Kappa Tau Board Meeting Agenda
September 16, 2010 5 pm
Rowell 107
Agenda Items
Topic 1
 Intro
Presenter
Time
Ann Laramee, President
Hendrika (Rycki) Maltby, Leadership
Succession
Ruby Merali, President-Elect
Louise Moon-Rosales, Past President
Sally Kerschner, Vice President
Ruth Willis, Student Rep
Alexis Ressler, Secretary
Jean Beatson, Governance Committee
Chair
Annie Parker, Leadership Succession
Chair
Karen McKenny , Treasurer
Julie Jones, Governance Committee
Cathy Muskus, Faculty Counselor
Mari Cordes, Newsletter Editor
Vicki Torsch, Awards Chair
Gene Hicks, Membership Taskforce Chair
Christina Melvin, Faculty Counselor Chair
All
5 min
– recognize all board members and quests
Topic 2
 Committee chairs recognition
 Awards
 Programming
 Communications
 Global Initiative
 Membership Involvement
All
Vicki Torsch
Sally Kerschner
Mari Cordes
Rycki Maltby
Gene Hicks
10 min
Topic 3
 Induction
Venue
Food
All
10 min.
Topic 4
 Strategic Vision for next 2 yrs – Finalize draft
 Goals and objectives
All
10 min
Topic 5
 Leadership Summit and other future conferences:
who goes, how many, what is paid for and how
much.
All
15 min
Topic 6
All
5 min
Ann
5 min
 Research and EBP Symposium Nov 5-6, 2010
Booth?
Topic 7
 Finances update
Close
Summary
Action Items
Next Steps
5 min
Action Items
Due By
Assigned to:
1. Description of action
Topic 1: Introduction
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Terry Powers was in attendance and is involved in planning induction along with Sally Kerschner
Topic 2: Committee Update
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Pizza party for new members will be held at November 17th board meeting.
Ruth Willis volunteered to see if inactive members are still living in the state by our comparing the
Kappa Tau list to the Vermont nursing license website.
The program committee talked about sending a survey asking people for feedback about events.
Julie offered to send a past survey to Terry.
Discussed mailing out the next newsletter in order to get people to update their contact
information
Topic 3: Induction
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We do not enough have cords for inductees. We will be inducting at least 20 students. Ordering 25
cords will cost about $250. Cords have been ordered 9/19/10.
Will be held at David Auditorium, Oct 17th at 11am.
Becky Bell will be the speaker. Will give her $250 as honorarium. Rosemary Dale is planning to
do the welcome.
Sally and Terry are planning for food. Will have finger foods, cookies, coffee, tea, etc. Have
budgeted $450
Need corsages for the speakers and arrangements for the nurse leaders. Also need flowers for the
food table. This is also a budgeted item.
Members should be thinking of any potential nurse leaders to induct
Alexis Ressler will do the program
Ann has secured the room, media support, parking space and vouchers in the bottom 2 floors of
the parking garage.
Topic 4: Strategic Vision
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Very close to adopting the strategic vision
Rycki and Mari still need to meet, and there are a with few minor edits that need to be made
Topic 5: Leadership Summit
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Leadership summit is Sept 24 and 25
Ann, Karen, Annie, and Julie are attending (Julie’s is sponsored through her role as regional
coordinator)
Discussed what the food allowance should be, agreed on $50 per day
In the future, we should send president, president elect, and a new inductee or student (there is a
discount for sending 3 people)
Topic 6: Research and EBP symposium
 Discussed having a booth at the symposium
 Rycki discussed creating a Kappa Tau poster. Julie and Karen will look into this
Topic 7: Financials
 Can’t change to New England Federal Credit Union until we get an ID number from the state,
costs about $75. This has been the hold up in moving from Citizens Bank.
 One CD will be maturing 10/23/10, next 12/20/10, then another 1/5/15