Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are now into early May and I’d like to update you on some of the information regarding the Western Regional Chapter.

Since my last message to you, IAATI WRC 1st VP Rick Greenwood sent out reminder mailings to the IAATI WRC members who let their membership lapse per IAATI Executive Director John Abounader. Several of you have “re-upped” your membership. Thank you for doing that. For those of you who haven’t sent in your renewal dues, please think about doing so. As I said before, a portion of your IAATI membership dues comes right back to the Regional Chapters. Here in the WRC that money is used to assist associations within the regional chapter in putting on training seminars and for other training needs. If you know of one of your peers who let their membership lapse, please take the time to let them know about the benefits of being an IAATI member. IAATI membership offers networking information for worldwide contacts, reference information, the APB, e-News, and an annual Training Seminar. As you'll see below, IAATI WRC is also moving to give you some additional benefits.

IAATI WRC 1st VP Rick Greenwood has been successful in obtaining most of the rosters of independent associations within the IAATI WRC geographical jurisdiction. He has compiled them all into one password encrypted roster and you will find a link to the roster if you look at Site Content, just to the right of this message. Click on WRC Contact Roster and it will take you to the information about obtaining the roster. The roster is password encrypted. Rick has already shared the password with the Presidents of the associations who have contributed to the roster. It will be up to the Presidents of the associations to disseminate the password to their own membership, thus controlling who within their own associations have access to the roster.

We are still short a couple of associations, WSATI Nevada and WSATI Oregon, but Rick already spoke to responsible parties in those associations in an attempt to secure their rosters. Participating associations at this time are AATIA (Arizona), AATIA (Alberta), BCAATI (British Columbia), CATI (Colorado), WSATI Central California, WSATI Hawaii, WSATI Northern California, WSATI Northwest (Washington), and WSATI Southern California. If you are a member of an association within the IAATI WRC geographical jurisdiction not mentioned above, and you would like to have your association listed in the IAATI WRC Contact Roster, please contact Rick Greenwood at rgreenwood@wrciaati.org.

I recently spoke with IAATI WRC 3rd VP Jim Kautz. Jim is working with other members of CATI to bring the 2009 IAATI Training Seminar to Colorado. Jim said they have narrowed the possible seminar locations to a workable number and submitted the information to IAATI Seminar Committee Chairman Kent Mawyer. Once a decision is made by IAATI, Jim will start putting out flyers and information about the 2009 Training Seminar. Jim and the on-site committee are already making preparations for companion programs, side trips, and sporting events. Jim said there will be plenty to do as he found out from the chamber of commerce that the Denver area is the #4 most sought out convention location in the United States. If you have any ideas or comments, please contact Jim Kautz at jkautz@wrciaati.org.

For a complete listing of the Western Regional Chapter Executive Board, Directors, and Advisors, please go to the IAATI WRC Officers link at http://www.wrciaati.org/officers.asp. We still have several Director positions open. Please take a look at the Officers page to see if there is a Director opening in your area. If you have a desire to become a Director, please contact the Executive Board at eboard@wrciaati.org.

In closing, I just wish to say it is important that we continue to communicate with one another. If you have not signed up for the “Member’s Only” section of IAATI, please think about doing so. It allows IAATI and IAATI WRC to send you email messages, including the IAATI e-news, important membership announcements, and “news items” of importance to the membership. We want to continue pushing forward in the Western Regional Chapter. If any of you have any ideas or suggestions, please contact the Executive Board at eboard@wrciaati.org.

Sincerely,
Gary Labb
2007 Western Regional Chapter Immediate Past President

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