Kentucky EMT Instructors Association
Executive Board Meeting, September 13, 2000
Owensboro, Kentucky

CALL TO ORDER: The KEMTIA Board meeting was called to order at 7:10 PM on 09/13/00 in Owensboro, KY by President Mark Bailey.

MEMBERS PRESENT: OFFICERS:

REGIONAL BOARD REPRESENTATIVES:

Executive Secretary: Linda Cooper, present

APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Motion by Dale Edmondson, second by Phyllis Portman to approve the minutes of the June 24, 2000 Board Meeting. Motion passed, minutes approved.

TREASURER REPORT: Motion by Dale Edmondson, second by Phyllis Portman to receive and file the report pending the audit at the annual KEMTIA Conference of 2001. Motion passed.

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY REPORT: See the attached submitted report. Motion by Dale Edmondson, second by Nancy Gainer to receive & file the report pending the audit.

REGIONAL REPS REPORT:

North, Dale Edmondson: A regional meeting which was well attended was held in May, 2000 after the April Conference. A retraining course for the course evaluators was conducted. A meeting will be held again after this meeting/conference to determine if anything else needs to be done.

East, Nancy Gainer: No group meeting has been held as of yet. A meeting will be held in

October.

Central, Phyllis Portman: No meeting as of yet, will have a meeting this fall.

West, John Tucker: Has a roster and information sheet. A meeting will be held soon.

AUDIT: an audit of the Treasurer’s financial records and the Executive secretary’s financial records will be conducted this week.

Branch Office: Marcia Burklow reports they are still waiting to hear what is going to happen. In the meantime they are conducting business as usual.

President Bailey: Regional meetings are very important and need to be held to decide what and how to conduct/coordinate testing, who will be the Exam Reps, etc.

-Sunday’s training for Exam Rep is to get every one on the same track.

-When classes are being conducted, the lead instructor is to contact Linda Cooper, who will contact the appropriate Regional Rep. She needs to know this information. It must be accurate.

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: The KY Board of EMS is still not named. It is a sit & wait game at present. Be thinking what we want from the 2002 Legislature. Get your ideas to Tim May.

PROFESSIONAL AFFAIRS: Sharon Pierceall reporting;

-The Educational Committee--16 hrs of EMT-B continuing education was held as a preconference with 30 attending. Excellent evaluations were received from the participants.

-CE Conference in the Spring of 2001. President Bailey is concerned that this might be interpreted as the annual conference which is to be held in September 2001 in conjunction with the EMS Conference & Trade Show. Maybe a regional CE class is more appropriate to be held in each of the 4 regions. Regional Meetings need to be held soon to also determine how this will be handled. Final report on this issue needs to be ready to report at the January 2001 Board meeting.

-Theresa Martin reports that the shirts for Lifetime Members are ready. KEMTIA Logo Lapel Pins are ready for sale at $5.00. KEMTIA shirts with pockets are also available for sale at $20.00. Tee-shirts and sweat shirts can also be ordered. If ordered as a group a better price could be gotten. Maybe order at the regional meeting.

-A motion by Dale Edmondson, second by Phyllis Portman to purchase a 3’x 8’ KEMTIA banner made of white vinyl with a border of green & blue for ~$175.00. Motion passed.

-Scholarship -A revised listing of requirements and application have been sent to John Hultgren to place on the web page.

-Nancy Gainer has Certificates of Appreciation for 2 Lifetime Members, which she has been unable to locate. Marcia Burklow will assist to locate the individuals and if still unable to locate, bring the certificates to the January Board Meeting.

BUDGET & FINANCE COMMITTEE: Theresa Martin requests the transfer of $2000.00 from the Executive Secretary account to the KEMTIA account. Motion made by Phil Taylor, second by John Tucker to transfer the funds. Motion passed. A discussion about purchasing some audio-visual aids for use by KEMTIA occurred since we have an excess of money in the Executive Secretary account. Some suggestions include: overhead projector, slide projector, screen, multimedia projector/computer.

A motion by Phyllis Portman, second by Rudy Garrett to take these ideas to the regional meeting and report back to the January Board Meeting on what the majority of the members want. Motion passed. It is noted that the equipment would go to all KEMTIA meetings for KEMTIA use. Ideas are needed for use of the equipment.

Some other thoughts discussed were:

-KEMTIA conducting 6-12 yearly refresher courses throughout the state. This needs to be discussed at the regional meeting and brought back to the Board.

-The need is there to conduct EMT-FR transition courses which comply with the new EMT-B Regs. This also needs to be taken to the members at the regional meeting.

-The Education Committee needs to look at a 40 hour MOI class for new instructors which will comply with the new regs.

-A motion by Theresa Martin, Second by Dale Edmondson to increase the Instructor evaluation fee to $125.00 based on 18 students at the evaluation site. Discussion ensued: there has been no increase in the fee for evaluators for several years; we need to return some of the profits back to the members & purchase equipment. Motion passed.

-Make sure the number of students reported to the Exec. Secretary is accurate. The minimum should be 18, which may necessitate combining classes. If more evaluators show up than is needed, then the evaluators need to make a decision about someone going home or all staying and accepting a lesser fee. NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE!!!!!!

-Paperwork needs to be sent to Linda Cooper in a REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME!!!!! DON’T DELAY.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: No decision yet as to location, since our conference will coincide with the EMS Conference..

BYLAWS COMMITTEE: Dale Edmondson reporting. Bylaws may need changing related to policing ourselves: (1) Instructors refusing to test within KEMTIA guidelines; (2) number of classes a student can miss and still certify. President Bailey appointed a subcommittee of the Professional Affairs Committee to be called "Professional Development Committee" consisting of Dale Edmondson, Sharon Pierceall, Theresa Martin, Marcus Perkins and possibly Jerry McGraw. The committee is charged to develop a set of SOPs to present to the EMS Board for their approval regarding the above items.

John Tucker reminded the Board that the implementing agency must have a syllabus that meets state requirements as long as the state standards are met. State requirements are only the minimum requirements. As an implementing agency KEMTIA can set it’s own requirements for class completion as long as these minimum requirements are met.

OLD BUSINESS:

-Phyllis Portman has sent out 115 copies of the KEMTIA Course Outline to members. If you need a copy, let Phyllis know.

-73 Certificates have been issued to participants in the KEMTIA HIV course.

-Send your e-mail address to Phil Taylor to be added the the e-circle page he has created.

-EMS Memorial--Each organization is to have a representative to assist in developing a state EMS Memorial in Frankfort, based on the Fire Memorial concept. The total cost of the project will be $300,000.00 Rocky Johnson is the coordinator for this project. Nancy Gainer is the KEMTIA representative.

NEW BUSINESS:

-5 new Instructors were welcomed as members to KEMTIA: Michael Vanhoose, Roger Cropper, Rocky Johnson, Sandra Goldey and Chuck Wright.

-Many EMT-FR Instructors have requested to be allowed to be members of KEMTIA. The general consensus was that there were many pluses to having them to join. Dale Edmonsdon will research the Bylaws and have a resolution to present at the January Board meeting. A proposed change to the bylaws would be made at the annual conference to the full body of KEMTIA members.

-A suggestion was made that KEMTIA offer a full 24 hours of continuing education as the BLS tract instead of having a preconference of only 16 hrs. The Education Committee will study this and make a recommendation.

-Paul Billings has been very ill for 6 weeks at the Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah. Address is: Western Ky Baptist Hospital, 2501 KY Ave., Paducah, KY 42001. A fruit basket has been sent from KEMTIA. Keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

-Michelle Hoepner’s father died last week. Flowers will be sent to her. Our condolences are sent to Michelle.

-Prayers are requested by Katherine Thomasson for a 6 y/o girl in Ledbetter who has an inoperable brain tumor.

The next Board Meeting willbe in January. The date, time and location will be announced. It will be a Saturday and in the Central part of the state.

Motion by Theresa Martin, second by John Tucker to adjourn. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 9:30 PM.

Submitted by ____________________________________, Secretary KEMTIA

KEMTIA
Executive Secretary Report
September 2000

Balance on bank statement 9/1/00 $13,886.98

Less outstanding checks 4,163.34

Checking account balance 9/1/00 $ 9,723.64

Receivables as of 9/1/00

Due for July 2000 $ 1,520.00

LaGrange First Responder Class 600.00

Due for August 2000 1,880.00

Total receivable $ 4,000.00

CD as of 9/1//00 $ 5,100.66

Savings account balance as of 9/1/00 $ 5.52

KEMTIA Account worth as of 9/9/00 $18,829.82

Submitted by Linda Cooper