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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Note: OSFA is currently experiencing Technical Difficulties in getting the 2013 OSFA Conference registration form on its website (we’re accountants
and fiscal professionals – not IT folks!). But, registration is open. Please use the attached form to register for this year’s conference. We are working through the website issues, and will let you know when the registration form is available on the OSFA
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">An Open Letter from the Oregon State Fiscal Association Board of Directors:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Oregon State Fiscal Association was formed in late 1988 “to promote employee professionalism and encourage professional development among state employees... for the goal
and purpose of fostering competence, productivity, and professionalism of finance professionals in Oregon state government.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Early in its inception OSFA thrived. State, city and county governments had large training budgets, which supported regular conference attendance between 200 – 250 people.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In recent years, cuts in training budgets have resulted in dwindling OSFA conference attendance. Despite efforts to maintain low conference registration costs through intense
conference facility contract negotiations, year after year the OSFA conference has operated in the red.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conference planning by the OSFA Board of Directors begins each June with the same routine: research conference facilities in the Salem area that bundle audio-visual equipment
with tech support; chairs and tables that don’t need to be rented and set up/taken back by board members; and affordable lunch or catering options. The Board does an annual cost analysis comparing three to five different locations. Last year, a suggestion
was made to look at Winema Events, located at the Winema Chemeketa Community College campus on Lancaster Drive in Salem. It is a smaller facility, limiting conference attendance to 100 registrants. After much deliberation and cost comparison by the board,
the decision was made to host the May 7, 2013 OSFA Conference at Winema Events. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In order to continue serving the needs of the State fiscal employees and for future conference planning, the OSFA board will track the total number of people who register and
attempt to register at this year’s conference. Depending on demand and input from members and agencies, OSFA may move the 2014 conference to a larger location to allow for larger attendance.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thank you for understanding OSFA’s cost-saving move to a smaller venue and for continuing to support the Oregon State Fiscal Association. If you would like to know more about
what went into the board’s decision to move the 2013 conference location, please feel free to contact any board member. We look forward to seeing you at the May 7, 2013 conference!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sincerely,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The 2013 Oregon State Fiscal Association Board of Directors
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