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WSCPA
Board Meeting Minutes
Ellensburg Comfort Inn
April 21, 2003
Call
to Order:
The meeting was called to order
by President Shelby Gifford at
1:21 PM
on
Monday, April 21, 2003
. Present were Shelby Gifford, Alexandra
Kasuske, Marion Swendsen, Doug Reynolds, Chief Denis
Austin, Kay McKellar, Bob McKellar, Jon Skiffington, John Turner, Gerald Abernathy, Stella Kent, Gerald
Myklebust, and .Daryl Pearson.
Excused were Chuck Fulton, .Cal Baker and Steve Duehn.
Introductions
of new WSCPA Board Members:
Shelby
introduced Chief Denis Austin of Pasco
Police Department as the new WASPC Representative. Chief Austin told the board that he was happy to be with us and
that it would take some time to find out what we do and where he
can help
us.
Consent
Agenda:
President’s Message:
Shelby
thanked everyone for coming and said that
she would have a lot more to say when we come to the Spring Conference.
Shelby
told the board that we needed to make sure
all consent agenda items are sent to Daryl. Daryl will then send them to the board members in time to look over before the board
meeting.
Shelby
told the board that we were going
to limit our reports to those already sent into the office.
Minutes:
Daryl sent out the minutes of
the last meeting by email and provided another copy with
the consent agenda items. No changes to the minutes were noted and the minutes stand
as presented.
Executive Director’s Report:
Daryl gave everyone present both an Executive Director’s Report and
a Two Year Calendar. Daryl took those present through the Executive Director’s Report and asked all Board Members to
send Daryl the dates of all training and regional meetings.
Daryl stated that the meetings for the Medeco Business Watch “ United
for a Stronger America Program” needed to be scheduled as soon as possible and that he would be contacting all the
Directors. The group discussed the idea of using a standard power point program for their meetings around the state
and asked Daryl to provide the one used at
the kick off event to the Region Directors
Daryl passed around a scholarship application from Emily Urlacher. This
application was one of 13 received by the office. Daryl had Captain Terry Heisey and Chief Chuck Fulton
reviewed the
applications and Emily’s was chosen.
The board agreed and the check to
Central
Washington
University
$500 will be delivered by
Shelby
.
Treasurer’s
Report:
Kay presented the board a two page Treasurer’s Report that showed all checks and deposits made since
July 1st, 2002
, the start of our current business year.
Kay found a new Certified Public Accountant who has reviewed the books and made a suggestion that
WSCPA buy a copy of Quick Books. The report Kay handed out was done on the new software. Kay reported that we have
$24,474.68 in our operations account and around $16,685.47 in our CD. Kay reported some interest needed to be
posted to the CD account
Alexandra made a motion that we accept the Treasurer’s Report as
presented.
Marion
seconded the motion and the
motion passed.
WASPC Report:
No report given.
Regional
Director’s Report:
Region 1:
No
Report Given.
Region 2:
No
Report Given.
Region
3:
No
Report Given.
Region
4:
See attached report on Region 4.
Region
5:
No Report Given.
Region
6:
No Report Given.
Region
7:
See attached report on Region 7
.
Region 8: No Report Given.
Old Business:
Spring Crime Prevention Conference:
Shelby
thanked those board members that have
helped with the Puyallup Spring Conference. Alexandra is working on the Awards Banquet, Marion Swendsen is putting together the basic
training tract,
Shelby
is working on the advanced tract and Daryl is working on the Key Note Speakers.
Shelby
asked Kay how she was doing in procuring
the giveaways. Kay said that she has a number of items for door prizes and reminded the
rest of the board members that they each need to bring an item.
Daryl reported having around 60
pre-registrations not including 12 presenters. Daryl told the board that
we usually have 3-5 registrations at the start of the conference. Daryl told the board
that we had 4 scholarships 1 for a board member and three others were for
speakers.
Shelby
took the board through the Conference
agenda which started with registration at
7:00 AM
on Tuesday. Several members volunteered to help with the Registration
and all board members were given assignments to introduce the conference speakers. Topics included Block Watch, Business Programs, Crime
Free Multi Housing, Violence in the Workplace, Auto Theft and many more.
Shelby
asked Daryl to go to Costco to pick up the
morning snacks and supplies for the conference.
Pasco 2004 Conference:
Daryl reported that a committee
consisting of Jessica Hoag, Mike Blatman, Daryl Pearson, and Vicki Ruley
have been meeting in
Pasco
on the conference that is scheduled for
April 18-21, 2004
at the Red Lion in
Pasco. The committee is looking at the contract and also waiting to see how the
Puyallup
conference goes before signing anything
with the hotel. They want to see how the two training tracts go so they know how much room
they need. They will report back to the WSCPA Board in June with all schedule and training information.
40
Hour Basic Crime Prevention Class:
Daryl
reported talking with Training Commission Director, Michael Parsons, about
the WSCPA 40 Hour Basic Crime Prevention Academy. Parsons agreed to reimburse us up to $2,500 a year up
to $5,000 per biennium. Parsons told Daryl that WSCPA had the right to charge a fee for their trainings. WSCPA had
agreed to charge $50 for the upcoming 40 Hour Basic in
Spokane
. Parsons told Daryl that WSCJTC would be
charging fees for most of their non academy classes. The board then voted to charge for future training.
16
Hour Volunteer Crime Prevention Class:
Alexandra and Gerald Abernathy
stated that the 16 Hour Crime Prevention
Volunteer Class hosted in Lacey went very
well.
Mount
Vernon
Three Day CPTED Class:
Doug Reynolds, Jon Skiffington reported that 25 people attended the three
day CPTED school in
Mount Vernon
scheduled for
March 10-12, 2003
. Doug told the board that the fee for the
class was set at $75. Jon was in charge of setting up the class and the registrations were supposed to come to the office. Daryl and
Kay reported that around $800 was brought in on the class. Several
Mount Vernon
volunteers attended the class for free.
The board suggested that special criteria be set up for Class sponsors.
Awards:
Alexandra told the board that
the Awards Banquet would be handled differently than in the past.
A select group of people assessed the award nominations and she is very happy with the award
winners. Alexandra asked the board if they would
like something said on all the award nominees and it was suggested that
Alexandra just tell the people present who was nominated and then the award winners. Alexandra was asked who won the
awards but it was decided to keep the award winners a secret until after the banquet.
Daryl has been working on finding sponsors for the Awards Banquet.
Mastercard has been contacted and has returned an email saying they are interested in helping. Daryl was told that
Mastercard would pick up the Award Winners Dinners. Daryl was also contacted by Identification Technologies and others to see
if they could be a part of the Awards next year.
Award Winner's Were:
Crime Prevention Practitioner of the Year – Officer Tonya
Stanfield, Bellingam
Crime Prevention Volunteer of the Year –
John Murphy,
Kennewick
and Walla Wa
Crime Prevention Chief or Sheriff of the
Year – Chief Gary Michel,
Crime
Prevention Program Non-Law Enforcement – Kulshan Creek Neighborhood
Crime Prevention Program Law Enforcement
– Citizens Helping Police Services,
Kennerwick
Crime Prevention Business of the Year – Fred
Meyer – Ellensburg
Elections:
Daryl told the board that Randy
Chapman called late last week to place his name on the ballot for Vice
President. This filled a ballot for 2003-2004. Alexandra Kasuske wasn’t going to run next year
because of the possibility of having to go back to patrol. Daryl will meet with Chuck Fulton and place the ballot in the mail
with the intention of calling the new board members after June 1st for the June board meeting.
Slate is:
Region 1
Melissa Locke
Region 3
Gerald Abernathy
Region 5
Bob McKella r
Region 7
Stella
Kent
President
Elect
Marion Swendsen
Vice
President
Randy Chapman
Treasurer
Kay McKellar
Court
Services:
Shelby
hopes to have another class sometime in
May for
Puyallup
.
Crime
Prevention Materials:
Daryl told the board that we only have about 1 box of Do It Yourself
Crime Prevention Manuals left. We found about 10 boxes after the last meeting which were already claimed and sent
out. Daryl asked Gerald Abernathy to report on his efforts to find someone to provide the Operation Identification stickers.
Gerald’s insurance friend
wasn’t sure if they
could provide the stickers. Daryl
told the board that he would still try to find a means to print the
materials needed for the office.
Daryl made a proposal to the board. He asked permission to place all the
available crime prevention material in a camera ready form onto CD’s with the idea of providing these CD to the WSCPA
membership. Daryl asked for 300 dollars with the idea that he have the CD's ready for the Pasco Conference. This would
give the board a couple of meeting to review
the materials to make sure they were they were okay. John
Turner made a motion to give $300 to Daryl for production of Camera Ready Crime Prevention Materials to WSCPA Membership provided that
material was okayed by the board. Bob McKellar seconded the motion and the motion passed.
New Business:
NEXTEL
Phone Patrol:
Daryl told the board that NEXTEL
has set up the new program and would like to start it on July 1st.
All the people who would like to use the program must send in new applications by May 15. The
new programs would receive their phones by June 1st and the other programs would receive their phones
by July 1st. They also agreed to promote the Patrol
Program in several cities with WSCPA members.
WSCPA
Board Policies:
A number of issues were brought
up during the board meeting as to cost reimbursement to board members for
meetings and WSCPA assignments. The board asked a question as to criteria for
agency sponsorship of WSCPA Training as to how many they can send for free or how many scholarships should be made
available at conferences and board meetings.
Daryl asked
Shelby
to appoint a committee to look at this
question. The committee will pull together a first copy of a policy by the June Board Meeting. The Board also asked this group to come
up with the supportive forms and suggestions that might be needed for the By Laws to make everything work.
The committee is made up of:
Daryl Pearson Chair,
Gerald Abernathy
, John Turner
, Stella
Kent, Kay McKellar
and Gerald
Myklebust
Adjournment:
Shelby
adjourned the meeting at
4:15 PM
.
These minutes were presented by:
Daryl Pearson, Executive Director - WSCPA |
