Insurance Professional of Greater Orlando
Board Meeting
Date June 1, 2011
Place: CNA Insurance
This board meeting will come to order at: 5:45 PM.
The voting strength is 16. We have 13 voting board members present 2 of which are Executive Board members.
Correspondence:
None
Minutes:
Cheryl didn’t get the minutes posted to the website. They will need to be approved at the July board meeting.
Treasurer: We need to see and approve the April Treasurer’s report that was not done at the last meeting. There are no changes, the report has been audited and is ok to post. May Report – no comments or corrections except to change the date to 5/31/2011. The report will be filed pending audit.
Committee Reports
Audit Committee: Fran Brown, CPIW
An audit was done on May 17 for the March and April reports. All was in order in the treasurers reports.
Awards Committee: Paula Keyes, CPCU, ARe, AIR, CPIW,
No Report
Budget Committee: Frances (Fran) Hitchcock, AAI, PIAM, CPIW
We will work on the Budget under New business.
By-Laws Committee: Paula Keyes, CPCU, ARe, AIR, CPIW, DAE
Paula sent the update to the By Laws and Standing Rules to Cheryl to post on the website?
Career Opportunities (formerly Employment Committee): Kerri Raines
No Report
Communications: Toni Jones
The deadling for the newsletter is June 10. Please get anything you need included to her for publication prior to that date. Jodi Kelley will be featured in Meet the Member.
Fellowship Committee: Gwen Smith, CPSR,
No Report
Legislation Committee: TBD
No Report
Long Range Planning Committee: Jeri Cascio, AAI, CPIW, DAE, PIAM
No Report
Membership Committee: Patricia (Patti) French, ARM, AIC, PIAM,
No Report
Nominations Committee: Karen Bayless, AAI, CPIW
No Report
Professional Development Committee (Education)- Helen Wright AAI, CIC, CPIW, PIAM:
Ethics CE Class is scheduled for 6/22/11 at Crump. It is being taught in 2 session – 1 in the morning with 16 registered, and one in the afternoon with 15 registered. Mindy/Betty faxed the class information to approximately 14 agents to see if more people would sign up.
Programs: Karen Ramsey, ACSR, PIAM CPIW, DAE
June Meeting will be the installation of new officers – no speaker that evening. Mindy will write the year in review for the general members and introduce the new 2011-2012 officers.
July 23 Combo Meeting –Held by Citrus County ins Professionals. It will be a brunch meeting meeting, immediately followed by a planning meeting for the 2013 convention. There was discussion about car pool arrangements.
Public Relations Committee: - Sheryl Galloway, AIS, CPIW, CPSR, ACS;
Thank you both Sheryl & Jeanette for the wonderful VIP night. As always the 2 of you did an awesome job, the food was amazing, the DJ fantastic.
Reservations Committee: Pat Fitzgerald, CPCU, ARM, AMIM
No Report
Safety Committee: Jean O’Neill, CPIW
No Report
Scholarship Committee: Helen Wright, AAI, CIC, CPIW, PIAM:
Has anyone contacted the winner of the Council Meeting registration? Yes Toni Jones was the winner and she is planning on attending.
Scrapbook Committee: Elaine Garceau, CPCU, ARE, ALAF, ARC and GeGe Kemp
No Report
Social Committee: Jeanette Gonsalves, CPIC, CPIW, ASLI, AIS
No Report
Technology Committee: Char Duprat, CPIW.
No Report
Ways & Means Committee: Betty Ribeiro, ACSR, PIAM, CPIW,
No Report
Webmaster: Cheryl Eckenroth, PIAM, CPSR, CPIW
No Report
Young Insurance Professionals: (ad hock committee): TBD
No Report
Unfinished Business
Betty brought up the CPIW, CPIM, DAE qualifying class that has been previously discussed. We need to have the class in July for anyone who completes it and earns a designation to receive the designation at the upcoming FL Council meeting. Betty previously reviewed the classes – the 2 most popular were Rules of the Road and Underwriting for Non-Underwriters. As each class is 7-8 hours it will be taught over 2 nights, 4 hours each night. The class will be free to members but each attending member will have to purchase their own book at around $40 depending on the class. After discussion, it was decided the class would be Rules of the Road. There was also a discussion about the requirements for the DAE designation. Karen Ramsey agreed to provide the money to purchase the instructors manual.
New Business
It was decided that the July board meeting would be held on July 6 (Monday being the 4th of July) pending the availability of the room. This will be the turnover meeting, bring anything you have to turn over to the new board members and committee chairs. Let Karen Ramsey know if you are interesting in chairing or serving on a committee. Patti French brought up the cost of name tags that she recently ordered. She just ordered 16 name tags at $11.00 each. And she has 5 more to order for the new officers. Based on the cost of the name tags there was a discussion about when name tags should be ordered – just for new members, etc. Karen Ramsey indicated it’s in the standing rules that IPOGO pays for new members tags and when a current member earns a new designation. More discussion followed about possibility of changing the standing rules to cut expenses.
2011-2012 Budget:
After closer review of the year to date figures on the Treasurer’s Reports it was determined the figures were inaccurate and shouldn’t be used to plan the new budget. Paula Keyes proposed that we do line by line using last years budget and the committee chairs knowing what their expenses were for the year, approximately. It was decided to take this approach as it’s in our By-Laws that the budget be done and approved tonight. After reviewing line by line and making some adjustments to last years budget figures the budget was balanced for 2011-2012
Are there any Announcements/Discussions
None.
Our next General Meeting will be the Installation of New Officers, Wednesday June 15, 2011 at the Hilton/Orlando in Altamonte Springs, FL. At 5:30 pm.. Please invite your employers, coworkers and guests
The next Board meeting is on July 6 2011 here at CNA at 5.45 PM
There being no further business to come before this Association and there being no objection, this meeting will now adjourn at 7:16PM.
Insurance Professional of Greater Orlando
Board Meeting
Date:
June 1, 2011
Place: CNA Insurance
Members in Attendance
1.Barbara Kogut 21.
2.Mindy Bander-Habib 22.
3. Paula Keyes 23.
4.Betty Ribeiro 24.
5. Karen Bayless 25.
6. Toni Jones 26.
7. Patty French 27.
8. Jeannette Gonsalves 28.
9.Sheryl Galloway 29.
10. Frances M. Hitchcock 30.
11. Fran Brown 31.
12. Char Duprat 32.
13. Helen Wright 33.
14. Karen Ramsey 34.
15. 35.
16. 36.
17. 37.
18. 38.
19. 39.
20. 40.