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Salary Survey Ready For Conference
Many thanks to those professionals who took the time to complete the 82 Salary Survey. We hope to have the printed results available at the Annual Conference. Our target is at least a 75% return and based on the number of current responses we expect to meet our goal. IPRA members will be able to purchase copies at the member rate. The fringe benefit portion of the survey will be compiled at a later date.
IPRA To Open Gift Shoppe
A new project — the GIFT SHOPPE — has been developed by the Fund Raising Committee. IPRA members' first exposure to the Shoppe will be during the Annual Conference at the associations' booth. The purpose of the project is threefold: (1) To make a small profit for IPRA; (2) To promote the leisure movement and the association; (3) To provide members with holiday gift suggestions for their staff. Lapel pins, jogging shorts, coffee mugs, and a few other items will be available. Just think of the possibilities — hundreds of joggers in the parks carrying the message of leisure or all recreation personnel greeted every morning by a friendly coffee mug saying "Leisure: A Good Investment."
Board Approves Move To National Professional Certification
In September, the Board approved the Admissions and Standards Committees' proposal to submit a revised certification plan to the National Certification Board who will be meeting at the NRPA Congress. If accepted, the changes will go before the IPRA membership in 1983.
We will do our best to educate the members as to the effect this will have on their current registration. The first in a series of informational sessions on "Certification and how it will affect you" will take place at the Annual Conference on Friday, November 19, 4:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. We hope you will take the time to become informed.
Annual Meeting Planned
While on the subject of the conference, to be held November 18-21 at the Hyatt Regency, O'Hare, Rosemont, we hope all of you will attend our major educational event of the year. Over 90 educational sessions are offered in the two day period. We have all kinds of special activities planned for the exhibit area which will host over 110 booths displaying a myriad of new services and equipment.
Training For Volunteer Coaches Begins
On December 7 in Highland Park, IPRA will offer the first in a series of American Coaching Effectiveness
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IAPD Wave Pool Special Event
November 18th, IAPD Special Conference Trip to the Bolingbrook WaveTek Pool. Buses will leave the Hyatt Regency O'Hare at 12:30 p.m. and return at 4:30 p.m. The cost for this event is $10.00 per person which includes all expenses of travel, swimming and cocktails. Reservations will be on a first-come, first-served basis. This event is sponsored by Gary Zuercher, President, WaveTek, Inc., and Rolland Schapanski, landscape architect for the Bolingbrook project.
Foundations Meeting
November 20th, 10:45 a.m. to 12:00 noon, Pan Am Room, Hyatt Regency O'Hare — Park, Forest Preserve and Conservation Districts Foundation meeting. This is a meeting that you or a representative of your agency will want to attend if you have a Foundation to support your park, forest preserve or conservation district. The IAPD has initiated a new membership classification and special educational programs and services will be offered in 1983 for those agencies who have or plan to have a Foundation.
Workers' Compensation
At the September 11th, 1982 meeting the IAPD Board of Directors unanimously passed a resolution recognizing the Alexander & Alexander Company as the Association's representative for group Workers' Compensation. The IAPD is pleased to announce this new member service ... the IAPD Workers' Compensation Insurance Program. See A. & A. advertisement on page 39.
For some time the Board of Directors has been concerned with the high cost of Workers' Compensation insurance for its member districts. An in-depth search to find a solution resulted in the decision to sponsor a Group Insurance Program. Of the programs reviewed, the plan
SEE ALEXANDER & ALEXANDER
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presented by Alexander & Alexander, Inc. was found to be superior. It presents both immediate and long term advantages.
Alexander & Alexander is a major insurance broker and is well qualified to solicit and administer our program. In early November it will mail a formal announcement, along with details, of the Program. Also, A&A will be in Booth 88 at our Annual State Conference to talk with you personally.
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