To: Region 3 ExCom
Fr: David G. Green, Region 3 Director-Elect
Sb: Director-Elect's Report for March ExCom and Region Meeting
Dt: 3 March 2010

I am looking forward to seeing everyone at SoutheastCon 2010. I hope you
have made your travel plans, booked your hotel room in the conference hotel,
and registered as a Region 3 attendee at the conference. I know that Jim
Conrad and his team have been working hard to ensure that attendees will
benefit greatly from their participation in the conference. Please find the
time to thank them and the sponsors who are helping to support the
conference.

Repeating an item from my last report, I would like to visit several of the
Area/Councils this year (and others next year) in coordination with Director
Stogner's own travel and plans. I think it is important that these contacts
occur. I would like to maximize the value of my visits so it would be good
to be able to both visit with Council members as well as attend one of the
section meetings at the same time if that is possible. For areas without
councils, I would suggest that we meet and together attend one of the
section meetings. If you are interested and/or have other ideas on how this
would be useful -- please let me know. I have heard from two areas thus far
-- thanks.

Status of Goals for 2010:

 * Finish the migration of duties accumulated while Region 3 Secretary to
   the new secretary or others as appropriate
   - Mostly complete.  
 * Visit at least four Area/Councils
   - Received two invitations, awaiting approval of 2010 budget
 * Actively participate on Region 3 Committee, the ExCom, and Region 3
   Committees as appropriate and required
   - Continuing
 * In support of and in coordination with Director Stogner and the 2010 
   Region 3 Goals and Objectives, enable and encourage Region 3 committees
   to be effective in fulfilling their charter.
   - Continuing

As an action report for 2010 thus far, I have

 * Attended IEEE Board Series in Atlanta (MGA, IEEE-USA, IEEE BoD)
 * Participated in two Region 3 Communications Committee electronic meetings
 * Assisted Secretary Vaughn in start up activities
 * Completed efforts to migrate mailing list ownership to content owners 
   and/or Communications Chair Clayton
 * Collaborated with SPC Chair Riddle on the Operations Manual revisions
 * Assisted Director Stogner as requested

Now is the time of year when IEEE is trying to complete its financial report
for the year. After that, IEEE is audited and after that, it files it's IRS
tax return. The Region, Section and Chapter financial performance are rolled
up into this report so it is critical that the staff receive reports from
all units by the deadline. Please make sure your unit (and those you
support) have submitted all the reports that are needed. Let's get Region 3
to the 100% reported milestone well in advance of the 31 March deadline.
Thanks to all for your efforts on this.