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IPMA Board Discontinues Newsletter

At its February meeting, the IPMA Board decided to discontinue this newsletter. Board meeting summaries will continue to be published.

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News from the Past

5 Years Ago -- February 2001 IPMA Newsletter

10 Years Ago -- February 1996 IPMA Newsletter

15 Years Ago -- February 1991 IPMA Newsletter (not available at this time)

20 Years Ago -- February 1986 Association of Data Processing Managers Newsletter

25 Years Ago -- February 1981 Association of Data Processing Managers Newsletter

30 Years Ago -- February 1976 Association of Data Processing Managers Newsletter

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Summary of January 12, 2006 IPMA Board Meeting

Members Present: Mary Ellen Bradley, Thomas Bynum, Phil Grigg, Sheryl Hall, Andy Hill, Andy Marcelia, Fran Muskopf, Christy Ridout, Darrel Riffe and Julian Soh. Phil Coates, CFO, Jim Andersen, Forum Events Manager and Dennis Jones, IPMA vision development facilitator were also present.

Thomas Bynum, IPMA Chair, opened the January 2006 meeting of the IPMA Board of Directors at 7:35 a.m.

Approval of Minutes: The minutes from the December 2005 Board meeting were approved.

Secretary/Treasurer’s Report: The Board approved the December 2005 financial status and activities reports.

Mary Ellen Bradley gave a wrap-up on the board member election process.

• 349 ballots sent out.
• 66 returned as undeliverable.
• 39 of the undeliverable remained after further research and were removed from the membership database.
• 97 ballots returned which represents 32% of the deliverable ballots sent out. This rate is in line with historical return percentages.

Committee Reports:

Forum 2006: Jim Andersen presented the Forum status report.

1. Corporate Sponsor Appreciation Lunch: The Corporate Sponsor Recruitment hosted lunch has been scheduled for March 14th from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Worthington Center at St. Martin’s. Invitations to future sponsors will go out this week. The local sales rep and his/her district/regional manager from each Corporate Sponsor will be invited.
2. Corporate Sponsor sign up: We have received checks from IBM and Rhodes Consulting. Cisco, Microsoft, HP and Sierra have indicated their intention to continue as sponsors. All current sponsors will be contacted next week. There have been several changes and it is expected that we will lose some current sponsors. Current sponsors have first right of refusal in January of each year.
3. Forum 2006 Vendors: A Happy New Year email was sent out to all last year’s vendors. We will begin recruiting for vendors next week.
4. Executive Lunch: The Lunch is scheduled for May 16th at St. Martin’s. Speakers being considered include; the State Auditor, to talk about performance audits and Attorney General McKenna, to talk about computer forensics. Suggestions from the board are welcome.
5. Forum planning committee: Several planning meetings have been held. The committee has recommended a permanent theme for Forum - perhaps “Where Government meets Technology.” The planning committee would like to have a first day keynote speaker to discuss the “Future of the Internet - 2010 and beyond.” The second day keynote may be a speaker from Cisco who will discuss “Business Continuity - Disaster Recovery - post Katrina.”
6. Corporate Sponsor call for speakers: Calls for speakers for the IPMA provided breakout sessions have gone out to the current sponsors. Sponsors have the first opportunity before we turn to the vendor community.
7. Corporate Sponsor - assigning sponsor provided breakout sessions: Assignment of sponsor provided breakout sessions by room and time has begun. Selections are based upon who paid first last year.

Executive Conference 2006: Phil Grigg reported that the Shilo at Ocean Shores was notified that the conference would not be held there in 2006. The Shilo expressed concern that they had, or had not, done something to cause this turn of events.

Phil also noted that the IPMA had received a thank you card from the director of the North Beach Museum for the $250 donation to the museum for providing the dinner speaker at the conference.

No other progress was reported.

Professional Development: Sheryl Hall reported that the schedule for 2006 is really coming together. There will be six events and all six are being actively worked by the committee. New committee members are getting to know what is going to be required of them over the year.

The first event to be held February 2nd titled “Closing the Enterprise and Agency Reporting Gap” has 55 registrations as of 1/11/06.

The speaker for the August Professional Development event is being explored. The current best contender is Richard Conniff who wrote the book “Leadership Tools of Tamba the Ape.” His rate is $15,000 to speak, plus books for attendees (at half price), plus transportation and accommodations.

One of the other speakers being considered is Thomas Friedman, the author of the current best seller, “The World is Flat.”

IT Leadership Development Program: Dennis Jones reported that the second three day module of the program sessions began Tuesday. The third, and final module, is to be held in April. The final reports from the Capstone Projects will be due in June.

There has been a mid-course correction with the program that has to do with the Capstone Projects. The projects were originally envisioned to result in a product that would make a contribution to the Enterprise Architecture Initiative. The projects have been changed such that they would be more “Observational and Lessons Learned” in nature. The teams are encouraged to keep their original topics.

Communications: Christy Ridout reported that the December Newsletter was released. The committee is now working on the Newsletter for this month. It will contain an article by Mary Ellen Bradley about the board elections. In conjunction with that, pictures of the newly elected, or reelected, will be taken right after the board meeting. She also notified the new board members of the monthly article schedule that rotates through the board members during the year.

Other Business:

Planning efforts:

• Registration Process: On Hold - pending decisions at the Board Planning Meeting.
• Web Site: On Hold - pending decisions at the Board Planning Meeting.
• Marketing Plan: On Hold - pending decisions at the Board Planning Meeting.

Election of 2006 Officers and appointment of committee membership:

The board voted to adopt the following slate of board officers and committee assignments.

• Chair - Andy Marcelia
• Vice-Chair - Allen Schmidt
• Secretary/Treasurer - Mary Ellen Bradley
• Forum Committee - Thomas Bynum, Fran Muskopf and Julian Soh
• Executive Conference - Phil Grigg and Darrel Riffe
• Communications - Shelagh Taylor and Christy Ridout
• Professional Development - Andy Hill and Sheryl Hall
• LeaderPath - To be determined at Planning Meeting

Review of business planning survey results: Dennis Jones lead a discussion of the results of the planning survey that had been distributed to current and past board members who are actively involved with IPMA activities. There will be a facilitated session at the board planning meeting.

Review of proposed agenda for Board Planning Meeting: Jim Andersen distributed a draft agenda for the planning meeting.

Thursday, January 26

9:00 - noon Developing the Vision - Dennis Jones to facilitate. The vision will be documented through a Mission Statement, Goals for 2010 and the resolution of a few key questions.

1:30 - 5:00 Implementing the Vision - Andy Marcelia

Each committee will report on accomplishments and plans for 2006. Plans will represent the Mission and Goals established in the morning session.

Friday, January 27

9:00 - noon Funding the Vision - Andy Marcelia

Noon Adjournment

Next Meetings:

Annual Planning Meeting - January 26-27 Alderbrook Inn

Monthly Board Meeting - 7:30 a.m. February 9, 2006, Shipwreck Café

The meeting was adjourned at 8:55 a.m.

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