From
the President
Hello everyone, and welcome to our website. It is exciting to compose my
inaugural website correspondence to our Association. It is important for each and every member to participate in our organization by communication and contribution. To make this year a success, every member must be involved. This year, as a group, we have plenty of challenges, and we will accomplish a focused list of goals. We have tasked before us the ability to improve the level of our professionalism through credentialing and/or licensure. We will explore the pros and cons, to determine a course of action agreed upon by a membership vote. An ad-hoc committee has been formed to pursue an appropriate course of action for the memberships’ consideration. I understand this is a controversial topic, never the less, an issue that needs to be finalized by our association.
We will invest heavily in our website by going electronic with the MEHA Journal. I will be pushing hard for submittals of articles, pictures, studies and other information pertaining to environmental health for inclusion into this electronic document from ALL the membership. Need I mention the entire world will in some way have the ability to see your level of work and professionalism! This process will take a period of time, but will save thousands of dollars on postage, billing and printing. We will also streamline the membership renewal and conference registration process by implementing an option for online payments. I will ask our website development committee to explore the addition of a MEHA Blog which will enable the membership to openly communicate.
The Board will investigate the process for the perpetual protection of the endowment fund. The goal is to ensure the fund is protected in an irrevocable trust and kept safe from other encumbrances inconsistent with the fund’s original intent.
On behalf of all our membership, thank you to those of you who signed up for committees. Committee membership is a beginning avenue for change. We are in shortage of freshmen membership involvement in our organization. I challenge our freshmen members to step up and become involved by joining a committee. How will we grow and evolve without fresh ideas to implement change?
One cannot over emphasize our need to grow or at least sustain our membership numbers. There are many opportunities to diversify our membership via private sector and corporate recruitment. For obvious reasons, the MEHA membership is shrinking. I will ask our membership and corporate sponsor committees to focus on ways to grow our membership from the public and (equally as important) private sector. I ask all of the membership to act and participate in the recruitment of new members.
I am anxious to serve MEHA in the role of President.
Best regards,
Bob Paulus |
