October Board Meeting and Legal Issues Symposium
On October 5, 2019 your SASFAA Board met in Charlotte,
NC. Your Board addressed several issues
important to the membership and made every effort to address the needs of
SASFAA.
After considerable discussion it was decided to move the
clock-hour workshop from the pre-conference session. The reason the Board made this decision was
to better serve our colleagues who serve clock-hour institutions. Our Fed partners are not allowed to travel on
the weekends and would not be able to participate. In order to strengthen the training provided
we have created a clock-hour track in the agenda. By creating this track we will be able to
involve our Federal trainer as well as our school based personnel. Please encourage institutions with
clock-hours to attend the conference and participate in this special track.
The Board instructed our Electronic Services Chair to
review the various options available for the mobile conference
application. We want to continue
providing the app, but we want to make sure we get the best possible rate.
A careful review of the budget was held during the
meeting and the Board was challenged to make sure they were utilizing SASFAA
funds carefully and with the best results for the membership at the front of
all spending. A review of SASFAA’s
investments was also providing during the meeting.
Our Membership Chair informed the Board that membership
is up over 11% from last year. This is
great news. We want to see that number
increase as a strong SASFAA should help improve membership for our state
associations. We are a team and we would
love to see every member of SASFAA an active member of their state association
as well.
Your Conference Chair gave an exciting report about our
conference in February. If you haven’t
made plans to attend, please make this outstanding event part of your travel
plans. With the high cost of FSA this
year, and with the strong Federal training at SASFA, this is a great way to
stretch your travel dollars. The program
is outstanding, and a dinner cruise is included. By the way, the dinner cruise was approved
because its cost is appreciably less than a meal at the hotel!!!
Immediately after the Board meeting we had the Legal
Issues Symposium. It was a fantastic
three days discussing the legal issues we face now and in the future. The
content was amazing and speakers were even better. Those who attended all expressed how beneficial
this was to them as an individual, and to their offices. A special thank your to Joan Bailey and
Brenda Brown for making this project a success.
The Board is working on many projects this year,
and as each one will be included in this Blog, as they all come to fruition. Exiting things are already going on, and will continue with your help this year.
I will end with our quote for the year from Robert
Greenleaf – “I will go; Come go with me!
SASFAA President 2019-20
spiersb@tcc.fl.edu
