The monthly meeting of the ASPE Board of Directors (BOD) was called to order at Yearout Mechanical Main Office, on August 22nd, 2008 @ _8:16__ am.
In Attendance: Larry Fletcher, E – President
Bob McMartin, CPE – 1st Vice President
John Pike, E – Secretary
Ralph Spengeman, FCPE – Treasurer
Glynnette Hale, CPE – Immediate Past President
Robert Mallory, AF – Director
Steven Witt – Red River (Guest)
Absent: Skip Vernon, CPE – Director
Troy Dunow, E – Director
Doug Huth, CPE – Director
Joe Ledger, CPE – Director
Richard Cottrill, E – Director
Pat Arrington, E – Director
MEETING BUSINESS
PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES – Bob McMartin
May 21st, 2008 Meeting – Approved with edits
June 18th, 2008 Meeting – Meeting was Canceled (attendance ≠ a quorum)
July 16th, 2008 Meeting – Approved with edits
TREASURER’S REPORT – Ralph Spengeman
- Ralph gave a brief report on the status of the chapter finances. This was approved at the August 23, 2008 BoD meeting.
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPORTS
Certification: -- Joe Ledger
- Applicants for this year’s CPE deadline was August 1, 2008, Roadrunner Chapter 47 has one entrant. John Pike has submitted his application to national and is awaiting their approval.
Education: -- Skip Vernon
No activity/report
STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS
Awards: -- Ralph Spengeman
- Ralph distributed a score sheet for this years awards, it is requested that we all bring this “scorecard” with us to future meetings to keep track for what we are trying to obtain for this year.
1) Best Chapter
2) Best Website
3) Best President
By-Laws: -- Kathy Meadows
No activity/report
Finance: -- Ralph/Glynnette/Larry
See Treasurer’s Report
Membership: -- Glynnette Hale
We are still waiting on the final tally of member renewals for this year before finalizing the Chapter 47 Roster. There were general discussions of retaining our current membership as well as what we can do to grow our membership numbers as well as membership participation in general.
Programs: -- Glynnette Hale
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
September 03, 2008 – Margo Maher, Workforce Development Director – AGC NM Building Branch
Presentation: Consensus Docs – National Data Bank of Down-Loadable Construction Related Documents
October 01, 2008 – Robert “Bob” Johnson, RA, FCSI, CCS, CCCA - Johnson and Johnson Consultants, LLC
Presentation: MasterFormat 2004, Logic of Expansion/Reorganization (and he may touch on UniFromat)
November 2008 – Presentation: TBD
December 2008 – Christmas Party (Details TBD)
January 2009- Bob McMartin, and Joe Ledger, Intel-(ASPE BoD Members)
Presentation: Follow up of the Rish Management portion of their Seminar Presentation (April 2008)
February 2009-John Pike, Yearout Mechanical
Presentation: Job Walk at the NM Cancer Center on Indian School and I-25 (this is up in the air as John needs to confirm that this is possible)
March 2009- Rodney Gallegos , Piping Detailer Yearout Mechanical
Presentation: Rodney will present a 3D CAD demonstration with collision check leading to BIM.
OTHER COMMITTEE REPORTS
Newsletter: -- Glynnette Hale & John Pike
No activity/report
Industry Awareness: -- Bob McMartin
No activity/report
Public Relations: -- Troy Dunow
No activity/report
Historical: -- Kathy
No activity/report
Website: -- Open
No activity/report
Nominations: -- Open
See General Business below
OTHER GENERAL BUSINESS
Our retreat went very well. Thank you so much Larry for organizing this for us! Please be on the lookout for the notes from this retreat in your emails by the end of the week.
- Larry and Glynnette reminded the Board that our ASPE chapter is planning on having members provide estimating/seminar type presentations to the local AGC, at their facility, on November 14th, 2008. The agenda for the presentations is still being developed and everyone is encouraged to volunteer and help with this effort. Please contact Larry with topics that you can present or volunteer to help others with their presentations.
- The various committee chairs will need to be revised for the coming fiscal year. Everyone should review the existing committee selections and volunteer to chair one of them. We will discuss this at our next membership meeting and request volunteers.
- Glynnette made a motion at this months BoD meeting to donate $100.00 in George Canham’s (FCPE) name at the National ASPE level, for recognition of past services. This motion was passed. Additional donations from the general membership will be requested /accepted at the next membership meeting.
MEETING ADJOURNED:
