All
The following is my unofficial observations and notes regarding the
activities around the NSPE fall meeting in Chicago and are not all
inclusive. I hope this is informative as we, NSPE as a whole, is in
the midst of some major changes that will lead to a more vibrant
Society. If you have any comments or questions please feel free to
contact me. Please
excuse the font changes.
Thursday Meeting
- Regional VP meeting
We went
over the information needed to present to the states relative to the
proposed
changes in the governance of NSPE assuming the constitutional changes
were
accepted. These include the need for the
states to designate a delegate to the House of Delegates.
This person needs to be able to assume office
following the Boston
meeting July 2006. The following states
within the W&PR will serve a one year term followed by a possible 2
year
term - AK, WA OR and HI. The rest will
serve a two year term followed by a possible two year term. The second term is up to the state.
The House of Delegates will meet once a year
at the all member convention typically held in July and set the
policies and
directions of NSPE, and vote for the officers for the NSPE Board of
Directors. State delegates should be selected
by first
of March so that NSPE can start sending information. Currently
the only stipulation for the
delegate is email with ability to accept attachments, although intimate
knowledge of state activities is highly recommended.
Friday Work
shop. Prioritization work shop
The
purpose
of this workshop is to give some basic direction relative to the Future
Direction Task Force recommendations. Recommendations,
including time lines, were worked on by various groups on 8 basic
groupings
including products and services, licensure and lobbying, governance,
continuing
education, implementing interest groups, diversity, publicity and
alliances. The groups worked hard on
these items to develop the basics. These
will be combined with the results of the work shops done with NSPE
staff which
occurred before our meeting and SSEC which will occur Monday following
our
meeting.
The
results
of all of these three meetings will be combined and aligned with the
FDTF
results and with each other to develop a means of getting NSPE to the
state
centric state recommended.
BOD
Meeting
The
results
of the general membership vote on the Constitutional Amendment allowing
the BOD to make
changes to the NSPE Constitution were announced with 602 for and 90
against. The BOD unanimously passed the
amendment. This vote was then followed
by adoption by unanimous vote of the new By-Laws. With
the adoption of the new By-Laws a vote
was then taken to eliminate the Constitution, which also passed
unanimously.
This sets into motion the forward movement of NSPE into the future and
exciting
times.
As a
secondary output from the FDTF report was a recommendation for setting
up an
Academy Task Force, which came back with a recommendation based on the
direction of NSPE to focus on the licensed Professional Engineer to not
actively pursue the Academy. There was a
fair amount of discussion at the BOD as well as within the task force
as to the
fundamental desire or need to pursue this issue as a means to involve
those non-licensed
engineers in an organization serving their needs. The
BOD accepted the recommendations of the
task force that NSPE will not be expending funds to establish the
Academy. However, individual members within
NSPE and
some of the practice divisions have expressed a desire to pursue the
issue
further.
--
Forrest T. Braun, P.E.
BBFM Engineers Inc
Ph 907-274-2236
Fax 907-274-2520
http://www.bbfm.com
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