Topic: Election of officers

Discussion: By laws require President, President elect, Treasure, and Secretary.  Officers are full members of HABA.  There should be other people responsible for sub sections to help spread out the job responsibilities. 

Conclusions: People volunteered for position and members unanimously approved each position.  No action was taken on President elect position.

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President: The President shall arrange for the annual meting, which includes appointing a program chair for that conference, as well as preside at all Board of Directors Meetings and the Annual Member Meeting during his or her presidential year. The President also is responsible for the counting of nomination and election ballots, as well as the ballots in any referenda submitted to the voting membership and shall exercise general supervision over the affairs of HABA.

Kim Meyer

Secretary: The Secretary shall keep the records of HABA and the Board of Directors; conduct official correspondence, and process applications for membership.

Jessie Mitchell

Treasurer: The Treasurer shall have the responsibility for all HABA funds and shall have authority to disburse these funds for purposes authorized by the Board of Directors.  The Treasurer shall keep a record of all money received and all disbursements made and submit an annual report of the financial status of HABA to the Members at the Annual Business Meeting.

Christine Walton

Web master

Justin Kyrainnis

Pursuant/Maintenance of Tax Exempt status

Flavia Ploog and Justin Kyrainnis

Topic: Annual Business Meeting

Discussion:  This meeting will count as HABA’s annual business meeting.  There is much to be done to get HABA up and running again.  We need to get two newsletters completed by December 31, 2007.  There is $1500 in First Hawaiian Bank in HABA’s name.  These funds are to go towards the next conference.  Poster at the ABA conference in San Diego.  We need to inspire people to get involved.  Annual report was written by Kim Meyer and submit to ABA before the April 15, 2007 deadline.

Conclusions:  The current priorities are: 1) local conference 2) Newsletter

Topic: ABA Conference in San Diego 2007

Discussion: In the past HABA has had a quarterly meeting and presented a poster about HABA.  We will have a meeting in Hawaii before ABA.  The May 27 meeting will occur, we will get together to decide who is going to write about which workshop/tutorial/symposium/panel discussion they attend.  We need a poster.  Jessie did the poster last year.  We need people to meet and greet at the poster Sunday (May 27) night.  Amy will bring stickers to “Hawaiian” up the name badges.

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Sunday –May 27 – 8 am to 8:50 am – HABA meeting at ABA

Sunday – May 27 – 10 pm to 12 am – ABA poster at ABA

Topic: Local HABA Conference

Discussion: This is our greatest priority.  Decided to target August 2007 as the month in which the conference is held.  Tiffany Kawaguchi, has agreed to present at the conference.  In the past, the conference was held in two parts.  Morning sessions were geared towards hands on and basic applied principals and the afternoon sessions were geared toward the more research/academic topics.  We need topics that would be interesting to a large group of people.  HABA’s target audience for the conference includes: Skills Trainers, teachers, district people, Department of Health people; direct service staff from the state hospital; people associated with the center for disabilities studies; people associated with the state hospital; parents and services providers.  Flavia Ploog had the membership roster from the last conference.  Need to wait for nonprofit status to be secured before sponsorship can be sought. 

Conclusions: Decided to spend money on speakers, marketing, membership

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Find and share spreadsheet of members from last conference

Flavia Ploog

May 23, 07

Obtain mailing list from:

Center for Disabilities Studies

Hawaii Waiver Providers

Hawaii Families as Allies

Spin newsletter

Everyone is expected to tap into their social connections.

July 2007

Conference Topic (Short) - What are the benefits of professionals being BCBA certified

Justin Kyrannis

There are data from the last conference – that needs to be located and a brief summary of the finding presented for conference work group.

Who has it?

Establish a Conference work group and set up meeting date.

May 23, 07

Conference presenter – Tiffany Kawagushi, OT, Ph.D. – agreed to present at the conference.

Topic: Newsletter

Discussion: We have to produce two newsletters each year. 

Conclusions: The newsletter is a vehicle in which HABA can inform the community of our mission as well as increase membership, and promote the conference. The newsletter can be e-mailed or mailed to specific people at various organizations and they could be asked to distribute them to people who would be interested.  The newsletter should be available via the Web site.  The newsletter needs to have a calendar of events and means to reach out to interested parties on all the islands.

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1^st newsletter – target date of distribution June 30

Each HABA member that attends the ABA conference writes at least one summary of ABA workshop/tutorial/symposium/panel discussion they attend and submit via e-mail to Jessie by June 15, 2007.

Jessie Mitchell

6/30/07

2^nd Newsletter – Target date of distribution September 30, 2007.  Many focus the Local HABA conference.

Jessie Mitchell

8/30/07

Distribution – Have each HABA member e-mail or hand deliver 10 to 20 newsletters to interested people, organizations, and/or place in which information will be displayed.

All HABA members

Topic: Membership

Discussion: We need to find away to increase our membership.  Discussed membership dues. 

Conclusions:

Previous Membership dues were:  $10/person; $5.00/ affiliates; $3.00/student – change to $10 for everyone.  Dues were not collected since last year, so new applications and due need to be collected at next meeting.

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Bring HABA membership applications to next meeting

Jessie Mitchell

5/23/07

Collect membership dues

Christine Walton

5/23/07

Everyone is encouraged to bring three interested people with them to the next meeting.

Everyone

5/23/07