Western Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators  ( W A C L E A )

WACLEA Board Meeting Minutes
April 13, 2005
Kenniwick, Washington

Board members present:

Marsha Stril
Pat Sturgill
Tom McGill
Annette Spucuzzi
Allan Laird
Harrold Burke-Sivers
Steve Rittereiser- Business Manager

Quarum of members was present.

Meeting was called to order at 1508 hrs by Chairman Allan Laird

Minutes were approved as published.

Business Manager Report:

Steve reported that he had closed the Bank of America Account on April 8, 2005 and moved the remaining funds to US Bank. Current bank balance is $21,553.71. Pat moved and Harrold seconded the acceptance of the financial report. Motion carried.

Membership Most of our members have renewed their membership. A few did not citing reasons of budget and dual membership in like organizations as the reason. Steve advised that he had a student worker at CWU that is working on developing a list of NW colleges and Universities that can be approached to consider membership.

Awards Committee Report:

Committee chaired by George Olsen reported through Steve that they had 4 nominations for Officer of the year and had chosen Rocky Wallace as the winner of that award which will be presented during the conference. Rich Corona from Central Washington was selected as Administrator of the Year, which will also be presented at the conference.

By Laws:

There was discussion concerning board member responsibilities. Steve reiterated the need to reorganization of the board so there will be shared responsibilities for members with by in to the organization. It was mentioned that this was discussed at the October meeting in Portland and that we were going to discuss it later. It was determined that it will take some time to reach a consensus and that it should be a priority for the July meeting at St. Martins.

IACLEA:

Annual conference will be held in Kansas City this summer. Steve will give a presentation to the membership on Friday. He mentioned that the Incident Commend System meeting that was planned for June had been postponed and that it might occur in August. Future annual conferences will be 2006 in Orlando, 2007 in Las Vegas, and 2008 will be in Hartford, Ct and be celebrating the organizations 50th anniversary.

Training:

It was determined that the full 80 hour basic academy would be held in Seattle, starting on August 10, 2005. Mike Sletten, Seattle University, will host the academy again and has established a training committee to assist.

Web Based training was discussed. Allan reported that Bill Curtin had mentioned that Marie was still interested however with her new job it would be pressing for her and that we might look into other options. Allan suggested that Albertson College could host the training site.
Steve suggested that we work on gaining proposals from other individuals and then review for a decision.

Tom McGill mentioned that perhaps WACLEA could C0-Sponsor training at different locations throughout our region. Annette made a motion that a committee be formed to review sponsorship of training, i.e. Topics and costs. Seconded and carried.

Strategic Plan:

The last plans that the organization has is from 1997 and 1998. It was discussed that the organization needs to have a plan in place and that it needs to be a standing topic for review and discussion at each meeting. As we have not developed a written plan since the planning meeting in Pasco, it was decided that we should include this as an agenda item to be completed
at the July meeting. One of the items or the plan was organization image. Discussed items were lapel pins and vehicle decals.

Old Business:

WACLEA symbol trademarked? Steve reported that his research found that it HAS NOT been trademarked. There was discussion and the consensus was that it didn’t matter as it is designed specifically to our organization and there would be no value of having it registered.

Membership Brochure- tabled until the July meeting after the written plan is established.

New Business:

Fall conference- October 13,14, 2005 Kennewick, Washington.

Training topic- Allan introduced Pamela Lassiter-Stacey who presented a handout and verbally discussed the peer advocacy program that has been implemented at Albertson College to help deal with relationship violence. There was lengthy discussion concerning the increase in reported statistics and the communication (or lack of) between campus departments in getting reports filed for violence against persons. It was determined that this should probably be the topic for training at fall conference Also discussed was the possibility of involving student life and student health representatives in the fall conference in an attempt to pave the ways to better communication between these departments and the safety and security departments.

State reports:

Idaho- Darrell Stewart- not present. Allan reported that Idaho legislature passed bill allowing for state schools to sell vanity license plates for recognition and funds through the motor vehicle departments.

Oregon- Harold Burke-Sivers- advised that there was a bill sponsored to allow Oregon schools to have the ability for there security officers to be listed a law enforcement officers. He advised that the state Department of Education and the sheriff’s Assn. are shooting it down and that it will more than likely go nowhere again.
Oregon private institutions have requested access to Oregon LEDS to obtain vehicle driver and wanted persons information. The state police have said that they will not give access. Harold was requesting support for this issue.

Washington- Pat Sturgill- Reported that Washington legislature was in session until the 24th of the month. He also reported that Gonzaga University had applied for vanity license plates also.

Meeting was adjourned somewhere around 1800 hours.

Minute notes were taken by Marsha Stril and compiled by Allan Laird in the absence of the Secretary.

 

 

 

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