OSRT Board Meeting Minutes Archive

2005 2002

Call to order
Called to order 9:30 AM

Approval of the 10-22-2004 board meeting minutes with spelling corrections. (year, Ozzie Rose)

Executive Administrator's report:

• Membership is 65% of projected, currently= 223. Presently over 4400 licensed techs in the state
• Financial /Budget report attached:
    As of 12-31-2004:    Assets = $74,395.00 Liabilities = $13,283.00
• Lobbyist has been paid-moved money to checking to keep fluid until annual meeting.

President report:

• All letters have been sent to dignitaries for welcome ceremony.

Board Chair report:

• Susan Castanette talked to students at PCC
• Broke even on LBCC conference-will examine time of conference, improve the mailing list and try again

Committee reports:

Annual Meeting = Made decisions on Friday night entertainment, took room count, theme =
"Adventures in Medical Imaging".
Anne Warden in charge of decorations went over menus and decided the Thursday night dinner will be at the Oregon Electric Station.

Education = Went over schedule, brochure will be done by 2-1-2004 and mailed by 2-10-2004

Registration = This is Robbyn's last year-will need a replacement

Properties = Tom King will take over for Randy at Annual meeting.

Nominations = Need volunteers

Legislative = Hired lobbyist Osse Rose who agreed to $1,500.00.
Bill of interest=SB 224, this would change number of Board members from 7 to 9.
Bill of interest=SB 104, this will redefine language for PET operators.

Website = Need updating to include current minutes

Northwest Conference = Will be held September 15-17th, 2005 in Salt Lake City.
April 2007 meeting will be in Portland in conjunction with OSRT Annual meeting.
NWC will be donating DVD player for our annual meeting.

District Reports:

• District III will hold 2 hours of CE on 3-23-2004

Old Business:

• RT in DC: Susan C. and Virginia V. will be attending
• ASRT pilot program has been scratched - too costly
• ASRT has set aside $2,500.00 to each of the 5 affiliate societies to be used for membership building. Susan will contact ASRT

New Business:

• Guideline change to Chairman of the Board section: -to encourage participation of students.
  Motion made and seconded
• Change the Dale Trout Award to Founders Day Award
• Need to revisit parliamentarian requirements
• ASRT instituting new policy that each affiliate fills out a charter renewal checklist-voluntary
  in 2006, mandatory in 2007. This will be discussed at AM, put on agenda for fall meeting.
• Along with Registration and meals the Commercial Rep should receive free room.
  Motion made and seconded. Guidelines will be amended
• Suggestions made to encourage student volunteers to help out at annual meeting

Adjourn

Meeting adjourned by President Susan Putnam at 1:00 PM
Minutes taken by Cheryl Rue, respectfully submitted by Dana Ackerman, Secretary OSRT

OSRT Summer Board Meeting 2002
8/24/2002, NELA Offices, Salem

Those in attendance:
Susan Putnam, LeeAnn Reed, Anne Warden, Kay Meeks, Sue Johnson, Diane Dupree, Jan Collins, Cheryl Rue, Dawn Fearn and Barb Smith.

Call to order
Call to order 9:33 AM

Last meetings' minutes were approved with the following exceptions- all acronyms are to be spelled out if not previously heard of and several spelling errors were corrected.

Finance
LeeAnn presented the following figures;
Membership: 209
Current Assets: $89,129.84
The budgets for fiscal years 01/02 and 02/03 were reviewed.
Second chance letters were sent to those members who did not renew in June.

Old Business
The Annual meeting site for 2005 was discussed and a consensus was made for the Eugene area. Cheryl Rue will research convention sites.

District 1 will be offering a day of continuing education on March 1, 2003 at Tuality Hospital. Six hours of CE will be offered to RT's as well as LPH's.

The fall board meeting will be held 10/26/02 in Bend at the Inn of the Seventh Mountain. Diane and Sue asked for an accurate headcount for lunch. Rooms will also be made available for a reduced rate. Reservations are to be made by all parties interested.

Kay presented the guidelines for district meetings in conjunction with the OSRT Annual Meeting. The guidelines were reviewed and discussed. Kay will revise guidelines as discussed and present them for approval at the next meeting.

Postage
Annual Meeting flyers are to be sent out 1st class at a cost of 37 cents per piece.

NW Conference
Ann will be stepping down as our delegate and will need to replace her. Randy Harp has expressed interest in the past.

Website
Bart Pierce was not present, but Diane agreed to contact Terry Pleger and find out when the site will be 100% operational.

ASRT
Dawn Fearn is currently President-Elect. Forms for running for ASRT office were passed out to those interested.

Governance Restructure
Chapter and Affiliate delegate numbers and responsibilities were reviewed. It was agreed that geographical locations should differ for delegates.

ASRT Membership Pilot
A pilot program is to take place to combine state membership with ASRT membership for an additional $20.00 per year. (Life members to be reimbursed by the state society) It was agreed on to apply for this pilot.

RT in DC
Will be held 3/31/03- 4/01/03. Susan Putnam, Anne Warden and Dawn Fearn expressed interest in going.

New Business
The Nela management contract was reviewed and signed by Kay.

Expenses for the 2002 Annual Meeting were reviewed and it will be necessary to trim expenses wherever we can.

OIT would like to have a 50th anniversary get-together at the next Annual Meeting.

District 3 will be reimbursed the monies they delegated to last year's RT in DC as it was contributed by ASRT.

Adjourn
Being no further new business, the meeting was adjourned at 11:10 AM.

Respectfully Submitted,
Susan D. Putnam, Secretary.