MISAC Central Chapter Meeting

October 6, 2014

7:15 AM

Meeting Location:

Garden Room 2

Hyatt Regency Orange County
11999 Harbor Blvd.
Garden Grove,California92840

Attendees: President Tim Ranstrom, President-Elect Matthew Marcotte, Secretary/Treasurer Joyce Starosciak, Mike Allen, Steve Schmidt, Dave Hecht, Tom Hennig, Hong Sae, Miguel Guardado, Jason Takagi, David McCue, John McElligot, Rick Guidara, Paul Pedron, Jason Bowling, Katie Reed, John Howison, Bryon Horn.

7:15Meeting Called to Order

  • Introductions – President Tim Ranstrom welcomed the Chapter and had everyone introduce themselves.
  • Approval of Agenda and July Minutes – Agenda and Minutes were approved Unanimously.
  • Secretary/ Treasurer’s Report by Joyce Starosciak - What a great year we had-- we have an increase in membership from 72 to over 90 since July of last year. The Cal FRN Board is asking for responses to the RFI for Services to implement First Net across the United States. Joyce will make sure your comments get to the board. We can accept comments through tomorrow.
  • Financials – in July we had $16,779 and without expenses our Chapter treasury is greater now.
  • Proposed Chapter Budget – Tim introduced the need for a budget. Presented was a half year budget January through July 2015. Revenue will be assumed for 90 members- 50% Full members and 50% Associate members. One idea would be paying for new members to attend the MISAC conference. The budget will also include Chapter Board officers to be funded for the conference registration. The Chapteragreed with this item in the budget for next year. Brad Walker introduced himself as the new Executive Director. A discussion ensued on Events and Promotions – Matthew Marcotte thought it would be good to get to know each other better, beyond the 4 meetings per year, for example a trip to Santa Clara Levi Stadium. Discussion on meetings – some like bringing catering in, some people like going out to eat. Satellite meeting ideas – partner with Cisco for video conferencing and satellite meetings. One benefit for satellite meetings is that other IT staff can attend as well. City Clerks meet at California Air Board – they have video conferencing at their center. We can reserve those rooms. The Chapter officers will present the budget at the January meeting for approval.
  • Election of State Board Representatives. This year Bryon Horn’s position is up for election. Jesse Velez nominated Bryon Horn, John McElligot seconded. No other nominations. Bryon Horn was re-elected by Acclimation.
  • Tim will send out a survey to get an idea of meeting topics. Rank the listed options or add others. Top few with the highest overall ratings will be used as upcoming meeting topics.
  • Update from State Board representatives – Bryon Horn: Conference is bigger and better this year. Many Thanks are owed to OJ and Sher Sutherland. The conference has 30 sessions this year with 130 members for attendance, 365 registrations. Next year’s conference will be in Monterey. Michael Allen: Partners program continues to be financially successful for MISAC. Education Committee has held 7 training classes this year. All were well received. Web site has been updated. Send suggestions for further improvements to . For example, a suggestion was made last week for members to submit their own content into the web site library. We are looking for improved content as the next focus.
  • Share your Success -- David Hecht – Bakersfield is in attendance which is a great success for the MISAC Central Chapter. We are glad they returned to the Chapter and were able to attend the conference. Tim Ranstrom – EID has implemented a 30 day, 90 day, 2 year email-archiving system. He is cleaning up 7 million pieces of email. Matthew Marcotte brought up the topic hiring difficulties in Galt. Hong Sae suggested targeting the keywords of the job description to be similar to the industry. Also to have the IT staff mention on the website the great work that is going on in the agency. There are some ideas looking at Office 365 and utilizing Cloud services that are being considered by Chapter agencies.

8:30- Adjourn