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ICASE Business Meeting Minutes

February 19, 2010
Crowne Plaza – Union Station
Indianapolis

(These minutes are considered a draft until approved at the next scheduled general membership meeting.)

Executive Committee Members Present:  Vendetta Gutshall (President),  Lynn Gosser (Past-President), Cheryl Harshman (President-elect),  Gary Collings (Secretary), Patti Kem (Professional Development – June 2010), Joan McCormick (Legislative and Research – June 2011), Steve Wornhoff (Membership and Fiscal – June 2012)

I.                   Call to Order:  Prior to the business meeting, Tom Barth reported 49 vendors in attendance and conducted the vendor raffle.  Vendetta Gutshall then called the morning business meeting to order and established a quorum.

II.        Approval of Minutes:  Vendetta called for approval of the October 2, 2009 minutes.  MOTION:  After a motion for approval by Bernadette Brier and a second by Tom Barth, the October 2, 2009 minutes were unanimously approved by voice vote as presented.

III.   Treasurer’s Report:  In the absence of Denise Bashore, Steve Wornhoff presented the Budget Report for July 1 – December 31, 2009 showing a cash balance of $207,223.46 in the Chase Bank account.  The 2009-10 Budget appropriation is $236,450 with $126,553.91 expended by December 31, 2010.  The Roundtable cash balance was reported as $26,326.72 and the total cash balance for the ICASE Scholarship held by CASE was reported as $10,200.01 as of December 31, 2009.

Vendetta called for a motion to accept the Treasurer’s Report.  MOTION:  After a motion for approval by Ginny Brackemyre and a second by Fran Wood-Osborne, the Budget Report for July 1 through December 31, 2009 was unanimously approved by voice vote as presented.

IV.       Nomination and Election: Vendetta called on Lynn Gosser to present the nominating report as Chairperson of the Nominating Committee.  Lynn acknowledged the elected members from each of the Roundtables.  Lynn presented the name of Patti Kem for President-elect.  Vendetta called for further nominations from the floor three times as required.  Vendetta declared the nominations to be closed and instructed unified members to mark their ballots to be collected and counted.  Before the end of the business meeting, Vendetta announced that Patti Kem was elected as President-elect for 2010-11.

V.        Executive Standing Committee Reports: 

A.               Legislative and Research – Joan McCormick, chairperson, introduced members of the committee from each Roundtable.  Joan characterized the year as one of building partnerships including establishing a relationship with the state superintendent.  She complimented Kelli Waggoner (KWK) in her work with Senator Kruse to amend his SB 252 to extend the interpreter certification provisions through DOE as required in last year’s SB 57.  The Governor is expected to sign the bill on Monday.  DOE will promulgate the rule by July 2011.  The committee will work on the related guidelines for both Speech Language Assistants along with Restraints and Seclusions.

B.         Membership and Fiscal Management – Steve Wornhoff, chairperson, reported ICASE has contracted with Greystone Design (Cinda Long, owner) for six months to maintain the ICASE website and four listservs (executive, directors, members, voting members).  Roundtable listservs have been abandoned and will need to be replaced by group mailing lists for each region if desired.  The membership committee will convene in the near future.  Steve reminded members of Pam Wright’s survey results to only hit “reply” to sender.  The results of any survey are to be compiled and distributed by the originator of the survey question. 

C.        Professional Development – Patti Kem, chairperson, thanked the members of both the Planning Committee and her Cooperative staff.  She noted that new directors met in August 2009 and at the Fall Conference as well as at this Spring Conference.  She thanked Tracey Shriver for her leadership in behalf of new directors.  Power points from this conference will be posted on the DOE Learning Connection.

Patti called for presenters and topics for the Fall Conference 2010 to be held at the Marriott East in Indianapolis.  The Spring 2011 Conference will return to the Crowne Plaza.  Patti reminded members of the 2011 celebration of the 50^th year anniversary of the founding of ICASE in October 1961.  Vendetta reported that Jeff Young will serve as chairperson for this event.

VI.       Strategic Plan Update:          

A.        Supporting the Membership – Lynn Gosser said part of the plan is to strengthen our national connection with CASE.  She reported that Tom Adams is one of three nominees for the CASE Treasurer position to be elected at the CEC Convention in April 2010 at Nashville, TN.

B.         Advancing the Organization – Tom Adams, who is in the final year of a two-year term as chairman of the CASE Membership Committee, addressed the CASE talking points under development for the upcoming revisions of both ESEA and IDEA.   He noted that “pay for performance” is an emerging hot topic of a current CASE survey on the website.  A restraints and seclusion booklet from CASE authored by Reece Peterson will be provided to all CASE members.  A March 9 CASE webinar will be conducted by the booklet author on the topic.

C.        Promoting the Organization – Cheryl Harshman highlighted our members involvement with other associations/organizations as follows:  Margie Labelle (IAPSS/ISBA), Larry Bass (IASPrincipals), Cheryl Corning (IASPsychologists, Scholarship, Newsletter, and University Forum), Jan Dunham (ICEC), Donna Krol (IN*SOURCE), Mary Beth Hamilton (ISHA and ICASE Products), Tom Adams (Medicaid), Lou Dickman (Patrons and Vendors), Theresa Sell (Website), Pat Pierce and Pam Wright (DOE Professional Standards Board).  Vendetta recognized George Van Horn as a member of the DOE Professional Standards Board.

VII.     Awards/Recognitions:  At Thursday’s luncheon meeting, Vendetta Gutshall presented Lynn Gosser with the Past President’s plaque for her service from 2008-09.  Vendetta also presented Gary Collings with the Distinguished Service Award.  Dr. Becky Libler, Associate Dean of the ISU Bayh College of Education, surprised Gary Collings with a career achievement award and a one-time scholarship of $1,000 for an in-coming ISU College of Education freshman.  The scholarship grant was a $500 contribution from both ISU and ICASE.  [P.S. Gary bequeathed the scholarship to Dean Shriver, who will enter ISU in the Fall of 2010 as an Elementary Education major and a Special Education minor.]

MOTION TO ADJOURN by Jan Dunham/Mary Burton was unanimously approved.

NEXT MEETING:  September 30-October 1, 2010 at the Marriott East in Indianapolis