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ICASE Business Meeting
February 29, 2008
Sheraton Downtown Hotel - Indianapolis
(These minutes are
considered a draft until approved at the next scheduled
general membership meeting.)
OFFICERS PRESENT AT
BUSINESS MEETING: Pam Wright (President), Lynn Gosser
(President-elect), Tom Adams (Past-President), Vendetta
Gutshall (Treasurer), Gary Collings (Secretary)
I. Call to Order:
Pam Wright called the business meeting to order at
9:00 AM; she introduced members of the Executive
Committee, including the three new chairpersons, and
recognized members of all of the committees and
subcommittees.
II. Review
Agenda/Meeting Procedures: Pam reviewed the agenda
and meeting procedures, including the use of a floor
microphone. Pam established a quorum of 25% of the 104
eligible voting members by the "raising of the
envelopes". A quorum was confirmed.
III. Approval of
Minutes: Pam Wright called for approval of the
September 28, 2007 minutes. MOTION: After a motion
for approval by David Chastain and a second by Mary Beth
Hamilton, the minutes were approved by voice vote as
presented.
IV. Treasurer's
Report: Vendetta Gutshall presented the Financial
Statement noting expenditures of $92,618.84 of the
budget amount of $242,900 excluding a protected $30,000
cash reserve. Revenue to date is $268,223. The Porter
Scholarship Fund has a current account balance of
$4,413.35 + $1,249 raised last night at the basket
auction + $1,385 in the cabin vacation raffle (totaling
$7,047.35) in addition to the $8,200 balance invested in
the CASE Indiana scholarship account. Pam Wright called
for a motion to accept the February 2008 financial
statement. MOTION: After a motion for approval by
Joan McCormick and a second by Cheryl Corning, the
financial statement was approved by voice vote.
V. ISEAS Report:
Gary Collings noted the recent mentor training for
Directors on February 15, which was conducted by two
university trainers associated with the DOE Division. He
reported the morning session of the RtI seminar for
building administrators is full at 250 with space
available in the afternoon. The Midwest Educational
Leadership Conference in Breckenridge on June 23-25 has
25 directors registered and is sold out.
VI. Executive
Standing Committee Reports:
A. Legislative and
Research Joan McCormick, chairperson, thanked
committee members and directors for their support and
involvement. She recognized KWK for its efforts in
behalf of the membership. KWK will monitor health bills
and other allied areas. The February 2009 conference
during the long session will include another breakfast
for legislators and our partner associations. The
committee is preparing its platform for next year,
likely to include SLP licensure and certification for
educational interpreters. Copies of the Congressional
Directory were available to the membership.
B. Membership and
Fiscal Management Denise Bashore, chairperson,
commented that five years ago the membership was 179 and
now is 353. The ICASE website <www.icase.org> and its
links are being updated. A quarterly electronic
newsletter will be launched this fall with Cheryl
Corning as its editor. A contest to name the new
e-newsletter is underway. The fiscal management
component of the committee is being organized.
C. Professional
Development Patti Kem, chairperson, thanked officers,
roundtable representatives, committee members,
secretaries, and DEL and hotel staff for their
contributions to the conference. She put out a call for
presenters for the break-out sessions for the Fall
Conference to be held on September 18 at Fort Wayne.
VII. Strategic Plan
Update:
A. Supporting the
Membership
1. SLP Shortage Task Force Pam Wright reviewed the
work of this task force, which includes representatives
from ICASE, ISHA, and DEL. She reported members are in
agreement that more SLPs are needed to work in schools.
The task force has developed an action plan with
sub-groups. Connections have been made with university
training programs. There is agreement that the State
could benefit from a distance learning model for speech
personnel with four year degrees to earn a master's
degree. University trainers will meet this summer to
form a consortium to address a delivery system for a
graduate program. Pam will be requesting names of SLPs
with their CCCs who would be willing and capable mentors
for both undergraduate and graduate students. University
trainers would utilize the mentors for observations,
clinicals, etc.
2. Article 7 Work Group
Lynn Gosser noted the hot topics paper that had been
presented during yesterday's session. The group will
update their notes from Bob Marra's session as well as
feed back from the membership. The documents are
available on the ICASE website <www.icase.org>.
B. Advancing the
Organization
1. Examining Organizational Structure Pam Wright
reported the members of the Past President's Council
have agreed to serve as the task force to address
whether the organization should explore a paid position.
2. Strengthening
National Connection Gary Collings commented the
members of the Executive Committee had concluded the
organization could not have a national presence if its
members were not present on the national scene. ICASE
officers will attend the CASE Board of Directors and/or
Executive Committee meetings in April during the CEC
Convention. The full Legislative Committee will attend
the CASE Summer Institute in Washington D.C. on July
13-16. As chairperson of the CASE Research Committee,
Gary Collings is a voting member of the CASE Executive
Committee.
C. Promoting the
Organization:
1. State Partnerships Tom Adams emphasized the various
CASE Institutes held each year and encouraged members to
attend. He noted state partnerships with other
professional organizations had developed through
legislative involvement and outreach opportunities.
VIII. Nominations
Committee Report: Tom Adams reviewed the nomination
procedures under the new Constitution. The committee is
chaired by the Immediate Past President and includes a
member from each roundtable as well as the
President-elect. He thanked its members for their
commitment to the process, which included setting
criteria for each vacancy (President-elect and
Secretary), creating a nomination form, and how to
construct the slate of officers. The committee selected
a single slate for each vacancy. Members prepared a
timeline to streamline the process for next year's
nomination cycle.
Tom presented the slate
of officers and reviewed the resume of both Vendetta
Gutshall as nominee for a one year term as
President-elect and Gary Collings as the Secretary
nominee for a three-year term. Each term begins on July
1, 2008.
IX. Review of Voting
Procedures: As parliamentarian, Gary Collings was
called upon to outline procedures related to the
election process. Gary noted a quorum had been
established and written ballots with space for write-in
nominations had been provided to all voting members. The
ballots will be collected and tallied by the three
chairpersons of the Executive Committee (Bashore, Kem,
McCormick).
X. Election of
Officers: Pam Wright opened the election and called
twice for nominations from the floor for President-elect
and twice for Secretary. Hearing none, she closed the
nominations and asked members to mark their ballots.
After the 74 ballots were counted by the panel of three
chairpersons, Pam Wright confirmed Vendetta Gutshall as
President-elect for 2008-09 and Gary Collings for
Secretary from 2008-2011.
XI.
Awards/Recognitions: During the luncheon session on
9-28-08, Tom Adams presented the Distinguished Service
Award to Dr. Cathy Pratt. Honorary Memberships were
granted to Mary Kay Davis (JESSE) and Dr. Charis
Snyder-Gilbert (East Noble) with contributions made in
their behalf to the Porter Scholarship Fund. Patti
Allison paid tribute to Dr. Snyder-Gilbert.
XII. Other Business:
Jeff Young presented American flags to four members
and announced that Linda Holland (JESSE) won the week's
donated cabin vacation in the Upper Peninsula.
Tom Barth presented the
names of members who had won prizes donated by the
following vendors: Indiana Works (Lucy Wieland), VSArts
(Kathleen Clark), ICAN (Kathy Cain), Educational
Concepts (Lou Dickman and Pam Roberts), Whites Institute
(David Chastain), CSC Learning (Paula Williams), Meadows
(Bernadette Brier), Three Springs (Connie Hehman),
Children's Campus (Eileen Humphries), Met Life (Teresa
McKenzie), Scientific Learning (Barbara McNichols),
Claim Aid (Jackie Balkevicius), Pearson (Bruce
Kulwicki), Sopris West (Eileen Kalman), Mecca Tech (Joan
McCormick), First Team (Nancy Becker, Chuck Moore,
Thelma Schwenk).
The Past Presidents
Dinner held on the evening of February 27 was attended
by approximately 20 members. Tom Adams introduced Jeff
Moeller, Vice President of Special Olympics Indiana, who
was the guest speaker.
Business meeting was
adjourned after a motion by Tammy Ummel and a second by
Connie Brown.
Division Report At
his morning presentation following the ICASE Business
meeting, Bob Marra noted that the time of the Article
hearings would be posted on the DOE website <http://doe.state.in.us/exceptional/advisory/welcome.html>.
Bob announced that
Nancy Zemaitis will be heading up the revised monitoring
system to address the twenty compliance indicators and
the implications of the federal citation for the
Continuous Improvement Focused Monitoring. He reviewed
the USDOE citation of IDOE for its Part B determinations
with a "needs intervention" sanction. The USDOE citation
on June 15, 2007 noted the determination was based on
the totality of the State's data in its Annual
Performance Report and revised State Performance Plan,
which was re-submitted on February 1. Significant
disproportionality is a compliance indicator for which
Indiana must provide baseline data for FFY 2006.
Districts identified as out of compliance in
disproportionality will be required to use 15% of Part B
funds to be designated for early intervening services.
Bob also discussed the
following items:
· Need to formalize the formula for graduation and
drop-out rates;
· Current inability to back out non-public school
students by grade from the State assessment;
· suspension/expulsion data and significant discrepancy
between risk rate and risk index;
· LRE coding;
· Early childhood populations and the need for a more
global speech assessment;
· Evaluation/identification;
Due process indicators
were acceptable. Data will need to be reviewed on every
indicator. Parent surveys will be issued directly from
DEL to parents in 84 districts in March to be returned
to DEL for tabulation.
NEXT MEETING:
September 19, 2008 at the Fort Wayne Hilton and
Convention Center
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