Board of Directors Meeting July 19-20, 2010 Budget Meeting / July Retreat Arrive at Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriott 50 Spring Street Lock Haven, PA 17745-1911 (570) 748-1580 Meeting called to order at 12:16pm I. Announcements a. Liz Evarts had baby girl Jody Preische will send a $25 gift card to Babies R Us + card b. George Roberts appointed as rep to Medical Board Tanya Miller will take over as Governmental Affairs Chair II. Approve June Minutes a. Jason Erlandson motion to approve the June 2010 BOD meeting minutes b. Guy Sanchioli 2 nd c. No discussion d. 8-0. Motion passed III. NATA Leadership Conference a. Yvette Ingram and Greg Janikeattended NATA Leadership Conference at the NATA Convention. b. Summit on Youth Sport Safety on December 6 and 7 th in Washington, DC. Goal is to get state legislatures to attend. Sent email to Winter Group to get their opinion on who we would want to attend. Hope to have at least 1 attend. Tom thinks Rep. Briggs would be a good choice. c. Lobby-wise what PATS is paying is comparable to other states. d. NATA Component relationship committee gave 1 year review Concerns focused on communication, value, leadership, etc between NATA and its relations. e. NATA sponsorship will be changing f. Secondary School Chair reiterated being active as concussion legislation is going on in many states, AT are the experts g. New NATA Knowledge Center Link Webinars will be started soon July 28 th (2 new per month)(thoughts are this will increase member value, provide CEUs, and generate revenue for NATA) 1 CEU = $15 h. 1137 Ateam Bill. If does not get acted on by end of December NATA will have to get it reintroduced. i. Health Care reform NATA monitoring. Concussions the biggest issue at this time.
j. ILead primarily Hit the Hill. Allows 3 students from each state to attend. In conjunction with ATEC which will be held in the Grand Hyatt in DC February 25-26. i. Amy Barrall chair. Students send information to Greg and he will distribute to Amy. ii. One application per school. PD has to sign application. A LOR needs to be provided by an AT. iii. Guy motioned to approve $700 per student (up to 3 students) for the 2011 ilead Conference. iv. Amy second v. 9-0. Motion passed k. Legislative Grant i. Tom West, Greg Janik, Yvette Ingram, and Dave Marchetti will work on this ii. $2000 given we are going for 2 nd level of importance because going for licensure iii. Will use last year s template to assist for 2011 grant. IV. NATA D II a. NATA executive council spent long days in executive sessions due to so many concerns. Component relationship committee was a majority of what was discussed in the NATA District meetings. b. Task force to review current NATA governance structure. c. NATA and profession are perhaps outgrowing itself. We need to tie bridges between research being disseminated and clinicians practice. Vision Quest d. Bobby Gunn Scholarship endowment for District 2 scholarship. Jess Johns from Duquesne won the scholarship. e. District II pledged $25K and is almost done paying this. Money used to endow scholarships; Sitler Doctoral scholarship and Paula Turocy Master scholarship. Scholarship will go to District II member. f. NATA / BOC billing: Both costs should be on one invoice BOC charging a fee separate itemized rate from NATAs membership fee. g. Career starter dues NATA provides new members a reduced rate. PATS receives nothing from this during this year, but 96% of people who started with the Career starter have stayed members. We also don t receive money from student members. h. Money possibly available for ATs to develop prevention programs called Safe Kids USA. i. Bob Ward will be reaching out to state associations to possibly sponsor a lecture at the EATA. PATS would determine speaker, topic, and pay this person s honorarium, etc. about $800. Discussion followed but tabled until more specifics received from EATA. V. Legislative Updates (HBs 2060 / 2061 / 2176 and 2177 and SBs 890 and 1241) a. HB2060: Yvette, Greg, George had emergency meeting with Winter Group from amendment/wording. Sent email to Briggs office. Came back with 7-12 amendments from different people other than Briggs. Briggs thinks he will make another amendment to supersede all others. Several changes which should benefit ATs return to language of licensed physician, or AT under physician can decide return to play decision. On House floor and still waiting for a vote.
b. HB 1308 AED bill. Discusses there needs to be designated people trained to use the AED. Bill stated that student athletic trainers be able to practice as athletic trainers. Semantics needed to be changed and were due to PATS involvement. c. SB890 Equity bill used trainer in language PATS is involved trying to change d. SB2061 Education opportunity disclosure bill used trainer in language - PATS is involved trying to change e. Rcvd. Email from Winters Group SERVE PA to volunteer when there is an emergency. Winters Group suggests promoting this to our membership. www.serv.pa.gov VI. PATS Insurance a. After 10-12 weeks, only 1 quote from marshal Biddington returned after reaching out to several. Even the PATS current policy holder group, Wells Fargo, have not gotten back to us. b. $1200 Wells Fargo- PATS insurance for BOD members when traveling (DNOs). c. Quote PATS received from Biddington is for the following: General liability (2mil), which would also cover road races; Personal (1mil) Damage (300K) Medical payment (5K). Auto (1mil) Directors and officers (1mil). $1800 Accident coverage for additional $150. Quote is $1950 total premium for the year. d. Amy made the motion to accept Commercial Line Executives insurance bid. e. Kathy seconded. f. Concerns that we do not have any comparison bids at this time. g. 9-0 Oppose motion fails. VII. Continue Northeast Run a. ESU looking to run it next year. It will be a minimum of $500 and max of $2000 scholarship. Scott D. wants to make sure that it stays PATS run and not school run. Greg and Corporate Sponsorship to stay involved. For a student to be eligible the school must have made a $500 contribution. b. ESU will be asked to come up with contribution criteria for our next BOD meeting. c. Jason made a motion to continue NE River Scholarship with a minimum scholarship of $500, but not to exceed $2K. d. Yvette second. e. 9-0. Motion passed. VIII. Bi-law changes / Voting Language a. Tom put in the changes voted on at the Business meeting b. Tom, Amy, Kathy, and Scott D. are charged with evaluating the membership criteria. c. Tom will send a link to NATA, and 2 other states and will probably model after the NATA. d. Bi-law changes have to be voted on at the June Business Board meetings. e. BOD will vote on who is eligible/not eligible to vote during the December meeting. f. Elections open at Business meeting at EATAs. g. Committee will work on this draft. Tom will send changes to Treasurer and Secretary position to Greg and Yvette prior to being sent to Hank. IX. Research Committee / Posters a. PATS poster committee has not receive any recognition for their hard work. b. Scott motioned to reconfigure the research presentation committee. c. Guy 2 nd. d. Two subcommittees under research committee
i. Research Grant committee ii. Research presentation committee Aaron Hand e. Jason moves to amend the motion and rename the Research Committee to Research Grant Committee. f. 9-0 approve. Motion passed. g. Yvette motioned to create a new committee - Free Communication Committee which will house the oral and poster presentations. h. Jody 2 nd. i. 9-0 approve. Motion passed. X. Committee Chairs / Members appointments HOF-Donolli; Technology-McGuire; COR - TBA, GAC and PMA / POS; Tanya Miller. a. Still looking for COR chair. b. Guy motioned to accept the committee chairs and members as listed on the document with changes and additions made since the June meeting. c. Jason 2 nd. d. 9-0 approve. Motion passed. e. Northwest Representative will serve as the BOD representative to the Research Free Communications Committee XI. Diversity Committee a. Kathy motioned to start a PATS diversity committee b. Scott 2 nd. c. NATA DII rep Sean Gibson only current state he knows that has a diversity committee is Texas. Excited about PAs direction. d. Find Chair to develop short and long term goals e. Approve 9-0. Motion passed. XII. National Secondary School Athletic Healthcare Conference a. Unfortunately fell through this year in PA. Ray Castle was to utilize Geisinger-Danville. Communication issues through both parties. XIII. Sustainability Update a. Scott discussed how in the future we could be charged for waste. Has come up with a sustainability commitment. The commitment has multiple goals. By signing the commitment the BOD is saying that we are looking into a plan. Committee is already in place. b. Yvette motioned to enact and sign the PATS Sustainability Commitment and Environmental Management Plan. c. Guy 2 nd. d. Discussion ensued. Yvette suggested we look into direct deposit when possible. e. 9-0. Motion passed. XIV. Archive updates a. First and only archive updated 4-5 years ago. Discussed what we should we put on CD? Minutes, committee reports, PATS convention material, etc. Basically everything. XV.Standing agenda item All email votes should be included in the BOD minutes a. Motion made by Scott D. to vote Tim Doane as Parliamentarian b. Yvette 2 nd. c. 8-0. Motion passed. XVI. Committee Charges
a. PIAA NFHS / PIAA rules regarding concussion management are somewhat confusing. They currently states MD and DO only can make RTP decision. Who determines if a concussion has occurred? Also states that an official can remove the athlete. John Moyer, PATS PIAA Liaison, stated that at the interpretation rules meeting officials cannot make decisions, but can send them to the sideline to be checked out by the AT or physician. Greg and Guy will write a letter to ATs to help clarify the ruling. a. Jason made a motion to accept PIAA report. b. Scott 2 nd. c. 9-0. Motion passed. b. PTA i. Kathy made a motion to accept PTA report. ii. Yvette 2 nd. iii. Discussion PTA started to charge PATS for writing articles in the online newsletter. PATS has stop paying for these at this time. iv. 9-0 approved. Motion passed. b. PSADA i. Drew Flavell, PATS PSADA liaison, stated that he didn t get a great response to survey last spring but he hopes to redevelop his survey and resubmit to get a better response. He s still pushing to get an AT at every high school and see the consistency of medical care in secondary schools. ii. Jason made a motion to approve the PSADA report. iii. Yvette 2 nd. iv. 9-0 approved. Motion passed. c. Public Relations Committee i. Kathy made a motion to accept the PR Committee report. ii. Scott 2 nd. iii. Future goals mentioned in their report. 1. PATS 5 for 5 concept - This would help with legislative efforts and get members more involved. Possibly donate $5 to a PATS Political Action Campaign, as well as complete 5 public relation services. 2. Look into replacing the display. iv. Approve 9-0. Motion passed. d. Secondary School Committee i. Kathy made a motion to accept the Secondary School Committee report. ii. Tom 2 nd. iii. Discussed building a database of AT contact information so if you are traveling to schools you have information. This has been done in the Southwest region and has worked well, but looking to implement statewide. iv. Tom and Greg will look to see how we could get this distributed onto the website. Possible PATS directory. v. Set pay scale for secondary ATs working playoff games (per diem per games). Greg states there is a bill Athletic Opportunity Disclosure 2061 that will possibly look into that.
XVII. XVIII. XIX. vi. Offer Secondary School Mentor Program - new people to the area should be encouraged to utilize secondary school committee. vii. 9-0 approve. Motion passed. e. Honor and Awards New scholarship i. Would like to consider adding new scholarship. ii. Tabled due to needing financial consultation with Lisa Quadrini and PATS scholarship account. iii. After discussions with financial consultant, recommendation is waiting until scholarship account up to 130K so the scholarship can be self sustaining. Strategic Planning Session see separate notes The following items will be addressed during September conference call due to time restraints at this meeting. a. Continuing Education Committee will address in September meeting i. PATS Student Symposium Accountability ii. Regional Conferences b. Corporate Sponsorship Committee i. Multi-year exhibitor combo/deposit/refund policy c. Convention Committee / Golf d. Website update e. PATS Legal Counsel PATS Budget a. Scott made a motion to accept the budget b. Guy 2 nd. c. Amy had questions about regional meetings. Each regional rep has $500 to spend to develop a regional meeting. Discussed to set a certain charge per CEU member vs. nonmember. Make as low as possible. d. Balances: 27K = checking; regulatory = 13500; research = 40500; scholarship = 105K. Getting reimbursement check from Charlie (District II) soon. e. Talk to Lisa regarding what to do with the 11K we took out last year due to need of emergency funds. Put it into regulatory fund, but do we invest in bonds or just keep it in regulatory fund? f. Discussion on providing line items for the BOD and not just lumped under BOD. g. Jody motioned to spend up to $1200 for the purchase of a new computer, software, and warranties for the PATS Convention Committee. h. Kathy 2 nd. i. 9-0 approved. Motion passed. j. Will look at decreasing the cell phone plan Greg has done this and costs should be ½ of last year s plan. k. Yvette would like to increase insurance line to $2500 l. 9-0 approve the Budget report. Motion passed. m. Dave will look into changes that are made to see if we can fund the new scholarship. Yvette motioned to adjourn meeting at 2:34pm.