CBSPAN Board of Directors Meeting

January 21, 2006

I. The Chesapeake Bay Board of Directors meeting was called to order by President Joy Reece at 11:20 AM at Snyder’s Willow Grove Restaurant in Linthicum MD.

II. Roll Call—attendance sheet signed

III. Officers Reports

A. President—Joy Reece

The Gold Leaf award will be completed and sent in.

July meeting will be an overnight with work to be done on our strategic plan. ASPAN has requested an increase in dues. Decision will go to ASPAN in 2007.

Representative Assembly representatives are Tanya and Joy. Two alternates are needed. The group felt Shelly Joynes and Connie Gull would be the ones for alternate. Shelly will let Joy know. Joy will ask Connie later. Betty Jo said that she would accept if Connie was unable to.

A request for the proclamation from the Governor for PANAW Week has been requested. It must be submitted by December. Tanya will check on the proclamation this week.

The president announced that Kathy Paskewitz will assume the position of Chairperson of the ABPANC Item Writing Review Committee and Examine Construction Committee as of the National Conference in Orlando.

The President’s Report in full is attached.

B. Secretary—Julianne Harp

Minutes were approved as previously sent.

The secretary asked all member sending reports via email to put the report and the date on the subject line. This will help in the filing of the reports.

C. Treasurer’s Report—Connie Gull, excused

Connie will send membership lists and dues checks via mail to the officers. Some members have had trouble opening the treasurer’s spread sheet.

IV. Committee Reports

A. By-Laws—Connie Gull, no report

B. Membership—Tanya Spiering

Currently have 412 members

From ASPAN we have 149 CPAN’s 36%

56 CAPA’s 14%

7 Dual 7%

C. Nominating—Shelly Joynes

Susan Dorsey is trying for recruiter of the year.

D. Marketing—Shelly Joynes, no report

E. Communications—Kathy Paskewitz’s report sent via email

F. Governmental Affairs—Pat Sendelbach reported for Alida McDonald, report attached

Maryland legislature has voted that blood can be tested for HIV without consent on blood already drawn. Has been approved with no wording to follow. Without exact definition it has not been able to be put into effect Maryland is the only state in the country that does not allow for immediate testing for needle sticks.

Encourage applying for Nursing Internship in DC. Component will offer partial scholarship to Alida.

Nurse’s Night in Annapolis, Thursday, February 9. Issues with Governor Erlich over pay for nurses. More information on MNA website.

G Ways and Means—Pat Sendelbach, report attached

Component raffle at state meeting generated 939. 75

Fund raiser for National meeting discussed. Two ideas were presented.

A green silicone bracelet with white letters saying ASPAN 25years is one suggestion. Fundraiser has been cleared with the national organization. There are 2000 people at the conference and 1500 at component night. We can also sell to people at work.

A beaded nurse bracelet with nursing charms and stretchy is the second suggestion. We can try selling for $5.

Component night—we will have cloth signs that pin on the back that say

CBSPAN. Everyone should dress in something different representing the

Part of Maryland where you live. Pat will make signs saying “Chesapeake

Bay we have it all”.

H. Historian—Betty Jo Wilson

Signatures are needed to put pictures on the Website. There is a blanket waiver and can be printed from the website.

I. Nominating—Shelly Joynes

We need a new treasurer in July. We have a volunteer, but need ballot. Should go out in April and be back in May. The new treasurer will start in July at the transfer meeting. Ballots will be sent with the newsletter.

J. Newsletter—Shelly Joynes

The content can be anything the districts want to put in, such as tidbits, fundraiser, seminars. Each district needs to appoint a contact person. There will be articles on professionalism in nursing, a drug spotlight, ABPANC, PANAW, Foundation news and new CPAN’s and CAPA’s.

An example can be seen at ISMP.org for e-newsletter.

K. Website—Kathy Paskewitz, report attached.

L. State Seminar reports

2005—Baltimore president Susan Dorsey gave a brief summary of the meeting. A final report is needed and will be emailed.

2006—Western Maryland president Annamarie Wampole reported the meeting will be held 10/21/06 at Frederick Memorial Hospital. A written report is attached. There will be a component meeting at lunch. Help is needed to get vendors. It was suggested to charge $100-$200 per table to market products.

V. District Reports

A. Baltimore—Susan Dorsey, report attached

Have awarded 9 scholarships from the Chapter to the National meeting.

B. DC—Pat Sendelbach, report attached

Have had a change in treasurer. Currently have 131 members and $6000 in treasure and will be getting a money market.

C. Western Maryland—Annamarie Wampole, report attached.

Will be chancing a bed and breakfast weekend at Deep Creak Lake. Plan on 7 people going to the national meeting.

D. Eastern Shore—Maryann Sosnowski, no report

VI. The Present ( Business in Process)

A. Board Retreat—Joy Reece

Will be July 7 and 8 overnight. Will work on the Gold Leaf and strategic plan. Will send out information for the Gold Leaf which must come back to Joy by February.

B. Confirmation for name change—Julianne Harp

Julianne has looked for the exact date the name changed and cannot locate. It can be narrowed down to a time and the only thing that is stated is that the current president got a new stamp with the new name and the banner was changed reflecting the new name. The meeting that this occurred was January 17,1998 and Carol Jones was president at the time. The members felt this was adequate information. Julianne will copy these minutes and send to Connie Gull.

C. Quilt raffle—Joy Reece

A quilt from ASPAN will be auctioned in Orlando with squares reflecting the cover of the 25 years of conference covers. Each district has tickets to sell and is to bring the money to the April meeting. CBSPAN will send one check to ASPAN.

VII. Announcements and Discussion

Joy asked members to bring information to the next meeting about the number attending the national meeting and costume ideas. Joy will then send the times and dates. ASPAN national meeting will be in DC in 2009 (April 19-23), Tanya will be the CBSPAN president at the time

The meeting was adjourned at 1:15 PM

Submitted by,

Julianne F. Harp

Secretary