TACNIGP Newsletter. President s Message. The Tallahassee Area Chapter of NIGP

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1 The Tallahassee Area Chapter of NIGP Volume 1, Issue TACNIGP Newsletter President s Message It is that time of year again! It s time for our annual Reverse Trade Show. A Reverse Trade Show is the opposite of a traditional Trade Show. State Agencies and Local Governmental entities man tables and speak with visiting business and professional people. Visitors will be looking for information on what each agency purchases, purchasing statutes and rules and who to contact at each Agency. This year your Chapter is hosting the event at the beautiful FSU Alumni Center. Please visit to represent your Agency and sign up for a table. If your agency has already reserved a table, please sign up for the networking luncheon, also held at the Alumni Center and catered by Andrews. A map with directions is available on the website. We will also be holding classes for visitors, explaining the use of MyFloridaMarketPlace and How to do Business with Governmental Entities. This years theme is Mardi Gras and some of our members will be dressed festively. Please bring business cards and any brochures or other information you may have. I look forward to a super show and thank each of you for your support! Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all. Deborah Day

2 Page 2 April TACNIGP Newsletter TACNIGP Board Meeting Minutes 4:00 PM, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Panera Bread - Blair Stone and Park Call to Order The meeting was called to order by President Smith at 4:00 PM. Roll Call Present were President Donna Smith, Board Member Jessie Moseley, Treasurer Sharita Newman, Board Member Gloria Dixon, Web Master Diana Trahan. Absent Board Members Greg Hill, Claudia Cooper and Brenda Wells Approval of Minutes February Board minutes were approved. Officers - Reports 1. President the location selection for 2015 RTS is complete (The Alumni Center). There was a question about March Chapter meeting and Ommet Mbiza do not have a trainer for March training. Lori Newman sat this up the March training ahead of time, half day training at DEP. The speaker wanted $ plus expenses; we do not have budget for this amount. Ommet will do his presentation that he missed in February if Country Club is available. Twenty-four (24) people have signed up for March meeting with lunch. Andrews will do catering and Jessie stated she will need the layout for the tables. Donna will send an to Jessie concerning the catering. Jessie will leave the trainer blank for and Judson Freeman will send out a notice and Jessie will be calling him to confirm. Jessie will need skirts to decorate tables Jessie will shop around.to get prices. Jessie has got the IT people to sat up my Florida Market Place. Gwen D. used to do a good presentation but cannot because of a new position. Grainger will be a sponsor and possibly Konica Minolta. We will make this event fun. Dalphine is working to get platinum sponsors. Speaker for March is Ommet Mbiza. Donna will everyone the menu for March meeting. 2. Treasurer - Checking $6,494.22, Savings $113, Secretary - no report. Committee Reports 1. Membership Committee Donna stated we have made the payment based on the membership count $184.00, $8.00 a head. Get a discount for national members. We have 135 total, 10 new, 95 active, 40 expired, 8 pending of the 95 & lost 24 from 2013, never returned. Diana thanked everyone for allowing her to attend conference last month. Great information and passed out literature about best practices and the modules are better. Old Business 1. Next Chapter meeting March 10, 2015 and we will vote on the menu. Sharita got the money from the luncheon from Mable. For the RTS in April, Agencies register for free, vendors have to pay. Registration for vendors will be a week and a half. We will contact the Tallahassee Democrat and Chamber of Commerce. We will do radio spots. We will do face book too. New Business - Dalphine will contact WCTV about an on air interview concerning the 2015 RTS. Next Board Meeting is April 7, 2015 at Panera Bread on Blair Stone Road.

3 April TACNIGP Newsletter Page 3 TACNIGP Member Birthdays April 2 April 6 April 7 April 7 April 8 April 9 April 13 April 18 April 19 April 21 April 25 April 26 April 27 April 29 TACNIGP General Chapter Meeting Minutes Capital City Country Club Chapter Meeting Tuesday, March 10, 2015 President Donna Smith called the meeting to order at 12:08 p.m. and welcomed everyone for attending the March Procurement Month Celebration. Invocation: Mr. David Callaway Pledge: Mr. Greg Hill Shannon Ammons, DEP Carol Bryant-Martin, DLA Susan Barr, NSRC Tiffany Rosier, DJJ Shelly Kelley, Leon County Victoria Bell, Student Steven Hall, FSC Dalphine Clack, TCC Lance Dyal, AHCA Toni Clinton, City of Tallahassee Laura Jennings, DEO Dacia Drury, DOE Gwendolyn York, DJJ Florence DeWiest, FDLE President Smith remaindered everyone that April 14, 2015 is our Reverse Trade Show and will convene at Florida State University Alumni Center. Everyone was encouraged to sign up to represent your agency. Lunch will be catered by Andrews. Our Reverse Trade Show committee chair person is Jessie Moseley. Jessie is looking for a volunteer to teach the course, How to Conduct Business with the State of Florida. Treasurer No report Secretary No report President Smith introduced our speaker, Ommet Mbiza with Citizen Property Insurance. Mr. Mbiza shared with us that March is National Purchasing month and you can see governmental purchasing on line which includes all types of activities. Ommet has taken over for Lori Newman as acting Education/Development chair. He stated that every year the governor signs a proclamation stating, March is Purchasing month and the chapter should take an active role in coordinating activities around the proclamation and with celebrating Purchasing month and we have outstanding people in our Chapter that are doing great work. We need ideas from everyone which will help our Chapter grow. The Director of Purchasing at Citizen Insurance was in attendance and was introduced and there was a training class for March but did not take place. "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them"- Albert Einstein Ommet conducted the game of JEOPARDY. Each table was a team and participated and stated that NIGP has a contest on line that members can post feedback/blogs and you may win an ipad. There were several different Jeopardy categories to select from and your answer has to be in the form of a question. Each table selected a category and received points for the correct answers: There were gifts for the top teams: Team 5, 7, 8, 3 and 4 Happy Birthday to Mable and Ommet stated he will get his US citizenship. Drawing for the free lunch at April Reverse Trade Show was ticket #193. Meeting adjourned at 1 pm

4 Page 4 April TACNIGP Newsletter Tallahassee Area Chapter of NIGP P.O. Box 922 Tallahassee, FL Phone info@tacnigp.com April 1 April 1 April 3 April 3 April 5 April 15 April 20 April 22 April Holidays April Fool s Day International Tatting Day Good Friday Passover begins Easter Sunday Income Taxes Due Patriot s Day Earth Day Did You Know We re on the Web!

5 April TACNIGP Newsletter Page 5 Did You Know Proper Pronunciation: A Sound Policy Pronouncing words correctly helps convince listeners that you know what you re talking about. By correct pronunciation, we mean words as you d hear them enunciated at formal occasions: a lecture by an English scholar, say, or a first-rate production of a play by George Bernard Shaw or Eugene O Neill. To settle pronunciation disputes, we recommend an old dictionary. New ones are fine, but having access to an old one minimizes the intrusion of trendy (mis)pronunciations. Also, those serious about their diction might want to pick up a copy of The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations by Charles Harrington Elster, who says in the book s introduction: I am not opposed to change. Such a position would be untenable. I am skeptical of ignorant, pompous, and faddish change. I am annoyed when people invent pronunciations for unfamiliar words. I am exasperated when they can t be bothered to check the pronunciation of a word they look up in a dictionary. Here are ten familiar words whose traditional pronunciations may surprise you. Note: capital letters denote a stressed syllable. Alleged It must come as a shock to those in the media, but alleged is a two-syllable word. It is pronounced uh- LEJD, not uh-ledge-id. Envelope Though you d never know it from what you hear over the airwaves, the preferred pronunciation of this word is ENN-va-lope, rather than the pseudo-french AHN-va-lope. Controversial Four syllables, not five. Say contra-ver-shul, not contra-ver-see-ul. Camaraderie It s a five-syllable word, but you usually hear only four. That letter a before the r should be a clue to say comma-rod-ery, not com-rad-ery. Forte When the word refers to a specialty or area of expertise (math is his forte), this is a one-syllable word pronounced fort. Most people mistakenly say for-tay. That pronunciation is only correct as a musical term. When forte is pronounced FOR-tay it means loudly. Short-lived This is not the lived of She lived well. The i is long; short-lived rhymes with thrived. Schism It s pronounced sizzum. The 1968 Random House American College Dictionary lists no alternative pronunciation. You rarely hear this word, but when you do, it s generally pronounced skizzum, a pronunciation that, in Elster s words, arose out of ignorance. Integral Why do so many people say in-tra-gul, despite the spelling? Make it IN-ta-grul. Homage A reviewer called a film a homage to motherhood. The critic wisely did not write an homage, knowing that the h is sounded. This word has spun out of control in the twenty-first century. Its traditional pronunciation is HOMM-ij. But then AHM-ij gained a foothold, and it went downhill from there. Now, just about all one hears is oh-mahzh, an oh-so-precious pronunciation that was virtually nonexistent in English until late in the twentieth century. Pronunciation As the spelling indicates, it s pronounced pra-nun-see-ay-shun. Too many careless speakers say pra-nown-see-ay-shun. Most words have been around longer than any of us have. Pronouncing them properly is showing respect for our elders.