Fall 2000 Meeting Minutes
September 15, 2000
- Call to Order
The meeting was called to order by President Rick Estes at approximately 11:00 A.M. Other current officers present were Sandy Buckstaff and Tom Corontzos.
II. Old Business
A. Approval of Minutes
Minutes of the Spring 2000 meeting were approved as submitted.
B. Treasurers Report
The treasures report was previously mailed to the membership. The report listed assets amounting to $24,859.15. Acceptance of the report was unanimously approved by those attending the meeting.
C. State Public Affairs Grant
This item was discussed at length. It was stated
the monies previously granted needed to be returned because they were not used.
Further discussion focused on using this grant in the future for the annual
water festival in
III. New Business
A. Tom Pilch-District Information
Tom was unable to attend due to the death of Walt Pilch, Tom’s father. Our condolences go out to Tom and the Pilch family.
Rick Estes had talked with Tom and relayed the information to the group. Tom wants to invite an ASCE officer to the winter meeting at the WES convention. Meeting participants were in agreement with this.
B. ASCE Seminar at WES
Rick Estes stated he will work to get an ASCE Workshop at WES. He thought that a ASCE Workshop would be desirable in place of the current workshops for the upcoming convention. A discussion ensued. One aspect of this venue we discussed was that the length may be longer than four hours. This could require rescheduling the time of the workshop at the convention, moving it from the normal Thursday morning classes to another time. The move depends on the length of the presentation, which is unknown at this time, therefore no conclusions were made.
C. Transfer of Funds from Savings
It was determined not to transfer funds at this time until a need was established.
D. Newsletter
Costs for the newsletter add up to approximately
$80. per newsletter for copies and postage.
Significant time is required to fold, address and send these to the approximate
250 membership of ASCE in
To address this a motion was made, seconded and approved to send each member a post card. The card is to ask two questions. The first is whether the member addressed will take the newsletter by E-Mail only. The second is inquiring the members current E-Mail address. The card will be requested returned with the information and or alternatively to E-Mail back the answers.
E. Student Chapter Report
Tyson Leggit (ASCE Student Membership Coordinator) was present representing the student chapter with Dr. Edgar. Dr. Edgar presented the student chapter report. Dr. Edgar stated the student membership has grown over the past few years and currently has 42 students. ASCE is a priority of the new UW Civil department head.
Dr. Edgar informed the group that the UW steel bridge received 6th place in construction time for a time of 3minutes 42seconds assembly and 33rd place overall. The bridge has a weight less than 100 lbs., has a 16’ clearspan and is 24’ long overall.
It was brought to the attention of the group that it would be desirable to have the bridge at the WES convention for people to view. The suggestion was received favorably and will hopefully be there, as conditions allow.
F. Installation of new board members
Election ballots were counted and new officers were installed:
Sinclair Buckstaff - President
Tom Corontzos - Vice President
Bill Johnston - Secretary
Rick Estes was thanked for his service to the membership serving on the board.
G. Other
John C. Bishop addressed the group and expressed his concern for the lack of membership activity of both ASCE and NSPE. Hopefully we can obtain more activity among the membership in both these organizations. Those with ideas to accomplish this are welcome to submit them to any board member.
IV. Meeting Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 12:00 noon for lunch and a joint program with NSPE.