IPERS Improvement Association Meeting Minutes
June 22, 2022, 11:00 A.M.
Saints Avenue Café, Boone, IA and via Zoom
The meeting was called to order by President Bill Maas @ 11:15 a.m.
PRESENT: Bill Maas, Steve Williams, Bruce Hovden, John Deegan, Linda Linn and Jean Keller.
Gary Davis and Doug Olson via Zoom.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA WITH FLEXIBILITY
Motion By: John Deegan Seconded By: Steve Williams
All ayes; motion carried.
APPROVAL OF MARCH 30,2022 MINUTES
Motion By: Bruce Hovden Seconded By: John Deegan
All ayes; motion carried.
TREASURERS/MEMBERSHIP REPORTS
Membership is 686 dues paying members to date. 149 members haven’t paid yet this year.
Second due notices were sent earlier this week.
Checking account: $9,048.98 MM Savings: $10,283.82
MOTION TO ACCEPT TREASURERS/MEMBERSHIP REPORT:
Motion to Approve: Steve Williams Seconded By: Bruce Hovden
All ayes; motion carried.
NEW MEMBERSHIP STRATEGY/DISCUSSION
It’s difficult to recruit now when things are going good with IPERS. Do we need to become alarmists to get new members? Should we distribute information to our local communities about our group? Is a booth at the state fair possible or could we be included with the IPERS booth? Don’t touch my IPERS booth at the state fair? They already have a booth at the Woodbury County fair. Would new brochures printed and available work at these booths? Bill
Maas is going to check into the cost of this. We do have some memberships which are being paid by others. Bruce and Steve said they would be willing to talk with individuals within their
communities. Do we have the potential to link our website to IPERS? Lots of good discussion which we will talk about more at the next meeting.
BAC Meeting
No report. So far legislatively they have been leaving it alone as it has been working well.
WEBSITE UPDATE
Nothing much to add. All approved minutes will now be posted on the website.
ANNUAL MEETING
The meeting will be set for October 19 @ 11:00 a.m for the business meeting with the annual
meeting set for 1:00 with the election of officers afterwards.
Motion By: Steve Williams Seconded By: Bruce Hovden
All ayes; motion carried.
OTHER BUSINESS
John Deegan made a recommendation to increase the mileage rate to $.45/mile. After some additional discussion it was decided a motion for approval was needed.
Motion By: John Deegan Seconded By: Steve Williams
All ayes; motion carried.
Motion to adjourn: John Deegan Seconded By: Bruce Hovden
Meeting adjourned at 12:35.
Submitted by,
Jean A. Keller
IIA Secretary/Treasurer