2008 IEC Committees

IEC MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE

Chair: 2nd VP Todd Shipley

Mission: Retain current qualified members and obtain new qualified members.

Areas: Issues effecting membership, such as: applications, processing applications, new chapters procedures/processing, member complaint/misconduct forms, and chapter suspensions.
Jacques Boucher (Ottawa)
Richard Brittson (Northeast)
Richard Bunnell (Connecticut)
Keith Chival (Midwest)
Jeremy Christianson (Mid-Atlantic)
George Cramer (Silicon Valley)
David McCain ((Southern CA)
John Montegudo (Southwest)
Jeff Turner (Texas/Gulf Coast)
Anthony Reyes(Northeast)
George Zielinski (Michigan)

IEC CONFERENCE/TRAINING COMMITTEE

Chair: 1st VP Mark McLaughlin

Mission: Insure consistent high quality conference and annual training events occur at a reasonable cost to our membership

Areas: All issues pertaining to training.
Richard Brittson (Northeast)
Kevin Lo (Ontario)
Mike Menz (Northern CA)
Kevin McNamara (San Diego)
Bonnie Norman (Atlanta)
Anthony Reyes (Northeast)
Jamie Walsh (Ohio)
Ron Wilczynski (Northern Cal)

IEC FINANCE COMMITTEE

Mission: Insure HTCIA provides quality services to our membership in a fiscally sound manner.
Jacques Boucher (Ottawa)
Richard Brittson (Northeast)
George Cramer (Silicon Valley)
Kevin Lo (Ontario)
JJ McLean (New England)
Jamie Walsh (Ohio)
George E. Zilinski (Michigan)

IEC COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE

Chair: Secretary Duncan Monkhouse

Mission:Insure HTCIA provides timely communication to our membership regarding matters of professional interest and inform the public at large regarding HTCIA.

Areas: Meeting Minutes, Listserve, Newsletter, Website, and Advertising
Art Bowker (Ohio)
George Cramer (Silicon Valley)
Richard Bunnell (Connecticut)
John Guzman (Arizona)
Jeff Turner (Texas/Gulf Coast)

IEC AWARDS COMMITTEE

Chair: President Art Bowker

Mission: Insure HTCIA appropriately and timely honors Lifetime Achievement; Case of the Year; White Paper Contest and Chapter of the Year winners.

Areas: Awards and Recognition
Brian F. Hankard (Connecticut)
Duncan Monkhouse (Ottawa)
George Zielinski (Michigan)

IEC CHAPTER OFFICE CONDUCT COMMITTEE

Chair: Immediate Past IEC President Anthony Reyes

Mission: Provide last effort at securing chapter officer voluntary compliance with bylaws prior to invoking discipline provisions of bylaws.

Areas: IEC generated concerns involving Chapter Officer conduct.
Jacques Boucher (Ottawa)
Richard Brittson (Northeast)

BYLAW ESTABLISHED COMMITTEES

AUDIT COMMITTEE

Chair: *

To be named. Members must not have signatory authority over any corporate financial accounts. This would include IBD members as they have signatory authority. Appointed by the IEC President.

Mission: Audit of financial issues and recommend courses of action for same.

Areas: International Office and chapter financial operations.

ETHICS COMMITTEE

Chair Per Bylaws: Mark McMaughlin, 1st VP

Ethics Committee, made up of the 1st Vice President of the IEC and four IBD members. None of these members can be the subject of the investigation or one of the parties making the allegation.

Mission: Conduct fair and impartial hearing for allegations concerning allegations that may lead to placing membership in abeyance.

Areas: Deals only with abeyance of membership.

SPECIAL MEMBER DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE

Composed of three members one of which is appointed by the International President, one of which is appointed by the member's Chapter President, and one of which is selected by the member. If the Chapter President is the subject of the investigation, the chapter selection shall be made by the Chapter 1st Vice President. Due to nature of this committee appoint will only occur as needed.

Mission: Conduct fair and impartial hearing for allegations concerning member or officer misconduct.

Areas: Deals only with disciplinary of an individual members/officers.

General Rules of the All IEC Committees

1. All committees are under the direction of the IEC President unless otherwise provided for in the bylaws. All committee members are appointed by the IEC President, with the consent of the IEC, unless otherwise provided for in the bylaws. The IEC President will be an member of all committees.

2. The IEC President will assign an IEC Officer as a Chair for each committee, unless otherwise provided for in the bylaws. Their term as Chair will coincide with their term as an IEC officer. At the end of their term they are free to remain on as member of the Committee they chaired. IEC members also may be members of any committee they chose besides the one they are chairing.

3. The Chair will be asked to provide a summary to the IEC on the actions of their committee at each regular scheduled IEC meeting. Such a summary will be noted in the minutes.

4. The Chair will also be asked to provide a summary of their committees activities to the IBD at the annual meeting, noting accomplishments and areas to be addresses in the future.

5. The Chair will periodically communicate to their committee members via e-mail and other means necessary to complete tasks. Use of teleconferencing or other means that would incur an expense require IEC approval.

6. The Chair, at their discretion, may assign specific duties to committee member(s) to facilitate meeting its mission and completion of assigned tasks.

7. The IEC President will periodically refer matters to committees for their action and attention.

8. Each committee is charged with completing tasks and making recommendations to the IEC for areas under their purview. Each committee will keep records, such a notes/minutes/reports, as are necessary to document their activities.

9. Committees are only to provide communication to the IEC or the IBD. Disclosure outside of these entities is prohibited, unless authorized by the IEC President.

10. The minimum term is one year. In December of each year the 1st VP of the IEC will review committee assignments for an additional year appointment.