Alabama State Report

Submitted by Sharon Williams, AASFAA President

AASFAA held the 2012-2013 Transition Board Meeting on the campus of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama June 15, 2012. 

We will continue to hold a one-day drive-in workshop for our AASFAA members in the fall.  Our fall workshop will be held November 16, 2012 on the campus of Auburn University, in Montgomery.  We will have a federal trainer on site and have asked the AASFAA membership to suggest topics that are most baffling to them. 

The 2013 AASFAA Spring conference will again be held at Lake Guntersville State Park in Guntersville, Alabama, April 9-12, 2013.   This will be the 4^th year to hold the conference at this location.  We will continue to get the comparable room rates each year at Lake Guntersville if we choose to hold the conference at the Lodge. 

There were several items discussed at the Budget Committee meeting for the 2012-2013 year.  There will be no increase in annual membership dues. All registrations for conferences and workshops will be online. 

During my term as President, along with our membership chair, my goal is to increase our membership numbers, and encourage members to get plugged in and volunteer.  Also, I want to increase membership among previous members who have not been active in some time. I believe this will be an encouragement to new associates.  We will continue to ask Committee Chairs to reach out and ask “new” members to co-chair with them.