November 8, 2000 Annual Business Meeting - Central States Water ...

WWOA Liaison’s Report – Tom Steinbach
The WWOA Board met on October 2 nd and 3 rd at the Regency Suites in Green Bay.
The Annual Conference was held from Tuesday October 3 rd through Friday October 6 th at the KI
Convention Center in Green Bay and was a huge success with record attendance of 878. The
new meeting format with changes to the Keynote and Business meeting time frames seemed to
be well accepted. The KI Center is well suited for our conference with very adequate space for
our technical programs and for vendor displays (110 vendor booths sold this year).
Our membership at the end of the conference was approximately 1950.
At the Annual Business Meeting held on October 5 th two new Board Directors were elected: Tim
Nennig of Grafton and Jeff Dejarlais of La Cross.
Other highlights of the meeting include:
• The addition of a student membership class at half the normal membership cost
• One scholarship was awarded to Christopher LaFebvre
• Judy Tholen was elected as President Elect
• Dale Nies was elected as Vice President
The Operators Competition was held at this year’s conference, but not without some confusion
on who exactly would be participating. Due to the apparent lack of interest in this event the
future of this competition will be discussed at the Board meeting in December.
There will be a new directory published next year.
The WWOA Website continues to be a success. At the beginning of October there were 61
venders listed with 30 of them having web site links. The Employment section has also been
very popular.
Future annual conferences will be held at the Four Points Sheraton in Milwaukee in 2001, La
Crosse in 2002, Oconomowoc in 2003 and possibly Stevens Point in 2004. The Permanent
Arrangements Committee is also looking at the newly remodeled Ramada Inn in Eau Claire for
a possible future site.
On the Regional level the Regional bylaws have been changed to allow four officers to serve on
Regional Boards as opposed to the current three.
Next years annual meeting will be the WWOA’s 35 th Annual meeting held.
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