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Professional Development
2008 Achievement of Excellence in Procurement (AEP) Information
Summary of Changes to 2008 AEP Application
TxPPA-New Organization Coming Soon
June 2007 News from Board about TxPPA
Minutes from Board Meeting, April 19, 2006
Legislative Initiatives Committees
Texas
Purchasing Management Association
Minutes from Board Meeting
Wednesday,
April 19, 2006
Iron Cactus Restaurant
606 Trinity Street
Austin, Texas
Present
Victor Kilman, President
Carol Cooper, TML Board Representative
Cheryl Turney, Sec/Treasurer
Lee Hammock, Past President
Gary Holcomb,
Director
Milton Bennett, Director
Kim Pendergraft, TML Support
Absent
Jim Powell, Director
Jody Hays,
Director
Eddie
Price, Vice President
- Call to Order by President – Victor Kilman at 12:30 p.m.
- Minutes from January 23, 2006 Board Meeting ratified. Originally approved via email on February 2, 2006.
- TPMA/TML 2006-2007 Services Agreement ratified. Originally approved via email on April 3, 2006.
- The website redesign proposal for $1,050 was approved unanimously. Eddie Price will coordinate with Kim Pendergraft.
- Milton Bennett confirmed that representative(s) from the TxMAS program will be the key presentation for Affiliates Day on October 27. We will also have an update from the Legislative Forum on our Legislative Initiatives during the program for Affiliates Day.
- Financial Report unanimously approved. The Board requested (and subsequently received) itemized expenses including expenses from today. We need to prepare the 2006-2007 budget that should be adopted by July 1.
- Old Business: The deadline for submitting legislative resolutions to TML is June 1.
- New Business:
- Cheryl provided an overview of the planned joint board meeting with the Texas County Purchasing Association (TCPA).
- Meeting adjourned at 1:40 p.m.and reconvened at the TAC offices at 2:00 p.m.for a joint board meeting with the TCPA for discussion and consideration of merging the two organizations into one statewide public purchasing organization. The TCPA was going to present the concept at their business the meeting next day in order to see if their group was interested in considering the concept further.
Minutes from Legislative
Forum Board Meeting
Monday, January 23, 2006
TML Office Austin, Texas
Present
Kim Pendergraft,
TML Support
Victor Kilman, President
Eddie Price, Vice President
Cheryl Turney, Sec/Treas
Lee Hammock, Past President
Gary Holcomb,
Director
Jody Hays, Director
Milton Bennett, Director
Tom Shaw, guest
Roger Dempsey, guest
Absent
Jim Powell, Director
Carol
Cooper, TML Rep
1. Call to Order by President – Victor Kilman at 1:20 p.m.
2. Minutes of Annual Business Meeting on October 28, 2005 unanimously approved
3. Financial Report unanimously approved
4. Membership Report: 118 members
5. President’s Remarks: Victor thought the Forum was a huge success and requested that we identify ways to keep the momentum going.
6. Old Business: none
7. Other Business:
- Emeritus members may be approved by a majority vote of the Board of Directors. It was unanimously approved that Amy Feille become the first Emeritus Member.
- Tom Shaw suggested that we post nominations for other Emeritus Members on our website.
- Tom Shaw suggested sending a letter to all attendees of the Forum and other members of TCPA, TPMA, and TASBO regarding the success of the Forum. Jody Hayes will draft the letter.
- Kim P. reported that she thought our website was underutilized. Suggestions for updating the website included: posting the membership list online; posting the results of our Legislative Forum including the initiatives we identified with the subcommittee members and Legislative Liaison working on them. Eddie Price will coordinate the website information with Kim.
- Kim also indicated that TML was going through a website re-design. She reported that there were other affiliates getting in the “queue” to have their sites re-designed to compliment TML’s new look. The Board asked Kim to get a proposal for TPMA website redesign with optional costs for a list serv and optional membership application with online payment.
- The Board asked Kim to review/update (if necessary) recruitment/marketing literature for next membership drive in September.
- Milton Bennett will work with someone to develop program for Affiliates Day in October
- Next meeting tentatively scheduled for early May to include a follow-up of the Legislative Forum and possibly include a meeting of the Legislative Liaisons and the sub-committees working on the Legislative initiatives.
8. Meeting adjourned at 2:00 p.m.
Legislative Initiatives
(In order of priority)
Subcommittee(s)
1) HB 914 Changes
Liaison:
Carol Cooper,
City of Garland
Subcommittee:
Cindy Stanfield, City of Sugar Land
Jack
Beacham – Tarrant County
Don Marshall – Spring ISD
2) Advertising
Requirements
Liaison:
Cyd Grimes, Travis County
Subcommittee:
Cheryl Pantermuehl, City of San
Marcos
Mary Quinones, Bexar County
Cindy Casparis, San Marcos Cons. ISD
3) Ability to use RFP for all goods/services
regardless of population
Liaison:
Cyd Grimes, Travis County
Subcommittee:
Cheryl Turney, City of College Station
Martha Salazar, Hidalgo County
Gary Kerbow, Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD
4) Increase competitive bidding limit from
$25k to $50k+
Liaison:
Carol Cooper, City of Garland
Subcommittee:
Gary
Holcomb, City of Garland
Johnny Grimaldo, Tom Green County
Denise Sullivan,
Keller ISD
5) Protect Interlocal Cooperation Act (define
minor construction)
Liaison:
David Webb, Deer Park ISD
Subcommittee:
Kim Galvin, City of Cleburne
Frank Ybarbo, Collin County
Steve Fisher,
TASB
6) Align Procurement Statutes for Schools,
Counties, and Cities
Liaison:
David Webb, Deer Park ISD
Subcommittee:
Gina Eckhardt, City of Waco
Ken Bass, McLennon County
Pete Paul, The
Cooperative Purchasing Network (TCPN) Consultant
Municipalities
Carol Cooper, C.P.M.
Director
of Material Management
City of Garland
P.O. Box 469002
Garland, Tx 75046
972-205-2425 office
972-205-2495 fax
cacooper@ci.garland.tx.us
Counties
Cyd Grimes, C.P.M.
Purchasing Agent
Travis County
314 W. 11th Street,
Room 400
Austin, TX 78701
512-854-9700 office
512-854-9185 fax
cyd.grimes@co.travis.tx.us
School Districts
David Webb, Chief Financial
Officer
Chairman, TASBO Governmental Relations Committee
Deer Park ISD
203 Ivy
Deer Park, Texas 77536
832.668.7035 office
832.347.0734 Nextel
281.930.1945 fax
dwebb@dpisd.or
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The Texas Purchasing Management Association occasionally posts on this web site TML member city positions available for purchasing employees. For a complete listing of all such positions advertised, go to the TML Online Classifieds and look under "Finance."