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I have quickly reviewed this one comment I have is 4 types of membership are outlined and only three memberships are described. missing institutional members.
also, I see one represenative from PA-DOH OR PEHSC will be present on the board, why not both?
Good catch. I’ll look at it and make the appropriate correction regarding membership.
Regarding PA DOH and PEHSC, we can invite one from each. Or we can decide to include neither. I think we have more to gain collaborating with and including representatives as ex-officio members.
Added Institutional Member and changed the DOH/PEHSC board rep.
I take the opinion of why not invite them all. one of my previous concerns is how would we fit into the picture since PEHSC has an education committee. maybe we could involve PEHSC and they would agree to disband that committee in exhance for representation in the association. I just hate having multiple organizations with common goals/objective working independantly.
not to open a can of worms, but how can we get buy in from regonal councils? one side of me says invite them as friends of the board, but the board would become huge and wouldn’t function. I guess we could invite them to be “institutional members” but it may be nice to let them have a part of the game……. or I can shut up.
either way, my honest opintion is bylaws should be flexable. sometimes you don’t know what you need to change till you start working with it, so pass something and if you don’t like it change it.
it seems you are the lead in getting all of this done, and on behalf of EMS educators, THANK YOU!
Regarding PEHSC and the Education Committee. I was a member of that committee for many years and it is currently dormant.
PEHSC reorganized the committee structure some time ago. The idea being to make certain that committees had a specific output or product, contributed to meeting PEHSC’s annual work plan goals, and were task driven. As there is no present task for the education committee, there is no committee. We haven’t met since we completed working on the BLS Skill Sheets and made recommendations regarding practical exam evaluation tools.
PEHSC advises the PA DOH on all sorts of EMS issues. I see the EMSEPA as narrowly focused on EMS education issues, which will be a pretty broad focus in itself (nice contradiction, eh?).
My vision of the EMSEPA is a constituent body that represents the interests of EMS educators, provides tools for us to do our jobs better, creates educator development programs so we continuously improve the instruction we provide, ultimately leading to improved EMS practitioners.
The Board does the business of the association. We don’t need regional councils, PEHSC, or the DOH to accomplish our goals. However, we do need support, we must be collaborative, and collegial; I think that the Regional Training Coordinators should join the association, either as full members, or, if they are representing the regional council, as institutional members.
well said. I agree
Look good for a draft. I agree about being ’separate’ from the DOH and PEHSC. Maybe this organization could become an advisory to those organizations instead of duplicating efforts.
Had a chance to review the Bylaws Draft. This is a very good starting point that addresses the major organizational concerns without being a burdensome document. Streamlined and brief, well done. “Brevity is the soul of whit.” Shakespeare
It is a very good starting point, however I would be cautious in the initial establishment of dues based upon the Board of Directors. I believe that those interested should be polled and a flat fee established for the 1st year. After that thru a by-law change dues could be increased.
Also noted FAEMSE listed several times, I am assuming this would be changed to reflect EMSEPA?
Ok, I think I found and corrected all the Florida references
I agree the the membership should set the initial dues or that the BOD should propose dues and then the members ratify dues amount and changes by vote. We can make these changes after more discussion.
As far as the dues go, I was recently on a committee to complete a full revision of one of the county association’s By-laws. In those changes we incorporated that at the last meeting of each year the organization would set the dues fee for the following year. This allows the organization to continually look at the dues and make sure they remain current in retrospect to other similar organizations with complete decision power on the members. I prefer this method than actually stating th rates in the By-laws causing ammendments every time you want to change a rate.