MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Location: file:///C:/E31B3A52/2005-12.htm Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" West Virginia Rural Health Association

West Virginia<= /st1:State> Rural Health Associati= on

Board of Directors Meeting

Via Phone Conference

December= 14, 2005<= o:p>

 

Members Participating:= Patricia Crawford, Sa= ra Jane Gainor, Sharon Giles, Al Michaels, Sandra Pope, Alicia Tyler and April Vestal

 

Roll Call/Approval of Minutes:

April Vestal called the meeting to order at 2:00 pm.  Sandra Pope m= oved to approve minutes from the last meeting. Seconded by Alicia Tyler.  No Discussion. Motion carried. 

 

Financial Report [Shar= on Giles]:

Sharon Giles reported that WVRHA had a previous balance on 11/24/05 of $10,513,  expenses of $811 for Conference pro= motion and materials for a current balance of $9,702. We need clarification from O= RH regarding the balance of the HEPC money that was not used for stipends. $314 was used to reimburse for travel for stipend recipients. Also Community Voi= ces may have outstanding bills to be paid to Stonewall Resort.

 

Progress on unfinished strategic plan:

Policy committee dates were reviewed but they have not met yet. Al will talk with = Dave and Sally to try to  move forw= ard and possible adjust the goal date of 12/31/05. April offered her support to= the committee.

The exhibit schedule will include the SHEC conference April 30 to May 2, 2006 a= nd the Annual Rural Health Conference in the fall. We need to schedule two oth= er exhibits.

Discussion of the 3 established objectives from the strategic plan:

 

Objective 1: Plan with OCHS

April reported that she is invited to a meeting at OCHS called by the Federal Off= ice of Rural Health Policy on December 16, 2005.  Sandra emphasized that the Fed. Of= fice of RHP will be very interested in the relationship between WVRHA and OCHS.<= o:p>

She also reported on the dinner meeting with OCHS at the conference which she s= aid went well and they are supposed to follow up with us. We invited them to participate in our strategic planning session but they said they were too busy.  We will try to arrange another meeting with them after the first of the year.

 

Objective 2:

We need to discuss this further. It depends on the restructuring of OCHS. Some questions are should we have a representative from OCHS on our Board? Should they be specifically from the Office of Rural Health? If someone from their office is elected by the membership should we clarify their role on the Boa= rd? What role does OCHS play in our association? All this will be discussed fur= ther at the January Board meeting.

 

Objective 3:

Members of the Board should have talking points and other information to share with other groups they belong and in other meetings.  We could provide talking points/newsletter about WVRHA activities to educate other groups and for presentation to other organizations. We could use format of “Accomplishments” document but on a quarterly basis and it coul= d be put on the web page. This is to spread the word about what we are doing. Ap= ril will re-word as discussed and send out. Further discussion will be held in January.

 

Grants:

The NRHA Technical Assi= stance Grant was submitted in November and $9,500 was awarded to us on December 9.= The 2005 grant report was submitted in November.

 

Other:

Sara Jane informed the group that she was having surgery in January and would be= on medical leave and confined to home for about three months. The Board offered her support to remain in office and to help with activities until she was a= ble to do them.

Committee Reports:

 

 

Nominations:= Committee includes Pa= tricia Crawford, April Vestal and Sandra Pope.&nb= sp;

 

Sandra Pope reported that there will be a full complement of Board members as of January, 2006. New members and re-elected members are:

Susan Anderson Borror

Elaine Bower

Susan Chapman-Griffith

Patricia Crawford

Lew Holloway

Sally Richardson

Phil Schenk

Henry Taylor

 

Returning members are:

Alicia Tyler

Sister Rebecca Fidler

Sharon Giles

April Vestal

Sara Jane Gainor

Al Michaels

Dave Sotak

 

The Board of Directors will elect its officers in the January meeting. A letter form the President welcoming the new members = will be sent.

 

Membership:=

There are two new paid members but we have not gotten the list of members from the Rural Health Conference. April will che= ck on this.

 

 

Meeting Dates:<= /b>

 

There will be an orientation session for Board members at the January 30, 2006 meeting. The meeting will be held at the Braxton LRC and begin at 10 am.