July 26, 2012

11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., Suite 252, Large Conference Room

Board of Governors (BOG)Minutes

(Ethics Committee meets 4:00-6:00, Large Conference Room)

Attending: Deb Wamsley, Heidi Kammer, Karen Edens, Mark Casagrande, Jim Monson, Lance Egley, Gary Olson, Jenine Koziolek, Linda Stevens, Ted Tessier

Attending by phone: Brian Teuber

Management: Bill Monn, Lauren Haworth

Not attending: Jonathan Lofgren, Jim Forsting, Joe Whitehawk, Dustin Chapman

  • Call to Order

Deb Wamsley, vice president, called the meeting to order at 11:00 a.m.

  • Welcome new Board member – Ted Tessier, Region 10 Governor

Tessier introduced himself as being with Century College and also doing some work at MCTC and Nystrom and Asssociates.

  • Approve minutes from the May Board meeting.

Moved by Edens, seconded by Stevens to approve the May Board minutes. Passed on a voice vote (Casagrande abstained).

  • Review Action items from previous meeting

Monn reviewed action items from the previous board meeting

  • Attendance at AIAC-MAIIADS Conference July 30-Aug. 3

Monn reported that he spoke to Joe Whitehawk who said that he will attend and will represent MARRCH. Olson and Tessier said they also planned to attend and would represent MARRCH. Wamsley asked those attending to report back. Board members noted that planning should begin earlier next year if the trade of registrations continues.

ACTION: Monn to send information to AIAC and Richard Wright of MARRCH attendees.

  • Treasurer Report: Approve financials (Egley)

Egley reported that events have been going well so far this year. He said that membership is off this year that is decreasing cash reserves.

Moved to Monson seconded by Olson to approve the treasuer’s report. Approved on a voice vote.

  • Membership surveys update (Lauren Haworth)

Monn introduced Haworth, an intern at Ewald and marketing major attending the University of Miami-Ohio. Monn said that Haworth had coordinated the MARRCH Survey. Haworth reviewed the results of the survey with the Board.

ACTION: Survey to be sent to MARRCH Board members to review. Forsting to review and make recommendations on next steps.MARRCH Board to discuss follow-ups at its next Board meeting

Committee Section Reports

  • Communications (Newsletter, Website) Monn reported that the August printed newsletter would include the Annual Conference registration booklet materials to save on printing and postage. He said it would be going out in August.
  • Education Monn reported on the Counselor Appreciation Day and said the committee is exploring alternatives for sites. He said much work had been done on the Annual Conference and that registration materials would be going out shortly.
  • Ethics (Egley). Egley reported on progress of the committee
  • Membership (Forsting). Monn reported that revenues collected January-June 2012 were running about $22,000 less than monies collected during the same period of 2011. He said the shortfall fell into two buckets – one bucket where agency members have decided not to renew and a second bucket where payments are later than last year. He said he is working with Forsting on follow up actions. Board members agreed to help with renewals of lapsed members.

ACTION: Monn to send contact information on lapsed agency members to Board members who indicated they would make calls to specific agency members.

  • Public Policy (has not met since June)
  • Detox Section (Olson).

Olson said that Alan Hoskins is no longer at Dakota County Receiving and that CADT is stepping to keep the group going.

  • School Section. Monn reported that the School Section had voted to disband. Board members expressed that it would be beneficial to keep this section alive and discussed refocusing it on higher education.

ACTION: Lofgren, Wamsley, Tessier and Koziolek will meet prior to the next Board meeting to develop a strategy to reshape the School Section with higher education members.

  • Additional business items
  • IDDT update (Kammer, Wamsley). Kammer said a draft of new rules has been slowed. She said the next draft is expected in August or September. When that is sent out she said the group would reconvene. She said their workgroup now includes MARRCH, MATD and MACMAP
  • Health Care Reform statewide implementation

Wamsley reported on recent meetings. She said the state is looking at quantitative numbers. She said the state has adopted the Health Partners model.

  • Workforce Task force (Casagrande). Casagrande reported that he and Dustin Chapman attended a recent meeting at DHS. He said the task force was put together by Kevin Evenson who feels the field is going to grow. He said that he believes that this is an appropriate issue for MARRCH to be involved in.
  • SAAS Conference, June 19-22, New Orleans (Lofgren)

A copy of Lofgren’s president’s letter that will appeared in the One Voice newsletter was included in the board packet

  • Next Board, Exec meeting(s) – Exec committee, Sept. 7, Board meeting Oct. 5
  • Review 2012 Goals

Edens reviewed progress to date and said the Board has made terrific progress. She said she would like someone to invite one of the groups/representatives that would be attending the Collaboration meeting in the Ewald Conference center later in the day to the October MARRCH Board meeting.

ACTION: Edens to work with a MARRCH Board member to invite one of the agencies/persons at the collaboration meeting to the next Board meeting

Additional:

  • Edens said that in discussions with Monn an outside facilitator may be the best strategy for MARRCH. She suggested that MARRCH ask management to secure proposals to have an outside facilitator hired to direct the MARRCH annual board retreat.

Moved by Kammer to have management request 2-4 proposals to lead strategic planning and to empower the Executive Committee to review and hire. Seconded by Olson. Motion passed on a voice vote.

ACTION: Monn to solicit proposals. Casagrande said he had recommendations.

  • Lofgren, via an email sent to Monn, asked the Board to support MARRCH funding recovery month activities in the form of $1,000 for the Twins baseball game, $1,000 for the recovery walk and $500 for the spirituality breakfast.

Moved by Olson, seconded by Casagrande to authorize the payment.

  • Adjourn

Moved and seconded to adjourn at 1:45 p.m.