Previous Report and Current Report to Compare Totals

Attendees: Kathy Magee, Randy Elde, Susie Wang, Ron Kammer, Jennifer Beach, Martha Wells-Snyder, Caroline Hudders, Pat Haldi, Jane Tiedt, Laurie, Chris Pelto, Sandy Sines, Teri Carpentier

WADE BOARD MEETING

September 17, 2009

Previous report and current report to compare totals:

Treasurer’s Report

July 1, 2009

Checking 3066.12

Savings 53,119.40

CD 5397.01

Pay Pal 2401.31

Annual meeting acct 3158.82

67,142.66

Treasurer’s Report

September 2009

Checking 2,435.58

Savings 53,193.91

CD 5,397.06

Pay Pal 4,405.24 (plus 870.00 in Karen’s fund)

Annual meeting 2,953.82

$ 68,385.61

WADE President's Report:

As president of WADE, I was invited to attend the June 15, 16 Legislative Day in Washington along with the state Legislative Committee Chair. Since WADE has two Legislative Co-Chairs, Becky Patty and Shirley Vacanti and funds were sufficient the three of us went to represent WA State. AADE paid the travel fees for two and the funds donated at the WADE Annual Meeting in Spokane in May 2009 covered the 3rd flight. AADE paid for the rooms and food was provided.

It was a very exciting and rewarding event. 75 AADE members attending this special event made over 200 visits to congress members of both the House and Senate. Becky, Pat, and Shirley Made contact with their district congress members. As a direct result of these visits, Cathy McMorris Rodgers signed as a con-sponsor for the house bill. WADE is very appreciating of the congresswoman's support as to date she is the single sponsor from WA STATE. As a result of WADE members doing such a great job of advocacy the language for CDEs to become Medicare providers of diabetes self management education is now in both the House and Senate's version of the Health Care Reform Bill. The chances are excellent that we will achieve this imitative.

In Aug. I represented WADE at both the president's meeting and treasurer's meeting during the AADE Annual Meeting in Atlanta. It was an honor to represent WADE at this meeting. I was awarded the AADE Legislative Leadership Award during the reception for AADE Volunteers hosted by the AADE Foundation. I was honored to have been nominated let alone to be one of the two winners. It means a great deal to me, as legislation is one of my key interests and primary reason for my initial service to the WADE Board and membership. You can access the newsletter here:

WADE also purchased the Audio of the AADE 2009 presentations given in Atlanta.

These will be available to WADE members via e-mail. Ron will post the list of tapes on the WADEPAGE soon. I will take care of the requests sending the file by e-mail only one at a time with handouts. The system is different from last year. There were many great presentations. I plan to do a write up about those that I attended and will request other WADE members who were in Atlanta to write comments about sessions they enjoyed. Hopefully this may stimulate interest in using this member benefit. The entire download cost just 150 for 125 sessions.

On September 8, 2009 I participated in the Chapter President Regional Conference Call.

This is a new networking strategy to open communications between chapters within specific geographical regions. WADE is part of the Northwest Region including Alaska, Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, Wyoming and Washington. Not every state was represented in the call. It was helpful to hear what other state chapter are dealing with on the state levels. Many are just like WADE finding that funding for speakers and education offerings has become difficult to solicit. Very positive comments were given to WADE's Web page with questions on how does WADE gets such a current and interactive web page. Wadepage.com is a benchmark for many other state chapters. An up to date report of the DAD Accreditation Program was of great interest. There are already 40 sites having gone thought the application process and now have CMS Recognition. It was explained that the term "recognition" is the same as "accreditation". There are 14 applications currently being processed. This is a great opportunity for WADE members to start new programs. For more information, contact Pati Mangano at .

Appointed sub committee to research possibilities for the Karen Louise Goldstein Memorial Funds. Committee members are; Cindy Brinn, Linda Castine, Susie Wang,

Kathy Magee, and Lynn Holcomb. The committee will be making a recommendation to the board after review of the possibilities with the family. Since WADE is not a charitable organization, if the family requests, the funds must be administered by a foundation. My recommendation is to use the AADE Foundation; their offer is an admin fee of 1% a year of the principle. This is within the normal fee of 1-1.25% for most all foundations. The committee will bring the options to the family and then to the board at the next board meeting or by e-mail.

Pat Haldi