The Chapter meeting was called to order by President Julie Martin at 6:15PM.

President Martin welcomed members and guests. Thank you to University of Colorado Hospital

for providing the facility and our sponsors Michael, Rob, Dave and Mike for the meal and beverages.

There is a quorum present, there are 532 members present. Nine guests were welcomed.

Minutes from the November Chapter meeting were read and approved as written

Correspondence: No correspondence.

Awards: Chapter Awards are due by the end of April. The awards are Clinical, Education and Management.

Bylaws: The AORN Journal has all the National candidates and proposals. One significant proposal is the one member/one vote proposal. There will be Webinars on the AORN website on February 22 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm and March 4 from 7:00pm to 8:00pm. Everyone is welcome to join the discussion.

Informatics: The website has been updated. Submit anything that you would like to add to the website to Faith Beazer.

Education: No report.

Fall Workshop: This was the most successful Fall Workshop yet, there were 110 attendees. The check was presented to RMCHCSP for their portion of the proceeds.

Finance: No report.

Hospital Captains: No report.

Legislative: The GovernorÕs Committee formed to discuss registration of Surgical Technicians declined the move for registration. They determined that registering the technicians would not have changed the outcome at Rose Medical Center.

Membership: Member Peggy Howlin died, services have been held.

Nominating: Nominations were taken from the floor for 2010-2011 OfficerÕs Ballot. There are two Board positions, three Nominating Committee positions, Secretary and President Elect.

A TellerÕs Committee was formed, Chair person Geri Pesek, members Barb Wiens and Kay Taylor.

OR Nurse Week: Turn out last fall was very good. We will reserve the same space at the Museum for next year. There is enough space to set up an entire operating room suite, we will work with vendors to arrange that.

Publicity: No report.

Research: Committee priorities were distributed along with the process and format for peri-operative research programs. Request for members interested in research projects for next year. Next year we would like to develop a viable research project, grants are available for peri-operative research projects.

Jackets: Prototype was available, it is a Medline jacket. Color will be a dark royal blue. Cost will be

$30.00 for volunteers and $35.00 at Congress. Jackets are going to be delivered to HCA warehouse,

but they will be brought to the March meeting. A list was circulated to identify members and jacket sizes to be purchased at the March meeting. Sizes available are medium, large, extra-large and 2x-large.

Airport Welcome: There will be two shifts at the Airport, Friday March 12 from 5:00pm to 9:00pm and

Saturday March 13 from 8:00am to 12:00pm. See Marilyn Payer to sign up.

Is approximately two miles. Sign-up sheet was circulated.

Unfinished Business: No unfinished business.

The AORN Nurselink is up and running. Network member talk is available, it has the same appearance

as face book. You are also able to join conversations on bylaws changes.

Congress Update: Registrations are up for the 2010 Congress in Denver. Headquarters indicates that we are on track for the number of volunteers already signed up.

Headquarters has determined that non-attendees to Congress cannot volunteer. This has to do with liability for non-attendees on the premises.

Buddy passes are also good on Sunday March 14. It was previously stated that they were only good from Monday through Thursday.

After the David Gergen talk on Tuesday at Congress, there will be a private reception for executives

The meeting was adjourned at 6:50PM.

Submitted by Kay Taylor, Secretary