Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a great Holiday Season. I wanted to let you know how honored I am to have been re-elected President of such a fine organization! With JoEllen Seil taking a new job with the City of Grayville she was no longer eligible to remain on the board as Grayville does not have an Enterprise Zone. Congratulations JoEllen, we sure miss you!

Now that we are in the new year it is time to get back to business and make plans for the association. Our board met in November to set 2008 conference agendas, create new goals and objectives, approve a budget, and to work on changes to the By-Laws. Those proposed changes can be found on the web-page and will be voted on at the Spring IEZA training conference in Bloomington. We also discussed what items we need to be working on to improve our organization and zones throughout the state.