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President’s Message
Greetings to members and friends of the Rattlesnake Mountain (RSM) Section. I hope you have been “enjoying” the interesting spring weather we have been having recently. I guess the “April showers” waited until May to come. As my last ‘President’s Message’, I’d like to review the Section activities we’ve had this spring. During January, February, and March, we had an interesting 3-part series on the Risk Analysis Process presented by Mike Shay of PNNL. In April, Dave Jordan from Redhawk Technical Services, gave an interesting presentation on how they have developed the project controls system for Energy Northwest’s Columbia Generating Station. And just the week, our AACEi President, Mark Grotefend, gave a presentation on the activities of AACEi. We were pleased to have Julie Owen, the Region 6 Director also present for the meeting. We had an average attendance of about 20 for each of the meetings, which is not bad, but could be better. I encourage you to attend the meetings, and remember, each meeting is worth 0.25 credits to your recertification.
One of the items that your Board of Directors has been working on this spring is updating the RSM Section Bylaws. You should have received an e-mail last month with the proposed updated Bylaws. I am pleased to report that the updated Bylaws were approved during the May 18th meeting. For those interested, the Bylaws should be available shortly on the RSM Section website. The new Bylaws have added a ‘Webmaster’ as an ‘Officer’ position. So one of the new President’s duties will be to hold a Special Election for the ‘Webmaster’ officer position. Until then, I have appointed Will Riker as the “Acting” Webmaster.
Speaking of “new”, I am also pleased to announce your RSM Section Officers and Directors for the June 2010 – May 2011 fiscal year. The list of new officers is:
1-Year Term Officer Positions President – Corey DeLoye Vice President – Owen Kramer Secretary – Gregg Andrews Treasurer – Bill Lambert Past President – Ron Clendenon Webmaster – Will Riker (Acting) 2-Year Term Board of Directors Positions Director - Jim Ferry Director - Becky Jones Continuing (1-Year Term) Board of Directors Positions Director – Pam Anderson Director – Rob Chmura
Please provide your full support to the new Section Leadership.
The RSM Section also has several committees (Nominating, Scholarship, Membership, Education, Publicity, and Certification) which need members. Please let a Section officer know if you are interested in serving in this capacity for the coming year. I encourage you to take this opportunity to gain valuable leadership experience and gain “easy” recertification credits.
The RSM Section will be hosting the July 10th CCC/CCE/EVP/CEP/PSP exam for those of you who have registered for the exam. The next local exam will be November 06th. The Early Deadline for registering is August 24th, and the Final Deadline is September 06th. Please pass this information on to those who are not currently members, but are interested in becoming certified – and encourage them to join with AACEi as well.
A few of us I know are looking forward to going to the Annual Meeting in Atlanta. Ron Clendenon President, AACEi Rattlesnake Mountain Section |
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