SCRID

Board of Directors Meeting

October 27, 2011

President’s Report

Jeni Rodrigues

Updates

• Transition of Presidency form Robin Taylor has gone smoothly and all major portions of the job have been transferred.
• Annual report submitted to RID. Thank you to Robin for all her work on completing the document.
• A new Region V Rep has been appointed. We welcome Holly Nelson from Utah. For more information on her background, please visit the Region V page: http://www.rid.org/member_center/chapters/index.cfm/AID/144
• Preliminary discussions with Mt. San Antonio College to host a workshop in 2012. Potential location for hosting May membership meeting.
• NIC: On December 1, 2011, the enhanced, streamlined, single-level NAD-RID National Interpreter Certification (NIC) Examination will go into effect. As announced at the RID National Conference in July, the enhanced examination will have the same content as the current NIC, but the content will be reformatted to focus more closely on critical interpreting skills. New scoring techniques designed to increase the accuracy, consistency and reliability of the examination scoring will also be introduced with this enhanced test. In addition to more effectively measuring the competency of exam candidates, the new scoring process will allow RID to provide exam results in significantly less time than before.

Current Endeavors

• Learning back end of website to make changes expediently
• Recruitment of individuals for various committees
• Recruiting area reps for PD committee duties:
  • San Luis Obispo & Kern County
  • Santa Barbara & Ventura County
  • Los Angeles County
  • Orange County
  • San Bernardino and Riverside County

Announcements

• Dates for upcoming Board meetings will be posted to the website soon.
• Attending Presidents Council Meeting November 13

• November 12 9am-5pm El Camino College Anna Witter-Merithew workshop
  • Seeking volunteers to man/woman the table and take membership orders.

• June 13-17 Region V conference 2012 will be in Hawaii!