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Orange County Section

1998-1999 ISA Orange County Section Board Meeting #9

April 14, 1999

  1. Call to Order / Opening Comments – Bis Mitra

         Bis Mitra opened the Meeting at 7:25 PM.

  1. Board Meeting Minutes Approval – Christine Tachdjian

The March 10, 1999 Board meeting minutes were approved by Don Zee and 2nd by Bob Harrison.

  1. Treasurer’s Report – Terry Sellers

Terry submitted the monthly Treasurer Report.

If possible, we need to keep track of membership income. How many members have dropped? Who? What are the membership cycles?…

  1. Programs – Deepak Vora/Meenakshi Govil

Program topic for May will be on Fiber Optics.   Presentation of outgoing Board members will be in May.

June Program will be the Getty Museum Tour and Picnic. The Getty reservation is for 10:30Am for 90 people and 18 cars. Arrangements must be made for carpooling. Previous ISA speakers have been invited. Food will be catered by “KooKooRoo Chicken”.

July Program will be on the Internet.

District Workshop: April 23, 24, 25 in Las Vegas. John Querido motioned a vote for $300 expense reimbursement for each board member attending the workshop. Terry Sellers 2nd the motion. All Board members voted in favor.

July Program will be on an Internet topic.

  1. Arrangements – Al Thawer

Al was not present but submitted a report. He has secured 19 sponsors for ISA Programs.

  1. Education – John Gong

John is putting together a third education seminar on June 12th. Subject is the Internet.

  1. Membership – Don Zee / Mai Luu

Don Zee did not receive this month’s membership breakdown. Mai Luu did a report on meeting attendance. She evaluated continuing attendance of non-members. She sent an e-mail to all non-members that attended more than 2 meetings inviting them to join ISA. Response was low.

  1. Honors Awards – Carl Skokan

Reference forms for the nomination of Bob Harrison for Fellow Member have been sent. Discussion on ISA policy that references must come from other fellow or senior members only. This is quite difficult since not many other fellows are in our section. Should we allow non-members to give references? This of course leads to evaluation and honor of members from people outside the society. Shouldn’t this honor come from the member’s peers? This might be an issue to be brought up at the President’s Summer meeting.

Still need to form a committee for new officer nominations.   Current nominations: Terry Sellers - President Elect, Christine Tachdjian - Treasurer, and Katherine Dam  - Secretary.

  1. Student Section – Jim Cody

No Report. 8 Students will attend the District Workshop in Las Vegas. Student competition is on hold until finals are completed.

  1. Standards and Practices – Earl Montgomery

Earl is no longer on the Standards Board – No Report

  1. Publicity - Jim Utt

No Report There was an invoice for $300 for education seminar inserts to Chart.

  1. Historian / Sec. Div Liaison / Society Delegate – John Querido

Delegate’s Forum will be in Philadelphia this fall. John plans to make a presentation on our Education seminars.

  1. Web Page – Bob Harrison
    2.

    Bob is looking into adding the Hit Count on our website. There were some recent modifications to the ISA Web Page due to the introduction/addition of ISA On Line. This has caused some links not to work. Bob is aware of those non-working links and will correct them.

  1. Old Business - Bis Mitra

Insurance: Bis looked into our policy. He talked to Peggy Bellock from Accordia. Attendance is based on average of 100 people per meeting. This will satisfy our needs.

  1. New Business – All

None.

  1. Closing Remarks – Bis Mitra

The meeting was adjourned at 8:45PM.

Submitted by,

Christine Tachdjian, Secretary