Hopefully you have already responded to our annual requests for payment of your ARPAS dues. Thank you for your continuing monetary support of national ARPAS and your local chapter.

If you have misplaced the dues notice or just forgot to respond, you are not delinquent until January 1. Please use our website or contact Jeremy if you need assistance.

In past years we have included a reminder in this newsletter and still about 10% of our membership fails to respond by mid-January. Please save Jeremy and others who monitor membership status of having to send out additional reminders by responding today. Reinstatement of lapsed membership is possible but is an unnecessary expense of time and money.

At the same time you pay your dues, you should update your CEU’s. You alone are responsible for reporting your participation in meetings approved for ARPAS credit. We do not know which meetings you attend. All we can do is to encourage the various meeting organizers to request evaluation of their meeting content for ARPAS CEU’s well in advance of the meeting and to inform you of the ARPAS credit allowed. Reporting of CEU’s can be done on the ARPAS website www.arpas.org or by sending Jeremy an email. You can also determine your CEU status on the website but you will need to use your membership number.

We have recently approved a number of webinars for ARPAS CEU’s so if travel is restricted, you can still have a way to keep current. Available meetings are posted on our website. If you attend a meeting that has not been pre-approved, please send me or Jeremy the program and it will be evaluated it for credit.

The strength of this organization is maintained by members who are willing to step up to a leadership position. If you have an interest in being on the Governing Council, serving on one of our many committees or becoming active in your local chapter, please contact me or a Governing Council member. We will be happy to share the load and are anxious to put you to work.