November 2007

• Veterans and Family Support Services

• Sue gave an update on the Presidents call: benchmarking and annual report will be combined
• Discussion related to the training on Jan 26-29, 08 for the Government Affairs Chair from National. National is encouraging each state council to submit a name for the training. National will pay for the hotel and food for the attendee. Motion made for NM ENA to pay airfare if a member is chosen to attend, passed. Interested members are to email Sue their letter of intent to be Government Affairs Committee chair and then the board will make a decision of who the chair will be.
• National Nominations Committee are accepting applications-anyone interested please send in your application
• Sue presented an email from National requesting that the state councils consider giving a donation to a charity in Chicago called the Self Help Closet and Food Pantry. Decision was that NM ENA charity donations will stay in NM.
• State Achievement Award info given to Adriann for consideration in 2008
• Teri brought up conference for 2008 and if we decide to do one we need to start the planning process now. From the evaluations from the two conferences this year members expressed a need for a trauma conference. Teri was approached by the EMS bureau to possibly co-sponsor a pre-session at their conference in Aug. Pros and cons discussed and group felt we should not tie our conference to theirs. Decision was made to contact Jeff Solhiem to see if he is available to provide a 2 day trauma conference this summer.
• The results of the Director-at-Large tie re-vote are: Cathi Legg and Kim Dixon