Over the last few years KPNAA has moved toward a very active Executive Board structure in order to keep up with the pace of change in our profession. The majority of our business has been conducted in general membership sessions on a quarterly basis. While membership advocacy and input is still priority-one, the advantage of a constantly communicating Executive Board has proven invaluable as KPNAA strategizes and responds to today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunity.

We retained our President and President-elect officers, but our Vice President is now known as “First Trustee”. We have a “Second Trustee” position, which technically replaced the former Secretary. Our former Treasurer is now the “Third Trustee”.

Why all these changes? KPNAA is successfully and swiftly moving into the mainstream of the revised Permanente vision of the future. With the contracting of Maple Street Management, many of the duties better left to those with clerical and mathematical skills, and the time to fully attend to them, have been covered in their contract. CRNA’s are now left free to focus on anesthesia, and also to the many new Labor-Management partnership committees arising in the region.

What do these new job descriptions and titles demand?

The President-elect runs for a position that commits him/her to a 3-year obligation. For the first year as President-elect, the officer works closely with the President on all of the internal workings of the association. He/she steps in for the President in any circumstance where the President is absent or must vacate office early. The President-elect is the CRNA representative to the grievance committee, and must be present at all grievances that go beyond step two.
At the end of the term of office the President-elect succeeds to the office of President, the principal elective officer of the association.

The duties of the President are many and varied. These responsibilities are too numerous to be included here, but can be found in KPNAA’s bylaws. At the close of that term of office, the President becomes the “First Trustee”. In this position, he/she has a two year perspective on the activities of the Association, can act as historian and consultant, and provides stability and continuity to the board.

The general secretarial duties will be taken over by Maple Street Management. However, the newly elected “Second Trustee”, besides being available to sit on or chair other necessary interim committees, serves as both bylaws and nominating committee chair.

The “Third Trustee” remains as the chief financial officer, and oversees and consults on MSM’s handling of KPNAA accounts and finances. She/he continues as chair of the Finance and Budget committee.

This is the new face of your elected Executive board. Many other duties are assigned to our Business Representative position - a non-voting but very hard working office currently occupied by Sandra Even and Nancy Boyajian and Claudia Gomez.