Lions EMS

Winter Retreat Executive Board Meeting

January 7, 2007

 

 

 

Attendance

 

Nicole Gerber

George Apostolopoulos

Jay Preciado

Mike Rossetti

Jim Garvey

Tom Pagnotta

Tom Paulmann

Regina Cummings

Jessica Paciorek

 

 

Minutes

 

I.                    Meetings – Spring Semester

a.       Dates

                                                               i.      1/24 General

1/31 General (Activities Fair)

2/7 Advisor

2/14 General

2/21 Exec Board

2/28 General

3/7 Advisor

3/14 Spring Break

3/21 General

3/28 General (Call for nominations)

4/4 Advisor

4/11 General (Elections)

4/18 Exec Board

4/25 General

5/2 Advisor

 

b.      Meeting Plans

                                                               i.      First meeting: Jeopardy

                                                             ii.      Second meeting: Skills stations (oxygen, radios, splinting, sling/bandage, assessment, backboarding)

                                                            iii.      Other ideas: documentation, vital signs, triaging

c.       Scheduling

                                                               i.      Duty request form will go out by email again soon

 

II.                 Goals for the Semester

a.       General

                                                               i.      Pimping out our services – suggested guidelines, notices to clubs

1.      This lets us create guidelines for the future

2.      Email other clubs email accounts

                                                             ii.      First aid kits

1.      give them out to jeopardy winners and top responders

                                                            iii.      Office hours

1.      we need to use our cube a lot or we’re going to lose it

2.      Decorating – Jessica and Regina

3.      at the beginning of the semester, check schedules; all board members and CCs are responsible for one class period length shift each week

4.      All committees and other meetings should be held in the cube

                                                           iv.      CC buddy system

1.      Everyone will be assigned a buddy

2.      No drinking if your buddy is on call

                                                             v.      AED

1.      it is functional, we will be taking it to calls

2.      the first aider, or person without the orange bag should carry it

3.      on Friday night, the battery should be checked by turning the unit on and off

                                                           vi.      Graduation/welcome week planning

1.      can be done at a later date

b.      Deputy Chief stuff

                                                               i.      Orientations

1.      they need to be consistent

2.      George will make up the sheet

3.      Jay will do the actual orientation

                                                             ii.      New CC/coCC drills

1.      Good feedback from new CC Tom

2.      These will continue in the spring

                                                            iii.      Standbys

1.      number must be set when we get the schedule

2.      consequences – banquet discount, guaranteed housing

                                                           iv.      Crew chiefs need to keep track of who is and isn’t responding to calls

1.      when we switch, CCs need to let crews know

2.      people who aren’t responding can come off crews

c.       Training

                                                               i.      CPR

                                                             ii.      CEUs

1.      class organization is moving along

                                                            iii.      EMT class

1.      Starts next week, Regina will attend the first one

2.      People may need clothing, we will lend out BDU pants

d.      Equipment

                                                               i.      We will have nominations at the first meeting

                                                             ii.      We need to make an inventory list for the closet

1.      will help the equipment captain keep track of what needs to be ordered

                                                            iii.      we need to reorganize and move stuff to the cube where appropriate

e.       Logistics (no report at meeting)

                                                               i.      History web page

f.        EVP

                                                               i.      Sweatshirts

1.      will use the tshirt design

2.      ordering after the tshirts are paid for

3.      will also buy more shirts at this time

                                                             ii.      Jackets

1.      prices start at 40 or 50, plus embroidery costs

a.       many designs, we need to pick one

                                                                                                                                       i.      buy about 8 jackets

                                                                                                                                     ii.      everyone email Jay by Friday with choices

                                                                                                                                    iii.      we can use patches for the jackets

                                                            iii.      webmaster position

1.      for next year, since Tom has made publicity a very active position now

2.      we need to motion to create the position

                                                           iv.      committee reports

1.      Jay will compile these and then they will go out in the weekly emails

g.       Secretary

                                                               i.      Weekly emails will have all of the reminders

                                                             ii.      Mailboxes – in student center – Jessica; in closet – Jim

h.       VP MS+SE

                                                               i.      Start banquet committee

                                                             ii.      ‘welfare’ ideas – including stuff for birthdays and top responders

                                                            iii.      NJSFAC – we will attend meetings next year

i.         Treasurer

                                                               i.      We need to keep track of budget recommendations, to make it easier for years to come

                                                             ii.      Budget committee to make writing the budget easier?

                                                            iii.      We cannot order any more radios through capital equipment this year

1.      we haven’t received the last ones yet

 

III.               Committees

a.       Publicity

                                                               i.      Business cards

1.      we will order 1000

2.      we could maybe make magnets later

                                                             ii.      website updates

1.      put on spring schedule

                                                            iii.      we are looking forward to our banner going up!

                                                           iv.      We have welcome week stuffers to discuss later too – maybe the magnets will replace them

b.      Growth

                                                               i.      Impeachment clause

1.      is written up but hasn’t been approved yet

                                                             ii.      SOP changes

1.      people should review their position’s details and make sure they are correct or propose changes

2.      we need to get underway with bringing up the changes and getting them voted on

3.      we will put together a binder with “cheat sheets” for each exec board position – Jessica will take care of this

c.       Fundraising

                                                               i.      Fundraising has been going well!