Attached are notes on our May 22 conference call. I hope you will agree that it was very productive. Action items are underlined.

NAPSAC CONFERENCE CALL ON WORKING PARTIES

Present: Prudy Gourguechon, Chair, Warren Procci, Co-chair as of June 11, Rick Perlman, Secretary=Treasurer, Beth Seelig, WP Steering Committee Chair, Margaret Anny Hanly, Working Party co-chair. Absent: Bob Pyles.

1. Beth invited participation by NAPsaC board members in the regular conference calls of the WP steering committee. We decided that Prudy would extend this invitation to the Board. These calls occur on the third Sunday of the Month at 11 a.m. Eastern
2. The January WP's netted a $2000 profit. We agreed that previous NAPsaC policy indicated that these funds should be used by the Steering Committee for upcoming WP activities.
3. Beth reported that the specificity and comparative clinical methods working parties are well established. The Initiating working parties are getting under way way under the leadership of Ted Jacobs and Nancy Wolf.
4. The San Francisco "mini meetings" turned out to have been half day introductory sessions. Regional meetings like this did not seems to threaten the future of a NAPsaC annual meeting. Prudy requested that the Steering Committee prepare a document that outlines the format of these half day meetings in detail—who, what, when and where. And why.
5. The Steering Committee would like to hold two interim weekend meetings, one in October in San francisco and one in NY in December. The NY meeting might be combined with a fundraiser. Prudy will ask the Board to approve these plans.
6. We want all involved to understand that any activities under the NAPsaC umbrella MUST be pre-approved first by the steering committee and then by the NAPsaC Board. Prudy and Warren will write a letter to Dr. Bronstein advising him that there cannot be any independent programming under the NAPsaC banner.
7. To avoid any kind of "cult of the personality" or cliquishness of the WPS, we would like to institute 3 year term limits for WP chairs. These changes would be made to the Steering Committee "Structure Document" which will be recirculated in July with updates. Prudy will ask the Board to approve this recommendation.
   1. The WP's are subcommittees of the Steering Committee
   2. Membership will consist of a chair, a co-chair and individual members.
   3. The chair and co-chair will each serve a three-year term.
   4. When the chair's term ends, the co-chair will become chair and a new co-chair will be appointed.
   5. The co-chair will be proposed by the WP to Steering Committee. Steering Committee will discuss and recommend the appointment to the NAPsaC Board. The appointment of the co-chair and chair are made by the NAPsaC Board.
   6. The positions of chair and co-chair will rotate between the constituent groups of NAPsaC.
8. Fall 2011. We need to nail down dates, program chair and other volunteers in July. This needs to go on the NAPsaC agenda. At this point Prudy will ask Board to check with their organizations about the Weekend of October 28-30, 2011.
9. Reminder of availability of NAPsaC website for meeting announcements. Prudy will tell APsaA staff.
10. the IPA has asked Beth to chair the WP meetings in Mexico City. Prudy asked that efforts to be made over time to explain the difference/relationship between the NAPsaC working parties and the IPA WP's.

Prudy