NECOA Executive Board meeting minutes 1/10/2008 at 1:00 PM

1. The status of our 3 subcommittees: marketing for the PHS cards ( FDA officers LCDR Deb Emerson and LCDR Michelle Noe), retention and recruitment (FDA officers LT Doug Fiorentino and LT Steve Smith) and confirmation of the NE-COA membership status (FDA officer LT Darin Wiegers). LT vanTwuyver provided a brief update of the status of each board- the Membership Committee has submitted a list of officers identified as members by COA, and a list of officers in question as NECOA members. The Recruiting and Retention Committee provided a list of officers working at Devens, and the Marketing Committee has ordered the PHS Officer Cards with expected delivery date 1/15/2008.

2. The status of NE-COA elections- tabled until the February 13, 2008 meeting to provide time to rectify the NECOA membership list.

3. Financial sponsorship for officers to the next national COA Symposium in June, 2008- Discussion to be continued till the next meeting, CDR Gary Perlman will draft a form to document any funding provided to Executive Board Members

4. The planned 1/15/08 NE-COA meeting at Hanscom AFB (5:30pm in the officer’s club)- update provided by LT Guardia reported that RADM Milner will be attending the meeting and will be speaking about transformation.

5. Encouraging the general membership at the 1/15/08 NE-COA meeting to come up with ideas for our NE-COA branch improvements including creation of fund-raising, website, elections and social Committees.

6. Each State Vice President will be verify membership of officers in his/her state before the 2/13/2008 meeting. Each VP will be forwarding a list to LT vanTwuyver for collation.

7. Treasurers report from CDR Perlman- NECOA has $1677 in it’s banking account

Next Meeting Wednesday February 13, 2008 at 1:00 pm.