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Orange County Section

1998-1999 ISA Orange County Section Board Meeting #3

October 14, 1998

  1. Call to Order / Opening Comments- Bis Mitra

Bis Mitra opened the Meeting at 7:20 PM.
  1. Board Meeting Minutes Approval – Christine Tachdjian

The September 9, 1998 Board meeting minutes were approved by John Querido and 2nd by Earl Montgomery.

  1. Treasurer’s Report – Terry Sellers

Terry Sellers submitted budget report for period ending 10-13-98. Reconciliation reports for all transactions were also submitted.

  1. Programs – Deepak Vora/Meenakshi Govil

The program topic for November will be "Career Opportunities for new graduates.

The meeting will be held at Cal State University, Fullerton.

The panelists are:

Craig Lanternier - Fluor Daniel, Inc.

Carl Jones - Fisher Rosemount

Jerry Zacharski - Rockwell Automation

Dr. Rainer Hessmer - Wonderware

December 6th will be the ISA Christmas Celebration and Award Ceremony at the Amanda Club in Buena Park.

January meeting will be non-technical: Financial Planning
  1. Arrangements – Al Thawer

Not present – No report
  1. Education – John Gong

First education seminar on "Fieldbus" will be held on Saturday November 14th 1998.

All the arrangements are made. John Gong will not be present on the day of the seminar (Business Travel)

 
  1. Membership – Don Zee / Mai Luu

Mai presented current section membership statistics. 49 members were present at today meeting.

All members approved that an award will be given for every Board member who recruits at least 10 new ISA members.
  1. Honors Awards – Carl Skokan

Don Zee Award has been awarded to George Thuro of Orange County Sanitation District. A plaque for his honor will be made. Bis will take care of this task.

 

9. Student Section – Jim Cody / Hrag Ohannessian

Not present – No report

Bis stated that a replacement for Jim Cody must be found. Jim is very involved at work. Search for new Student Section Liaison during next meeting at Cal State Fullerton
  1. Standards and Practices – Earl Montgomery

No new activities to report. Next Standards and Practices meeting will be held in Houston. Earl does not plan to attend.
  1. Publicity - Jim Utt

Not present - No report
  1. Historian / Sec. Div Liaison / Society Delegate – John Querido

John will be going to Houston October 17 through 22 to represent our section in the Society Delegates Meeting. He submitted the agenda for the Society Delegates Meeting. He also submitted the Society Incorporation Form and the Periodic Report CT-2 Form for the period of July 1, 1997 to June 30, 1998.

 
  1. Old Business – Bis Mitra

There will be no short courses this year and the budgeted fund for this ($35,000) will be distributed amongst the three Southern California sections.

 
  1. New Business – All

Newsletter Publication: Chart

Chart is not reaching ISA members on time. This is mainly due to late publication submittals by other section. (LA Section hold their meetings third week of the month therefore this late publication of newsletter does not impact them)

It was agreed that Bis needs to find out the submittal deadline from the publisher in order for Chart to be published on time. This "final date" needs to be announced by letter to each of the Sections for agreement on a common submittal and publishing date.

ISA Orange County Web Site: It was decided that the ISA Web site need to be finished and on the internet by the end of October.
  1. Closing Remarks – Bis Mitra

The meeting was adjourned at 8:30PM.

 

Submitted by,

Christine Tachdjian, Secretary