Lakes Country Human Resources Association

Board Meeting Minutes

August 13, 2009

 

Present:

Theresa Halverson – President

Kellie Weller – President Elect

Teresa Johnson – Past President

Lori Bakken – Secretary/Treasurer

Mary Beth Caulfield – Member at Large - Diversity

 

Absent:

Roger Cullen – Member at Large – Legislative

 

Minutes of the board meeting were reviewed and approved.

 

Upcoming Programming was discussed.

 

August – no meeting

September – Leadership/Credibility Training by Greg Holder (Teresa Johnson will apply for credits)

October  Employee Free Choice Act by Alec Beck or Mike Ringal (sp) – Teresa Johnson will check and see if he can present

November – Hiring Assessment by Jill Berg

December – Round Table on unions - Theresa Halverson to discuss on her union experience

January – Employee Retention with a speaker from The Village

February – Aging Workforce and Retirement presented by Lori Meader (changed from October if we can get a presenter for the Employee Free Choice Act)

March – open

April – Conference

 

Donette Peterson from Cetero Research – good speaker for the future.

 

Financials were approved as distributed. 

 

Following the board meeting, committee members for the Education Conference met.  It was decided that the conference would be held April 22, 2010.  Location, speakers and vendors were discussed and will be discussed further at the next meeting.  Committee members for the educational conference will meet after the general meeting on 9/10/09.

 

SHRM has requested that our chapter donated a basket again for the conference.  It was decided to spend about $100 and Kellie Weller agreed to put it together.

 

The next board meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 10 at 7:30 am at Arvig in Perham, MN.