Meeting minutes 6/13/05

 

Attendees:  Abbas Ghassemi, Tim Bivens, Larry Burchfield, Bruce Kaiser, Briana Colley.

 

Abbas says truly a pleasure to have worked with the team, significant strides - No ugly to report, and areas of improvement - more exhaustive interaction with the Board Members - a lot more involvement of the Board. Improvements to the Board are more Core competencies that will assist the Board in the future development - must be full of Passion and commitment. Look into how we can grow and not get stale.  The bigger the initiatives the more time demanded - that needs to be undertaken.  Thank you to Steve and Larry for all the hard work.

 

Resigned Members:  Abbas Ghassemi, Mark Rudin, Steve Bakhtiar, and Amir Mohagani

 

Ratification of the Board Members - Call to vote in the new Board Members Tim Bivens and Bruce Kaiser, vote went as follows:

 

Abbas Ghassemi          Yea to both        

Larry Burchfield   Yea to both

Briana Colley       Yea to both

 

 

New Board is as follows until amendment to By Laws will set the service times:

 

Larry Burchfield

Briana Colley

Bruce Kaiser

Tim Bivens

Chuan-Fu Wu

 

 

Interim President Elected via this meeting will be Larry Burchfield until the annual Board Meeting in December, vote went as follows.

        

         Tim Bivens           Yea

         Briana Colley       Yea

         Bruce Kaiser        Yea

 

 

 

Larry presented a list of item to look at in the future

-Revise by laws and select new Board members

-Elect new officers

         -Submission of By Laws to membership for approval

 

 

Board Voted to Void the resolution 2005-1.0 to have >100$ approved by the Board, vote went as follows:

        

Briana Colley       Yea

Larry Burchfield   Yea

Bruce Kaiser        Yea

Tim Bivens           Yea

 

 

Tim presented new password for the Board member login area.

 

Larry reported 6,000$ incoming revenue and 5,000$ more for July. 

 

General request accepted by Larry to present monthly expenditures and receipts on the Board server area.

 

Bruce requested that we choose Board Members based on the need to have intellectual course marketing, promotion, and teaching.

 

Tim presented facts that the server providing amenities for mass mailing is providing a powerful tool for fraction of actual cost.

 

Larry Burchfield indicates that the membership is not involved and we need to move towards a local chapter meeting regularly.

 

Larry certification Materials need to be developed and on line courses will need to be completed. 

 

Wiley publishing is interested in several areas for books.  Bruce wondered which areas we can assist in to push this area forward.  Briana indicated that other Board members can pick up tasks to free up Larryís time to do this. Bruce indicated that there needs to be a history of what has been tried in our efforts to help marketing.

 

Larry said scholarship needs to be presented.  Board agreed and indicated that maybe it can be placed in a form of several installments.  Bruce suggested 4 scholarships at 3,000$, and paying half in September and the rest at a later date. Larry will cull applicants for finalists for the Scholarships.  This list will be sent out for review and approval by the Board.

 

Briana will continue to work on amending the By Laws and indicate the report format for expenditures. Briana and Larry will work on the venue for a local Tri-City Chapter meeting.

 

Tim would like to make the Chart of the Nuclides booklet an electronic item for sale, and will look into the feasibility.

 

Larry indicated the need for Two Boards to be created; Advisory and Operating.  Briana will try to incorporate this into New By Laws. 

 

Next Meeting Date is set for 6/21/05 noon P.T.

These minutes were accepted by the Board on June 21, 2005