From execdirector at washingtonlandtitle.com Fri Nov 14 16:34:50 2025 From: execdirector at washingtonlandtitle.com (George Peters) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:34:50 -0800 Subject: [Educationcommittee] WLTA Education Committee Meeting Minutes 8/19/2025 References: Message-ID: <00e501dc55c7$a755e770$f601b650$@washingtonlandtitle.com> Sean has pointed out that at the last Board meeting in August it was decided to send a survey to operation managers to assess interest in seminars (attendance seems to have fallen off, particularly from employees of underwriters), whether to maybe only have one rather than two per year, location for that single seminar, etc. Such a survey was not prepared or sent. You will recall that what the Education Committee did decide after the August Board meeting was to plan for one fall seminar in 2026 at Lynnwood Event Center. Sean has made those arrangements. Thought should be given to whether a survey will still be worth while, which can be discussed at next week's Board meeting. George George Peters, WTP Co-Executive Director Washington Land Title Association https://washingtonlandtitle.com Mail: PO Box 328, Lynnwood, WA 98046 Delivery: 6817 208th St SW, #328, Lynnwood, WA 98036 206-437-5869 (Mobile) 206-260-4731 (Fax) execdirector at washingtonlandtitle.com This is a confidential communication intended solely for the named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy it and call George Peters at 206-437-5869 immediately. Thank you. From: George Peters Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2025 1:23 PM To: 'Gary Guerin' ; 'Paul Hofmann (paul at agltg.com)' ; 'Ben Case' ; 'Maureen Pfaff (maureen at olypentitle.com)' ; 'Sean Holland (seanholland at att.net)' ; 'Rick Randall (rick.randall at fnf.com)' ; 'Jim Blair (jblair4 at figtitle.com)' ; 'Marcella Carey' Cc: 'Ashley Callahan (acallahan at ortc.com)' ; 'Michelle Taylor (mjtaylor at firstam.com)' Subject: RE: WLTA Education Committee Meeting Minutes 8/19/2025 Gerry, I will also save your email as a PDF and in our folder for Meeting reports. George George Peters, WTP Co-Executive Director Washington Land Title Association https://washingtonlandtitle.com Mail: PO Box 328, Lynnwood, WA 98046 Delivery: 6817 208th St SW, #328, Lynnwood, WA 98036 206-437-5869 (Mobile) 206-260-4731 (Fax) execdirector at washingtonlandtitle.com This is a confidential communication intended solely for the named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy it and call George Peters at 206-437-5869 immediately. Thank you. From: Gary Guerin > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2025 11:35 AM To: Paul Hofmann (paul at agltg.com ) >; 'Ben Case' >; Maureen Pfaff (maureen at olypentitle.com ) >; Sean Holland (seanholland at att.net ) >; George Peters >; Rick Randall (rick.randall at fnf.com ) >; Jim Blair (jblair4 at figtitle.com ) >; Marcella Carey > Cc: Ashley Callahan (acallahan at ortc.com ) >; Michelle Taylor (mjtaylor at firstam.com ) > Subject: WLTA Education Committee Meeting Minutes 8/19/2025 Team, rough idea of what we discussed Tuesday. I am sure I forgot a few but wanted to put something out to the group. In attendance: Myself, Paul Hofman, Marcella Carey, Ben Case, George Peters, Sean Holland, Maureen Pfaff and Rick Randall (hope I didn't forget anyone) Not in attendance Ashley Callahan and Michelle Taylor To do items: 1. Do we continue to do two or just simplify into one, do we do East or West location a. As discussed, Eastern WA a cheaper option but will folks travel from West to East 2. Continue to investigate and review all options for a venue for our seminar in Fall a. Regroup first couple of weeks of September to decide if we are sticking with Lynnwood or looking at another option i. Things to consider, venue size, break out rooms, parking and cost of food ii. And or limited options for food, maybe continental breakfast and lunch instead of full breakfast and lunch (seems to be a bit item always on the feedback lists, folks like to be fed especially if they are locked in a room all day on a Saturday 3. Survey needed to get a few of our simple questions out and cascaded to the board members and in front of the eyes of title and escrow folks, with some additional help and buy in from the operation managers a. What is a viable cost that a manager feels is worthy of paying for their team member to attend the seminar i. Is there a cap that a manager wants to pay for these education opportunities b. Is the West side the preferred location for these seminars c. Is the East side the preferred location for these seminars Important Dates: Need to have our request for venue in very soon since we have done in the past a year in advance. If we are looking at the middle two weeks of September. Jet me know if we have any options for the group to regroup in the next couple of weeks so we can get an invite out, thanks All! I will add into my section of the meeting today the notice that we are working on a short survey to cascade to all members and our need for managers to help with buy in on the importance of our industry and our education opportunities. Thank you, Gerry Guerin Senior Title Operations Manager Stewart Title Company/SEFS Commercial (CA, AZ and NV) M (253) 453-0967 Gerry.Guerin at stewart.com NYSE: STC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 6078 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 68742 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.gif Type: image/gif Size: 4493 bytes Desc: not available URL: