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ON THE AGENDA: February 2008 DATE/TIME DESCRIPTION LOCATION 2-12/9am – 11am ICPC Meeting: Purchasing Janitorial Paper
Products-What’s New & What is GREEN
COTA, 2nd Floor C.R. 1600 McKinley Ave.
2-14/ALL DAY VALENTINE’S DAY REMINDER: Gentlemen, Don’t Forget HER or the KIDS!
HOME, WORK, SCHOOL, etc.,
2-21/2pm – 4pm EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING 910 Dublin Road 4th Floor C.R.
In our quest to be TBDCITL there are more opportunities to do so.
NIGP awards on a yearly basis various individual and agency awards at the national forum such as IFPSM's Lewis E. Spangler Purchasing Professional Award; Albert H. Hall Memorial Award; Best Practices; and
Innovations in Public Procurement to name a few. Furthermore there are
opportunities to let public procurement professionals read your thoughts, ideas, and philosophies by submitting to NIGP essays for the
Ethics and Diversity Essay Contests.
There are many talented people that make up this chapter and it takes
all thoughts and ideas to make it great. Our agencies are creative and
are making advancements to the profession of public procurement with innovative ideas and programs that should be recognized
nationally. I encourage all of you to take time to go to the websites
below and make an effort to showcase not only CO-OPP but more
importantly yourself and your agency. Each of us is born with a talent
and gifts that need to be used and appreciated, and together we can make the Central Ohio Organization of Public Purchasers TBDCITL.
Joe Lombardi, Vice President http://www.nigp.org/awards/Individual.htm http://www.nigp.org/awards/Agency.htm
2002002002008888 OFFICERS OFFICERS OFFICERS OFFICERS
PRESIDENT
Mark Hutchison, CPPO, CPPB, C.P.M. State of Ohio, Office of Procurement Services
Voice: (614) 466-2375 Fax: (614) 466-7525
VICE-PRESIDENT
Joe Lombardi, CPPO, CPPB City of Columbus, Department of Public Utilities
Voice: (614) 645-6031 Fax: (614) 645-5424
TREASURER
Carol Clingman, CPPB
State of Ohio, Office of Procurement Services
Voice: (614) 752-0032 Fax: (614) 644-1785
SECRETARY
Dana King, CPPB State of Ohio, Office of Procurement Services
Voice: (614) 644-1788 Fax: (614) 644-1785
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Steve Hunter, CPPO State of Ohio, Office of Procurement Services
Voice: (614) 466-7066 Fax: (614) 466-7525
PAST-PRESIDENT
R. Fred Myers, CPPO, CPPB
City of Columbus, Purchasing Office
Voice: (614) 645-8518 Fax: (614) 645-7051
A Chapter of the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing, Inc. (NIGP)
LISA KOPPIN, Purchasing Contract Specialist for Montgomery County was quick to respond to my EARLY BIRD CALL-OUT in the December ’07 issue… Thanks for your Patronage Lisa! Let’s see who is paying attention to the madness this month and I’m going for broke and playing the TRIFECTA in February 2008… if you are one of the three listed, email me and let me know you saw your name in EARLY BIRD: CHARLES ASTON LaWANDA MOOSE
SPERANCA SZANA, CPPB
No need for formal introduction here. You are
all veterans to this game of slick wits and clue
crunching, and since its inception in April of
2007, four different individuals have stolen the
plaudits of Ace Detective for their savvy in
solving the Minute Mystery. Your mission is to
unravel the mystery based on the limited,
somewhat ambiguous clues and figure out what
has happened. A small reward, save inclusion
in an elite group of others who achieved the
standard, including the last three issues of
EARLY BIRD, which were Double-Mystery
months, as follows:
THE HOUSE took honors in OCTOBER. After numerous attempts
teetered around the clues, no one was able to unravel the Mini-
Mysteries, creating a sure windfall of disbelief from our Super
Sleuths and from those who have danced ever close to the grail.
The answer to THE DECEMBER MYSTERY: The cowboy rode into town on A HORSE NAMED THURSDAY and rode
out again after 3 days on the same HORSE, NAMED THURSDAY.
And now for this month’s puzzler, one EASY and one
DOWNRIGHT TWISTED… A MAN WAS FOUND MURDERED AT A TABLE
SURROUNDED BY 53 BICYCLES. WHAT IS GOING ON??
TWO MOTHERS AND THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS WENT
INTO A STORE TO BUY NEW HATS. EACH LEFT
WEARING HER OWN NEW HAT, YET ONLY THREE HATS
WERE SOLD. WHAT’S GOING ON HERE??
Okay, so they are both downright twisted… but, if it
makes any of you feel any better, one of the sleuths
in this game stumped me on another such mystery just yesterday,
and, I may never hear the end of it… she is still doing the happy
dance.
APRIL 2007 KIM CAMPBELL-Dept. of Public Utilities
JUNE 2007 KIM CAMPBELL-Dept. of Public Utilities
JULY 2007
JULY 2007
MARK HUTCHISON-DAS/State of Ohio
DANA KING-DAS/State of Ohio
AUG 2007
AUG 2007
PETER GRAYBEAL-Office of Sec. of State
PETER GRAYBEAL-Office of Sec. of State
OCT 2007
OCT 2007
THE HOUSE
stumped everyone on both Mysteries.
DEC 2007 BARB JOHNSON-Cols. Reg. Airport Auth.
Did you ever wonder what WD-40 actually
stands for? The name was lifted right from
Chemist Norm Larsen’s laboratory
notebook. Way back in 1953, he was trying
to concoct an anti-corrosion formula, which
worked on the basic principle of displacing
water. On his 40th try, Larsen finally got it
right. Hence the name, WD-40, which
literally means, Water Displacer, 40th try. (Source: WD-40 website)
The oldest business in the USA is the
cymbal company, Zildjian, which was
founded in Constantinople in 1623. (Source: American Heritage of Invention & Technology, Winter 2000)
There are 18 different animal shapes in the
Animal Crackers Cookie Zoo. (Source: StrangeFacts.com)
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons
of fuel. (Source: StrangeFacts.com)
It takes glass one million years to
decompose, which means it never wears
out and can be recycled an infinite amount
of times. (Source: StrangeFacts.com)
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle,
a group of geese in the air is a skein. (Source: StrangeFacts.com)
The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (Source: StrangeFacts.com)
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox
can be flattened into a sheet the size of a
tennis court. (Source: StrangeFacts.com)
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andandandand
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NEWSLETTERNEWSLETTERNEWSLETTERNEWSLETTER
FILLERFILLERFILLERFILLER
Here’s your chance to get involved and be
one of the first new fish in the boat. I’m
searching for people interested in being
part of the 2009-2010 CO-OPP Leadership
Team (Board Officers, Committee Chairs,
etc.,). If you’re interested, email me at
[email protected] or call me at
614/645-6031.
-Joe LombardiJoe LombardiJoe LombardiJoe Lombardi
ValentineValentineValentineValentine’’’’s Days Days Days Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14th. It is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other; sending Valentine’s cards or gifting candy. It is very common to present flowers on Valentine's Day. The holiday is named after two men from among the numerous Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making February 14th the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. The association estimates that women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines.
EARLY BIRD is a publication of the Central Ohio Organization of Public Purchasers (CO-OPP), a chapter of the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing (NIGP). This mini-newsletter is written and produced by the Public Relations Committee of CO-OPP, Steve Sammons, Chairman; Jean Stephenson, Jack Hill II, Geri Berry, Teri Wilkinson and Harry Graham, members, on month’s where the Procurement Edge is not published (February, April, June, July, August, October and December).
Most of us are responsive to familiarity, so if I were to whistle a few chords of a certain sitcom theme, you would probably all visualize a son and his father walking down a dirt road with fishing poles in their hands. That homespun peaceful, easy feeling comes to mind when I first read about our next feature member of the Board. Raised in South Solon, Ohio, “population 400 on good days, 401 when I was there”, Mark Douglas Hutchison, Sr., CPPO, CPPB, C.P.M., learned the values of unpretentious, laid-back living, from his earliest purchasing beginnings, while obtaining the mail for two elderly seniors in South Solon, at an income of $1.00 per month. Twenty-seven years, five months and counting (but, he swears he’s not) later, he is deeply rooted in a daily regime of purchasing responsibilities for the Office of Procurement Services with the State of Ohio. Mark and his wife of 35 years, Linda, have two children, Mark Jr., and Stephanie who are both married with families of their own. Mark Jr., and his wife Jill have one daughter, Lucy, who was adopted from China. Stephanie and her husband Matthew have a daughter, Meghan Marie and a son, Owen. Our experiences play an integral role in the cultivation of our character. Anyone who has worked with Mark knows how dedicated he is to the things that he believes in. He is a charter member of CO-OPP, and has served in virtually every leadership role in our organization. He is an instructor for NIGP and finds great reward in being able to travel across the country teaching and learning from the other public professionals in our industry. Of the many great things that Mark has accomplished in his tenure as President, perhaps the one that will have the most staying power is his reference to our chapter as The Best Damn Chapter in the Land (T.B.D.C.I.T.L). I gave Mark a chance to write something personal in closing, and these are his remarks: “I thoroughly love this organization. The members and leadership have brought me to new higher levels of operation with opportunities to learn and to be part of many positive events. I know when I step down as your President later this year, I will have missed opportunities to stop and tell everyone individually thanks for the ride, and, to let them know exactly what each one has meant to me over the years…. and to my successor Joe,
GO BUCKEYES!!”
