MINUTES OF THE WORKERS’ COMPENSATION SECTION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
February 16, 2007
I. CALLED TO ORDER:
Chair Elect Holly Somers
Called the meeting to order at 12:10 p.m. at the offices of the Oregon State Bar in Lake Oswego, Oregon. The following members were present in person:
Holly Somers Chair-Elect, Matt Roy Secretary, Meg Carmen Treasurer, Suzanne Cushing Bar Liaison, Matthew Fisher, Robert Guarrasi, Dean Lederer, Julie Masters, Charles Mundorff, and Jennifer Roumell
Also present by phone was:
Mustafa Kasubhai
Not present were:
Martin Alvey Past-Chair, Linh Vu Chair, Jill Riechers, Art Stevens, Mark Thesing, Geoffrey Wren and Bette Worcester BOG Liaison
II. MINUTES:
The minutes from the January 26, 2007 Executive Committee Meeting were unanimously approved.
III. CHAIR REPORT:
Holly Somers, Chair-Elect, reported that there was an initial report that the Chair is required to submit and that Linh Vu, Current Chair, has taken care of that issue and has submitted the Initial Section Report.
IV. TREASURER’S REPORT:
Meg Carmen reported that the current fund balance for the Workers’ Comp Section is $16,924. She also reported that the fund balance at the end of 2006 had increased by $1,500 over the beginning fund balance.
V. COMMITTEE REPORTS:
A. Salishan Member Mundorff reported that the Friday food will be the same as last year, which was an excellent spread for the Friday evening dinner. The brochure is in the process of being compiled at the present time, and a save the date e-mail should be going out. The only uncertainty with the speakers at this point is on the Medicare set aside, but they are working on that, and there was some discussion that Mike Healy will be part of that panel of speakers. They are working off of a $2,100+ donation budget and in the process of soliciting and collecting that. They did mention that they need volunteers for the registration desk between the hours of 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. During the meeting, Member Mundorff got an e-mail from Sally Curry indicating that the golf tournament is on for Saturday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. and there are 16 players presently signed up. Sally Curry also indicated in the e-mail that the CLE credits that they have applied for are 9+.
B. Communications Julie Masters was present and agreed to Chair the Communications Committee, and some ideas were discussed for content on the website.
C. Daughtry Award The deadline for the Daughtry Award nominations is March 1, 2007. Chair-Elect Holly Somers indicated she would send an e-mail to Martin Alvey asking him to send a reminder to the members to address criteria in their nominating letter. (Subsequent to the meeting, that e-mail did go out.)
D. Legislative Jennifer Roumell has agreed to be the Liaison for the Legislative Committee, which at present consists of Chris Moore and Steve Cotton.
E. Bench/Bar Forum The consensus was that Willamette Valley Vineyard should be the location for the Bench/Bar Forum, as that was generally agreeable to all. Matt Fisher volunteered to help out with the committee which is being chaired by Mustafa Kasubhai and Jill Riechers.
F. Rules There was no report from Julie Masters on Rules, although Mustafa Kasubhai brought up that he might explore the OAR 438 Rules with the Committee.
G. Race/Ethnic There was no report, as Mark Thesing was not present.
VI. OLD BUSINESS:
None.
VII. NEW BUSINESS:
We discussed the campaign for Equal Justice. We had discussed that we generally give $1,000, as that is budgeted in the budget, and that issue had already been decided when the budget was approved. The $1,000 will be sent to the Campaign for Equal Justice. However, the Campaign for Equal Justice also asked for individual member’s contributions. It was indicated that there might be a way to have a member from the campaign present at the Bench/Bar Forum, and we could have her ask for individual donations at that venue, since that event is provided for free to section members. Then people could make individual contributions at that time if they would like to. This issue was referred to the Bench/Bar Forum Subcommittee to work on.
Finally, we discussed how to spend the extra money, as the fund balance is rather high at this time. Many ideas were tossed around, but no consensus was reached regarding any of those ideas. This may be brought up at a future Executive Committee meeting.
The meeting adjourned at 12:54 p.m.