Health Care Update

The guest speaker for our March 16 meeting was Nancy Taylor-Babcock with Wells Fargo Insurance Services in Spokane.  Nancy  shared the results of a Wells Fargo's National Survey outlining the strategies and actions employers are taking to deal with rising health care costs. 

•      15% changed medical carriers
•      41% asked employees to absorb a greater cost share   
•      Half made change to both medical and Rx design

Nancy also reminded us about the complexity of a variety of compliance issues including:

• Cobra Notificiations
• Medicare Part D Notifications each year
• Update CMS Website each year
• CHIPRA  Notices
• Appropriate ERISA compliant Summary Plan Description
• FSA - COBRA Eligible Benefit

If all this leaves you reeling with questions, Wells Fargo is hosting a free seminar dealing with compliance issues May 4, at the Red Lion in Spokane.  If you're interested in attending contact Erin Repp at
509-783-2626.

NAWIC Scholarship Application due date - May 7, 2010

We are now accepting applications for this year's scholarship.  All applications must be postmarked by May 7, 2010 and should be addressed to:

     Julie Lindstrom
     c/o Dept of Labor & Industries
     4310 W 24th Ave
     Kennewick, WA 99338-1992

For an application or more information, send us an e-mail at nawic.tc@gmail.com and we will be happy to send you  eligibility and requirements information and  the 2010 application.

We hope you and your guests will join us:

Where:       Bookwalter Winery
When:        Thursday, March 11th
Time:          5:30 PM

Help us celebrate Women In Construction Week!!

Women UNDER Construction - Forum

Social Media to Grow Business

If you missed our Febuary meeting, you missed a terrific presentation by Craig Sutton of Ikon Marketing Group!!


Craig's presentation gave us some great guidelines for using Social Media as an effective tool to help grow business.  His best advice is to be clear about your objectives, create an overall plan to meet those objectives, measure your results and adjust as necessary.  The tools we use, Facebook, Linked-In, etc. will come and go (Remember the days before Google? Not so long ago!), so focus on your plan.


If you need help devising your plan, you can reach Craig at:


Ikon Marketing Group
7411 W Clearwater Ave., Ste D
Kennewick, WA 99336


866-481-0777 - Office
craig@ikonmg.com
http://www.ikonmg.com/


Thanks Craig!!
  

Magic Camp!

Save The Dates

February 16th - General Membership Meeting


Speaker:     Craig Sutton, Ikon Marketing
Topic:         Social Media to Grow Business


March 6th - Oregon Retreat


March 7th - 13th - WIC Week


March 11th - Membership Social


March 16th - General Membership Meeting


Speaker:     Nancy Taylor-Babcock, Wells Fargo Insurance
Topic:         Healthcare Update and Reform