EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
Friday, August 15, 2008
Embassy Suites, Washington Square
10AM – 3 PM
Agenda
Meeting called to order by: Clark Vermillion
Time: 10:06 AM
In Attendance
Clark Vermillion
Leigh Freeman
Bruce Hollcroft
Lee Briney
Char Dolan
Patti Atkinson
Judy West
Tony Howard
Dave Parsons
George Normine
Paul Schuberg
Leslie Kantor
Jill Jones
Quorum: Yes
Officer Training: Dave Parsons provided officer training, emphasizing the importance
of members. As leaders, we need to listen and learn from others, energize the
organization, act for the benefit of everyone, develop ourselves and others, empower
others to lead, and recognize achievement. Words of Wisdom: use power wisely, speak
only for yourself, not ASSE, sign contracts with care, and create harmony. He also
provided each Eboard member with a packet of duties.
Minutes of previous meeting: July minutes approved by email on August 12, 2008
Budget report: provided by Jill Jones
GOSH checking
$3813.16
CWC Checking
$435.80
AMEX
$197,117.44
St Helen’s Section
$830.13
St. Helen’s Savings
$6247.05
Santiam Section
Total Spending to date
$9608.47
$44,986.80
Section Reports
Santiam – Dave Parsons
 Officer Dinner on 8/14
 Linda Mueleveld, SAIF, presented on heat stress at the meeting on Tuesday,
8/12
 Dave will ensure that the new Secretary send Leigh meeting minutes
Mt. St. Helens – George Normine; Tony Howard
 They will submit minutes to board (Fred Caron, Section Secretary)
 Washington Industrial Safety and Health Conference Sept 24, 25 in Spokane;
Conference may be affected by Boeing Strike and Weyerhauser layoff; we will
continue to publicize event in Safety Emphasis
Construction Safety Summit – Clark Vermillion
 Meeting at TVFR Training Center on August 27th; the topic Confined Spaces and
Rescue; website has details; the meeting place is temporary until a new place is
found
PDC
 Fall PDC, Start planning, Core Media is interested in doing another PDC with us
 GOSH, March 9 to 12, 2009 (Clark will get insurance for event)
 Safety 2009, June 28 to July 1, 2009 (San Antonio, TX)
Student Section –
 Clark has contacted Javid; to offer students free meals at meeting provided they
personally contact the President and Vice President
Membership –
 Still need membership chair; discussed some possibilities
Governmental Affairs - Bruce Poinsette
 No report
Nominations
No report
Public Relations - Leigh Freeman
 Frisbees have arrived
 Job Fair to be scheduled later
Awards & Honors – Al Arguedas
 Al will stay on as the SPY person
STARS – Gordon Kroemer
 Keep sending STARS information to Gordon; he has agreed to stay on another
year
Safety Emphasis - Leigh Freeman
 Deadline set for the 15th of the month
Scholarship – Lee Briney
 Melissa met with Lee and they have had no action from OSU; she believes they
will need to meet face to face. Calls and letters have received no response.
OLD BUSINESS –
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New Shirts – Clark brought shirts and coffee cups discussed last month and gave
to officers; they will be given out as RSVP prizes.
CROET- As there was only one submission; City of Hillsboro will receive the
award and Clark will figure out a scoring matrix for next year’s award.
Speakers – Bruce was told that OSHA, Michael Wood will be the first speaker and
we will continue that tradition. Bruce will send schedule and first 4 speakers
September-Lunch
October-Dinner
November-Breakfast
December-Lunch
January-Dinner (color contest, family night)
February-Breakfast
March-Lunch
April-Breakfast
May-Lunch
June-Dinner Officer Installation
 Officers that need to be able to sign checks Lee Briney, Bruce Hollcroft, Clark
Vermillion, Jill Jones, and Patti Atkinson traveled to US bank with a copy of
minutes, Driver’s License, SSN. These officers met at US Bank branch at
Washington Square and brought these items so they got signage authority on
8/15.
NEW BUSINESS
 Char Dolan requests Quicken upgrade; Tony Howard made a motion for up to
$200, Jill Jones seconded. Motion was carried
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Active Network is used for GOSH Conference Registration and they have agreed
to set up a site to allow people to register for monthly meetings/PDCs and pay
online. (Report by Char Dolan) They will train someone to make changes to it
each month. If we use this, we can close the Merchant Accts that we use for Visa
bill.
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Raffle for RSVPs to meeting will continue this coming year. Items to give out will
be cups and shirts sporting ASSE logo.
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50/50 raffle brought up by Clark; half given as a prize the other half kept for
something the chapter needs or for other prizes. He will pursue.
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Web site: Clark has taken the web site back. Maybe Phil Drew or Patti Atkinson
will take on the web. We will discuss it at next meeting.
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Student Sections: We have Mt Hood Student Section, OSU Student Section (OSU
no longer has a program). The OSU section should be de-certified and it needs
to be discussed at ROC. Lee made a motion to de-certify and Jill seconded the
motion. Motion was carried. Mt Hood Student Section must keep their
membership up or section could be de-certified; chapter (Clark) will approach
Karen Blythe and Javid about this issue and offer our help.
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Brown Bag Lunch Program: Used to have program in the past. Clark has spoken
with Scott Peabody and Russ Nicoli to lead this effort. Clark would like to have 3
meetings this year and he has shared his ideas with them. (Rebar
manufacturing, bakery, Big Pipe?)
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Budget: Jill reported on budget and she will send copies to the Eboard. $44500
last year; this year budgeting for the same amount of income.
Meeting adjourned: Motion by Bruce Hollcroft to adjourn, seconded by Jill Jones.
Time: 2:34 PM