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MARCI Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

May 20, 2008

 

The meeting was called to order by the president, Geoff Haines, N1GY

Present were:

 

      Geoff Haines, N1GY, President

      Frank Morton, AC4MK, Vice President

      Dave Thomas, N9FOZ, Treasurer

      Jerry Johnson, AE4XW, Secretary

      Bob Somerville, KD4EFT, Director

      Jonelle Nabergall, KI4WSN, Director

      Ed Skalecki, NI4MX, Director

 

A quorum being present, the meeting continued.

 

Welcome new members to the Board

 

The minutes from the previous meeting, having been distributed to the board electronically before hand, were open for discussion. Bob Somerville made a motion that they be approved as posted..

 

The Treasures report was not ready, it was deferred until the next meeting then later is was presented by Dave and accepted. And it is published on the web site www.Manatee-ARC.org.

 

Bob Somerville presented a new member to vote on, his name is Charles Kline, KJ4DHS, he is an ARRL Member, Frank made a motion to accept him and he was accepted

 

Bob sent out the latest membership roster and there is one correction, Jonelle is general class now, congratulations.

 

Geoff brought up the fact that we do not have the CD that contains the policy manual and bylaws We think Frank KB2BE has it as he was the last one to do an update, Bob Somerville has the Policy Book and he will transfer it from Mac to MS and if he can get the Bylaws he would send them out, the final decision was to put them on the web site under the restricted area so only members could look at them.

 

Club shirt report, they are due the 29th; Geoff will pick them up and bring them to the June Business meeting on the 3rd. of June. Money for the shirts has been deposited in the bank account with the exception of $29.92 which will be collected at the June 3, 2008 meeting. Reorders for shirts has been changed from 24 to 6, making it a lot easier to place orders for new members.

 

Field Day will be held in the Red Cross Parking lot on 59th Street, BARK Club will participate with us but under their Call, much discussion was held on the location of equipment etc. I made a motion to appoint Frank Morton as Chairman of the Field Day Event, A discussion on field day will be held at the AREAS meeting and again at the June 3rd, business meeting, set up will start at 08:00 Saturday morning. Dave Thomas said he would donate the hot dogs for the event; we thanked him but decided that the club would pay for all the food and we will have a collection jar set out. Geoff will contact news outfits and try to get some recognition for the Clubs.

 

I volunteered to pick up the food and this is a suggested list

 

Hot Dogs

Buns

Hamburgers (Angus) if possible

Buns

100 Paper plates

100 plastic ware

Potato chips

Soda and water

 

Geoff has plenty of trash bags

 

Don’t forget to bring plenty of Off for mesquites and cooler clothing.

 

Frank told us that a hurricane expo will be held at the Civic center in Palmetto on May 31st. is will also have a sky warn class. You should get there around 09:00.

 

The Technician License Prep Class is planned but no date has been set as yet.

 

We still need speakers for the meetings; we are not too worried about July and August.

 

Dave still has problems downloading the member ship list, I told him I would help him get “Open Office” which will open all MS Office documents and is free.

 

I made a motion to adjourn the meeting and it passed.

 

 

Respectfully Submitted

 

Jerry Johnson, AE4XW Secretary.