CENTRAL DISTRICT

NEW YORK PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

12/14/16

This meeting was held at Bryant & Stratton College-Physical Therapy Assistant program Lab/Classroom. The meeting commenced at 8:15 pm following a presentation by Dave Boyland, PT, DPT, SCS, ATC on Associative Awareness Technique. Attending members of the executive committee included Jonathan Small (Director), Brittany Simpson (Co-Chair), Maureen Mancuso (Co-Chair), Amy DeBlois (Vice Chair), David Hawley (Corresponding Secretary), Jen Collis (Recording Secretary), Kevin Neville (Nominating Committee).

I. 2017 Budget

·  Ken is working on budget, will submit to the chapter this month

·  We need a reimbursement plan before Delegate Assembly

o  In the past, everyone was just getting $50, but this depends on number of delegates

II. February Meeting

·  Women’s health topic, presented by 2 PT’s from Mauro-Bertolo PT

·  Maureen will solidify the date, will likely be at IHP because they will open the garage

III. Election Meeting in March

·  Open positions on the executive committee

o  Nominating committee position

§  We have an applicant for our 3rd position, we can just “appoint” her – Kevin will follow up with her to appoint her and CC Maureen and Brittany on the e-mail

o  Other open positions as 2 years are up:

§  Corresponding secretary (Dave)

§  Vice Chair (Amy)

§  Co-chair (Maureen)

§  Nominating Committee (Kevin)

o  Will send out an e-mail with open positions and send out descriptions of the positions after holidays, when we send out info for February meeting

IV. March/April meeting

·  Kyle Adams reached out to Dave, may be interested a pain topic

o  Maureen followed up with Kyle. He will let us know when he decides on a topic.

·  Also possibility for NYPTA president to do a “town hall” meeting again (Mike Mattia)

o  Last meeting had technical issues that need to be fixed, Kevin suggested getting IMT or EDCOM at Upstate more directly involved to facilitate better quality – will there be costs with this??

o  May be best to eliminate “Join Me”/webcast feature and therefore encourage people to be there in person.

o  Should we “offer” something – food? Would need an RSVP to get a head count

V. Next formal committee meeting

·  January- maybe a meeting using JoinMe

VI. Update from Board of Directors conference (Jonathan)

·  Transition from mail newsletters to digital

o  Will not go 10% digital at this point, but start to transition from paper copies to electronic versions

·  Lobby day changes

o  Change format to get in front of legislation as much as possible. Dealing with legislators at local level, but still going to lobby day.

·  Next BOD meeting is January 21st through webinar

VII. Involvement with other districts

·  Finger lakes district – softball/kickball games

·  Brittany suggested doing something in the summer? PT day? (to be continued…)

VIII. Broadcasting of our meetings

·  We are one of the only districts doing webinar – we reach people from NYC area and Long Island

o  All in agreement that this is still a good idea.

o  CEU certificate process takes 4-6 weeks (from the chapter)

IV. Ideas for non-CEU type meetings/functions

·  Pub night, look into better locations? Downtown Syracuse has poor parking

·  Kickball game and then happy hour? Ex) At the Retreat

·  Dave suggested Revolutions – can rent lanes and they will cater

·  Sending out more frequent e-mails to get more involved

·  We should do PT day of service in the fall

V. Need to start thinking about Delegate Assembly.

·  To be continued!

The meeting adjourned at 8:50pm.

Respectfully Submitted by:

Jennifer Collis, PT, DPT

NYPTA Central District Recording Secretary