Meeting called to order at 8:17am by President Ken Toney
This is a needed meeting to change us from reactionary to proactive. Thanks to Denny and Ron for the invite and call to action.
Attendees:
Ken Toney , Commercial Graphic Arts in Yakima, 4 years in WASTS
Paul Scott , Renton, Computer Repair, 10 years in teaching
Moe Broom , Yakima CTE director
Bruce Mc Burney , SkillsUSA
John Anderson , Forensic Science
Fred Donaldson , Auto, 35 years
Terri Haworth , Treasurer, Spokane
Jill Van Berkom , Secretary
Frank Medina , Auburn Riverside, past president, 14 years
Creed Nelson , construction, woodshop, and applied math, 7 years
Denny Wallace , new kid, took over for Moe at OSPI, 35 th year in education
Ron Crawford , from OSPI agriculture, Denny & Ron go way, way back
Jay Leviton , HOST from Renton, 36 th
year
Denny: Ron is a valuable asset and hopes we can use him and his experience in the coming years. We are in a crossroads, lots of state funding already lost. Carl Perkins monies are on the chopping block as well, we are in SURVIVAL MODE. Ken and Frank have discussed the need to look at our model. What are we doing, what can we afford to do in the future? Good things, but we need to find out what we can do now, next year, and in the future to create new and innovative ways to keep our organization afloat. At 10am we will listen to Dave Gering,
Manufacturing and Industrial Council, the Green Initiative Conference coordinator. With the abrupt departure of April Stonebreaker, we were left in limbo. We need a president elect. In
August we will select a new president. We need to address all of these and more. Put your thinking caps on.
We will break at noon for lunch; the officers will go to the bank. We will eat at the Roadhouse.
Ken: Denny and I have been developing a relationship, Denny is an asset that will be a driving force for the future of WASTS.
Ron: Today, we will divide our time into three parts:
1.
Nut & bolts – who the team is? What are plan is? Bi-laws require a strategic plan
2.
Summer conference
3.
Down the road, down the road, SUMMER, FALL, SPRING to reach the 1200 teachers who we need to reach.
PART 1: NUTS & BLOTS
Beer brat recipe (analogy to a good team):
Ingredients; onion, apple, orange, sugar, beer, and brats. What do these have in common? They are all members of the team? Center circle: BRATS, all of the other branches are the add ons. He says he used to boil them on the stove first. But now he puts them all in the aluminum plan together and lets them boil up together. The pan should be tightly covered.

Break out into groups of 3 to work together to come up with a new diagram. WASTS. Come up with one component that you think is part of the family? WHO IS THE FAMILY? Not president,
VP, but groups of people – examples pathways and clusters.

Trades & Business/Industry

Students in the programs, CTSOs, leadership for students
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Families – our own people

Teachers or members of the WASTS organization
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Our own selves

OSPI, administration, local/state government

Manager, director of operations – formerly April
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CTE Director
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Cluster Reps
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WA-ACTE

ASTS
What happens if the wheel (analogy) loses its parts? The wheel becomes unstable. The group becomes out of line. Directors need to understand student organizations, etc.
Who has the most direct day to day link? Answer: our OSPI rep; Denny. He is the cheerleader for the group, the mouthpiece of the group, and the public.
What changes if we took WASTS out of the middle and replaced it with TEACHERS? This is already the case. We are the center; we must build our central plan around this concept.
Frank & Ken both say; this is what we do. VALUE ADDED. Tech upgrades at conferences.
PART 2: Strategic Plans
Brainstorming in small groups, what is the vision for the group and what are our values?
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Hands on training – example Adobe training at the conference – and it happened!
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Communication with members – needs and our services, and what we can do for you! How can we improve this?
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Technical upgrades
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Networking between teachers
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Industry contacts
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Survey the membership
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Involvement of peripheral teachers; 200 members, but 1200 potential
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Internships for teachers and students
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Finances for the organization
Now, write a mission statement:
Example; the mission of WASTS shall be to…this should come from the brainstormed list.
The mission of WASTS shall be to communicate all our with teachers and potential members, to provide technical upgrades, industry re-certifications, safety/professional training, promote teacher/industry involvement, provide opportunities for hands on trainings, networking, internships, fellowship, and support for CTSOs with financial stability for the organization.
Next, the GOALS:
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Communication, survey

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Technical & professional upgrades, hands on training
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Teacher needs; professional industry/vendors contact, internships

Membership development – CHURN new in/old out
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Professionalism

Advocacy for members/programs

Fiscal solvency
SIDE NOTE: political WA-CTE (original articles include the call to NOT politically advocate for the membership) Grassroots means sharing information from WA-CTE to our teacher groups, not vise-versa. Not the influence of legislators, but how to be a promoter of CTE (show them all the good things you do in your program, etc.).
Break outs; 2 per topic

Communication, survey o Articulate/differentiate the purpose of WASTS to members & potentials o Direct outreach/personal contact face to face o Build VALUE into website – Mike Faucet, web developer
 Skills USA link o Develop TOMA (Top of Mind Awareness) o Marketing plan with board and individual o Frank adds: CTE directors need to push us to be involved o JOB #1 EXISTANCE
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Technical/professional upgrades o Industry certification training – for example auto requires repeated and on-going training. o Help teachers become industry certified. Teacher should be certified in order to teach to the certificate. o Training on industry levels equipment & techniques. Some industry reps can push their own agendas, but still, we want to keep current. o Collaboration with industry professional o Education on industry trends and expectations o With the reduction in funds, we must offer teachers the clock hours teachers need to be renewed every 5 years. Critical.
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Professional upgrades o Instructional techniques. How to’s in the classroom o Instructional technology in the classroom. How to’s for emerging technology (mimeo pad example) o Integration of resources. ASB funds, etc. o Classroom management techniques. Real-life situations for dealing with students in the classroom. Best practices shared among teachers, mentoring, teacher prep could be better here too. o Fiscal/legal responsibilities (ASB funds & CTE budget). Transparency from the CTE directors to the teachers, Moe gave numbers 4 times per year.

o Transitioning to educational culture from industry. A very different animal.
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Professional & industry o Identify the industries aligned with all skills and technical areas by communication with teachers and Program Advisory Committees o Communication through (Ken is anti) cluster presidents/district CTE directors
 NOTE; we are trying to work from the top down and our information is often
LOST, many reasons (CTE directors do not want to spend $$ on conferences).
We need to get directly to the teachers in the classroom—like the Green Expo guy. Denny is walking a thin line. Many cuts and problems. o Website must be 2 way with teachers BLOG or bulletin board o Need communication with tech reps and vendors

Membership development – CHURN new in/old out o Survey  what are your needs?
 Professional networking? Industry networking? Like-teacher networking?
 Professional training? Hands on training? Industry training?
 Internships for self/students o Proceed  local events, state-wide, face-to-face, 1-day (curriculum days), online webin-nars, network with others, BLOGS, how?? o $100 gift card is still in our hands!
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Professionalism o Employability skills/job readiness (for students) o Classroom management
 Differentiated instruction
 Discipline o Safety/HAZ-MAT/First Aid/CPR o Code of Conduct
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Advocacy for members/programs o Advocate our potential members on purpose & organization of WASTS o Educate our community & school decisions makers on viability and need for programs o Educate our legislators or others of programs and opportunities for students
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Fiscal solvency o Prepare annual budget o Prepare books for audit o IRS/State rules o Bank statements
GUEST SPEAKER -- Dave Gering, Manufacturing and Industrial Council
Represents Seattle; family owned companies, Boeing, New Course Steel, Charlie’s Produce. His old, Norwegian board recommended a change. The GREEN EXPO was developed with the help of Jill Wakefield, is a strong promoter of Green, SHOP GIRLS, community colleges, k-12,

women in industry. 3 rd
year with 165 educators, clock hour feedback was positive—especially business tours.
WITEA’s toes were stepped on accidentally. The goal is to get to the teachers. This year’s conference is October 15 th
. This is the same dates at the Fall Conference for us. This destroyed the WASTS conference (Terri’s words). This competition is brutal. We all lost money.
Once Frank and April contacted Dave the WASTS logo was removed from the GREEN EXPO.
Major tension in the room…Ron refocused us, Terri and Frank apologized and tried to smooth over the issue and told Dave this isn’t personal, but a COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN.
The Green Expo is meant to promote innovative ideas in the classroom for student presentations; examples algae as power, green car, show and share. The morning will be show and tell, workshops, and afternoon is tours. 29 apprenticeships are onsite. Not auto, boil makers, carpenters,
A grant was awarded to research the CTE programs in the state of WA. Findings were a great
CTE program is found where a principal supports the program.
Non-profit organization
EIN # application was applied for in order to pay April. Then a tax statement was mailed.
We need to find the paperwork for the Non-Profit Corporation. At the IRS level we will need to fill out a 1020 for taxes. This WAS due March 14 th
. An extension was requested be Terri. We will need to work with a tax expert to find out more.
A charitable non-profit corporation will be a simple form 1024 for application. This will eliminate the need to file taxes. This means that our group must earn no more than $50,000 per year.
Interest of $47.20 was earned for the year. The tax expert will need to be consulted to find out if we qualify for the non-profit charitable or non-profit period.
Ken is interested in moving toward providing scholarships, grants, etc. This would be once we are profitable.
We have NOT done 2010-2011 taxes.
Terri – the IRS application was unclear. Terri applied for the EIN # based on research. We may need to be a 503-6?? But, we are not sure which and what to do.
We need to figure out how in taxes we will owe per year – for example, if we owe $1000+ a year, we need to move to non-profit charitable, but otherwise, we might just stick with the current situation and just pay what we owe.
We need the receipts and expenditures for the year.
As of $35,067.61 checking and $22,637.52
At this point $28,036.81 with both accounts total. Period. ****Not sure if this is accurate. When
Ken was tallying up April’s salary he added wrong. We went back and looked at it and Ken was off by $8,000 dollars. We need to verify this. It could make a dramatic inpact on what we truly have in our account balance.
Approximate beginning balance of $15,000 at the beginning of 2010.
Categories
Manager salary * I think this is off by 8 thousand!
Web hosting (one on one) & web developer
Skills USA organization expenses
Office supplies and consumables
Postage & PO box
2010
-$18,318.00
2011
-$748.90
-$750
-$1,637.36
-$1500
-$1,227.18
-$700
-$181.88
-$200

Comcast
Phone lines -- PGI
Conference costs (summer $7,000, fall $18,000)
Income expected summer $10 per head, fall we make $$
Board expenses
INCOME/Deposits (does not include CD transfer)
-$331.65
-$350
-$1,115.25
-$1000
-$24,360.27
-$7,000
-$18,000
-$1,124.41
-$1,100
+$30,701.99
Frank moves that Ron Crawford will find a suitable tax expert to the WASTS board to prepare and correct taxes for the group. 1020 forms, paperwork, and such will need to be finalized.
Extension has been documented. $50 estimated for the costs to the organization. Terri seconds. A vote was taken with all in favor. Noted.
Next, Terri requests that the board will fill out paperwork for the reimbursement costs for the group. $0.51 per mile for mileage. 100 miles or less will not qualify you for mileage.
Terri moved to be reimbursed for the printing costs for the conference. Passed.
Terri moved to reimburse Jill for the purchase of food and beverages for the meeting. Passed.
Terri also notes the McDonald’s gift cards and the VISA gift card that are currently in her possession.
The group needs leadership. Meaningful inservice & professional upgrades. Sunday 8am-
4:30pm. Sunday 9am-noon Exec Board meeting time.
Past President Frank Medina
President
President elect
Secretary
Ken Toney
Paul Scott
Jill Van Berkom
Treasurer
OSPI
Skills USA
Architecture & Construction
Arts & communication
Education & Training
Gov’t & Public Admin
Hospitality & Tourism
Information Technology
Teri Haworth
Denny Wallace
Bruce McBurney
Creed Nelson
Paul Stensen/Susan Johnson
Vacant
John Reid
Laura Tarp -- ?
Law & Public Safety
Manufacturing
Transportation
Member at Large
John Anderson / Kate Allender – Pathway
Ken Mayhek
Fred Donaldson
Moe Broom
IDEAS for other sessions;
Monday morning session 1: All OSPI update
Monday morning session 2: new teachers, surviving the first 6 weeks , ASB, leadership, advisories (new teachers, re-assigned teachers, etc)
Lunch on your own

Monday afternoon Cyber stalking – Jay – How to stay out of trouble. Ways of communicating with kids via text or phone, this was an entertaining speaker that comes highly recommended. Social networking, Facebook, but what to do if you are blocked…
Monday afternoon SkillsUSA
– how to set up your own chapter – how to get students involved. How to include leadership in your classroom.
Tuesday BREAKFAST MEETING – elections – pathway education. Inservice and planning. Getting leaders from the group. Finding new members. Scrambled eggs.
Tuesday Session 2: Cluster round table . Look at lesson plans, best practices, and identifying your like-teachers.
Tuesday Session 3: SAFETY , hands on issues, chemicals, HAZ-MAT
Wednesday Final day: Lunch meeting for the Full Board final day of the conference – board meeting training, finalization for Fall conference. Marketing for Fall.
Fred is ready to make a statement; he does NOT think we should hold our own Fall conference.
He will join the Green Expo. Fred wants do it right. He will look for automotive inservice opportunities. We have been invited to attend the Green Expo as a group. Perception is we are succeeding. What kind of sessions? Marketing? And Promotion? Fred had the automotive sessions set up, but his sessions were not promoted. If we let the plan drift until summer, we are once again going to be scrambling AGAIN. This is not the way Fred wants to go.
Clock Hours?? April processed the hours to OSPI.
Moving forward with options for 2011;
1.
Combining at the Green EXPO
2.
Combining with WA-CTE
3.
Denny talked about district clusters
4.
Hold our own Fall or Spring WASTS or combined with Tech Ed?
Economy, state of the state, frugality, all sides need to be considered. Survival mode. Will it kill us or kill the organization?
The meeting adjourned at 5:05pm.
Day 2 – The meetings was called to order at 8am by Ken.
In attendance:
Ken Toney , Commercial Graphic Arts in Yakima, 4 years in WASTS
Paul Scott , Renton, Computer Repair, 10 years in teaching
Moe Broom , Yakima CTE director
Bruce Mc Burney , Skills USA
John Anderson , Forensic Science
Terri Haworth , Treasurer, Spokane
Jill Van Berkom , Secretary
Frank Medina , Auburn Riverside, past president
Creed Nelson , construction, woodshop, and applied math, 7 years
Denny Wallace , new kid, took over for Moe at OSPI, 35 th
year in education
Ron Crawford , from OSPI agriculture, Denny & Ron go way, way back

In & Out -- Jay Leviton , HOST from Renton, 36 th
year
Out -- Fred Donaldson , Auto, 35 years
Break into four groups:
1.
Regional conference – what can we do to make it the best for teachers?? a.
Teri, Jill, Ron i.
If 1200 teachers available – 100 go to Green, then Spokane same time frame ii.
$25 registration fees – covers the dues for WASTS iii.
Charge for lunch -- $12 or whatever iv.
Make sure they get clock hours v.
Matches the curriculum date vi.
Commitment/clearance from Nancy Stole to release so they are not obligated vii.
CTE teachers – all not just WASTS viii.
Some might be limited to one event a year ix.
If we get 50 people, we net about $1250 x.
How to attract regional conference attendees?
1.
Professional a.
CPR renewal – 4 hours b.
SkillsUSA c.
Classroom management, Skyward
2.
Technical --Technical upgrades are the need of the teacher – how to’s, staying current a.
Adobe – Joe Dockey (example) b.
Carpentry tour c.
Electrical tour d.
Boilermakers tour e.
Masons tour f.
IT tours/demos
2.
Green conference a.
October 7-8, 2010 b.
Frank, Jay, Moe c.
Expanded thoughts to cover the in-service day i.
Thursday – tech upgrades
1.
Auto
2.
Construction
3.
Manufacturing ii.
Friday –Tours d.
Pros: i.
Cost is minimal ii.
Same weekend as ARTS-TIME (500 teachers, in Tukwilla) iii.
People need this iv.
Meets the needs of v.
Groups by pathway or cluster, rather than region

3.
WA-CTE a.
November 3-4 th SeaTac, Tim Knue, at the Marriot b.
Bruce, John, Creed
Pros:
Set up tours
Teach new audience
Tech orientated workshops
Time wise planning
Link with WACTE will give us larger audience than a solo tour
Cons:
High registration fee
High costs to use the facility
Would they WANT US??
Green conference is two weeks before c.
Findings: this should be marketed as a conference for the CTE directors, business leaders, industry. Redirect their energies toward a different audience. Then leave the
CTE teachers alone!
4.
Fall/Spring Tech Ed Pair Up? – Dreamers a.
Denny, Paul, Ken b.
Fall – WASTS/Green Expo/ART i.
YES
+
Shared liability
Budget availability
Into practice – curriculum
No sub needed for a Saturday
Partnerships
Greater target
Clock hours c.
Spring – WASTS/WITEA
Personal conflicts (for a Saturday)
Travel
Not all members
-
Release time (Thursday)
Sub costs (Thursday) i.
NO, because we need to take the high road and NOT schedule during their window (olive branch). We will NOT compete. They have asked us not to compete. We could provide a presenter or offer. By leaving this time alone, this will benefit our members that have dual membership will not have to choose between two events. This should be a president to president with Denny to help facilitate. They will need to go through a board approval process, like ours.
+
Plan for next year
Budget done
Equipment purchases available
Go member participation
Location
Clock Hours d.
Stand Alone – WASTS conference i.
NO
-
Reg & Loss
Budget short falls
Can’t add into the curriculum
Travel
Generalized Focus
Content
Competing sessions

+ -
Identity
Potential & Return
Liability
Release time
January Availability
Clock hours
Planning and coordination
Travel e.
Regional Clusters – one day events that happen anytime throughout the year i.
YES!! Vendors can help to cover the costs of lunch, printing, provide demos for the event. The timing of the cluster will need to then work into this.
Limited facilities
Lodging
Local leadership
Pathway development
Outside partners
Regional focus
Clock hours
+
Fragmentation
Personnel?
Pathway?
CLUSTER REPRESENTATION
Do we need to target them or are they served elsewhere?
Paul, Moe, Jill, Creed
Past President
President
President elect
Secretary
Frank Medina
Ken Toney
Paul Scott
-
Jill Van Berkom
Treasurer
OSPI
Teri Haworth
Denny Wallace
KEEP
KEEP
REMOVE
KEEP
REMOVE (served by FACSE)
REMOVE (computer repair falls into manufacturing or business cluster)
KEEP
Skills USA
Architecture & Construction
Arts & communication
Education & Training
Gov’t & Public Admin
Hospitality & Tourism
Information Technology
Law & Public Safety
Manufacturing
Bruce McBurney
Creed Nelson
Paul Stensen/Susan Johnson
Vacant
John Reid
Laura Tarp -- ?
John Anderson / Kate Allender –
Pathway
Ken Mayhek KEEP(computer repair, programing and networking fall to art)
KEEP
Could STEM be here?
HEALTH -- remove
Transportation
Member at Large
Fred Donaldson
Moe Broom

What about STEM?? Dennis approves them. It falls into everything we do, but it’s a name, not a condition. Engineering and technology & applied math, Materials Science…this will interact with the Green movement. Skills USA and TSA, will be joined by all of the robotics groups too… could STEM fall into Members at Large? Since this group falls into so many groups?
Our report will be forwarded to the committees.
WASTS MANAGER
Replace, modify, do nothing
Ken, Frank, Terri, Ron
COMMITTEE STRUCTURE/POLICIES/ETC
Denny, Bruce, John, Jay
Meet online, via conference call, etc.
Membership and strategic plan committee – fold the membership committee duties into this area. Make a vice-chair who represents us at WA-CTE. Pull the goal and mission.
Elections and Nominating – running elections at WA-CTE -- EXPAND, appointed by the president to cover the process. Begging. Combine and call it ELECTIONS .
Also needs action:
Calendar add to website, minutes, etc. Phone numbers for Creed & Paul Scott. Emails for Bruce.
Delegates to WA-CTE
Accept Paul and Creed
Formal nominations of new officers
Motions: Moved by Paul, The board moves to restructure the committee structure as per request by program supervisor and presented by the committee. Seconded by Moe.
Discussion; do we need a communication head? During the discussion, Terri announces that Ron has offered to work for the WASTS group, cap of $5000, to facilitate the vacant position of
Manager.
Denny; this is not a committee, however a function on the Board. If the committee structure works, great, but without the input from each of the players, this will not work. An effort to communicate is needed, but we instead need to scale back and do what we do well.
Ken; we are NOT doing it well.
Paul; we need a person to represent COMMUNICATION. We need one point, not a committee.
Frank; there was NO DRIVING FORCE. We need an expert and a liaison.
Ken; we failed because we didn’t get the word out, not because of the Green Expo. Strategic planning covers the spectrum.
Ron; constant communication needs to happen. Definitions of what we need to do now.
Communication with us and the membership.
Communication is ONGOING, Strategic planning is LONG TERM.
Question is Called, none opposed. Restructured membership passes.
Constitution review will follow.
Moe; we need to work hard on the website – everyone! Go to Mike Fawcett or Ron with changes. We need to get on cluster chairs.
Ken; recap policies and procedures will work in conjunction with the President to communicate with the membership. The executive manager will work to do this until Fall, Green Expo.

Ron; will accept as the intern with a cap of $5000, $30 per hour, with a review at the Fall date.
The activities and hourly billing will be accounted for by Treasurer.
Meeting minutes will be sent directly to web from the Secretary.
Motions: Terri moves Ron be hired as Intern Exec Manager. Seconded by Bruce McBurney.
October review. Culmination of October, maximum $5000. Paul seconded. Questioned by none.
No opposition. Movement passes.
Meeting adjourn at 12:15 by Ken.