PASCO Board Meeting Minutes

Minutes from Meeting – July 13, 2009   7:20PM

2009 Goals = Completed

  1. Fill all the board & committee positions
  2. Complete website information infrastructure and content – monthly updates
  3. Increase activity of site champions (through promotions chair)
  4. Increase air show promotions to 3/year.
  5. Increase use of the private pilot glider support program.
  6. Consolidate FAA relationships. Build on good relationships to date.
  7. Two Westwinds per year March & September
  8. Clarify Pasco’s position & capacity to promote winch launching
  9. Increase PASCO visibility to clubs and FBO’s – membership drive
  10. PASCO Spirit wear
  11. Banquet, seminars, safety issues info and dissemination
  12. Financial audit and budget

 

 

Board Members Present:

  • Peter Deane
  • Fred LaSor
  • Bruce Roberts
  • Mike Mayo
  • Hans Van Weersch

Regional Directors/Governors present/FAA Liason present

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Completed Action Items:

  • Bruce: Finalize venue for 2009 banquet. Status: Hiller Aviation Museum at San Carlos Airport.
  • Bruce: Call Sully, is he willing to be guest speaker? Status: Done, speaker will be Alan Brown
  • Karol: Work to find a new editor to replace herself for Westwind. Status: This item is considered closed. Peter will email general membership for replacement.
  • Karol: Ask her CPA how much she would charge to audit PASCO’s books Status: Closed, its expensive.

Rollover Action Items:

  • Peter: Solicit for MC for 2009 banquet Status: Open
  • Hans: Organize official financial audit with external CPA Status: Open
  • Hans: Find out how to get Peter as a signatory, and get him bank material & info. Status: Electronic paperwork has been submitted, in progress.
  • Rob / Karol: Create promotion strategy for PASCO with ASI (to get ASI members to join and be involved in PASCO) (Karol, Stu, Robert Stoney) Status: Open (Karol: will try to get out there this week.)
  • Ty: Create membership promotion plan for Westwind and PASCO website Status: Open (Peter will follow up with Ty.)
  • Peter / Joel: Two spirit ware items available by July 2009 Status: In progress, T-shirt design to Joel, no inputs from Joel yet, 2nd item will be a hat. Status: In progress
  • Mike: Conduct general membership survey (What do members want: from the seminars, outside of the seminars, annual meeting, safety content, annual presentation of awards, other topics?) Mike expects to have  strawman proposal out this week. Status: Open
  • Joel: Research Sport Pilot-related events for possible PASCO display. Status: Ongoing (Update: Flying Magazine is having their “Parade of Planes” show in Hayward Oct. 15 -17. This may be a good venue.)
  • Rolf: Put together straw man plan on how best to approach NORCAL regarding glider ops out of Byron & Hollister. Status: Open.
  • Peter: Send out a message to all PASCO members asking for volunteers, both to serve in board positions and to edit WestWind. Status: Open
  • Peter: Take Fred’s list of coordinates from BLM of locations of monitoring towers and enter them as a turnpoint file in SeeYou so that people can download them and see if they’re an issue for their soaring safety (to be made available from PASCO web site.)  Status: Open
  • Karol/Jay: Contact SSA about getting the PASCO Reno Procedures (or a subset thereof) published in Soaring with a link to the full thing on the PASCO web site. Also forward to Region 12 (Cindy Brickner) so they can publish it in their newsletter. Status: Open

New Action Items

  • Mike: determine who does Truckee audits, we may be able to use him for our external audit.
  • Bruce: Can Nov safety seminars qualify as a Wings event? If yes could draw transition pilots.
  • Bruce: send out board meeting reminder email 1 week prior.

2. Treasure’s report Hans:
3. Banquet & Seminars Preparation Site, speaker, topics Discussion:

  • Bruce: Venue will be Hillar Aviation Museum, and speaker will be Alan Brown. Will incorporate transition pilot talks w other talks (one transition talk in AM session, one talk in PM session). Plan is to make a wings event (see New Action Items)

4. Membership Issues and Promotion
Spiritwear: work on T-shirt and hat in progress Peter/Joel
5. Communications

  • a. Website June Westwind available on the website
  • b. WestWind  was published & mailed out.

6. Safety Issues

  •  Soaring NV has added a blog and a ‘SPOT’ link on their website. Fred recommends registering w Soaring NV, ie anyone can view registered pilots real time and after the fact flights. Question came up; should PASCO recommend pilots ‘SPOT’ registering w their FBO (for safety)?
  • Soar Truckee is shutting down from 8/13 to Sept 3 for runway improvements. Soar Truckee will be open over Labor Day weekend.
  • Misc: very little non glider traffic at Minden now; & the skydiving operation at Minden may close, due to DZ issues.

7. Contest Updates
Regionals and Nationals

  • Std & 18m Nationals in Montague held end of June. Dave Greenhill/Peter Deane 1st/2nd in std class, William Garret 1st in open class.

8. Winch activities progress

  • No update

9. PASCO Director positions

  • Peter: Will send out an email blast to see if we can get some volunteers (see Rollover Action Items #12)

10. SSA updates No updates
11. New Business
None.

Meeting Ended 8:30PM

Next Meeting: Monday August 10