Several years ago, MASFAA developed a five-year plan to give guidance to the Executive Council. The last five-year plan expired this year. The Association Governance Committee discussed the current plan and decided that MASFAA should do a thorough assessment of the environment and use that information to rethink the five year planning process.

The first step was to survey the membership. I shamelessly stole from the SASFAA membership survey and the survey was posted on the website in the spring. In addition to active members, retired members and non-members were asked to complete the survey. 242 people completed the survey and preliminary results are being posted on the MASFAA website.

In addition to a survey of the membership, the Association Governance Committee also felt that a long range planning retreat was in order. Invitations to the retreat were sent to the members of the Association Governance committee, state association presidents, two Outstanding New Professional award winners, and two experienced MASFAA members. Tara Telfair from the University of Virginia was brought in to facilitate the retreat. The retreat took place on August 1-2 at the Osthoff Lodge in Wisconsin and the Association Governance Committee is in the process of taking the ideas from the retreat and updating the long range plan.

The final long range plan will be presented at the October Executive Council meeting in Des Moines and will be presented to the membership at that time.

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