Ms. Joycelyn Stringer, RDH

A good treasurer contributes much toward the efficiency of the chapter and should be accurate, prompt, and resourceful. Suggested duties are to: 

•  Receive and act as custodian of chapter funds with the supervision of the advisor(s) ; 

• Collect fees and money as agreed and sent to HOSA National Headquarters; 

• Pay chapter funds as authorized; 

• Keep the financial records of the chapter; 

• Cooperate with the chairman of the finance committee; 

• Assist in preparing an annual budget of estimated receipts and expenditures; 

• Devise appropriate ways and means of financing chapter activities; 

• Cooperate with the secretary in keeping an accurate membership roll; 

• Prepare monthly financial statements and reports of special projects; 

• Encourage systematic savings, individual and chapter. 

Whether the chapter has one secretary or more than one, suggested duties are: 

• Prepare and read the minutes of the chapter's business meetings of the officers;

• Prepare the written agenda of each meeting for the president, listing the order of business; 

• Answer all correspondence promptly and file the letter and the reply for future reference; 

• Mail, circulate, and/or post notices; 

• Keep a membership list and record of attendance at meetings; 

• Serve as chairman of the membership committee; 

• Call meetings to order in the absence of the president and vice president/president\elect and entertain a motion for a temporary chairman; 

• Count and record rising vote when taken; 

• Keep the permanent records of the chapter; 

• Read communications at meetings; 

• Collect and record reports of all committees and all written resolutions. 

• Prepare for each meeting the following:

• Secretary’s book and minutes of previous meetings; 

•  Lists of national, district, and local chapter officers; 

• Copies of national, district, and state programs of work and calendar of activities; 

• Copies of Bylaws; national, state, and local; 

• Online"access"or"copy" of the official National HOSA Handbook. 

The duties of the historian include the following, to; 

• Seek, gather, and classify all chapter news; 

• Keep a cumulative file of clippings, pictures, charts, copies of special programs, etc., and assist in building an Outstanding HOSA Chapter scrapbook 

• Assist in contacting and acquainting the editors of school and local newspapers with the aims, purposes, and activities of HOSA; 

• Assist in planning, collecting, and arranging materials to be used for publicity in various chapter events;

•  See that plaques, trophies, etc., following display are properly stored for safe keeping. 

• Create a newsletter highlighting events by HOSA Fall and Spring semesters. 

• Maintaining a FPHS HOSA Instagram site for the purpose of highlighting the chapter and as an informational platform.