INCITS Secretariat Report to the February 2003 Meeting of the INCITS Executive Board

This Secretariat report addresses the issues found under Agenda Item 3 on the February 2003 INCITS Executive Board agenda.

Staff Accomplishments

1. Support of the Transition Team. This includes two meetings, preparation of action items for the team, setting up the formats of the new agendas, travel, and revising the website.
2. Invoicing: Preparation for issuing invoices (making final 2002 collections and cleaning up the membership database); issuing the 2003 invoices, debugging and revising invoices.
3. End of year activities: closing out the 2002 financials and setting up one new document register.
4. Normal workload as defined in IT/02-0987 and JT/02-0299 (lists of required services as approved by INCITS EB and the JTC 1 TAG). Action items from  the previous committees, for the new committees and those action items assigned by the Transition Team.
5. Performance reviews. Each member of the staff reviewed her accomplishments of the past year in preparation for discussion of goals and objectives for 2003.
6. Secretariat staff met with ITI legal counsel 10 hours since the last meeting (this excludes the time legal counsel spent on work between meeting with staff).
7. Secretariat staff worked with the ITI accounting manager in preparing for the end of fiscal year external audit of ITI finances, including the financials of the JTC 1 TAG and INCITS.
8. Implementation of the web design for the New Organization.
9. Implementation of the new balloting system for the New Organization.

Public Relations Report

Ms. Karinch will present a report on public relations accomplishments related to INCITS' technical work and on plans and accomplishments related to the transition to a new organization.  She has also prepared two targeted presentations to use in recruitment.