M I N U T E S
Meeting of the Board of Directors
Mountain Plains Management Association
October 8, 2009
The 2009
meeting of the Board of Directors was called to order at 3:30 p.m. by Board
President Casimir Barczyk
in the Board Room of the Academic Classroom Building at Mesa State
College. Board members in attendance
were: Carla Cabarle, Donald Carpenter, James Frost,
Ed Harris, Sri Seshadri, David Summers and Richard
Vail. Alan Hamlin also attended.
The minutes of October 10,
2008 Board of Directors meeting were approved as submitted.
Richard Vail,
Conference Chair, reported on the activities of the 2009 Mountain Plains
Management Conference (MPMC) 2009. There
were 44 paid registrants and twelve student participants. There were 57 presentations, which included 4
workshops, 2 panels, 39 papers, and 12 abstracts. The conference will turn a modest
profit. The winners of the Best in Track
paper awards will each receive a certificate and a $100 cash award. The Board expressed its sincere gratitude to
Richard Vail and his organizing team for a job well done.
Returning members of
the Board of Directors, term expiration years, and roles for 2009-10 are as
follows:
Casimir Barczyk, 2009, President
Carla Cabarle,
2010
Donald Carpenter,
2010
James Frost, 2009,
Past Conference Chair
Ed Harris, 2011,
Conference Chair Elect
Sri Seshadri, 2011
David Summers,
2009
Richard Vail, 2010, Conference Chair
There are three
vacant positions for 2009-2012 as the terms for C. Barczyk,
J. Frost, and D. Summers expire at the conclusion of the 2009 MPMC.
The Nominating Committee,
comprised of Donald Carpenter, Sri Seshadri and
Richard Vail, recommended that Casimir Barczyk, James Frost and David Summers be reelected to the
Board to maintain institutional knowledge.
The 2011 Conference Chair also needs to be on the Board, highlighting
the need for an amendment to the Bylaws to expand the Board to nine members. At
the time of the Board meeting, the 2011 Conference Chair was presumed to be
Alan Hamlin. He was subsequently elected at the Membership Meeting. After the
conference ended, it was determined the 2011 Conference Chair would be Tom Liesz from University of Idaho, leaving the Board with ten
members and in violation of the amended Bylaws. Subsequently Donald Carpenter
resigned to allow Board membership to remain at nine members.
Going into the 2010
MPMC, the Board
membership is as follows:
Casimir Barczyk, President, 2012
Carla Cabarle,
2010
James Frost, 2012
Alan Hamlin, 2012
Ed Harris, Conference
Chair, 2011
Tom Liesz, Conference Chair Elect, 2012
Sri Seshadri, 2011
David Summers,
2012
Richard Vail, Past Conference Chair,
2010
At the
Board meeting, Southern Utah University agreed to host the 2011 MPMC. Several weeks after the
meeting SUU withdrew in favor of the University of Idaho being the host.
Therefore the
tentative schedule for future conferences is:
52nd
annual conference at Weber State University in 2010
53rd annual
conference at University of Idaho in 2011
54th
annual conference at Southern Utah University in 2012
55th
annual conference at University of Nebraska at Kearney in 2013
56th annual conference at Idaho State University
in 2014.
57th annual conference at Mesa State College in
2015.
Two amendments to the Bylaws
of the Mountain Plains Management Association were discussed. Those have been
approved by the Board and will be presented for a vote at the Membership
Meeting.
a. Section
1, Article V: Name of the conference
b.
Section 6, Article VI: Number of board members
Casimir Barczyk discussed the notion of a SWOT analysis
for the MPMA. The major theme arising
from that analysis was to better market the conference, which included using
the www.conferencealerts.com
website.
Alan Hamlin
discussed the past year’s activity of the Mountain Plains Journal of Business
and Economics.
Casimir Barczyk was nominated to be reelected as President of the
Board of Directors of the MPMA for the term 2009-10. He was elected unanimously.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m. The next formal meeting will be in October 2010 at Weber State University, Layton, Utah.