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President's Report July 2010
I first want to thank Gwen Simons for her leadership and guidance over the past few years. Her previous executive experience as well as her legal knowledge was very helpful during these last few transitional years. Gwen was able to pull in some very knowledgeable and willing new recruits to help formulate a strong Board of Directors and volunteer pool. I appreciate Gwen's direction and I am quite sure I will be looking to her much more as my tenure progresses. Thanks Gwen!
I'd now like to take the opportunity to give you my short and long term plan for the Chapter. My focus will be Operations Management and streamlining some of the processes we currently utilize within the Chapter. A few of the changes thus far include, moving our accounting to a QuickBooks online format, assessing our Chapter's Executive Management contract and establishing some necessary processes for communication. We will be establishing a contract with an Executive Manager, who is based in Maine, and discontinuing our formal contract with the Leahy Management Group. We will continue to communicate and network with the Leahy Group; however, we have both agreed that the geographical challenges, (they are based in Connecticut), make it difficult for day to day operations management.
The Chapter's phone number has been changed. Our new phone number is now 207-370-APTA (2782). This is a free service thus we have eliminated a costly monthly bill that did not benefit the organization. This also allows the number to be forwarded easily to another executive, as officers come and go. Thanks to Mike Gallagher, Treasurer, for establishing that new number. We still can't believe that "APTA" was available!
Another focus will be bringing many of our collective files and documentation to a central electronic repository. It is much easier to share information when it is easily accessible to many individuals. We think this will make Chapter operations much smoother and transition board members seamlessly. There are many other operational upgrades that we will attempt over the next few months and we hope this will improve Chapter functioning, increase transparency of processes and bring a new awareness to the chapter. Be on the look out for website updates and informational emails about future changes.
I thank you all for giving me the opportunity to work with all of you. I encourage all of you to please contact me with ideas, suggestions and comments.
Respectfully,
Francine Wheelock, PT, MPA Maine Chapter President
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