REGISTRATION AND ORDER:
Registration began at 8:00 a.m.
CALL TO ORDER & WELCOME
The meeting was called to order by President
Linda Carpenter at 8:50 a.m.
Acknowledgements and appreciation to Ellen
Putnam and Northville Township PD for hosting today’s meeting.
ROLL CALL:
Linda Carpenter, President (Novi PD) Present
Pam Mayer, Vice President (Mt. Pleasant PD)
Absent & Excused
Janet Zarbaugh, Secretary (Brownstown PD) Absent
& Excused
Kathy Bragg, Treasurer (Three Rivers PD) Present
Barb Haynes, Trustee (Walker PD) Present
Carol Wright, Trustee (Troy PD) Present
Jeff Baldwin, Trustee (State of Michigan)
Present
Leslie Heffron, Trustee (Lowell PD) Present
Shelley Pavlinak, Parliamentarian (Port Huron
PD) Present
MEETING MINUTES:
Motion to accept minutes: Kathy Bragg, Three
Rivers PD
Second: Leslie Heffron, Lowell PD
TREASURER’S REPORT:
Balance Forward $5,784.11 Total Deposits:
$3,625.10
Total Expenses: $1,333.97 Current Balance:
$8,075.24
Motion to accept minutes: Barb Haynes, Walker PD
Second: Shelley Pavlinak, Port Huron PD
President Linda Carpenter distributed a
"preliminary" flyer for the Fall Conference in Detroit which
will be held September 23-25, 2009. Our presenter will be Lew
Bender who will be focusing on Teamwork in the
workplace.
MEETING SCHEDULE:
2009
September 25-27, 2009: Motor City Hotel and
Conference Center, Detroit, Michigan. Lew Bender will be
Presenting Effective Team Membership and Managing Gossip
in the Workplace.
November 6, 2009: Novi PD – FOIA Update – Tom
Quasarano, Attorney General’s Office
2010
February 2010: Eaton County – Topic to be
Determined
May 2010: Wyandotte Police Department – Topic to
Be Determined
September 2010: (Possible Location Bay Point
Inn, Gun Lake) – Topic to be Determined
November 2010: Walker Police Department – FOIA
Update
ELECTIONS AND NOMINATIONS FOR 2009
Elections for LERMA officers will be held at the
November 2009 meeting. Kathleen Kantarian of the Royal Oak
Police Department will be accepting nominations for LERMA
officers through July 31, 2009. [kathleenk@ci.royal-oak.mi.us –
Phone: (248) 246-3532]
ADJOURNMENT:
The meeting was concluded at 9:00 a.m. Director
John E. Werth, of the Northville Township PD welcomed everyone
and our guest speaker Rachel Johnston from the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children in Kansas was introduced.
