Lakes Country Human Resources Association

Board Meeting Minutes

January 14, 2010

Present:

Theresa Halverson – President

Roger Cullen – Member at Large – Legislative

Lori Bakken – Secretary/Treasurer

Mary Beth Caulfield – Member at Large – Diversity

Absent:

Teresa Johnson – Past President

Kellie Weller - President Elect

Minutes of the board meeting were reviewed and approved.

The financials for 2009 were approved as distributed.

Upcoming Programming was discussed.

February – Hiring Assessment presented by Jill Berg

March – Employee Retention by John Trombley from The Village

April – LCHRA Conference will be held on Thursday, April 22 at the Holiday Inn, Detroit Lakes

May – includes voting for new board members including President Elect, Board Member At Large and Secretary/Treasurer

Other ideas: Roger from DEED regarding how to discharge and the shared work program,

Dave Ramsey – financial education in the workplace

Site Visits – Lakeshirts

Member Focus

Discussion was held on who is available to update the LCHRA website. Natasha Nodsle will check with Kelsey to see if she is available. Effective immediately LCHRA will need to pay ACS a monthly fee to host our website. The monthly cost is $20 and Lori Meader is checking to see if ACS would be willing to pay half that fee.

In May the board will review the bi-laws. Theresa Halverson will check other chapter bi-laws to review content and policies on board member attendance at board meetings.

The next board meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Febriaru 11^th after the Chapter meeting and Conference Planning meeting.