Vice President Report


This year I spent a lot of time in different areas trying to help out on individual portfolios, as well as areas that would help out at the board level. They included:

• Helping out Ken, by keeping him up to date as to past happenings, and previous motions.
• Participated in all Board meetings
• Attending all PD events
• Attending our National Convention
• Gave Carey Lauder all name tags and my thoughts as to the direction of the Member Liaison position.
• Put together a calendar of events that I am trying to keep updated for future Board members to try to have an outline to work with
• I spent time with JJ and the accountant earlier in the year to review past events and to get direction from our accountant as to what need to be done.
• I made a few trips to the companies office downtown, to update our Board information and names that had not been received, or misplaced.
• Spent some time with Pam McFarlane with regards to helping Ron Gilfillian out with future PD nights. After a PD night with Alex, we received some great suggestions for future PD nights. Pam and I reviewed the potential events that could be held. Ultimately somewhere put on the backburner. Professional development is a very important aspect of the Association and is key for our members. There are several opinions and thoughts as to the direction of these events, that I feel it needs to be discussed in further detail with the members.
• Went to a Board training seminar that was very helpful. We have decided to include this once a year for the VP. I will put together a board manual that will include job descriptions, reviews, liability information, etc.
• Spent two days for Federal Council as an alternate.
• Spent several hours entering database and helping Brenda with Image Salon, and follow-ups.
• Helped in follow up arrangements with Ken for Convention/AGM. Spent several hours with Ken in person and on phone with areas that we need to address, and put the priorities first.

There are many areas of this Association that could clearly run more efficiently and effectively. The restructuring of PPOC was supposed to help each association unite and work under one umbrella but the vote for it had to be postponed due to the challenges of aligning 7 completely different associations. My participation on the Board has been almost the full duration of my membership with PPOC-MB, and in that time we seen that we need to bring our by-laws up to date. Many other areas need to be brought into the current century, but we simply could not justify the time, and cost to make changes with the possibility of restructuring PPOC shortly. This situation, to say the least, has been frustrating. Although we have spent this past year cleaning up a lot of areas that I was not even aware of from previous years we still have a lot of areas that need addressing. This year we took care of some of the nitty gritty details that do not outwardly show to you, the members. We do need to address things like our professional development, our website, etc. many things that we could improve, but again the nitty gritty took priority. One thing that we all have in common is that we all have only 24 hrs in a day and 7 days in a week. I feel the Association has a lot of potential, but also has a lot of work to do, and needs everyone’s help and involvement to make it happen. We all have different ideas, and different opinions, but we must continue to work at it because ultimately we are passionate about what we do. Sometimes we may need to agree to disagree, and realize, as Trump would say, it's nothing personal, just business. We are all in business and need to treat this association like a business as well.

This wagon we are on, has some shaky wheels, that can't be fixed by just a few people, it takes everyone’s input. The man-hours needed to do this and make it run better is a very big job. A little input from everyone will make it better for all. As an example, involvement in putting in articles for the Quest would be helpful....if we still want that??? Maybe we don't?? We need input for how you would like conventions operated, as well as image salon.Many of the same people are doing the same jobs every year because of lack of volunteers. We sent out a request to find members who would like to help out on the Board, and got very little interest, because everyone is to busy to support the association. We need to seriously talk about the road we want to travel in this Association. Let's see what it is we want for our Association together, and make some serious decisions about the direction of My Association, Your Association, OUR Association.

It has been my pleasure in helping out for this Association, thank you once again for trusting in me to serve on your Board of Directors. I would like to take this opportunity to say to the members of the Board that I have enjoyed getting to know each and everyone of you. It has been a pleasure to work with you all. Thank you for dedicating your time and helping. I have found that by being involved, it has allowed me to really get to know members that I may not of normally of had the chance to connect with. I believe we pave our own roads to success, and part of that success includes the great people we meet along the way and the friendships that are formed. This Association can be part of that success, we just need to believe and make it happen together!


Respectfully Submitted,




Mimi Boulé
Vice President PPOC-MB