I am honored to be your 2020 President. I want to acknowledge the leadership provided by Tom Evans, past presidents of KCITE, and the KCITE Board. I am excited to continue to work with returning Board and Committee members and to welcome new Board and Committee members.
Your 2020 Board and Committee members are already hard at work choosing relevant topics, presenters and great venues for this year’s meetings, technical tours and training sessions. If you have any ideas that you would like considered for meetings, tours or training sessions this year please let us know. If you are interested in being a presenter at a training session or regular meeting we would love to talk to you!
The 2020 KCITE Board will also be working closely with MoVITE Representatives this year on the transition of our organization from a Chapter to a Section. This will be a big change! In fact, something we will have to do immediately is to decide on a new name that better represents our new geographic boundaries. What had previously been a relatively small Kansas City regional organization will soon encompass the state of Kansas plus the NW and Kansas City areas of Missouri!
We hope the transition from a Chapter to a Section will be seamless. However, as with most things of this nature we will be figuring it out as we go along (AKA winging it!) so we do ask that you will please be patient with us while we work through this process. As with most things in life you have to take the first few steps and go forward from there. We will endeavor to make decisions that we hope you will support as there likely will not be time to gather input during the transition. We will also endeavor to promptly communicate with you any changes that impact our members.
The Board is committed to keeping you motivated, connected and informed in 2020 as we have in the past. I look forward to seeing you all throughout the year at our various events. I want to thank everyone for your continued commitment and support of KCITE and I am honored to be leading the organization in the next year.
Your 2020 KCITE/(insert new name here) President,
Jackie White
