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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Board Meeting Highlights
The American Translators Association's Board of Directors
held its Winter Board meeting virtually January 23-24.
Here are some meeting highlights.

Committee Appointments

Certification

President Ted Wozniak led the Board
discussion on his research regarding
appointments to ATA committees. The
current wording of the Bylaws along with
our parliamentary authority, Robert's Rules
of Order Newly Revised, require that the
appointment of members of all standing
committees be approved by the Board. ATA
has 20 standing committees and a handful of
special committees. Special committees are
established for a specific purpose, such as
the Ad Hoc Website Committee, and dissolve
once the project is completed. (Please see
http://bit.ly/ATA-committees for the list of
committees and their charges.)

Certification Committee Chair Michèle Hansen
and Deputy Chair Larry Bogoslaw briefed the
Board on the committee's work investigating
and testing remote exam options. The
committee is optimistic about ATA offering
remote exam options later this year. The
current plans are for ATA to continue offering
in-person exam sittings as well. For this
year, we've started to schedule limited exam
sittings. These sittings are all tentative and
subject to local mandates and regulations.

New Committee Chairs
In addition to several committee
appointments, the Board approved the
appointment of Lebzy Gonzalez as chair of
the Divisions Committee and Secretary Karen
Tkaczyk as chair of the Honors and Awards
Committee. Thanks to outgoing chairs Daniel
Sebesta (Divisions Committee) and Loie
Feuerle (Honors and Awards Committee) for
all their time and work for ATA.

Ad Hoc Committees
At the last Board meeting in October,
the Board approved creating two ad hoc
committees to investigate establishing a
national registry of freelance translators and
interpreters in the U.S. and offering a basic
credential for translators and interpreters.
The Board also approved the appointment of
the members to the ad hoc committees. Geoff
Koby is the chair of both committees.

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Certification Renewal Fee
The Board approved increasing the threeyear certification renewal fee to $75 effective
January 1, 2022. This is the first change since
the fee was instituted in 2009 and is intended
to more closely reflect the costs of renewal.

Nominating and Leadership
Development Committee
The Board approved the appointment of the
Nominating and Leadership Development
Committee: Lebzy Gonzalez, Yolanda Secos,
David Stephenson, and Izumi Suzuki. The
chair is Past President David Rumsey, who
was approved in July 2020. The Nominating
and Leadership Development Committee is
responsible for putting forward the slate of
candidates for the fall election. This year, they
will be putting forward two candidates for
each officer position-president-elect,
secretary, and treasurer-and two for each of
the three directors' positions.

The Board meeting
summary is posted online.
The minutes will be posted
once they are approved
at the next Board meeting.
Past meeting summaries
and minutes are also
posted online at www.
atanet.org/membership/
minutes.php. The next
Board meeting is set for
April 24-25, 2021. The
meeting will be virtual.

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