Great Plains Chapter – SHRM
P O Box 1651
Lawton, OK 73502

Call to Order:  Russell called the meeting to order at 12:03 PM in a meeting room of the City of Lawton, 1405 SW 11^th, Lawton 

Roll Call:  Russell, Middleton, Beck, Housman, Sapol, Sutterfield, Anderson 

Old Business:  CAP – Russell said he had planned to forward out the assignments by now but he had been delayed. His deadline is the end of the month. 

Minutes:  Middleton distributed copies of the December 2009 minutes.  Motion: Beck moved to accept the minutes as written, Sutterfield seconded, all approved. 

New Business: 

         The 2010 budget will be presented at the February meeting by our Treasurer, according to Russell. 

            Leadership Conference, Jan. 22^nd:  Russell confirmed that everyone would be attending the event.  Sutterfield, Sapol and Anderson were welcome to carpool to Oklahoma City. 

            Membership:  Anderson distributed a report showing the numbers paid and unpaid for 2010. 

            Website: Middleton prepared a report reflecting for December 2009, 3607 hits, 1079 visits, top pages visited were membership, calendar of events and Local HR jobs.  Middleton advised that there were no local HR jobs listed and the calendar for 2010 had not been posted.  Housman knew that Stephens (webmaster) had been off work two weeks over the holidays and was having problems accessing the website to make changes.  Housman also knew she had an HR position that needed to be posted. 

            Legislative report:  none available 

          Workforce Readiness Report: Sutterfield distributed applications to the Red River Career Expo scheduled for February 25^th at Cameron University’s Fitness Center. 

          Programs Report: Sapol announced that the January program was Beck on recording keeping for both Oklahoma and Federal. Stephens had sent out a survey but no one knew the answers to the questions about what training our membership desired in 2010. 

          HRCI:  no report.  Russell knew that no class has been scheduled.  Beck advised of a request from the Cameron University Student Chapter for Cameron to offer a class.  Beck did not know if that had been set up for the spring semester. 

Discussion/Communication: 

          Middleton distributed two flyers on programs at GPTC.  The spring schedule did reflect the known topics of the Chapter meetings.  He pointed out the April meeting will have a three hour program which will offer 2.5 CEU’s from HRCI.      

Adjournment:  Motion: Beck moved to adjourn, Housman seconded, all approved.  Meeting adjourned at 12:35 PM. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Charles C. Middleton, PHR
Secretary