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Motion to accept September '07 minutes was approved unanimously.

David B. Levy, ASQ Region 3 Regional Director. invited all Region 3 Section Member Leaders to attend ASQ Tappan Zee Section 35th Anniversary on October 23, 2007 at Besso Room Palisades Center Mall West Nyack, NY 10595
Date: Tuesday - October 23, 2007
Time: 6:30 PM
Cost: Free! Hot dinner will be served.

To assist in planning, pre-registration is required by Oct. 15.
Please contact Robert LaBrecque or Dan Kessler to register: Programs / Arrangements Co-Chair
dan.kessler@oracle.com (914) 524 - 1637 or Robert LaBrecque Publicity Programs / Arrangements Co-Chair labrecr@wyeth.com (845) 602-3822.

Presented a revised 2007-2008 budget that shows a break even by reducing Educational room rentals fees and increasing Season Pass and General Section fees as well as using the US Post Office for post cards. Submitted August 2007 reconciliation reports.

S. Smarth was successful with host company upload process thus providing full admin capability for all education web pages.

Summer semester currently in session: CQM/OE & CSSBB Bridge courses at St. Paul's, Morris Plains, and Process Behavior Analysis at Bergen Record, Rockaway.

Fall semester registration extended: CQA course starts Oct. 6th; CQE, CSSGB, & CCT need additional student response for courses to run.

Ed May and Susan are representing our section at the 59th NJ-NY Metropolitan Quality Conference at Rutgers University, Newark Campus.

31 people have not submitted their recertification journals that are due by end of December 07. Hank to follow-up.

The next certification exams are schedule for October 20 with approximately 50 people registered.

The potential exists for offering various courses at Picatinny for Picatinny employees. Paul will research.

Activities are on target. SMP submitted on-time to National by Lucy K.

On-Track.

2008 is the 60 year anniversary. Events to commemorate this are planned for Jan 22 in Hartford, April 3 & 4 in Nanuet, NY and May 15 & 16 in Marlboro, MA. The bi-annual conference is scheduled for the week of October13 in Marlboro, MA.

Ideas for Action Gathering: The meetings were held on September 23-25. The focus was on issues and support for the sections. ASQ is looking to grow to 1 million stakeholders from the current 250,000 stakeholders. We discussed problems facing sections including member participation, making the case for quality and future growth. Also, attendance at conferences is lagging and the suggestions were to hold smaller local conferences and use virtual conferences.