KANSAS ADULT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

ANNUAL MEETING

February 27th, 2009

Garden City Community College

 

In attendance: KAEA members, board members and guests

 

  1. Welcome and Call to order by Susan at 9:20 am

 

  1. Announcements:

i) We sang “Happy Birthday” to Russell Whitmer.

ii) Room rates may need to be corrected.  Please go to the front desk if you believe you were incorrectly charged.

iii) FY2009 Board stood up to be recognized, thanked and applauded.

 

  1. Treasurer’s Report

            Sue had several copies of the Treasurer’s Reports on all the tables.  The reports indicate that we are in good financial standing.

 

  1. Advocacy

      i) Susan reported that our lobbyist Bob Vancrum (who unfortunately could not be with us) and his helper have been lobbying on our behalf.  They testified to the Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education and gave them copies of our Report Card.  They will be doing the same for the House Subcommittee on Higher Education.

      ii) In Leadership Academy, we are learning how to advocate for ourselves.  Each center will be receiving 2 copies of the Report Card to give to our legislators.

 

5.   KAEA Elections

      i) The ballots were on all the tables. 

ii) There was one correction: the name submitted for Vice-President is “Devin Graves” not “Devon Graves.”

iii) Each of the candidates was introduced.

      Vice President –         Devin Graves

      District 1 Rep -            Ryan Ausmus

      District 3 Rep -            Susan McCabe

      District 5 Rep -            Karen Culver

            Treasurer -                  Sue Choens

iv) Kathy Petz moved to accept the slate of candidates as presented.  Kelly Mobray seconded.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

6.   Awards

      Candie White (immediate Past President) facilitated the awards presentation.

      i) The Outstanding Volunteer was Mihoki from Manhattan Adult Education Center.  Shannon Branson submitted the nomination and accepted the award on Mihoko’s behalf.

ii) The Distinguished Service Award went to Heidi Davidson from Butler CCC.  Sue Choens nominated Heidi and accepted the award on Heidi’s behalf.

iii) The Tyro Adult Educator Award went to Jennifer Sorenson.  Jennifer was nominated by Nance Munderloh, and Jennifer was present to accept her award.

iv) The Master Adult Educator Award went to Karen Culver.  Vivian Copsey nominated Karen Culver, and Karen was present to accept her award. 

v) The Outstanding Student Award went to Kevin Loving.  Kevin was nominated by Karen Culver and she accepted the award on his behalf.  Candie read Karen’s nomination and then read a letter that Kevin wrote.  Both were deeply moving.

vi) Candie said many kind words as she handed the meeting back to Susan.

vii) There was no Past President’s fund award as there were no submissions.

viii) The traveling award for the center with the most sessions at the conference had two centers eligible: both Garden City and Ottawa/Osawatomie/Paola (OOP) had 5 sessions each.  Garden City will have the award for 6 months then OOP will have it for 6 months.

 

7.   KAEA/MVAEA conference 2010

      i) Jennifer Anderson (KAEA Vice-President and conference planner for 2010) thanked Garden City Community College, Hector and Garden City for a wonderful conference this ear.

ii) Jennifer announced that in 2010 KAEA will hold a joint conference with MVAEA.  It will be June 15 to June 17th at the Hyatt Regency in Wichita, Kansas.  The theme is “The winds of change.”

iv) Jennifer invited everyone to come to the MVAEA conference in Kansas City Missouri coming up this June 3 to 5th.  It will be at the Westin Crown Center.  KAEA will sponsor a reception for next year’s conference.

 

8.   Announcements

      i) Susan asked the Garden City staff to rise and be appreciated for all their work in putting on this conference.

ii) Susan reminded us to fill out our evaluations of the conference and put them on the back table.

iii) Susan also reminded us that if we had problems with the hotel room rates, to please go to the front desk.

iv) Margy announced that today was the last day to sign-up for the Math training that was coming up.

v) Susan asked Kathy Petz to draw a winning raffle ticket.  The raffle had raised $600.  Hector ended drawing the ticket and just as well, as the winning ticket was one that Kelly Mobray was holding for someone from Hutchinson (Kathy Petz’s center).

vi) Hector expressed appreciation to his staff and to Jean Warta for all their help in making the conference a success.  He challenged us all to continue to help our students to “take the next step.”

 

9.   At 10:15am, the 2009 KAEA annual meeting was adjourned.

 

During the meeting, notes were taken by Terina Platt, MVAEA Alternate Representative.  Thank you.

 

Minutes respectfully submitted by

Susan Lukwago, President FY2009