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Minutes from Meeting - Sept. 15, 2008

Time: 7:00 PM

Board Members Present:

• Peter Deane

• Bruce Roberts

• Joel Klein

• Mike Mayo

• Karol Hines

• Larry Roberts

• Ramy Yanetz

 

Regional Directors/Governors present

• Jay McDaniel

 

Old Action Items:

 

  1. Larry: Put PASCO promotion materials & static display best practices document materials on the web site so that anyone who wants to put on a static display can do so.
    • Status: Larry will put on website soon (needs to create a page to put them on.
  2. Hans: Call John Volkover for help on the audit
    • Status: Not due until after the banquet.
  3. Peter: Write the first monthly update for the website
    • Status: Not done???
  4. Karol: Work to find a new editor to replace herself for Westwind
    • Status: Not done
  5. Karol: Call Larry and establish a routine for regular news updates on the web site (e.g. blog)
    • Status: Larry proposes 2x/month, 1st and 3rd Thursdays, to do the updates
  6. Peter: Email Bill Levinson (NCSA pres) to find out status of Byron airport plan
    • Status: Not done
  7. Peter: Recruit PASCO promotions chair
    • Status: Not done – covering himself for now.
  8. Peter: Mail printed material to site champions
    • • Status: Not done yet – electronic copies sent.
  9. Peter: Email Bill Levinson (NCSA pres) to find out status of Byron airport plan
    • Status: Not done
  10. Hans: Publish/email treasure’s report
    • Status: Not done

 

Treasure’s report – Hans

 

• Status: No report. Hans in Europe due to death in family


Communications Chair report – Karol/Larry


a. Website Updates – Larry

  • Larry: would like to have scheduled updates, to that end, he'll do updates on two weeknights, 1st and 3rd Thursdays. It's quicker if it's just cut and paste, takes longer if he has to write the text himself.
  • Peter: How should we get info to you?
  • Larry: email him and copy the board
  • Larry: Will be making changes / updates to email. Contacted Brian Choate to help out. They will be converting pacific soaring email to google email to be able to send attachments with the email list. The address won't change. It will look just like google web mail interface. There will be a web address where we can all go there to see what's been sent. He'll send out the details when it's ready. We'll also have an online Google calendar, we can have up to 100 email addresses so whole board can have an email address. This will finally allow us to have attachments! Also gives us access to google docs if we want (online applications similar to Word & Excel, with the added benefit of online document storage so we'll all have access.) Future capabilities as well. (Larry has dropped out of one other club (Silverado), so is freed up to do more PASCO stuff!)

 

b. WestWind Update – Karol

  • Karol: Still looking for new editor. Isn't that much work, actually...
  • Karol: Current issue won't be done till end of week. She will include article about Peter/Ramy/Yulie’s flight from Truckee Sunday 8/17, will put in what she's got on Soar Truckee bulletin board. If anyone has some, please send pictures, anything. Ramy flew north of Shasta and back today.
  • Peter: can send flight traces
  • Karol: Current issue will be done by end of this week. If Peter wants to add anything, can hold to this weekend.
  • Peter: I do need to write up explanation of new Westwind schedule.
  • Karol: Nobody contacted her with any more info about Dave, so will use existing article about Dave Cunningham.
  • Karol will publish the letter of agreement on new wave window details
  • Karol will include a reference to norcalwinch Yahoo group
  • Peter: that should also include text of the statement of purpose
  • Karol was unable to distribute promotional material at the Reno Air Races as she was too busy doing media booth stuff.

 

Safety Committee

 

• Peter: Richard Pearl pulled out of doing safety presentation at banquet (b-day obligations) Peter has no extra bandwidth right now, will work on finding Safety officer after banquet.

 

Peter: Any update on Lee Edling?

Karol: He hasn't been at Air Sailing all summer-had to go to the midwest to help his mother

 

SSA Regional Director & PASCO Director positions – Peter

Peter: No progress on finding new safety officer

 

Promotion - Peter

 

  • Salinas Airshow:
    • Joel: Eric Rupp is handling this since Drew is in Europe. (updated since the meeting: Eric will display his DG 300 at Salinas, and is organizing volunteers & handouts. Joel will be there on Sunday.)

 

Winch Launch Discussion:

 

  • Mark has created a Yahoo! Winch group (norcalwinch); next Westwind will include reference to this
  • Mark: Discussion has stopped-everybody is waiting for someone to do something
    Peter: Mark did a good job of putting everything together and a straw man plan - put out a nice financial planning spreadsheet. The problem is: minimize loan and maximize the number of equity owners
  • Mark: Can't afford big loans as servicing the debt eats up the revenues.
  • Real issue is money. Are there enough people around to make it happen.
  • Peter: Figure out a plan and float it in a more public manner. There are some fairly wealthy people around... Willing to help flesh it out.
  • Mark: Plan is to come up with some numbers (with your help) and put it out there.
  • Peter: We need some expert people to train us; teach the teachers. The other side is liability protection for equity share holders.
  • Mark: The liability issue is for the people actually operating the winch.
  • Peter: We need to figure out the legal issues. Need to come up with a certification program for the operators.

 

Membership Update

No update

 

FAA Airspace Liaison

 

Transponder rulemaking update – Jay?

• Jay: No news on transponder update rule.

 

Airports

 

ASI:

  • Karol: wind farm with 150 windmills going up on Virginia Peak, already approved, scheduled to start 2010. 200 foot tall. All other development stalled with issues about water. Ballot initiatives against "leapfrog development" and against requiring importing water. Air Sailing did put up a gate that can be closed and locked once a year to prevent a restrictive easement across runway.
  • Jay: everything fine in Nevada. Good flying this past weekend.

 

Contests

 

  • Peter: Truckee keen on regionals in 2009
  • Karol: was at shareholders meeting this last weekend, she told them they need to "pick a date and submit the request." Will spend time with them to make sure they have the kind of organization they need.
  • Peter: Has spent time with Richard and Doug to make sure they know what's involved. Doable, just needs to be carefully thought out.

Awards

  • Alby Award update – Ramy-Sergio :
  • Jay emailed regions about nomination for non-flying awards for 2008; and resent to Region 11 8/20.
  • Ramy: Everything all set for the Alby award. Wanted to check that he's aware of the procedures about award nominations process.
  • Peter: Was going to schedule that for the next meeting, but can exchange email before hand to get ahead.
  • Ramy: needs to collect some of the awards ahead of the banquet. Will start on that at the beginning of next month.
  • Peter: Anyone who wants to nominate someone for an award should submit them to Ramy. Both board members and members as well, to open up the "closed circle" a bit more.
  • Peter: We'll review the nominations and see who gets what. Needs to be by the beginning of October

 

Banquet planning– Bruce Roberts

  • Bruce: First the good news Einar Einvoldsen will speak at the banquet, and will bring his weather guru as well. Mark has spoken with Roman (the winch guy) who will come. Fred LaSoar, Eric Rupp, FAA guys donald brooks and mark beadle. Five guys including Mark for seminar, plus Einar will speak at dinner.
  • Bad News: Oakland airport director said the seminars building wouldn't be torn down, but the museum director says that not only will it be torn down, but that the demolition is scheduled for 10/15(!) Oakland Airspace Museum director Pam will accommodate us if we want to, but there's no room there big enough for our group. Options: Day sessions somewhere else, and dinner there. Or elsewhere for everything.
  • We need someplace that can accommodates 60-70 people.
  • Peter: Is there anything at the airport?
  • Bruce: I'll talk with the airport manager - Need to make sure that there will be parking too, when they tear down the building.

 

New Business

 

None

 

New Action Items:

 

  1. Peter: print out some promotional info to take to seminars and hand out to site champions. If can, otherwise will mail to them after banquet.
  2. Peter: write promotional email and text for westwind about the seminars and banquet
  3. Peter: put out member request for inputs for PASCO exceptional service awards and Les Arnold Award
  4. Ramy to put together an email of the awards and solicitation of nominations. Also for distance awards. Will send it to Ty White and he will forward it to everybody
  5. Bruce to look for alternative facilities for seminars and banquet.
  6. Peter: mail his (wife's) airshow display procedures list to Larry for the Website.
  7. Larry: complete web site updates for Gmail, seminars and banquet, promotional information.

 

Next Pasco board meeting: 10/6/08 (Moved up a week) 7pm – all the usual numbers and locations apply.

 

Meeting Adjourned 8:27 PM