WEMTA BOARD AGENDA
February 5, 2011 9:00-1:00
1. Call to Order-President Heiden called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m.
2. Roll Call/Determination of Quorum – Vicki Santacroce
Sites/Attendees:
Oshkosh-Hawthorne Inn: Val Edwards, Teresa Voss, Sandy Heiden, Diane Kastelic
Go To Meeting: Suzy Zellman, Donna Smith, Heidi Catlin, , Amy Baumgart, Nancy Anderson,
Susan Fulks, Nancy Biese, Vicki Santacroce, Naomi Harm, Joel VerDuin, Le Jordan
Absences: Becki George, Jackie Liesch, Jon Pederson, Marta Bechtol, Mike Weber, Jo Ann
Carr
3. Adjustments to the agenda – Sandy Heiden Add in transitioning to new Board.
4. Approval of Board Minutes from December Meeting – Vicki Santacroce
Motion was made to approve the minutes as presented from December 4, 2010. MSC
(Teresa Voss/Val Edwards)
5. Approval of Treasury Report – Teresa Voss
WEMTA Treasurer's Report
Bank Accounts (1/31/11)
Park Association Manager Checking
$75,464.59
Park Association Manager Money Market
$30,794.39
TOTAL Bank Accounts
$106,258.98
Investment Accounts (12/31/2010)
Vanguard Asset
$8,196.74
Vanguard Wellington Fund
$11,218.73
TOTAL Investment Accounts
$19,415.47
OVERALL TOTAL
$125,674.45
PET Accounts
M & I TRUST FUND (12/31/10)
$161,454.77
Heartland PET Checking (2/2/11)
$8799.01
Heartland PET savings (2/2/11)
$25.00
Motion was made to approve the Treasurer’s report as presented. MSC (Val Edwards/Diane
Kastelic)
6. Review of Budget Report – Teresa Voss & Le Jordan
7. President's Report – Sandy Heiden
a. No Action Items
b. Informational items:
i. Goal 1 & 2: Develop strategies and practices to increase our business
partnerships and to diversify our income stream via the new website. Review
our communication strategies and plans to strengthen communication with our
members as well as communication about the role of our members with the
wider education community.
1. Conference Website glitches working, may cost a bit more.
2. Kurt Keifer using social media and eBooks summit will be in May.
a. Vicki Santacroce, Suzy Zellmann, Kathy Sanders
3. Dispatch article deadline February 14.
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4. Leadership Development report – training…possibility of face to face
board meeting in February? Dates for Summer Board Retreat, July 25 &
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5. Library Legislative Day, February 22.
6. WASB Resolution and WEMTA position…more work to do 52.25% is not
enough.
ii. Goal 3: Develop and present a monthly schedule of Wired Wednesdays in order
to meet the professional development needs of our members.
1. Thanks to Heidi and her committee. Next Wired Wednesday features
the WEMTA Conference on February 9.
iii. Goal 4: Be active collaborators with other agencies in order to highlight the
contributions of our members in the educational community.
1. SLATE conference planning - Naomi
a. Discussion Items:
a. Transition to 2011-2012 Board please prepare materials and plan to hand over
to new Board members at Conference.
b. 2010-2011 Board Report Prepare end of year Board reports and send to Sandy
Heiden. Sandy will send out form.
c. Board Meetings Calendar for 2010-11 (posted on website too):
May 7
d. New Website – place to store WEMTA Listserve FAQ? Discussion needs to
continue and charge to Communications Committee and President Elect.
President Elect Report—Naomi Harm
a. WEMTA PLN Ning is live at http://wemta-pln.ning.com
We have 15 groups 7 discussion threads, and 128 members so far. Our goal is to have
500 members by WEMTA 2011. Naomi is working with Melena to embed a polling
widget for the video contest.
b. Naomi will be attending CoSN 2011 in New Orleans in March and bring back leadership
strategies, emerging tech initiatives, and social networking solutions for WEMTA.
c. Naomi will be attending Spring and Fall “SLATE 2012” planning committee meetings.
d. Naomi will be attending the IL Tech Forum in early May on behalf of WEMTA.
e. Looking for volunteer conference chairs and program chairs for 2012- 2013. Just need to
get an updated list so everyone is aware if someone has volunteered for the next two
rounds. Please let Sandi and Naomi know for future planning.
Board Reports and any action items:
Conference –Steve Sanders, Sue Fulks & Naomi Harm
a. Volunteer through Allison.
b. Sandy will send out a schedule of suggested events to attend.
c. 307 people signed up thus far, 71 are first time members. Can we send them a special
invite to the webinar? What about first timers at the Conference?
d. Banquet has low attendance.
e. Bag stuffing 9:00 a.m. on Sunday.
Professional Development – Heidi Catlin
DPI – Nancy Anderson
a. Reconvening CSF work committee in March to address technology questions. Shared
Public Lands Brochure regarding CSF.
b. Literacy Grants.
c. Action item work.
13. Communication – Amy Baumgart
a. Dispatch deadline February 14.
14. Awards – Sandy & Teresa
a. Seeking ideas on getting more nominations.
b. Motion was made to approve the Awards as recommended by the committee. MSC
(Vicki Santacroce/Nancy Biese)
o Administrator of the Year Award: Mr. Kevin Messner and Ms. Betty Wottreng
o Media and Technology Grants:
Ms. Gidget Moore (Norwalk-Ontario- Wilson) $1000
Mr. Kurt Knueve /Ms. Karie Huttner (Verona) $500
Ms. Karen Godar / Ms. Amy Klubertanz (Verona) $500
o Forward Award: Ms. Teresa Voss
15. Elections – Jo Ann Carr
a. The elections committee has developed a full slate of candidates for the 2011 elections
which will be held February 21-March 11. Information about all candidates has been
posted at http://www.wemta.org/committees/elections.cfm.
16. Governance – Jo Ann Carr
17. Programs – Becki George – absent
a. Battle of the Books participation has increased, nice website presence.
b. Having round table at the Conference.
c. WSRA association representative and potential partner?
18. Golden Archer – Jackie Liesch – absent
a. Voting is due March 1 for Golden Archer, need to promote middle school voting.
19. Intellectual Freedom – Nancy Biese
a. Discussion of WEMTA re-establishing an Intellectual Freedom Committee, and that it reevaluates the role and sets annual goals for such a committee to provide advocacy,
awareness, education of IF issues in support of its members.
20. Leadership Development – Joel VerDuin & Val Edwards
a. Don Vieguet training day report regarding Board Governance, topics explored:
understanding context we are working within; comparison of what other Boards do; and
self assessment of our organization i.e. vital signs or dashboard concept.
21. Legislative – Allison Kaplan & Kathy Sanders
a. Motion was made to approve legislative agenda from December meeting. MSC (Val
Edwards/Amy Baumgart)
b. Wisconsin Library Legislative Day will be February 22 and ALA Legislative Day will be
May 9-10. It is dire that we have a voice.
22. Lobbyist – Michael Blumenfeld
23. Membership – Sue Fulks
a. As of February 1, 2011 we have 906 members.
b. Send in retirements for Conference so they can be recognized.
c. Developing a PDF of membership—include preferred contract address only.
d. Obituary section in Dispatch? Charge to Membership to look into how to respectfully
note information and proper forum to do so.
24. Public Relations – Kathy Boguszewski
a. WILS Board – Recommend that the Public Relations Chair serve as the K-12 rep on the
WILS Board. Kathy Boguszewski is currently serving on the WILS Board and has served
on the search and screen committee for the new WILS Director.
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b. DPI – School Library Vision sub-committee – Teacher Skills Action Team - Administrator,
Teacher, Library Media Licensing. The Action Team is adapting the NETS.T that could be
added to WI teacher, library media, and possibly administrator standards for licensure.
PET – Michael Weber
a. Motion was made to approve Emily Dittmar and Kristina Moulton as the winners of the
$1,000 Lowell Wilson Scholarship and Nan Andrews and Michelle Wick as recipients of
the PET Outreach Grant Award. MSC (Val Edwards/Joel VerDuin)
b. Need volunteers to man booth at Conference.
c. Consider contributing to PET fund, e-mail campaign vs. postal mail this year.
AASL – Vicki Santacroce
ISTE – Donna Smith
a. A reminder of the upcoming ISTE conference in Philadelphia. WEMTA has a housing
block for ISTE 2011 (6/26-6/29). The directions for reserving rooms are on the WEMTA
website. ROOMS MUST BE RESERVED BEFORE APRIL 1 in order to take advantage of the
WEMTA block.
b. We will be sending 3 WEMTA members to Washington DC for ed. technology advocacy
events on April 12 and 13.
WLA – Allison Kaplan
ECB – Marta Bechtol
Collaboration activities report:
a. Learning4Life – Diane Kastelic
Adjournment: Motion was made to adjourn at 11:50 MSC (Joel VerDuin/Val Edwards)
Submitted by Vicki Santacroce