IMA Lincoln Trail Regional Council - Meeting Minutes
Date: April 21, 2001

The meeting was called to order by Bob Smith.

Doris Shaw – submitted the secretary’s report and the minutes were approved as corrected.

Treasurer’s Report – Presented and passed.

National Vice President’s Report – Julie Kern

• Saved money on annual conference brochure by doing in house.
• The person who was in charge of CPE has left.
• Revenue is down in educational programs and advertising.
• Representatives from National will try to attend meetings but their budget has been cut back.
• Dan Thurman has resigned à student programs to be reevaluated.
• Membership as of March 63,977.
• Enrollment for the conference either on the website or in Strategic Magazine.
• Passed out beads for conference.

Regional Directors’ Report

David Allen

Northern Kentucky – currently in 6^th place.

Louisville – REAP May 21^st. They have finished VITA. Currently in 3^rd place. CMS will be May 12^th at Public Bank Building (Jean Highway & 22).

Virgil Billiard

Bloomington – still doing well. Currently in 19^th place.

Wabash Valley – no response.

Indianapolis – Board in place for next year. Planning session and CMS on May 18^th. 2-4 people attending CMS in South Central. 2^nd Thursday in May (5/10) they will be presenting the Executive of the Year. Currently in 31^st place.

South Central – Ginger White has been chosen as the IMA student member of Lincoln Trail Regional Council. CMS will be April 28^th, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm. They have finished up VITA. CMA review winding up. Currently in 4^th place.

Michiana – still doing well. The CMS will be April 28^th at Christine’s house from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm.

Indiana East – Currently 43^rd place. Have the board in place for next year. Sherry Hampton will be President. Plan to send 3 people to CMS. Will be sending 9 students to the conference and 3-4 additional chapter members.

Fort Wayne – Matt has become the member of a task force with AccountTemps about students entering accounting in college. Getting involvement at the college and high school areas. Hopefully this will help the chapter grow. The current board is repeating next year.

North Central – Paid student membership for Fort Wayne student. Had a new person come to the meeting due to a newspaper ad and brought someone to the following meeting. They have decided to go another year. May 21^st meeting to celebrate 25^th year as chapter.

Bluegrass – Board is in place for next year. Working on ideas to grow membership. Website is ready, but will put into LTRC website – the address will be given out over egroups.

Evansville – National has not finalized the moneys from the REAP 3/2/01. Successfully completed the VITA program. 9 people are going to New Orleans. Currently in 1^st place. They will attend the CMS in Louisville on May 12^th. They had a meeting canceled this week so they lost some points.

National Committee Reports

Governance – Brian
They have met 3 times. Brian discussed what the committee was doing and its purpose. They will be sending out a survey to gather additional information. Looking for more accountability of the staff.

Ethics
Scholarship applicants are up 40% and the quality has improved.

Students:
Setting up a website for students. Trying to create a database of student chapters. Developing a program to transition student members to regular members. The golf outing in New Orleans will benefit student programs. There has been 3 student chapters established in Mexico. Looking at a program for internships to partner smaller businesses with interns. Will be working with Robert Half on this.

Member Services
Looking at chapter structures (virtual chapters?). Mega chapter à no local chapters. Any local chapters will have their own dues. There are no changes in the competition for next year.

SCMS Committees
They will have their annual meeting in June.

Leadership Session
Lead by Chuck Hartle. Chuck will notify the chapters for the MPH’s.

Hospitality Committee
Collier Dawson with Tennessee Council will be getting the room. He was waiting until tax season was over to get the room. Rudy said he would follow up with Collier. We are sharing the suite with the Carolina’s, Tennessee, and North Central Councils. The incoming national President is from the Carolina Council. Weaver popcorn is sending bags of microwave popcorn to be giving away Wednesday night. We will also have beads to give away. The cost will be $20 for single, $40 and for family and $10 for students.

Website Status
The home page is currently up and running. A motion was made and passed to send the bills to Brenda to reimburse Teresa her $70. Teresa passed out information on the website. If anyone has any questions, please contact Teresa at teresa.v.hattabaugh@cummins.com.

The cost of the website is $70 for 2 years for the registration. The monthly fee is $19.95. This cost does not go up no matter how many chapters participate. The chapters participating with LTRC on this website will split the cost. The more chapters participating on the website the cheaper the cost to the chapter.

The website address is www.ltrc-ima.org

Nominating Committee – Julie
Julie passed out the nomination of officers and it was passed. They are as follows:

• First Vice President Julie Kern
• Second Vice President Paul Berrier
• Council President Bill Holland
• Council President-Elect Rudy McCue
• Council Secretary Teresa Hattabaugh
• Council Treasurer Brenda Engel
• Regional Directors
• Indianapolis & Indiana East David Allen
• Fort Wayne & Michiana Bob Benjamin
• N. Kentucky & S.C. Indiana Marsha Drake
• Bluegrass & Evansville Larry Mehler
• Louisville & Bloomington Martha Orth

Bob then turned the floor over to Bill Holland. Bill passed out the committee assignments for next year.

The meeting was then adjourned.