent to him quickly for updating. There are no issues with the website at this time.

Construction Section
Clint Bragg was able to attend the meeting. The elections have been completed and reported to Society. There is a question as we were informed that they are not a Section by Society. Clint Bragg is thought to have the certificate for the Section, and we need the identification number to provide to Society to clear this issue. Toni DiDomenico will contact Clint. The certificate will be returned to the Board and probably placed at the ASEC location for safekeeping.

Jeremy Bethancourt advised the Board of progress on the meetings in Washington DC. These meetings are being held in conjunction with the ACCSH Convention in Washington DC. Jeremy and Toni have arranged meetings with Assistant Secretary Edwin Foulke and two deputies, Thom Stohler and Don Shalhoub, a representative from the Directorate of Construction and a representative from the Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs. They are to meet with NIOSH to discuss the case study for LeBlanc Building and Petersen Dean for the Fall Protection meeting. The NAHB will collect information on the proposed Fall Protection Training for the end of September. There have been additional meetings arranged. Jeremy will advise the Board of the outcome from the meetings at the next Board meeting. Jeremy and Toni have worked hard as representatives of the AZ Chapter to push this issue to ensure the safety of employees in residential construction.

There were additional costs associated with the trip over the $2700 previously approved by the Board in an electronic vote this past month. A motion to provide up to $900 in additional funding to reimburse Jeremy and Toni for their expenses was made by Mary Bobbitt. The second was provided by Katherine Gosiger. The motion passed unanimously.

NAHB has a grant from the Susan B Harwood Foundation to do training in Phoenix. The homebuilder that was originally scheduled to handle this had to cancel. Jeremy asked that the Chapter help sponsor this training as the funding expires on September 26. Several Board members knew of facilities that might be available, and offered to check on this information for him. The training will follow OSHA standards, not the exemption that many homebuilders currently use.

A motion was made by Katherine Gosiger that up to $500 be made available to fund the NAHB residential fall protection training in Phoenix. Julie Rogers seconded the motion. It was passed unanimously.

Student Section
Linda Howard - No report at this time. Milli Lee asked that we advise the Board of any candidates for the Student Section Chair, as Linda is not able to continue in this capacity. The Future Safety Leadership Conference is in November in Louisville KY. In the past the Chapter has approved funding for students to attend.

A motion was made by Denis White to pay up to $1000 coach for 1 or more students to attend the conference. The motion was seconded by Mary Bobbitt. It was approved unanimously. This information will be conveyed to the Student Sections.

Senior Advisor to the Board
Jitu Patel advised the Board of his recent activities in connection with the ASSE:
Jitu advised that the recent ROC meeting was well represented by the AZ Chapter. The agenda developed by Jim Gallup, the RVP covered wide variety of educational and informative topics providing the insight of the society that were vital for the leaders of the Region II’s leaders.

Jitu addressed the 5th Annual Safety Summit held on August 5th through 7th, 2008, which was organized by the US Rubber Manufacturing Association at Townsend, TN for a 90-minute session. He spoke to over twenty US and international rubber products manufacturers’ Operations and HSE managers on effective ways of managing loss prevention in process industries. At a special request by the RMA Chair, Jitu gave a brief presentation about the current world energy resources outlining why the gas prices are high.

Jitu summarized his recent trip to Jeddah on the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia sponsored by a privately owned education & training skills development institute. He made a presentation to the executive management of a local petro-chemicals refinery on the need for training employees, both in technical and engineering, and line management supervisory staff covering up-to-date global HSE information and compliance requirements.

Jitu informed the Board that he receives requests for assistance for HSE professionals who might consider working in the Middle East and also for consultants who are willing to provide training in the Middle East in the field of HSE. Many of these requests are from the ASSE Middle East Chapter to conduct safety workshops and/or as speakers to support the ASSE-MEC organized Symposia or PDCs. Any employment opportunities will be provided to Donna Seniuk as Job Bank Chair of the Chapter.

Jitu advised that our speaker today, Bill Sims Jr. has provided a wheeled bag as a prize for our monthly drawing at the Chapter meeting. This has an insulated section good for hot or cold food and/or beverages, green beans, pens, and also for handout materials. There will be a DVD of Mr. Sims’ presentation available on the table, and Mr. Sims has offered to mail additional copies to any member who would like a copy.

Other Business
Next Board meeting is October 3 at 9 am at the Arizona Country Club.

Motion to Adjourn was made by Katherine Gosiger and second provided by Julie Rogers. This was passed unanimously, and the meeting was adjourned at 11:32 am.

Board Meeting Highlights - June 6, 2008

Meeting held: Arizona Country Club

Meeting was called to order at 9:01 am by Katherine Gosiger, President

Attendees: Katherine Gosiger, Milli Lee, Carl Hamilton, David Bellmont, Wayne Ziemann, Mike Briggs, Jitu Patel, Toni DiDomenico, Harold Gribow, Julie Rogers, Jim Gallup, Vicki Allen-Buglisi, Marilyn Moots, Jackie Ruggles and Tim Little

Guests: Mike Cook, Denis White

Since some new 2008/2009 Board Members were present, we did introductions. Marilyn Moots is the New Member Liaison for next year.

Secretary
Katherine Gosiger presented the minutes in Mary Bobbitt’s absence. Motion to approve minutes as presented was made by Vicki Allen-Buglisi and seconded by Milli Lee. It was approved unanimously.

Budget/Finance & Accounting
David Bellmont, Treasurer, presented the treasurers report.

Summary of account transactions were distributed at the meeting. Motion to approve the report as presented was made by Milli Lee and seconded by Wayne Ziemann. It was passed unanimously.

President
Katherine Gosiger advised the Board that the Society Board of Directors’ motion to increase the dues was not approved.

Katherine then discussed the work done by Jeremy Bethancourt and John LeBlanc on residential fall protection. Jeremy Bethancourt met with the Secretary of OSHA, Ed Foulke. Jeremy has asked for a letter to support fall protection for residential construction. Katherine will write a letter as Chapter President and individual members are encouraged to also write letters to Ed Foulke. The support letters should state that residential projects should comply with the requirements currently in place and not use alternative means.

The Fall ROC will be held on August 22 and 23 in Salt Lake City. Milli and Carl plan to attend. The Board Members also encouraged Tim Little to attend, if possible

Katherine asked Mike if the person who has helped to put the STARs package together in the past would be willing to do it again. Mike advised that his contact has declined. There was a general discussion about the importance of developing a STARs report that reflects all the positive achievements of the Chapter. Vicki Allen-Buglisi made a motion to spend up to $1,000 to pay for technical assistance for this report. The motion was seconded by David Bellmont and was approved unanimously.

Katherine thanked all the current Board Members for their support and contributions. She is looking forward to reflecting our achievements in her STARs report.

President Elect
There are 38 reservations for lunch. The Arizona Country Club will only do 5% over, so there are just 2 extra luncheons in the even of walk-ins.

The Planning Meeting will be held at ASEC on July 25, at the usual start time of 9 AM.

Milli is requesting that the Chapter purchase a lap top with speakers and Microsoft Office software. Dave Bellmont moved to approve the expenditure of up to $1500 to purchase the lap top and software. Harold Gribow seconded. The motion passed.

Milli reported that we still need to find a Student Section Advisor. Linda has agreed to stay in that role until we find a replacement.

Vice President/PDC
Carl Hamilton reported on the PDC. The sessions were rated at an average of 89.3%, based on the evaluation forms. An average of 400 people attended each day. Carl expressed his thanks to Julie and Katherine for their work on the PDC.

Carl Hamilton advised the Board that Cheryl Joseph had resigned, so there might be some changes in the way the event is managed.

ASSE is awarding 1.2 CEUs for attendance at the Safety Works PDC.

Membership
Vicki Allen-Buglisi presented the report. Two new members joined in May. Membership, as of June 2, is now 452. This is 10 fewer than in May. There are 33 members in the grace period. More members have changed their member classification to Professional. July 1 is the deadline to re-class with no additional fees.

Long Range Plan/Job Bank
Donna Seniuk was not able to attend, but Katherine reported that the Job Bank currently has 80 jobs at this time, with 10 more pending.

Awards and Honors
Wayne Ziemann reported that he will be presenting the Executive of the Year Award to John LeBlanc at today’s Chapter Meeting. Wayne also reported that the Fellow Award for Jitu Patel is progressing. He also mentioned the requirement of submitting several copies of the Fellow Petition. Harold Gribow made a motion that we authorize up to $200 for Wayne to use to cover these expenses. Milli Lee seconded the motion and it passed unanimously.

Nominations
Mike Briggs reported that the election is done and his duties are complete. Denis White will be the Nominations Chair for 2008/2009. Katherine expressed the Board’s gratitude to Mike for serving as Nominations Chair for several years. We appreciate his contributions.

Association Interface
No report from Larry Gibason.

Harold Gribow reported that he attended the Awards Banquet for the Southern Arizona Chapter. They are interested in having a joint meeting with our Chapter in Casa Grande. It was suggested that we could make the meeting into a tour of a facility. Marilyn Moots volunteered to find out if someone form the Pinal Air Park could provide a tour. There was a general discussion regarding scheduling a joint meeting and if we want to do an evening meeting with spouses.

Bylaws/Foundation
Tim Little reported that the By-Laws have been posted on the web site for the required amount of time so that we can now move to the next step of having the membership approve the changes to the By-Laws. There were two minor changes – Sec. 5 revised to specify “Chapter Meeting” and Article 12 was amended to change the quorum to 6 Board Members. Wayne Ziemann made a motion that the Executive Board recommend that the Membership vote to approve the latest revisions to the By-Laws. Carl Hamilton seconded the motion and it passed unanimously.

Tim distributed a hand-out that summarized the Chapter’s donations to the Foundation. As of 6-2-08, the Chapter has $33,559 in our fund with the Foundation. Board Members discussed if we wanted to donate additional funds to bring us to the $40,700 level so we can award $2,000 each year. Harold Gribow made a motion that the Chapter donate another $10,000 to the Foundation. Tim Little seconded the motion and it was passed unanimously.

Government Affairs
Jackie Ruggles told the Board that there was nothing new to report except for the work Jeremy Bethancourt has been doing.

Public Relations
Katherine gave the report for Shelia Denney. Sheila is requesting that we support the purchase of posters that will used to explain the use of PPE at the City of Phoenix Transfer Station to visitors. The Board examined the four posters which will cost $90 each. The Board appreciated the artistic renderings, but several errors were noticed. (For example, high visibility vests are not used and paint is not taken at that facility.) Katherine will provide this feedback to Sheila.

Delegate (Newly Elected Area A Director)
Harold Gribow reported that he attended the Awards Banquet for the Southern Arizona Chapter. They are interested in having a joint meeting with our Chapter in Casa Grande. It was suggested that we could make the meeting into a tour of a facility. Marilyn Moots volunteered to find out if someone from the Pinal Air Park could provide a tour. There was a general discussion regarding scheduling an Awards Banquet and if we want to do an evening meeting with spouses.

There was also a suggestion to possibility do a tour of Luke AFB as one of our monthly meetings.

Area A Director (Newly Elected Regional Vice President)
Jim Gallup discussed the Fall ROC and the goal that the Region be totally self supporting. Harold has volunteered to lead this effort, beginning with a current budget of $2000. Carl has volunteered to work on Practice Specialties.

Jim complimented the Society for the level of training provided to Chapter Leaders, Region VPs and other offices.

Harold Gribow will receive the STAR Award for the 2006/2007 Chapter Year, at the Chapter Achievement Luncheon at the PDC next week.

Newsletter/Webmaster
Larry Gast reported there have been some updates to the website. Old articles have been archived; the Honor Roll for recruiting new members has been added; and there is now scholarship information. In the future, the web site will display SPY Award info and Larry will be posting photos from Jeremy’s meeting with Ed Foulke.

Construction Section
Toni DiDomenico reported that Jeremy Bethancourt had been the speaker at the May Section Meeting. She also reported that elections have not yet been held for the Construction Section. Nominees are: Clint Bragg for Chair, 3 nominees for Co-Chair and Toni for Secretary/Treasurer. The Construction Section is scheduled to continue to meet at SCF through 2009.

Shannon Taylor has asked if ASSE would support the Scottsdale Healthcare Safety Conference to be held in October.

Student Section
Linda Howard has agreed to stay on as the Student Section liaison until a replacement can be found.

Senior Advisor to the Board
Jitu Patel advised the Board of his recent activities on behalf of ASSE. He just returned from participating in workshops held in Saudi Arabia and sponsored by the Middle East Chapter. He is returning later this month for fire and safety engineering workshops.

Jitu has asked to participate in the installation of the new officers of the Middle East Chapter on July 3. He was one of the original members who started the Middle East Chapter. Society has assigned each of the foreign Chapters to a U.S. Chapter and the ME Chapter has been assigned to us. They will be celebrating their 25th anniversary as a Chapter. Tim Little made a motion to authorize Wayne Ziemann to spend up to $150 for a plaque to congratulate the ME Chapter. Milli Lee seconded the motion and the motion was unanimously approved.

Other Business
The question of whether or not we will continue to meet at the Arizona Country Club even after the Phoenix Country Club is available next year, will be postponed until the Planning Meeting next month.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:00 am.

Board Meeting Highlights - May 2, 2008

Meeting held: SCF AZ 2nd floor Conference Room

Meeting was called to order at 9:04 am by Katherine Gosiger, President

Attendees: Katherine Gosiger, Milli Lee, Carl Hamilton, Mary Bobbitt, David Bellmont, Donna Seniuk, Wayne Ziemann, Mike Briggs, Larry Gast, Jitu Patel, Toni DiDomenico, Harold Gribow, Sheila Denney, Julie Rogers, Jim Gallup

Guests: Denis White

Secretary
Mary Bobbitt presented the minutes. Motion to approve minutes as presented was made by Milli Lee, and second by Donna Seniuk. It was approved unanimously.

Budget/Finance & Accounting
David Bellmont, Treasurer, presented the treasurers report.

Summary of account transactions were distributed at the meeting. Motion to approve the report as presented was made by Harold Gribow, and second by Mary Bobbitt. It was passed unanimously.

Classes are financially successful at our new education center. Discussion on cost of lunches was tabled for next Board Planning meeting in July.

President
Katherine Gosiger asked that any officers that had time during the PDC stop by the booth for a few minutes to encourage new memberships. There will be drawing at the monthly chapter meeting for free attendance to the PDC.

Mike Briggs will conduct an election by acclamation, voice vote, at the luncheon meeting. There are no run off elections this year. Enough members have RSVP’d that we can do this.

Safety Professional of the Year was announced. David Bellmont was elected, and sincerest thanks from the Board for all his dedication to the Chapter over the years were expressed.

Harold Gribow is the new Area A Director and Jim Gallup is the new Region II Vice President. Congratulations were expressed by the Board.

National Leadership Conference is October 3 and 4, 2008.

A thank you note was received from Steve Black for the William C Ray Scholarship recipient, Steve Black.

Jeremy Bethancourt met with the Secretary of OSHA, Ed Foulke. He has asked for a letter to support fall protection for residential construction. The support would state that residential should comply with the requirements currently in place and not use other means. Concern was expressed over the national Association of Home Builders who are not in favor of this change in enforcement, but it was agreed that we should support fall protection as written for all areas of construction. A motion was made to provide up to $1000 of financial support to Mr. Bethancourt and his employer for travel to and from Washington DC for support of improving fall protection in residential construction. This motion was made by David Bellmont, and second provided by Mike Briggs. It was passed unanimously.

President Elect
There are 53 reservations for lunch. Trish Ennis approved the contract for the Arizona Country Club luncheons. The June meeting will be held at the Arizona Country Club. The lunches will be $28.50. No increase will be passed on to the members at this time.

Vice President/PDC
Carl Hamilton reported on the PDC. CEU’s of 1.2 were approved for the PDC. There are over 300 currently paid and enrolled for the classes.

In the future, ASSE should take more leadership in handling the programs. Carl Hamilton advised that getting approval for the CEU’s was difficult because he had no way of showing the ASSE involvement. It was determined that next year a chairperson for this important project should be appointed, not just the Vice President handle.

Membership
Julie Rogers presented the report. There are 2 new members this month. Membership is now 462. There are 24 in the grace period. More members have changed their member level to Professional. July 1 is the deadline to re-class with no additional fees.

Long Range Plan/Job Bank
Donna Seniuk reported the Job Bank has 81 jobs at this time. There have been 38 new jobs listed on the website this month. 22 of the jobs are in Phoenix, 42 others are in Arizona, and the remaining 17 are out of state. Donna provided the information from StatCounter to show the activity that we are having at our job bank website. This is continuing to show significant activity.

Awards and Honors
Wayne Ziemann advised Katherine Gosiger that the Fellow Award for Jitu Patel is progressing. He is going to check with other Chapters that have sponsored Fellows, and get pointers from them.

Nominations
Mike Briggs will conduct the vote at the meeting for officers.

Association Interface
No report this month.

Bylaws/Foundation/COPS
No report this month.

Government Affairs
No report this month.

Public Relations
Shelia Denney advised the Shoes for Souls program will be during the 2008-09 year. She asked for Special Olympics volunteers. Various charities have walks to support their activities and ASSE will be asked to provide volunteers. Sheila will have an update on the posters for the Recycling Center at the next meeting.

Delegate
Harold Gribow had no updates at this time. He did suggest that perhaps we should include the Red Cross as a speaker for our PDC next year.

Regional Director
Jim Gallup discussed the ROC, and that several other Chapters were actively involved this year. The Chapters of the Year were announced, Greater Boston, Greater Chicago and South Carolina were the Large, Medium and Small Chapters of the year. Jim has been working with the Las Vegas Chapter extensively.

Newsletter/Webmaster
Larry Gast reported there have been some issues with the website functioning intermittently. He has a phone call in for additional information. There have been no other issues. Larry did ask for pictures and other information to put on the website.

Construction Section
Toni DiDomenico reported Mark Norton from Tucson presented information on VPP at their last meeting. On May 8, Jeremy Bethancourt will present. Their new officers are Clint Bragg, President, Jeremy Bethancourt Vice President, Luis Duarte, President elect and Toni will be Secretary/Treasurer.

Student Section
Linda Howard will no longer be able to coordinate the Student Section.

Golf Tournament May 2008
Due to difficulties with scheduling a golf course, this has been cancelled.

Senior Advisor to the Board
Jitu Patel advised the Board of his recent activities on behalf of ASSE. Jitu will be traveling in the Mideast and possible South Africa over the next few months. He shared pictures form his most recent trip.

Jitu has suggested that we offer Choking Assistance Training as part of next year’s topic at Chapter meetings

Jitu will continue to work with the Honors & Award Committee to provide documentation for the Fellowship nomination. He will advise the committee of the developing events as they proceed.

Other Business
Denis White asked that we consider having a Transportation Section in the future, as we have many of these companies in the Metro Phoenix area, and members from this industry group. It was decided that this would wait for the July planning meeting.

Motion to Adjourn was made by Harold Gribow and second provided by Mary Bobbitt. This was passed unanimously, and the meeting was adjourned at 10:54 am.

Board Meeting Highlights - April 4, 2008

Meeting held: SCF AZ 2nd floor Conference Room

Meeting was called to order at 9:01 am by Katherine Gosiger, President

Attendees: Katherine Gosiger, Milli Lee, Carl Hamilton, Mary Bobbitt, David Bellmont, Vicki Allen-Buglisi, Donna Seniuk, Wayne Ziemann, Mike Briggs, Larry Gibason, Tim Little, Jackie Ruggles, Jitu Patel, Toni DiDomenico

Guests: Mike Cook, Denis White

Secretary
Mary Bobbitt presented the minutes. Motion to approve minutes as presented was made by Donna Seniuk, and second by Vicki Allen-Buglisi. It was approved unanimously. Vicki graciously agreed to take the minutes of the meeting until Mary can arrive at the next month’s Board meeting.

The ad in Professional Safety was not in the magazine. Mary has attempted twice to find out why, but no response.

Budget/Finance & Accounting
David Bellmont, Treasurer, presented the treasurers report.

Summary of account transactions were distributed at the meeting. Motion to approve the report as presented was made by Mary Bobbitt, and second by Milli Lee. It was passed unanimously.

The first class at AZSEC had 36 attendees. The next scheduled class is on April 7, and 42 students are signed up at this time.

The golf tournament has been cancelled and $120 will be returned to the participant who pre-registered.

A discussion of the dues being increased by $29 was held. The Society is using the electronic format to advise membership of this change. We decided to add this information to our website and the monthly PowerPoint presentation, as well. The Board agreed to support the dues increase.

President
Katherine Gosiger was advised that the incorporation papers will be sent to the Chapter from Society.

The mailing list will be ready by September, as the website needs to be set up at this time.

The Scholarships have been announced and the information is available on the Society website.

The National PDC in Las Vegas will be having a silent auction and a golf tournament and was requesting

A motion was made by Tim Little to donate to the ASSE Education Foundation $5000. David Bellmont provided a second. The Board vote was unanimous in favor.

President Elect
Today’s speaker is ADOSH Director on Accident Fatalities in Arizona. There are 75 reservations for lunch.

The June meeting will be help at the Arizona Country Club. The lunches will be $28.50. No increase will be passed on to the members at this time. The contract is pending approval from Trish Ennis. A motion was made to approve the contract pending approval from Trish Ennis on behalf of Society by Mary Bobbitt, and a second was made by David Bellmont. The vote was unanimous in favor.

Vice President/PDC
Carl Hamilton reported on the PDC. There are currently 71 pre-registered, which much higher than past years. The new location may be a factor for this. He is working with the Governor and the Mayor’s offices to have a proclamation made for Occupational Safety Week. Carl also advised that they still need trainers for the General Industry class. CEU application should be mailed out by April 8.

Motion was made to pay for 5 members to attend the PDC through a drawing at the May meeting. The Chapter will pay the $89 fee, for a total of $445 for 5 members to attend the AZ PDC. Each member of ASSE who attends the May meeting will receive one raffle ticket for the drawing. This motion was made by Vicki Allen-Buglisi, and the second was by Mike Briggs. This was passed unanimously.

Membership
Vicki Allen-Buglisi presented the report. There are 14 new members this month. Membership is now 462. There are 24 in the grace period. Four new members will be attending today’s meeting. Vicki provided this information to David Bellmont to allow them to attend for free.

Julie Rogers has agreed to be the membership chair for 2008-2009. Thank you to Julie for taking on this important function on our Board.

Long Range Plan/Job Bank
Donna Seniuk reported the Job Bank has 82 jobs at this time. There have been 38 new jobs listed on the website this month. 20 of the jobs are in Phoenix, 41 others are in Arizona, and the remaining 21 are out of state. There are 11 resumes on the website now. The counters for the first quarter show that the AZ jobs have had 1240 visitors, the national positions have 1170, and the Phoenix positions have had 961.

Awards and Honors
Wayne Ziemann advised Katherine Gosiger that the Executive of the Year has been selected. The Fellowship award must be submitted by September 1. Wayne will be contacting other Chapters that have successfully navigated the process for Fellowship to obtain hints on the process. The SPY award will be given out at the May meeting, and the Executive of the Year will be given in June.

Nominations
Mike Briggs advised that a voice vote at the May meeting can be done for the officers as all positions are unopposed.

Association Interface
Larry Gibason advised that he sent the PDC information to the other associations.

Bylaws/Foundation/COPs
Tim Little addressed three items in the bylaws. In section five clarification of the quorum issue for election of Chapter officers. In article six, there was misalignment of items in the printing, and it will be corrected. The term quorum is changed form 60% of the Executive Board to 6 members for the Board to have a formal vote. The motion to accept the bylaw revisions as presented by Tim Little was made by Vicki Allen-Buglisi, and second was made by Mary Bobbitt. It will be posted on the website, and set to approve at the next meeting.

Government Affairs
Jackie Ruggles advised there are no governmental activities involving safety at this time.

Public Relations
Shelia Denney was not able to attend, but advised there were no updates for her area at this time to Katherine Gosiger.

Delegate
No report this month.

Regional Director
No report this month.

Newsletter/Webmaster
Larry Gast was unable to attend but sent his report. The website is current, and has no specific problems that he is aware. The monthly fee is $25, and is very reasonable for the quality of the website per David Bellmont.

Construction Section
Toni DiDomenico reported that 11 attended Julie Pace’s presentation on the immigration reform bill. In April, Mark Norton will discuss ADOSH Partnership with pilot program VPP. In May, Jeremy Betancourt will discuss fall protection and how Leblanc Building has changed their system.

Student Section
Gateway is unable to do a mailing list.

Golf Tournament May 2008
Due difficulties with scheduling a golf course, this has been cancelled.

Senior Advisor to the Board
Jitu Patel advised the Board of his recent activities on behalf of ASSE. He mentioned that he was excited to see the pictures of the Arizona Safety Education Center while he was in Bahrain. All those who worked hard in developing the first and only ASSE training center deserve a big pat on their backs for a job well done. Jitu shared this information with the Society during a meeting in Bahrain.

Jitu will continue to work with the Honors & Award Committee to provide documentation for the Fellowship nomination. He will advise the committee of the developing events as they proceed.

Jitu briefed about his recent trip attending the 8th PCS in Bahrain organized by the Region II ASSE Middle East Chapter form February 16 to 20, 2008. He conducted a 2 day workshop on Fire & Safety (Process & Projects) Inspections Audits as part of the PCS. A total of 17 2day workshops were organized ad held concurrently on different HSE expertise. Jitu was also a speaker at the subsequent 3 day conference where the specialists from all over the world presented nearly 60 papers on the state of the art technology in the field of HSE. Almost 750 professional delegates and dignitaries from all over the world visited the PDC. Jitu circulated a copy of the PCS Program as well as the Conference Proceedings published in the form of a book.

Jitu recommend the Board consider a presentation at a monthly meeting by Bill Sims, Jr., President of Bill Sims Company, on ‘Green Beans & Ice Cream’ dealing with the definitive recipe for Employee Engagement, Motivation & Recognition which has been rated very high at the ASSE Safety Expos in Seattle and Orland and by David Moore, President & CEO, AcuTech Consulting, on US Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards.

The Board recommended that AZ ASSE consider forming an alliance with the ASSE Middle East Chapter commencing with displaying pictures of the 8th PDC in the slide show and demonstrating togetherness of the Region II chapters.

Other Business
Mike Cook has offered to help Katherine Gosiger to prepare the Star Award for the Chapter. He has a contact person that can help embed items in a multimedia product.

Motion to Adjourn was made by Carl Hamilton and second provided by Mary Bobbitt. This was passed unanimously, and the meeting was adjourned at 11:16 am.

Board Meeting Highlights - March 7, 2008

Meeting held: SCF AZ 2nd floor Conference Room

Meeting was called to order at 9:06 am by Katherine Gosiger, President

Attendees: Katherine Gosiger, Milli Lee, Mary Bobbitt, David Bellmont, Harold Gribow, Donna Seniuk, Mike Briggs, Larry Gibason, Shelia Denney, Julie Rogers, Linda Howard, Jim Gallup,

Guests: Mike Cook, Jeremy Bethancourt

Secretary
Mary Bobbitt presented the minutes. Motion to approve minutes as presented was made by David Bellmont, and second by Donna Seniuk. It was approved unanimously.

The ad in Professional Safety was not in the magazine. A phone was placed to determine why, but have not heard back from them.

Budget/Finance & Accounting
David Bellmont, Treasurer, presented the treasurers report.

Summary of account transactions were distributed at the meeting. Motion to approve the report as presented was made by Mike Briggs, and second by Mary Bobbitt. It was passed unanimously.

The Bond was paid for this month.

The new Education Center tables were purchased. The Center will be used for the first time on March 17 for 38 students attending an OSHA 500 class. The center is located at 301 E. Southern in Tempe, AZ.

It was agreed that a letter formally thanking SCFAZ for the use of the classrooms should be done.

David Bellmont has a new email address: dbellmont@cox.net.

President
Katherine Gosiger reminded us that the ROC was in Denver March 14 and 15. Harold Gribow will (probably) be the new Area Director, and Jim Gallup will be the new Regional VP.

The following correspondence was shared with the Board.

Katie Koleski from Society advised that Partner 360 is not advocated by ASSE, only that they are a paid advertiser. The society had to clarify a misconception.

Vicki Allen-Buglisi was ill, and there will be no PowerPoint presentation made at the Chapter meeting today.

President Elect
Today’s speaker will discuss Urban heat Islands and there are 60 reservations.

The Country club is doing extensive renovations and our last meeting will be in May until February 2009. The country club offered some alternative locations, and Milli Lee will determine which one would be suitable for our needs.

Vice President/PDC
No report this month.

Julie Rogers has agreed to help with the CSP CEU’s, as she is currently working on the CIH CEU’s.

Julie Rogers is also attending the SCFAZ planning meetings for the PDC. They are very pleased to have someone come to these meetings.

Membership
No report this month.

Long Range Plan/Job Bank
Donna Seniuk reported the Job Bank has 100 jobs at this time. There has been a rollover of 42 jobs through the website this month, so the hiring market is rapidly changing. 34 of the jobs are in Phoenix, 46 others are in Arizona, and the remaining 20 are out of state. Donna also stated that she is being contacted directly by companies to list jobs on the website rather than just by employment agencies now. Our website continues to receive lots of activity, as the counter showed continued level of use. 319 visitors to the Phoenix Job list in February, 413 visitors to the Arizona Job list, and 390 visitors to Nationwide Job list. Donna also advised that there are more entry level positions than usual, and would discuss with Linda Howard for the Student Section.

Awards and Honors
Wayne Ziemann advised Katherine Gosiger that the SPY has been selected, and there are 2 Executive nominations, which will need to be reviewed. The Fellow award is currently collecting information.

Nominations
Mike Briggs announced that Rob Berryman has decided that he could not run for Vice President at this time. Due to other commitments, he withdrew. Tim Little will run unopposed for this position. A voice vote at the May meeting will be done.

Association Interface
Larry Gibason advised that he would send the PDC information to the other associations.

Bylaws/Foundation/COPs
Some suggested changes were discussed for the Bylaws, but as Tim Little was absent, it was tabled. The current changes will be voted at the next meeting. One change is that when a member is unopposed for an office, a voice vote at the meeting is sufficient for election purposes.

Government Affairs
No report this month.

Public Relations
Shelia Denney submitted 10 entries for the Poster Contest. There were 13 submissions. We did not have any winners from our Chapter.

An interest survey for WISE, Women in Safety Engineering, which part of Society, will be provided at the tables for the Chapter meeting.

Shelia is still researching the Shoes for Souls at PDC.

Delegate
Harold Gribow will be attending the ROC in Denver.

Regional Director
Jim Gallup has no announcements this month. The ROC is March 14 and 15 in Denver.

Newsletter/Webmaster
Larry Gast was unable to attend but sent his report. The website is current, and has no specific problems that he is aware.

Construction Section
No report this month.

Student Section
Linda Howard announced the two scholarship winners for $500 each: Chase Gibbons and Bobby Thompson. Mr. Gibbons will attend today’s Chapter meeting. Linda will mail the check to Bobby Thompson. The students will be organizing a CSP class.

Golf Tournament May 2008
Tim Page Bottorff sent a report that there may be an issue with the tournament, as the PGA is having an event at the new venue, and we could be bumped. He will research more, and let us know.

Other Business
Jeremy Bethancourt attended today’s Board meeting to learn more about ASSE. He is actively involved in fall protection for residential construction.

Motion to Adjourn was made by Harold Gribow and second provided by Mike Briggs. This was passed unanimously, and the meeting was adjourned at 10:48 am.

Board Meeting Highlights - February 1, 2008

Meeting held: SCF AZ 2nd floor Conference Room

Meeting was called to order at 9:06 am by Katherine Gosiger, President

Attendees: Katherine Gosiger, Carl Hamilton, Mary Bobbitt, David Bellmont, Harold Gribow, Donna Seniuk, Wayne Ziemann, Mike Briggs, Tim Little, Shelia Denney, Julie Rogers, Jitu Patel, Jim Gallup,

Guests: Mike Cook, Tim Page Bottorff, Clint Bragg

Secretary
Mary Bobbitt presented the minutes. Dr. Nancy Lawrence is the correct name of the Prescott Student Chapter advisor. On page 2, paragraph 3, the word it is inserted as a correction. Motion to approve the minutes as corrected was made by David Bellmont, and second was provided by Donna Seniuk. The motion was approved unanimously.

Mary advised that the Safety Professional advertisement for PDC was submitted for the March edition.

Budget/Finance & Accounting
David Bellmont, Treasurer, presented the treasurers report.

Summary of account transactions were distributed at the meeting. Motion to approve the report as presented was made by Mary Bobbitt, and second by Mike Briggs. It was passed unanimously.

It was discussed whether the membership should be made aware of the shared cost of lunches. It was determined that a sign placed near the registration table would be appropriate.

President
Katherine Gosiger announced the ROC was in Denver March 14 and 15.

The following correspondence was shared with the Board.

The Foundation manages 55 scholarships/grants for various Chapters. They had an acknowledgment form that needed to be signed.

No changes in the Chapter dues this year will be done.

NAOSH Week and the PDC are coordinated this year. The posters will be submitted next Thursday to allow for some last minute contributions. They must be postmarked no later than February 14.

Katherine will attempt to reach Marie Scotti, who is a 50+ year ASSE member. She will be invited to attend a Chapter meeting.

President Elect
No report this month.

Vice President/PDC
Carl Hamilton advised the keynote speaker for PDC is John Debinger. Carl has also asked that ASSE have a more visible presence at the planning meetings for the PDC with SCFAZ. Carl feels he is viewed as an employee of SCFAZ, and not as a representative of ASSE during the meetings. Julie Rogers volunteered to attend the next meeting. If she is unavailable, Katherine Gosiger or Shelia Denney will attend if possible. Discussion was held that perhaps a permanent Board position, rather than as a function of the Vice President, should be considered for the PDC, as it has grown significantly and will offer continuity to SCFAZ for contact. The position would be a 2 to 3 year commitment with a second person actively participating at least the last year of the Board position for continuity. This was tabled for future discussion.

Membership
Julie Rogers presented the membership report. Three new members will attend today’s meeting.

Julie advised that Vickie Allen-Buglisi reported an issue with the website downloads as the total is 451 for members, but the above totals 456. This may be due to some members in a grace period, but she is unable to clarify with Society.

Long Range Plan/Job Bank
Donna Seniuk reported the Job Bank has 78 jobs at this time. There has been a rollover of 60 jobs through the website this month, so the hiring market is rapidly changing. 26 of the jobs are in Phoenix, 36 others are in Arizona, and the remaining 16 are out of state. Donna was approached by EHS Careers and asked to be a link on the website. It was decided not to do this, as we did not feel it offered any new opportunities to our members, and only benefited EHS Careers at this time. Our website continues to receive lots of activity, as the counter showed Phoenix jobs up from 157 to 286, Arizona from 189 to 357, and out of state jobs from 222 to 393.

Awards and Honors
Wayne Ziemann contacted the 6 recipients for long term membership to ASSE, and 4 will attend today. He has 2 nominations for executive of the year from the Chapter. We had 3 people suggest Jitu Patel for Fellow nomination, and Wayne announced this at the Board meeting as Jitu Patel was able to attend today. Jitu was very surprised and touched by the nomination. The package will be completed over the next few months, and submitted to the Society for their decision. Wayne has asked for volunteers to help with this process.

Nominations
Mike Briggs has the information finalized for the Chapter elections. There are two candidates for Vice President: Tim Little and Rob Berryman. The Construction Section is on track for election of officers, and Mike will check with the Student sections (Phoenix and Prescott) for status of their elections.

Association Interface
No report this month.

Bylaws/Foundation/COPs
Katherine Gosiger will conduct an oral vote at the Chapter meeting on changes to the Bylaws. Tim Little reported they have been posted on the website available for the members for the specified amount of time.

Government Affairs
No report this month.

Public Relations
Shelia Denney reports there are some issues with credentials for the Super Bowl volunteers, but she did have the shirt that volunteers get with her.

The posters/artwork for the North Transfer Station will focus on PPE. The pictures will be universal in nature, as children and international guests visit the station regularly. The posters will have the ASSE logo as an acknowledgement of the donation. Shelia made a motion that an amount up to but no more than $150 be made available to purchase the poster materials and pay the artist for graphics work for a minimum of 4 posters. The motion was discussed and amended to be increased to $250. The second was provided by Mary Bobbitt. This was passed unanimously.

Shelia also distributed Shoes for Orphan Souls as a charity event for the Chapter. KMLE radio station has a disc jockey with the nickname, Big Shoe (Stu Evans), who may help coordinate this event. It was discussed that this might be a good even to coordinate with the PDC as well as a Chapter meeting.

WISE, Women in Safety Engineering, which part of Society, is suggesting we form a Section in the Chapter. This will be discussed with Vicki Allen-Buglisi who has been involved in the past at the next Board meeting.

Regional Director
Jim Gallup reported that $1500 was collected for Trish Ennis as a thank you from various Chapters including a $400 donation to a scholarship fund in her name. A gift certificate to the Broadmoor will be presented to Trish. Harold will attend the ROC for Region II. The ROC is March 14 and 15 in Denver.

Newsletter/Webmaster
Larry Gast was unable to attend but sent his report. He has the correction completed for the website. He is requesting pictures for the website, and will take pictures of today’s presentation at the meeting. He will add the information for the Board elections in May.

Construction Section
Clint Bragg reported that the Section has had increased attendance over the year. They are working on the election of officers at this time. The meeting last month was a tour of the Civic Center in Phoenix. PPE is the next topic.

Student Section
Linda Howard extends her apologies for her inability to attend the meeting.
Jitu Patel was the guest speaker at the AZASSE Students Section meeting held on January 31st, 2008 at the Grand Canyon University, Phoenix Campus. Jitu spoke for two hours telling tales to twelve participants representing ASU, GCU, Community Colleges as well as industries on “Fun of Learning Fire & Safety Engineering Fundamentals & Benefits of ASSE Net Working”.

Golf Tournament May 2008
Tim Page Bottorff reported that the Golf Tournament has been moved to Lookout Mountain at Tapatio Cliffs to be closer to the venue for the PDC. It is May 5th. A copy of the flyer was provided to the Board, and it is ready for mailing. $120 is the cost of registration.

Other Business
Jitu Patel informed the Board that as a member of the Training and Education Committee of the Board of Health, Safety, Environment & Management Auditing Certification (BEAC), he recently completed a project submitting his report on Webinars Training for benefit of the BEAC. He extended his appreciation to the Education Manager of the ASSE in particular and also to all those commercial and non-profit professional organizations for their valued contributions that enabled him preparing his conclusive report making recommendations that are cost effective and also for ensuring quality training validating an auditor’s continued certification.
Jitu is committed to conduct one of seventeen 2-day pre-conference seminars offered by international HSE specialist on February 16th & 17th at Bahrain organized by the ASSE Middle East Chapter. His seminar would deal with “Process & Projects Fire & Safety Inspections” (1.2 CEUs).

Jitu is committed to participating in a 3-day conference as an adviser and also a speaker during February 18th – 20th at Bahrain organized by the ASSE Middle East Chapter where subject matter experts from all over the world would present more than fifty presentations in the field of HSE.

BEAC is recognized by the ASSE with a letter of agreement that CPEAs qualify for a Professional Member status. Jitu’s recommendation was accepted with a request for assistance for expanding recognizing professionals outside of the USA. A power point presentation developed by Jitu on BEAC has received approval for presenting at the conference in Bahrain, which would be mutually beneficial to both the BEAC and ASSE. Jitu will be out of country from February 7th through March 29th.

Motion to Adjourn was made by Harold Gribow and second provided by Mary Bobbitt. This was passed unanimously, and the meeting was adjourned at 11:08 am.

Board Meeting Highlights - January 4, 2008

Meeting held: SCF AZ 2nd floor Conference Room

Meeting was called to order at 9:00 am by Milli Lee, President-Elect

Attendees: Milli Lee, Carl Hamilton, Mary Bobbitt, David Bellmont, Harold Gribow, Vicki Allen-Buglisi, Donna Seniuk, Mike Briggs, Larry Gibason, Tim Little, Jackie Ruggles, Julie Rogers, Jim Gallup

Guests: Mike Cook, Denis White

Secretary
Mary Bobbitt presented the minutes. Motion to approve the minutes as presented was made by Carl Hamilton, and second was provided by Harold Gribow. The motion was approved unanimously.

Mary advised that the deadline for the February Safety Professional advertisement was due on December 26, and due to the holidays the information was not available. Mary will get this information from Carl Hamilton next week, and submit the ad in time for the March edition.

Budget/Finance & Accounting
David Bellmont, Treasurer, presented the treasurers report.

Summary of account transactions were distributed at the meeting. Motion to approve the report as presented was made by Mary Bobbitt, and second by Mike Briggs. It was passed unanimously.

David will be contacting an e mail services to handle our mailing list, and find an appropriate vendor. David stated this was anticipated to be $15 a month. Vicki Allen-Buglisi made a motion to pay for this service up to $20 a month, and the second was provided by Carl Hamilton. It was passed unanimously.

A thank you letter from Banner Children’s Hospital was received for the toys at the Christmas luncheon.

David also advised that is appears that the student numbers are decreasing in the classes right now. This is probably due to the slow down in the economy. There are only 20 attendees for Monday’s class.

President Elect
Milli Lee advised we have 61 reservations for the chapter lunch meeting today. Our speaker is Paul Hebert. The menu is filet mignon.

Milli also added that because people are not completing the item #4 on the surveys, it seems to be bringing down our overall totals. Discussion on the feedback survey and potential changes to how the values are calculated will held next month. Milli will review the form, and discuss options.

Vice President/COPS
Carl Hamilton has a meeting Monday to determine the tracks and topics for the PDC. Three suggestions were made: semiconductors, nursing and unions. A basic safety and an advanced safety track are also suggested. Keynote speaker is still undetermined at this time, but either someone from Fed OSHA or Phil Gordon.

Carl also asked for other contacts and mailing list ideas for the PDC mailing list expansion. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Membership
Vicki Allen-Buglisi presented the membership report.

Vicki also shared her lovely cactus pen and memo pad with the Board.

Mike Briggs inquired about a membership contact list. The Society doesn’t allow use of their list, so we are unable to do this.

Long Range Plan/Job Bank
Donna Seniuk had no update on the Long Range Plan for this meeting. The Job Bank has 70 jobs at this time. Donna was able to obtain the activity on the websites. For the Phoenix only jobs, there were 157 visits. For the Nation wide jobs there were 222 visits, and for the AZ only jobs there were 189. During the meeting the numbers announced were slightly higher, but Donna provided me with corrected figures shortly after the meeting. These are the corrected figures provided. A new person is on the Jobs wanted listing. She will be coming to the Chapter Luncheon today.

Awards and Honors
Wayne Ziemann was unable to attend, but did provide an update by e mail. There are 6 remember that will receive a service award, and they are being invited tot the February meeting.

Nominations
Mike Briggs reported that David Bellmont has agreed to run again for Treasurer, Mary Bobbitt has agreed to run again for Secretary, and Tim Little will run for Vice President. He is continuing to look for other volunteers, but has candidates for all positions at this time.

Association Interface
Larry Gibason will provide the information on speakers that we have not been able to include in our monthly meetings to other local associations for their meetings.

Bylaws/Foundation
The Chapter bylaws have been reorganized to follow the Society model. The vote will be held at the February lunch meeting. There was a question whether the revised bylaws were correctly linked on the website, so the vote was delayed. No update on the Foundation at this time.

Government Affairs
Jackie Ruggles advised there were no government issues of interest to the Board at this time. A representative of ASSE spoke at a government hearing in Washington DC recently.

Public Relations
No report this month.

Regional Director
Jim Gallup asked on behalf of Trish Innis if the Chapter would sponsor the ROC in March. After discussion, it was determined we could sponsor. Vicki Allen-Buglisi made a motion to allow up to $5000 in funds to pay for the ROC, and the second was provided by Harold Gribow. It was passed unanimously. It was suggested that we aim for March 7th to coincide with the March Chapter luncheon meeting. Any attendees would be invited to the Board meeting as well.

Denis White is the new Region II Treasurer for ASSE. Harold Gribow is running unopposed for Area A Director.

Katherine Gosiger provided an e mail regarding the new e tool at Officer Central on the ASSE Society website, and electronic Press Kit.

Newsletter/Webmaster
No report this month.

Construction Section
No report this month.

Student Section
No report this month. Carl Hamilton did visit the Prescott area, but was unable to meet with Dr. Lauren.

Golf Tournament May 2008
No report was provided at this meeting.

Other Business
The ASEC (Arizona Safety Education Center) committee will meet after the ASSE Chapter luncheon. OSHA announced new OTI Education Centers, but Harold Gribow advised that none of the new locations should affect our student group.

Motion to Adjourn was made by Mary Bobbitt and second provided by Carl Hamilton. This was passed unanimously, and the meeting was adjourned at 10:31 am.

Board Meeting Highlight - December 7, 2007

Meeting held: SCF AZ 2nd floor Conference Room

Meeting was called to order at 9:06 am by Katherine Gosiger, President.

Attendees: Katherine Gosiger, Milli Lee, Mary Bobbitt, David Bellmont, Harold Gribow, Vicki Allen-Buglisi, Donna Seniuk, Wayne Ziemann, Mike Briggs, Larry Gibason, Julie Rogers, Shelia Denney, Toni DiDomenico, Jim Gallup, Mike Cook

Guests: Mike Cook,

Secretary
Mary Bobbitt presented the minutes. Motion to approve the minutes with this correction was made by Milli Lee, and second was provided by Harold Gribow. The motion was approved unanimously.

Mary made a motion to approve $112.50 for a second advertisement in Professional Safety magazine to advertise the PDC in May. Mary will provide a rough draft of the advertisement for review to the Board, and contact the magazine regarding placement in February and March of 2008.

Budget/Finance & Accounting
David Bellmont, Treasurer, presented the treasurers report.

Summary of account transactions were distributed at the meeting. Motion to approve the report as presented was made by Mary Bobbitt, and second by Mike Briggs. It was passed unanimously.

President
Katherine Gosiger initiated discussion on the Training Center. The budget for the training center will be presented at the next Board meeting. Due to changes at SCFAZ, we are still able to use the facilities for the short term. It is less urgent to move our classes, but the committee will continue to pursue options. A new location near MetroCenter Shopping Center has been discovered, and options are being evaluated at this time. The 12th St and Northern location needed extensive remodeling, and was cost prohibitive. The 32nd St and Thunderbird location is no longer under consideration at this time. The officers for the Arizona Safety Education Center are: Katherine Gosiger, President, Harold Gribow Vice President, Vicki Allen-Buglisi as Secretary, Mike Cook as Treasurer. Other Board member is David Bellmont.

The Society election slate is Warren Brown for President, Christopher Patton for President elect, and there are elections for the VP positions. Jim Gallup is running for our Regional VP unopposed, and Harold Gribow is running for Area 8 Representative.

A motion was made by Vicki Allen-Buglisi to do a thank you presentation for up to $500 for Trish Innis. A gift certificate to a spa in the Denver area was suggested. She will no longer be Regional VP. A second was done by Harold Gribow. It was passed unanimously.

President Elect
Milli Lee advised we have 92 reservations for the chapter lunch meeting today. Our speaker today is Julie Pace on Immigration issues in Arizona. We also are having the Christmas toy drive at today’s meeting. Members from at least 3 other safety organizations are attending today’s meeting. Toys are going to Banner Health and Foundation for Burns and Trauma.

Vice President
Carl Hamilton provided copies of the Safety Works announcement. It was noted that the ASSE logo was not on the flyer. Carl is no longer coordinating this event, and the new coordinator at SCFAZ missed this. Mr. Faulke from Federal OSHA has been invited as our keynote speaker. Carl is waiting for response on the invitation. Vendors will be limited to 45 for the PDC.

COPs teleconference is scheduled for the third week of January 2008.

Membership
Vicki Allen-Buglisi presented the membership report. No new members are anticipated to attend to day’s meeting. Vicki advised there seems to be a ‘glitch’ in the Society website, and names are not appearing correctly.

Katherine Gosiger expressed a sincere thank you to Vicki for providing the PowerPoint presentation slides every month for the meeting.

Long Range Plan/Job Bank
Donna Seniuk suggested the Board review the Long Range plan for any updates. She specifically asked if the New Member Coordinator, Student Section and Construction Section positions should be added. The plan is on the website, and looks good.

The Job Bank on the website has been redesigned. The Job Bank has 90 jobs at this time, which is 12 more than last month. 27 are in Phoenix, 38 are in Arizona, and 25 are out of state, and provide a wide range of jobs with varying levels of skill requirements. The listing on the website is now in reverse order, and the newest jobs will be first on the list. There were 42 jobs listed over the month. Donna has requested information so that she can monitor the activity on the site. Once she has this ability, she will include this information in her monthly report.

Awards and Honors
Wayne Ziemann has received suggestions for Fellow of the Year, and SPY. He is also looking for Executive of the Year.

Nominations
Mike Briggs reported no one has approached him to run for office yet. Mike has not been actively recruiting at this point. Mike indicated he did have one potential candidate for Vice President.

Association Interface
Larry Gibason has sent information to other local safety associations, and invited them for our meeting today.

Bylaws/Foundation
The Chapter bylaws have been reorganized to follow the Society model. Tim Little did an excellent job outlining the changes. These are posted on the website for general review and comment by the members, and then voted on in January or February. Tim Little was not able to attend the meeting. Julie Rogers and Toni DiDomenico will handle the raffle. $15 gift certificates were provided for the drawing.

Government Affairs
Jackie Ruggles advised there were no government issues of interest to the Board at this time.

Public Relations
Shelia Denney will reserve up to 200 spaces for volunteers to the Super Bowl game in Glendale, AZ for February 3, 2008. A slide has been developed and included in the monthly slide show at the luncheon. Only a handful of people have signed up to volunteer.

Golf Tournament May 2008
No report this month.

Student Section- Phoenix
No report this month. Carl Hamilton was going to be in the Prescott area, and offered to try to meet with Dr. Lauren.

Regional Director
Jim Gallup advised no items to report this month.

Newsletter/Webmaster
Larry Gast was not here, but provided information to Katherine Gosiger for the Board. The November meeting minutes are posted. The By Laws are posted. The photos have been updated, and the new list of speakers updated.

Construction Section
Toni DiDomenico advised that the tour of the Convention Center went well. It was conducted by the Hunt construction group. They were able to watch several activities. On December 13 Toni will be doing a presentation on AZ fatalities, PPE changes and VPP in the construction industry for Arizona.

Other Business

Mike Cook expressed thanks to the presenter for the ASP/CSP class. Julie Rogers also indicated that it was very helpful to her in her preparations.

Motion to Adjourn was made by Larry Gibason and second provided by Donna Seniuk. This was passed unanimously, and the meeting was adjourned at 10:52 am.

Board Meeting Highlights - November 1, 2007

Meeting held: SCF AZ 2nd floor Conference Room

Meeting was called to order at 9:10 am by Katherine Gosiger, President.

Attendees: Katherine Gosiger, Milli Lee, Mary Bobbitt, David Bellmont, Larry Gast, Donna Seniuk, Wayne Ziemann, Mike Briggs, Tim Little, Jackie Ruggles, Julie Rogers, Jitu Patel, Toni DiDomenico, Jim Gallup

Guests: Mike Cook, Denis White

Secretary
Mary Bobbitt presented the minutes. There was one spelling correction in the Secretary section of the minutes. Motion to approve the minutes with this correction was made by Mike Briggs, and second was provided by David Bellmont. The motion was approved unanimously.

Mary advised that she had contacted Professional Safety to determine if there were STAR points for other Chapters. No definitive answer was given. This month Mary will attempt to contact other Chapters and see if anyone will donate their unused advertisement.

Budget/Finance & Accounting
David Bellmont, Treasurer, presented the treasurers report.

Summary of account transactions were distributed at the meeting. Motion to approve the report as presented was made by Mike Briggs, and second by Milli Lee. It was passed unanimously.

David Bellmont made a motion to spend up to $600 on envelopes for the Chapter. It was seconded by Mike Briggs, and passed unanimously.

David Bellmont made a motion for the Chapter to purchase a mailing list form the Phoenix Business Gazette for $125. This was seconded by Milli Lee, and passed unanimously.

President
Katherine Gosiger initiated discussion on the Training Center. There has been less than $2000 spent at this time on the Training Center. The Board asked that a budget from the committee be presented to the next Board meeting. Mike Cook agreed to bring this information. An e mail vote will probably be necessary for additional money, as the Training Center is very close to selecting a location for the classrooms. The costs would include the first/last month rents, and deposits on phones, utilities, permits for remodeling and insurance. The university will bring all their classes here. The rent is estimated at $5500 a month, and for 3 years. Clarification on the triple net issues has been requested by the Board.

President Elect
Milli Lee advised we have 62 reservations for the chapter lunch meeting today. Our speaker today is Dan Welch from the Las Vegas Chapter. Milli is continuing to monitor who shows for the reservations. There may have been members who sign up each month, but fail to attend. This had not been a problem for the number of lunches, but in an effort to be certain we are not purchasing more lunches than necessary, Milli will evaluate.

Last month’s opinion survey of the lunch speaker and facilities was favorable. On a scale of 8, the event received mid 7’s in all categories. The general complaint for this meeting was that questions were not addressed well.

Milli reported on the Department of Homeland Security event in mid October. There were several other Board members who participated in the events with their employer as well.

Vice President
No report this month.

Membership
Julie Rogers presented the membership report. As of October 3 there were 454 members. There are 5 new members, and 27 are in the grace period. Julie expects 2 or 3 of the new members to attend the Chapter luncheon meeting.

Long Range Plan/Job Bank
Donna Seniuk suggested the Board review the Long Range plan for any updates. She specifically asked if the New Member Coordinator, Student Section and Construction Section positions should be added. The Job Bank has 78 jobs at this time, which is 10 more than last month. 26 are in Phoenix, 25 are in Arizona, and 27 are out of state, and provide a wide range of jobs with varying levels of skill requirements. The listing on the website is now in reverse order, and the newest jobs will be first on the list. There will be 5 new positions added over the next few days, with 3 in Phoenix, and 2 in Arizona.

Awards and Honors
Wayne Ziemann has recruited Harold Gribow to participate in the committee for SPY, Fellow of the Year, and Executive of the Year. He will also announce this at the lunch meeting, and ask for volunteers. Wayne received the certificates for the members with many years of membership. There are 6 members with 25 or more years in the Chapter. The new anniversary list will be provided to Larry Gast to update the Chapter webpage.

Nominations
Mike Briggs reported no one has approached him to run for office yet. Mike has not been actively recruiting at this point.

Association Interface
Larry Gibason has sent information to other local safety associations, and invited them for our December meeting. He is also advising them this is our toy drive luncheon. It was suggested that special mention of recalled toys be made to the membership, so there are no issues for our recipients. The charities will probably be the same as last year, as no one had any objections to the previous charity groups.

Bylaws/Foundation
The Chapter bylaws have been reorganized to follow the Society model. Tim Little did an excellent job outlining the changes. These will be posted on the website for general review by the members, and then voted on in January or February.

Government Affairs
Jackie Ruggles advised there were no government issues of interest to the Board at this time.

Public Relations
Shelia Denney will reserve up to 200 spaces for volunteers to the Super Bowl game in Glendale, AZ for February 3, 2008. A slide has been developed and included in the monthly slide show at the luncheon.

Golf Tournament May 2008
No report was provided at this meeting.

Student Section- Phoenix
Linda Howard advised there has been no response from the Prescott Section for participation in the Student leadership conference. There is one student going from the Section.

Regional Director
Jim Gallup advised that the deadline to file for officer positions in the Region is November 1st. One member had expressed interest in running for the Area Director position.

Newsletter/Webmaster
The new and improved website was up and running as of October 29. Larry Gast worked closely with our provider to have it working. It looks great, and is working well.

Construction Section
Toni DiDomenico advised that on November 8 there would be a tour of the Convention Center between 7 am and 8:30 am. The Board members are invited.

Other Business
From the recent weeks, Jitu Patel is a member of the Training & Education Committee of the Board of Environmental, Health & Safety Auditors Certification (BEAC).

Jitu advised that he would be conducting a 2-day pre-conference seminar on "Projects & Process Safety Inspections/Audits" at the forthcoming 8th PDC organized by the ASSE Middle East Chapter to be held in Bahrain from February 16th through 20th 2008.

Jitu advised that he would be a speaker presenting two papers at a 3-day conference as part of the forthcoming 8th PDC organized by the ASSE Middle East Chapter to be held in Bahrain from February 16th through 20th 2008. Out of five abstracts submitted by Jitu, two of them have been selected for presentation.

Jitu informed that he received invitation to submit abstracts for presenting papers at the forthcoming conference being organized by the Canadian Society of Safety Engineers. Jitu has submitted outlines for conducting a seminar on "Projects & Process Safety Inspections/Audits" and also submitted five abstracts on different topics for consideration as a potential instructor of the seminar and a speaker at the conference.

Jitu informed that he has written and published several articles related to health and safety which he would be glad to share with the Board for STAR points consideration.
Jitu continues his active involvement in community services and in the recent months he organized and presented two major cultural programs for benefit of the Phoenix Metropolitan community as a whole.

Jitu advised that Bill Sims Jr., President of the Bill Sims Company, SC, USA is a great speaker whose presentation on "Green beans & Ice cream" covering Employee Engagement in Motivation & Recognition was rated high both at the ASSE PDC at Orlando and could be of value to the Arizona Chapter membership.

Motion to Adjourn was made by Mary Bobbitt and second provided by Mike Briggs. This was passed unanimously, and the meeting was adjourned at 11:06 am.

Board Meeting Highlights - October 5, 2007

Meeting held: SCF AZ 2nd floor Conference Room

Meeting was called to order at 9:09 am by Katherine Gosiger, President.

Attendees: Katherine Gosiger, Milli Lee, Carl Hamilton, Mary Bobbitt, David Bellmont, Donna Seniuk, Wayne Ziemann, Mike Briggs, Larry Gibason, Tim Little, Jackie Ruggles, Sheila Denney, Julie Rogers, Jim Gallup

Secretary
Mary Bobbitt presented the minutes. There was one correction for the Vice President Report heading to be changed to read President Elect. Motion to approve the minutes with this correction was made, and second was provided by Donna Seniuk. The monition was approved unanimously.

Mary also provided additional information on the advertisement in Professional Safety.