Below is a link to the renewal form inviting you to renew your membership in the Idaho Society of Certified Public Managers.  The renewal form is a fill-in PDF form that you’ll need to print it out and send with your check. Please look it over and consider continuing your membership this year. As a member of the first North Idaho CPM track, I have enjoyed the networking opportunities that both the program and my involvement with the Society has allowed me to have.  For that reason that I accepted the position as the 2012 Membership Committee Chairman.

If you know of a fellow alum who has left state employment, please send them a link to this page.  Membership is open to all alumni, employment with the state is not required. The member can still reap great benefits from the group and we welcome their participation.

I hope see you all as members and at future society events.

-Dave Wiedemann

Idaho Society of Certified Public Managers

Board Meeting Minutes

August 23, 2011

 

 

Attendees:  Becky Barton-Wagner, Renee Eymann, Mark Little, Connie Pratt, Dave Wiedemann;  Jim Smith (by phone)

 

I. Welcome: President Becky Barton-Wagner called the meeting to order.

 

II. Approval of Minutes: Mark Little made a motion to accept the May 2011 meeting minutes as written.  Jim Smith seconded the motion, and the minutes were approved.

 

III. Treasurer Report: Mark Little passed out a report showing we have total assets of $5,725.27.  He has two more membership checks to cash, which will add $80 to the total.

Renee Eymann made a motion to accept the treasurer report.  Becky Barton-Wagner seconded the motion, and the report was accepted.

 

IV. President-elect: Becky-Barton Wagner formally introduced Jim Smith, our new President-elect, to the board.  

 

V. Summer Picnic: Dave Wiedemann reported that the membership committee will meet to plan for a picnic after the Labor Day weekend.  We’ll need to decide what ISCPM will provide.

 

VI. Website Communications: Becky-Barton Wagner said she will ask Jason Abbott to send board members a link to our Facebook site.

 

ACTION ITEM #1: Jason Abbott will send board members a link to our Facebook site.

 

VII. Membership: Mark Little reported that we have 32 members.

 

ACTION ITEM #2: Mark Little will email board members a list of current CPM members.

 

VIII. New Student Orientation: Connie Pratt asked for a volunteer to speak about the ISCPM to the new Eastern Idaho class in October.  Jim Smith suggested we have application forms available for the class.

 

ACTION ITEM #3: Connie Pratt will email board members the orientation dates.

 

IX. Fall Training: Jim Smith is now in charge of the fall training.  Becky-Barton Wagner recommended that we pay to have one speaker, hold the training around the first or second week in November, and hold it from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. or noon.

 

ACTION ITEM #4: Becky-Barton Wagner will send Jim a list of past classes we’ve offered.

 

X. AACPM Conference in Salt Lake City: Becky-Barton Wagner reported that our Askew Award winner has asked for help from ISCPM to pay his costs for the annual conference.  His agency will pay for the travel.  He needs help with the hotel, registration, and meals.  Mark Little made a motion to give the Askew winner $750 dollars.  Renee Eymann seconded the motion, and it passed. 

 

Becky also said that the bylaws require the society to pay the president’s costs for the conference, including hotel, registration, meals, and travel.  She estimates the total will come to about $800.

 

The Conference is asking each state to provide a basket of goodies for a raffle to raise money for the AACPM.  Becky Barton-Wagner made a motion to spend $85 on an Idaho basket.  Mark Little seconded the motion, and it passed.

 

ACTION ITEM #5: Mark Little will talk to his contacts at Buy Idaho to get ideas for the basket.

 

XI. Next Meeting: The next meeting will be determined after we decide on a date for the picnic. 

 

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.

Idaho Society of Certified Public Managers

Board Meeting Minutes

May 7, 2011

 

 

Attendees: Jason Abbott, Becky Barton-Wagner, Andy Boydston, Renee Eymann, Mark Little, Dave Wiedemann

 

I. Welcome:  President Becky Barton-Wagner called the meeting to order.

 

II. Approval of Minutes:  Andy Boydston made a motion to accept the April 2011 meeting minutes as written. Jason Abbott seconded the motion, and the minutes were approved.

 

III. Website Communications:  Jason Abbott reported that the redesigned website is on the new platform and all accounts are active.  He can show board members how to log in.  We just need to arrange a time with him.  Jason also said that we can use Facebook to have a special section for members.  Becky said we should offer PayPal or Google Checkout on our site so members can pay for their membership online.  We could also use one of these services to take payments for our training seminars. 

 

ACTION ITEM #1: Jason Abbott will send board members a link to our Facebook site.

 

ACTION ITEM #2: Jason Abbott will find out the fees to use PayPal and Google Checkout.

 

ACTION ITEM #3: Becky Barton-Wagner will announce the new look of our site to the members.

 

IV. Treasurer Report:  Mark Little reported that we have $5,587.27 in our checking account. Six more members have joined, bringing the total membership to 28 people. Mark also said he has asked Bill Burns from the Dept. of Administration to chair the audit committee.

 

Jason Abbott made a motion to accept the treasurer report.  Andy Boydston seconded the motion, and the report was accepted.

 

V. Membership:  Becky Barton-Wagner provided a report from Dawn Peck that said Dawn is meeting with the membership committee on May 24 to discuss the possibility of an all-CPM reunion in September and to brainstorm other ideas.  Dawn will also be meeting with Mark Little on that day to discuss our information flow.  Dawn’s report also said that she needs Becky’s electronic signature to affix to membership certificates.  John Bernasconi found the certificate template for Dawn to use, so she’ll be sending members their certificates in a PDF file.  Becky said she sent Dawn her e-signature.

 

VI. Spring Training:  Andy Boydston asked to postpone the spring training from June 2 to late July or early August.  His potential speakers are booked for June, and Andy would like more time to publicize the event and create a brochure. The board agreed on tentative dates of July 21 or August 4, depending on when the Washington Group auditorium is available.  The board will try to publish some information by the first week in June.

 

Andy said we have three tentative presentations, but he’s also interested in a fourth speaker.  The possible presentations include:

 

s David Langhorst, Tax Commission: How the agency got employees involved in creating its strategic plan.

s  Fish and Game: How the agency operates using only state fees.

s  Mark Little, Division of Purchasing: Paradigm shift - Using the vendor as an expert.

 

After some discussion, the board decided to title the training Innovative Leadership. Registration will be from 7:30 to 8 a.m., and the training will run from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.  The training will be free for members and cost $30 for nonmembers. We hope that providing free training to our members will encourage more people to join the society.

 

ACTION ITEM #4: Renee Eymann will cancel the June 2 training in the Washington Group auditorium and see if it’s available on July 21 or August 4.

 

VII. AACPM Conference in Salt Lake City:  Becky reported that the annual conference will be Oct. 9-11 in Salt Lake City.  Since Monday, Oct. 10 is a holiday, she’ll be driving down on Sunday, Oct. 9 with Bob Cooper.

 

 

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.

Idaho Society of Certified Public Managers

Board Meeting Minutes

April 19, 2011

 

 

Attendees:  Jason Abbott, Becky Barton-Wagner, John Bernasconi, Andy Boydston, Renee Eymann, Mark Little, Dave Wiedemann

 

I. Welcome:  President Becky Barton-Wagner called the meeting to order.

 

II. Approval of Minutes:  John Bernasconi made a motion to accept the February meeting minutes as written. Jason Abbott seconded the motion, and the minutes were approved.

 

III. Treasurer Vacancy:  John Bernasconi is resigning from the board as of April 30, and we need to fill his position.  Becky Barton-Wagner said that according to our bylaws, the board can vote in a replacement board member.  She introduced Mark Little to the board, and said he’s interested in replacing John as treasurer.  Mark is the state purchasing manager at the Division of Administration.  John made a motion to nominate Mark as the new treasurer.  Andy Boydston seconded the motion, and it passed.  Mark will be our new treasurer.  

 

ACTION ITEM #1:  John Bernasconi will meet with Mark Little to transfer our accounts and bank information to him.

 

IV. Audit Committee:  John Bernasconi reported that he’s still looking for someone to chair the audit committee, but he hasn’t had any luck. Mark Little said he has someone in mind who he can ask to audit the books. 

 

ACTION ITEM #2:  Mark Little will ask his contact to audit our books.

 

V. AACPM Annual Dues:  John Bernasconi said that he’s paying our AACPM annual assessment dues of $420.

 

VI. Website Communications:  Jason Abbott reported that we have a standard Facebook site, but we’ve had no activity on it.  Becky Barton-Wagner suggested we post pictures from our latest CPM graduation to the site.  And she said that LinkedIn has a national CPM site that we should subscribe to.  Becky also reported that our quarterly fee for website hosting is due.  We will pay the $19 for another three months. 

 

VII. Membership:  Becky Barton-Wagner reported that Dawn Peck sent an e-mail notice to all CPM graduates about renewing their ISCPM membership.  John Bernasconi said he has received several renewals because of this.  

 

VIII. Promoting 2013 National Conference:  Becky Barton-Wagner reported that Reva Tisdale has requested $300 from the society to be used for marketing materials to promote our 2013 conference at the national conference in Salt Lake City in September.  John Bernascaoni made a motion to give Reva $300.  Jason Abbott seconded the motion, and it passed.

 

 

 

IX. Spring Training:  After much discussion, the board set the spring training date for Thursday, June 2. The tentative times are from 8:30 a.m. to noon, with sign up from 8 to 8:30 a.m. The training will have a general session with a keynote speaker and two breakout sessions. We will need to book two rooms, so Renee will see if the Washington Group Plaza auditorium and executive dining room are available. Andy will follow up on contacting speakers.

 

ACTION ITEM #3: Renee Eymann will contact Washington Group Plaza to reserve the auditorium and executive dining room for June 2.

 

ACTION ITEM #4: Andy Boydston will contact potential speakers for the training.

 

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.

 

I. Welcome:  President Becky Barton-Wagner called the meeting to order.

 

II. Approval of Minutes:  Andy Boydston made a motion to accept the December 2010 meeting minutes as written. John Bernasconi seconded the motion, and the minutes were approved.

 

III. Treasurer’s Report:  John Bernasconi reported he finally received information from the bank today on our account. He added his name to the account, removed Reva Tisdale’s name, and reset the account for online banking. He was able to catch up from our last financial report, and his preliminary findings show we have a bank balance of $5,178.27 and $25.00 in savings. Andy Boydston made a motion to accept the preliminary report. Jason Abbott seconded the motion, and the report was accepted. 

 

ACTION ITEM #1: John Bernasconi will send the board a final report on the financials.

 

IV. Lottery Commission & Fundraisers:  John Bernasconi reported that he received information from the Lottery Commission about the requirements for organizations holding raffles for fundraisers. If the fair market value of the raffle items is less than $1,000 during a one-year period, the Commission doesn’t require a permit. If the fair market value is more than $1,000, the organization has to get a license, which includes paying a $100 fee, going through a background check of the board officers, and ensuring 90 percent of the proceeds go to a charitable cause.

 

V. Chair for Audit Committee. John Bernasconi said he’s still searching for someone who will chair the audit committee.  

 

VI. AACPM Annual Dues.  John Bernasconi said our annual assessment dues for the American Academy of Certified Public Managers were due by Jan. 31. He wrote a check for the dues at the meeting and will mail it.

 

VII. Website Communications:  Jason Abbott reported that he registered our website domain for a cheaper fee, and Google Docs is hosting the new site for free. Becky Barton-Wagner added that Bob Cooper has posted our meeting minutes to the site. The board discussed making cosmetic changes to the site, including fixing the logo, moving the membership information to the top of the home page, and adding a picture of the board members. Other suggestions included adding a historical page and linking to the state’s CPM site.

 

VIII. Membership:  Dawn Peck reported that the membership committee consists of Dave Wiedemann, Becky Harris, and herself. She’s working on a flyer about membership benefits and will have a brainstorming session with Becky and Dave. Connie Pratt is collecting updated member information for Dawn, including a list of agencies that have CPM graduates. Dawn will keep a spreadsheet of members on the new website and update it from there. John Bernasconi said he will update the spreadsheet with the membership checks he’s received.

 

ACTION ITEM #2:  John Bernasconi will send member fees and a list of current members to the AACPM by March 31.

 

ACTION ITEM #3: Connie Pratt will send Dawn Peck updated member information, including a list of agencies that have CPM graduates.

 

IX. Providing Benefits to Members:

Andy Boydston suggested the Society should offer more benefits to its members, especially networking and mentoring opportunities. For example, we could facilitate brainstorming sessions of CPM graduates to find ways to save the state money or discover new ways to operate. He also recommended we hold a yearly summit or reception that state leaders and agency heads could attend for a meet and greet session with CPM graduates. Becky Barton-Wagner asked Andy to start creating a plan for a summit to be held this fall.

 

ACTION ITEM #4: Andy Boydston will create a plan for a summit with state leaders.

 

X. Spring Training:  The board discussed spring training and suggested possible topics, including empowerment, succession planning, critical thinking, engagement, and futuring. Andy Boydston would like board members to e-mail him any other ideas they have. Becky Barton-Wagner suggested we could offer three dynamic topics in three one-hour breakout sessions instead of one topic in a four-hour block. She wants speakers who are low cost until we can get membership dues up.

 

ACTION ITEM #5: Connie Pratt will contact a speaker she knows to get information about empowerment training.

 

XI. Next Meeting:  The next board meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 5.

 

 

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.

Idaho Society of Certified Public Managers

Board Meeting Minutes

January 4, 2011

 

 

Attendees: Jason Abbott, Becky Barton-Wagner, John Bernasconi, Andy Boydston, Renee Eymann, Dawn Peck, Connie Pratt, Dave Wiedemann

 

I. Welcome:  President Becky Barton-Wagner called the meeting to order and welcomed the new board members.  The attendees introduced themselves.

 

II. Approval of Minutes:  Jason Abbott made a motion to accept the November 1 and the November 16, 2010, meeting minutes as written.  John Bernasconi seconded the motion, and the minutes were approved.

 

III. Treasurer’s Report:  Becky said that we’re holding off on the treasurer’s report until John can access our account information.  He needs to have the signature card at the bank updated with his name so he can have online access to the account.

 

ACTION ITEM #1: Renee Eymann will send John a copy of the 2010 annual meeting minutes to show the bank that John is now the treasurer of ISCPA.

 

IV. CPM 2010 Graduation:  Connie Pratt said that the ISCPM did a great job in helping with the graduation.  John Bernasconi took pictures at the event. 

 

V. Website Communications:  Jason reported that we can use Google Docs to host our website, host our documents, and also use it for board e-mail.  Having these capabilities will make board succession easier and will also make the website easier to update.  We need to decide which features to use, and we need to start posting our agendas and minutes to the new site.  

 

Becky asked if the board wants to continue hosting the current site with our current vendor through March.  The cost is $27.  She said this would give us more time to have the new website up and running.  Dawn Peck made a motion to pay our current vendor $27 to host the site for the first quarter of 2011.  Andy Boydston seconded the motion, and it passed. 

 

ACTION ITEM #2: Jason Abbott will send board members a link to the new website. 

 

VI. Membership:  Dawn Peck reported that her goal is to get more members on the membership committee, and she needs a list of members and CPM graduates.  Dave Wiedemann volunteered to be on the membership committee.  Becky reminded everyone that our bylaws state membership dues are due by January 15. 

 

ACTION ITEM #3:  Connie Pratt will e-mail Dawn Peck a list of members and CPM graduates.

 

VII. Standing Committees:  The board discussed the standing committees listed in the bylaws and determined that we need to recruit members to join these committees.  Dave suggested we send members an e-mail asking for volunteers to be on the committees.

 

ACTION ITEM #4: John Bernasconi will recruit a member to chair the audit committee.

 

ACTION ITEM #5: Becky Barton-Wagner will ask Reva Tisdale about the Awards Committee to see what the qualifications are for the awards we give out.

 

VIII. Society Annual Report: Becky said that past-president Janice Foster submitted the society annual report to the AACPM.  The major goals listed for 2011 are: change the website so board members can update it, increase membership and revenue, review bylaws, keep in contact with the AACPM 2013 conference committee, and determine where and how to archive ISCPM records.

 

IX. Fundraising: Becky asked board members how we can raise funds for the society.  After some discussion, the board decided to sponsor a CPM reunion picnic to celebrate 10 years of the ISCPM.  We’ll invite all CPM graduates and hold a raffle and silent auction as part of the picnic.  Connie said the northeast class is coming to Boise for classes in June and the board agreed that early June would be a good time for the picnic.  Becky said to bring ideas about the picnic to the next meeting. 

 

The board also briefly discussed training options to help us raise funds, such as webinars and brown bag lunches.  And we should explore starting regional chapters of the society in northern and eastern Idaho to help recruit members.

 

ACTION ITEM #6:  John Bernasconi will call the Lottery Commission to see what’s required to get a permit for a nonprofit holding a gambling fundraiser.

 

X. 2011 Budget: Becky reported that she’s working on a budget for 2011 based on last year’s expenses. She will work with John Bernasconi to develop it.

 

ACTION ITEM #7:  Becky Barton-Wagner and John Bernasconi will present the 2011 budget at our February meeting.

 

XI. Next Meeting:  The next board meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 1.

 

 

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.

Idaho Society of Certified Public Managers

Board Meeting Minutes

November 16, 2010

 

 

The meeting was called to order by President Janice Foster.  In attendance were Jason Abbott, Becky Barton-Wagner, Connie Pratt, Deborah Woolery, Janice Foster, and Kris Gambee

 

I. Annual Meeting:   The annual meeting will be held December 9 from noon to 1 p.m. in Conference Room 1CR5 at the Idaho State Tax Commission offices on Park Blvd.  Janice had sample annual meeting notices to be sent to members and graduates.  These were approved to send with the addition of the time.

 

Deborah Woolery will speak about the 2013 conference to be held in Boise.  Kris Gambee will reserve the conference room for the meeting.  It was moved, seconded, and approved to allow new members who pay 2011 dues to attend the meeting and vote for new officers.  Kris Gambee will be at the door with membership applications for any new members who wish to join.  The menu will be a long Blimpie sandwich, fruit, cookies, and soda pop.

 

II. Election of Officers:  Deborah reported that she has sent e-mails to all areas of the state to try to get candidates.  We will need to fill Treasurer and President-Elect positions.  John Bernasconi has agreed to run for Treasurer.  Other possible candidates were discussed, and Debbie will contact them.

 

III. Graduation:  The graduation for 2010 will be held at the Capitol Building, Garden Level, on December 16 at 1:30 p.m.  Rehearsal will begin at 10 a.m.  Ushers will be Deborah Woolery and Greg Cade.  Servers will be Kris Gambee and Redge Clapp.  John Bernasconi will be taking group pictures of the graduates.  Board members should be there by 12:30.  There is no designated parking.

 

Connie Pratt provided a bid from The Galley at the Capitol Building for coffee, punch, and cookies.  It was decided that we would have them do the coffee and punch, and we would get the cookies from the ISP as we have done in previous years.

 

Tammie Chenoweth will be bringing six poinsettias for decoration.  She will sell them afterwards.  Several officers offered to buy one.

 

IV. Askew Award:  It was decided that the Society would purchase an award/trophy of some kind to give our Askew winner this year.  The winner gets one at the national conference, but we wanted to make it more important at the state level.  We will be providing certificates for other awards.

 

V. 2013 Conference:  Deborah Woolery presented the new logo for the 2013 conference.  It was voted on and approved.

 

 

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.

Idaho Society of Certified Public Managers

Board Meeting Minutes

November 1, 2010

 

 

Attendees: Becky Barton-Wagner, Renee Eymann, Janice Foster, Kris Gambee, Connie Pratt

 

I. Welcome:  President Janice Foster called the meeting to order.

 

II. Approval of Minutes:  Becky Barton-Wagner made a motion to accept the September 2010 meeting minutes as written.  Kris Gambee seconded the motion, and the minutes were approved.

 

III. Current Website:  Becky Barton-Wagner suggested that we piggyback our website off the AACPM Society’s website.  She also recommended that we spend the next month researching website hosting places to see if we can find a host that will allow us to update the site ourselves.

 

IV. National Conference:  Becky Barton-Wagner reported on her experience at the national conference in Oklahoma City.  She attended sessions on ethics, leadership, and turning resistance into resilience and also participated in the election of national officers.  Becky reminded the board that the AACPM issues a quarterly newsletter and is always looking for information from the state chapters.  The due date to send information for the next newsletter is December 11.

 

V. CPM Graduation:  Connie Pratt reported that Boise 9 will graduate in December -- possibly December 15 or 16.  The graduation committee will decide whether to hold the ceremony at the Capitol or at Washington Group Plaza.  ISCPM usually provides refreshments and has a speaker talk about the Society during the graduation rehearsal.

 

Connie Pratt also mentioned that the e-mail list of CPM graduates needs to be updated.  Any changes should be sent to Connie.

 

VI. CPM Projects: Connie Pratt said about 12 CPM projects from Boise 9 and East 3 are ready to be reviewed.  Janice Foster, Becky Barton-Wagner, and Renee Eymann agreed to be part of the review committee and will meet at the Department of Insurance to evaluate the projects on November 9 at 5 p.m.

 

VII. Annual Meeting:  Janice Foster reported that the annual meeting will be held the week before graduation.  We will be electing new officers, and the ISCPM will provide lunch.  Deborah Woolery is in charge of getting nominations and holding the election.

 

 

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.