MEETING MINUTES

Upon a motion by Craig Lonon and a second by Mike Perez, the Board approved the April 7, 2006, TCMA Board meeting minutes as presented.

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS

Upon a motion by Mark McDaniel and a second by Craig Lonon, the following memberships were approved:

FULL
Brandon Anderson, CA, Haskell
David Douglas, CM, Dayton
Mike Hodge, ACM, Pearland
Beverly Queen, Interim CM, Bedford
Rebecca Waldman, CM, Alamo Heights

ASSOCIATE
Morad Kabiri, Dev. Coord., Missouri City

AFFILIATE
Linda Hambrick, City Secretary, Jonestown

STUDENT/INTERN
Jay Barringer, Student, Univ. Houston
John Coleman, Student, LBJ School
Micah Gran, Intern, Kerrville
Hayden Migl, Management Intern, College Station
Cyndy Powell, Management Intern, Plano
Eve Richler, Student, LBJ School
Brian Shiels, Management Intern, Plano

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Kyle Jung presented the Profit and Loss Statements and Balance Sheets for TCMA and the Texas Foundation for Local Government for the period ending April 30, 2006.  On a motion by Mike Perez with a second from Craig Lonon, the Financial Statements were accepted.

RECEIVE REPORT FROM TCMA COMMITTEES AND TASK FORCES

Upon a motion by Mark McDaniel and a second by Darron Leiker, the Board approved a one year continuance of the TCMA University Relations Task Force.

Linda Groomer, Chair of the TCMA Mentoring Task Force updated the Board about a proposal the Task Force received from Waters Consulting.  Upon a motion by Craig Lonon and a second by Darron Leiker, the Board approved a one year continuance of the TCMA Mentoring Task Force and agreed to allocate $30,000 in next year’s budget to fund the Waters Consulting coaching/mentoring pilot program.

Rickey Childers updated the Board about the conference call held by the TCMA Executive Committee including the recommendation of Tom Muehlenbeck as TCMA’s candidate for the ICMA Vice President, Mountain Plains region.  Upon a motion by Ricky Jorgensen and a second by Craig Lonon, the Board approved this recommendation.

Among the items President Childers reviewed with the Board were TCMA Legislative Assistance program, various awards and recognitions, TML services agreements, and pilot internship programs.

RECEIVE REPORT ON TML-RELATED ACTIVITIES

David Landis, TML Board Representative, informed the Board that the TML Board was scheduled to meet on June 16 and had not met since the last TCMA Board meeting.

RECEIVE REPORT ON ICMA-RELATED ACTIVITIES

Melissa Byrne Vossmer, ICMA Vice President, updated the Board about recent ICMA board and ICMA Committee for Professional Conduct activities.  She informed the Board that only 10 members from Texas had expressed interest in serving on an ICMA Committee.  Also, there are 46 credentialed managers in Texas and 147 in the ICMA Mountains Plains region.

RECEIVE REPORT FROM TML INSURANCE RISK POOLS

Marvin Townsend, TML-IRP Executive Director, updated the Board about recent TML-IRP activities and Brett Bowers, Marketing Manager, TML-IEBP, updated the Board about recent TML-IEBP activities.

RECEIVE REPORT FROM ASSISTANTS' ORGANIZATIONS

Eric Olmedo updated the Board about recent UMANT activities.

Alejandra Lopez, UMAST President, updated the Board about recent UMAST activities including a mentoring program UMAST has developed.  UMAST has 192 members.

Ericka Hayes, Compensation Manager, Sugar Land, and UMPSET President, updated the Board about recent UMPSET activities.

OLD/NEW BUSINESS

Mark McDaniel updated the Board about future TCMA Board meetings:
            August 10-11 in Austin
            January (date TBD) in Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
            March 29-30 in Tyler
            June 21 in San Antonio (prior to the TCMA Annual Conference)

ADJOURNMENT

With no other business, the meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m.

TCMA Business meeting - Riviera Ballroom, Omni Hotel - Marina Tower, Corpus Christi, Texas
Rickey Childers called the meeting to order at 3:50 p.m. on Saturday, June 3, 2006.  Approximately 75 members attended.

On a motion by Bill Shipp and a second by Dave Gattis, the members approved the changes to the TCMA Constitution as presented.

On a motion by David Harris and a second by Joe Dickson, the members approved the 2006-2008 TCMA Strategic Plan as presented.

On a motion by Joe Dickson and a second by Vince DiPiazza, the members approved the change in the Guidelines to TCMA Code of Ethics Tenet 8.

On a motion by Jim Blanchard and a second by Craig Lonon, the members accepted the April 30, 2006 Financials for TCMA and the Foundation as presented.

With nothing else on the agenda, the meeting was adjourned at 4:20 p.m.

Immediately after the TCMA Business meeting on Saturday, June 3, 2006, the TCMA Executive Committee met.  The five members of the TCMA Executive Committee, plus Debra Feazelle, City Manager, La Porte and Chair of the TCMA University Relations Task Force and Kyle J. Jung, TML Staff attended.

Rickey Childers called the meeting to order at 4:25 p.m. 

Debra Feazelle informed the board about the four applications that had been received for the TCMA Internship pilot program.  She recommended that the Executive Committee approve these four applications and extend the deadline to June 30, 2006 to attempt to get a fifth application.

Mike Perez, commented that this is a pilot program and TCMA should be satisfied with four applications and there was no reason to redo the entire application process to attempt to get one more application.

On a motion by Craig Lonon and seconded by David Landis, the Executive Committee approved the four applications and agreed with the recommendation to extend the deadline to June 30, 2006 to try for one more internship application.

With nothing else on the agenda, the meeting was adjourned at 4:40 p.m.

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