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NEI Committee Meeting
draft Meeting Agenda – April 4, 2014
1:00 to 4:30 pmMT
Red Rock Hotel & Casino
Meeting Room:Summerlin F
NEI Executive DirectorNEI DirectorNEI Chairman
Kiko ZunigaCecilia FerraraKen Bargteil
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Voting Roster
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Last / First / Last1 / Barber / Brian
1 / Perkins / Bob
2 / Damon / Karen
2 / Maslow Hauser / Michelle
3 / Royster / Priscilla
3 / Taeger / Jane
4 / Fields / Jan
4 / Fosberry / Pat
5 / Armelagos / Marie
Area / Last / First
5 / Case / Scott
6 / Bush / Anne-Marie
6 / Pearson / Renata
7 / App / Kristiann
7 / Gaidys / Al
8 / Delgado / Rodolfo
8 / Garcia / Ernesto
9 / Cecil / Maurine
9 / Clarke / Roger
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Administration / I.T. Subcommittee
Steven PowellScott CaseKen Bargteil
Kiko ZunigaJan FieldsMarie Armelagos
Brian BarberPriscilla RoysterTom Mathers
Bob Perkins
CES Subcommittee
Billy AppKristiann AppKen Bargteil
Pam BrownMaurine CecilLeah Ellis
Jan FieldsPat FosberryMichael Frail
Lucinda HuestonKen HughesLisa Kendrick
Paulette KolbaPam KoonceMike Lahar
Anthony O’HaraMichele PlutaGeoffrey Powell
Suzanne RicherMatilda Vazquez
Content Subcommittee
Kristiann AppWilliam AppMarie ArmelagosHenry Ayesha
Brian BarberPam BrownAnne Marie Bush Kathy Carlton
Maurine CecilDonna Clemmensen Roger Clark Karen Damon
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Content Subcommittee(cont’d)
Greg Darter Rodolfo DelgadoPat Fosberry Albinas Gaidys Ernesto Garcia Lucinda Hueston Ronald Jacobson Dennis Kelly
Lisa Kendrick Pam KoonceScott Larson Denise Liapes
Amy MagnusMichelle MaslowElizabeth Maxwell John McKeown
Daniel Meylor Renata Pearson Robert PerkinsGeoffrey Powell
Myra ReynoldsSuzanne Richer Priscilla Royster Darrell Sekin
Jane TaegerMerit TremperShannon Whitt Thayne Worsley
Henry YehAnna ZajacMichele Pluta
CCS Subcommittee
David AndersonMarie ArmelagosBrian BarberKen Bargteil
Chip BownRobert BrownAnne-Marie BushKathy Carlton
Maurine CecilMichael CernyRoger ClarkeDonna ClemmensenKaren Damon Greg Darter Rodolfo Delgado Gil Duhn
Rhonda FavretLenny FeldmanAl GaidysErnesto Garcia
Robert GaydoVictor Gonzalez Norman Harris Robert Hobby
Ronald JacobsonJanet JenkinsDennis KellyMary King
Alan KlestadtKathleen LambertScott LarsonCheryl LebowitzDenise Liapes Amy Magnus Michelle Maslow Elizabeth MaxwellJohn McKeown Leena McNeil Dan Meylor Beth Mince
Kristy MorganDonna MullinsDavid NorrisRenata Pearson
Bob PerkinsJohn PetersonMichelle PletaMyra Reynolds
Neto RoserSusan RossPriscilla RoysterMarilyn Sartain
Darrell SekinJohn SheppardJane TaegerRyan Tanner
Merit TremperStan VickPaul VromanShannon Whitt
Jolan WoodcockThayne WorsleyGrant WrightHenry Yeh
Anna Zajac
Marketing Subcommittee
Katrina DillBen Bidwell Stacey Callahan
Scott CaseChristina Dunphy Karen Gulrich
Tom JamesZainab NasserCrispina Palacio
Bob PerkinsRosalinda ReaNathan Reed
Jane SorensenDavid SungCraig VerPault
Dante VersaciJudy Zambotti-Wall
Policy Subcommittee
Billy AppKen BargteilKiko Zuniga
Ed Greenberg
Steering Subcommittee
Bob PerkinsKen BargteilKiko Zuniga
Brian BarberJan FieldsStu Hauser
JohnMascaritoloTom Jamesbarbara reilly
13:00 (5 minutes) – Call to order / Roll call and Welcome (K. Bargteil)
The Chairman will call the meeting to order, welcome the NEI Committee members, confirm the recording of minutes and impart any housekeeping information.
13:05 (25 minutes) – Administration / I.T. Subcommittee Report(S. Powell)
At the last Board Meeting, the Officers were receptive to the LMS recommendation of Peach New Media, but asked if it was the IT/Admin Committee’s first choice, regardless of price. The Committee then regrouped, and decided that Meridian, though the higher priced option, was best suited to meet the needs of the 5-year plan and mission set out by the Chairman. After reviewing references for the Meridian LMS, IT/Admin Chairman Steve Powell made a formal recommendation to the NEI Chairman and Executive Director. The Chairman has since presented it to the Officers for final review and approval.
In the interim, the NEI has purchased CLARO, an authoring tool, so that committee members can begin to build courses to populate the system. So far, only two licenses have been purchased – one for the CES Subcommittee, and one for the Certified Drawback Specialist (CDS) Work Group.
13:30 (25 minutes) CES Subcommittee Report and Discussion(M. Pluta)
The CES Subcommittee intends to have 7 independent CES modules completed and posted on the LMS by the third quarter of 2014. They are currently on schedule, and plan to have one module ready for viewing at the conference. They also currently have five Export 101 modules to be completed. The original deadline was March 15th, but so far they only have one completed and four in progress. They hope to have the remaining four by the Annual Conference. The first short module will be on Bonded Warehouses, which is scheduled for completion by July 1st.
The Subcommittee currently has five CES case studies assignedfor this year. They have completed one (Triangle Trade – pending final review), and have four to go. Their next one is scheduled to be submitted by May 15th, with two more assigned with due dates of July 1st. The Subcommittee is working on CLARO to get their courses written and volunteers have been stepping up. The Subcommittee requests that everyone please appeal to colleagues and co-workers as we need more subject matter expert volunteers.
All of the work completed by the CES Subcommittee will be reviewed by the Content Subcommittee before publication.
13:55 (25minutes) Content Subcommittee Report and Discussion(K. App)
The Content Committee has multiple goals for the remainder of 2014: content review; soliciting scholarly essays; developing, naming, and launching an NEI wiki; and establishing the NEI library.
Regarding content review, the Content committee recruits volunteers on an as needed basis to review various content (CCS course materials, test questions, case studies, etc.). The Content Subcommittee review, unlike review and update being done regularly in certification subcommittees, is done against the styles and standards established for all NEI content. This ensures a consistent tone, professional quality and polish and a recognizable deliverable in support of the NEI brand. The reviewer sets their own timeline for completion which is monitored by the Content chair via a project management Excel spreadsheet. In the next quarter of 2014 they will be reviewing CCS course content, test questions, CES course modules, and case studies.
The immediate goal for the scholarly essays is to recruit volunteers to create 5 essays by the end of 2014. One essay is in progress. The Subcommittee Chair’s aim is to recruit 4 additional authors by 10 April 2014 with a commitment to complete essays by the end of 2014. The ultimate goal is 5 but we need more volunteers for that to happen.
The NEI wiki first and foremost needs a name. The plan is to have a contest for naming the NEI wiki with winner earning three (3) free NEI webinars. The subcommittee will announce the contest at the annual conference and in the April NEI newsletter. The contest deadline would be June 15th. Voting on the name of NEI components goes to NEI ad hoc Voting Subcommittee (NEI Chairman, executives and staff, committee chairs, work group leaders) with a winner being announced by June 31st. Concurrently, the Content Subcommittee will recruit a wiki work group leader and will work with NEI staff to develop the best way to host and develop the wiki. The Subcommittee Chair would like to meet with staff via phone conference by April 23rd and develop a plan to create a wiki by May 23rd.
The NEI library needs a work group leader (Chief Librarian and Archivist) and volunteers to createguidelines for storing and organizing content. Those with data storage expertise, familiarity with educational institutions, and a knack for organizing information are eagerly sought by the Content Subcommittee. Initially, the Chair would like to locate a Work Group leader and then set a meeting with NEI staff to discuss the best way to set up the NEI library to work with the NEI’s data storage. She would like to have a WG leader by April 15th, with a first meeting no later than April 30th. Based on the meeting with staff, the NEI library work group will set goals and timelines for the remainder of 2014 by May 31st.
14:20 (15 minutes)Break
14:35 (25 minutes) – CCS Subcommittee Report and Discussion(K. Damon)
The CCS Case Study work group kicked off their year with a meeting in February. The goal of the working group this year will be to develop six CCS case studies. Currently two topics have been identified, Prior Disclosure and Protest and Petition. Volunteers have stepped forward to write these cases. The work group lead has identified four other topics and has assigned them to individuals on the Case Study WG roster. The goal is to have six approved case studies completed by the end of August 2014.
The CCS Content Review Work Group has Part 3 complete. Part 4 will be completed and sent to NEI Content Committee by end of April. The completion of this module was delayed for cause. The WG has a reliable volunteer group. Once the first review is complete, this WG will begin drafting new material with direction from the CCS SC. Plans are in place to continuously review CCS course material to be sure it is current. The CCS Test Questions Review Work Group has progressed as well. Modules 1-8, 10, 12, 14-16 have all been cross-referenced. They will be sent to Kristi App's group this week. Donna Clemmensen still needs Part 2 lesson 9. Modules 11 and 13 require clarification on a few questions/content. These should be complete by Friday, April 5th. She has the content on Part 4; however, the content committee has not yet completed Part 4. The group anticipates having the final document for review and cross-referencing by late April.
Patrick Brown, Training Advisor, Global Operations Learning & Development at FedEx, will be taking over as the MCS Chairman. Everyone please welcome Pat to the NEI. As a CCS and CES, Pat is familiar with the developed NEI course material. He is very excited in advancing the CCS curriculum through the development of the MCS. Pat is working with Nancy Dempsey in the transition work group’s agenda, tasks, developed course material and timelines. The NEI would like to thank Nancy for the effort she invested in the germination ofour MCS, quickly recruiting and creating a robust roster as well as drafting course criteria and curriculum units. For our MSC volunteers, be on the lookout for the meeting invites on behalf of your new chairman. Pat is excited to take on this task and will aggressively be moving the work group forward.
The Certified Drawback Specialist (CDS) Work Group has been one of the busiest. Their goal is to have the basic certificate and grandfathering ready for Certified Drawback Specialist roll-out by January 1, 2015. Some Continuing Education content will also be completed by January 1, 2015, but the focus will be on getting the basic coursework done first since CEU’s won’t be needed until after people are grandfathered in or complete the CDS course. The basic concept is to take sections from the CCS and CES courses that are also relevant to drawback and include them in the CDS program since every drawback specialists needs to know the basics of importing and exporting. The Work Group has completed the CCS material, and is currently reviewing the CES information. The first two new modules have been assigned to team leaders and the work group has begun mapping out the information to be included in those two sections. Its next meeting will be after the Annual Conference.
15:00 (25 minutes) – Marketing Subcommittee Report and Discussion(K. Dill)
The marketing sub-committee has had a 30-minute monthly meeting in January, February and will hold a third one March 26th. Attendance and participation was low at the beginning of the year. Efforts have been made to increase involvement by direct outreach from the Chairwoman to volunteers in order to identify what they wish to gain from volunteering on the committee, what strengths they bring, on what type of projects they wishto work and how much time they can realistically commit to the group in quarter two. Feedback on these points has been received from half of the members. The chair has a strategy to encourage participation and recruit additional members to assist with tasks.
The NEI Chairman has communicated priorities and the Subcommittee has established work groups to match those priorities. In quarter two the Chairwoman will assign volunteers to work groups based on their preferences and strengths. Tasks to be accomplished by the work groups will be laid out by the Chairwoman, work group leaders and full-time NEI staff. The March meeting will focus on discussing effective ways for groups to collaborate and communicate. The work groups are as follows;
- Advertising – Identify and exploit print, social media and web opportunities
- Events– Getfamiliar with AAEI, BIS update, ICPA, WEST Con, Texas Brokers Association, Trade Symposium. Identify, research and form suggestions for events that NEI will attend/advertise/participate
- Alliances– Identify, research and create alliances with organizations providing industry training to expand the NEI reach and curriculum
- CRM – Market research, potential volume clients, metrics
- Membership – Recruit, get to know, coordinate and encourage committee member participation
15:25 (10 minutes) – Policy Subcommittee Report and Discussion(K. Bargteil)
The Policy Subcommittee has been holding regular meetingsimmediately after the NEI staff meetings. All the policies are on the website, and open for discussion. At the last meeting on February 18th, the Policy Subcommittee decided that the NEI willbegin trial offerings for webinar subscriptions and bundles at a reduced cost to attendees. This would be implemented once the LMS is in place. The committee also decided that once an individual has proof for passing the Broker’s Exam they would be eligible to grandfather into the CCS program, notwithstanding they had not yet received their license.
15:35 (25 minutes) – Steering Subcommittee Report and Discussion(B. Perkins)
The Steering Committee believes that the new LMS will assist in our accreditation efforts. Ceci and David have been gathering information and taking preliminary steps in the accreditation process, which are outlined in their report to this Subcommittee(see Attachment “A”).The staff believes that the committee should make a decision on whether or not they want to pursue accreditation and everything it entails. If so, then they will move forward in the process, which is preparing the application for D.C. licensure. If not, then that decision should be sent with the argument and its resolution to the NEI Chairman for reconsideration.
Bob Perkins believes that the Steering Subcommittee is trying to undertake too much. He proposes that the Steering Committee become the Academic Accreditation committee, with their sole focus on accreditation. In addition, he suggests two different Subcommittees are created: one for faculty recruitment and development, and one for university outreach and promotion. He believes that instead of being workgroups within the steering committee, they should be their own Subcommittees with their own chairs. He also proposes that the Steering and Policy committee are merged and renamed a Board of Governors.
16:00(30minutes) – Chairman Questions and Discussion(K.Bargteil)
The Chairman will raise questions toand solicit questions from the NEI Committee for an open discussion.
16:30 – Adjourn
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