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Meeting
Minutes
INTERNATIONAL
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE PROFESSIONALS-NORTH
TEXAS
CHAPTER
Quarterly
meeting held on
February 16, 2005
. There were 55 attendees at this
meeting.
Lunch
and networking started at
11:00
.
Don
Johnson, Vice President of the NTIAPP Chapter, called the meeting to order at
11:00
. Don stated that this was the first
meeting that Sandy Champion, President of the NTIAPP Chapter, had missed since
becoming the president of the local chapter.
He stated that
Sandy
had accepted a position with Pepsico and was out of town on business.
Don
Johnson welcomed the attendees. Don
thanked Sue Hoyer of Oxy Inc and staff for facilitating the meeting and Janet
Taylor and Larry Porterfield of The Willow Creek Group for providing lunch for
our quarterly meeting.
Introductions
were made and non-members were invited to fill out membership applications.
Janet
Taylor and Larry Porterfield, member of the Kansas City IAPP chapter, with The
Willow Creek Group gave a short book review of Life’s
Greatest Lessons 20 Things That Matter.
They brought 5 of the books to be given away as door prizes.
Dennis Fields with DocuData introduced Tim McMullin with Kofax that presented a
Power Point presentation Automation of the Accounts Payable Process. (Click
here for Presentation) Dennis
stated that this presentation was worth 1.0 credit for the CAPP members.
Tim McMullin also included another PowerPoint presentation
for review, Making Accounts Payable Pay Off.
Chapter business was discussed:
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Education
Committee
Update – Melvina Floyd, member of the Education Committee, was ill and
could not make the meeting. Jan
Wallace had flyers that Melvina had sent her about an Arts and Craft show in
Frisco that she would be at with her peanut brittle.
Melvina and her sister have started a baked goodies company named
Brittle Twins Candies.
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Website
Update – Barbara Coakley, Webmaster, reminded the members that their
company’s website could be linked through the NTIAPP website.
Also, to make sure the member’s email is correct on the national
roster.
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Membership
Update – Kimberly Addison, Membership Officer, reported that as of
January 25, 2005
, the North Texas Chapter of IAPP had 181 members with 10 new members.
The new members are Tina Ben-Meir with the City of Grapevine, Linda
Carr with Morning Star Foods, Amanda Dove with
Freeman, Pat Horton with Gulfstream Aerospace, Catherine Lowe with
Broniec Associates Inc, Claude Martel with Sky Solutions, Brandon Newsom
with Kelly Financial Resources, Mary Ann Waddell with City of Decatur,
Arlora Wilson with Accor North America Corporation,
and Gloria York with Accor North America Corporation.
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Job Openings – Don Johnson was asked by Deborah Carter, with TXU, to ask
if anyone would object for some of her people’s resumes’ that are losing
their jobs be distributed to interested members, due to outsourcing the AP
department. No one objected.
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California
Independent
Contractors – Jan Wallace, Secretary of the NTIAPP Chapter, stated
that
California
would be doing an independent contractors audit on Freeman in March.
She would let the chapter know at the next meeting how the audit went
for Freeman.
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2005 IAPP
Forum –
San Diego
–
April 24-28, 2005
- After a consensus was taken, Don stated that the local members that are
attending the Forum would get together on evening.
2005 Meetings
May 18,
2005
meeting will be
hosted by Kelly Financial Resources to be held at The City of Denton.
The discussion topic will be Outsourcing
AP to
Poland
presented by Deborah Carter.
August
17, 2005
meeting will be
hosted by DocuData to be held at KPMG. No
topic of discussion has been set.
November
16, 2005
meeting still
needed a host, location and topic of discussion
Congratulations
to the following people who won door prizes:
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Keith
Tarter, with Plano Technology Group, won a coaster/mouse pad calculator
given by DocuData, a hairbrush given by Sally Beauty, a t-shirt given by
Resulte’, a keychain given by Carter Burgess, a bag clip and puzzle pen
given by PricewaterhouseCoopers, and a tote bag given by Wyndham
International.
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Don
Johnson, with AllState Insurance, won a copy of Hal Urban’s Life’s
Greatest Lessons 20 Things That Matter, given by The Willow Creek Group.
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Sandi
Richardson, with the City of Denton, won a coaster/mouse pad calculator
given by DocuData, a DVD – Dawn of the Dead given by Blockbuster, a polo
shirt given by Resulte’, a travel mug given by Freeman,
and a tote bag given by Wyndham International.
Sandi didn’t realize that you had to be a member to be eligible to
be in the door prize drawing, she gave her goodies back to be given away at
the next meeting.
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Gloria
York, with Accor North America,
won a copy of Hal Urban’s Life’s Greatest Lessons 20 Things That
matter, given by The Willow Creek Group.
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Patricia
Maxiell, with Blockbuster, won a coaster/mouse pad calculator given by
DocuData, a travel bag, first aid kit, post it notes, stress balls, bendable
stick given by Concentra, and a tote bag given by Wyndham International.
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Ladd
Rowan, with Lason, won a copy of Hal Urban’s Life’s Greatest Lessons
20 Things That matter, given by The Willow Creek Group.
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Cathy
Lowe, with Broniec Associates, won a coaster/mouse pad calculator given by
DocuData, a CD case given by First Choice Power, an insulated lung
bag/cooler given by Hunt Oil, a travel mug given by Trammell Crow Company
and a tote bag given by Wyndham International.
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Margaret
Brown, with BenefitMall, won a copy of Hal Urban’s
Life’s Greatest Lessons 20 Things That matter, given by The
Willow Creek Group.
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Darlene
Myers, with Perot, won a coaster/mouse pad calculator given by DocuData, a
CD case given by First Choice Power, a mini-maglite flashlight given by Hunt
Oil, a wine stopper and a tote bag given by Wyndham International.
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Jeanette
Arrington, with Douglass Distributing, won a copy of Hal Urbain’s Life’s
Greatest Lessons 20 Things That matter, given by The Willow Creek Group.
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Sandy
Beggs won a coaster/mouse pad calculator given by DocuData, a $20 On The
Border gift certificate given by Brinker International, a calculator key
chain give by Carter Burgess, a 10k gold Cross pen given by KeM, and a tote
bag given by Wyndham International.
The chapter meeting adjourned at a record time,
12:30 p.m.
!
Regards,
Kim
McGee
Historian-North
Texas
IAPP Chapter
Click
here for a list of attendees
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