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INSTRUMENTATION - SYSTEMS - AUTOMATION

Orange County Section

1998-1999 ISA Orange County Section Board Meeting #10

May 12, 1999

Election of 1999-2000 Officers:

President - Troy Johnson, President-Elect - Terry Sellers, Treasurer - Christine Tachdjian, Secretary - Katherine Dam

  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 April 14, 1999 Board meeting minutes were approved by Troy Johnson and 2nd by Earl Montgomery.

  1. Treasurer’s Report – Terry Sellers

Terry submitted the monthly Treasurer Report.

  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. So far, 56 people have signed up.

  1. Arrangements – Al Thawer

No report.

  1. Education – John Gong

John is putting together a third education seminar on June 12th. Subject is the Internet.  Need dial out line from CN-7 to demonstrate live internet.   Two sponsors have been secured.

  1. Membership – Don Zee / Mai Luu

No report.

  1. Honors Awards – Carl Skokan

Reference forms for the nomination of Bob Harrison for Fellow Member have been sent (four months for processing nomination).

  1. Student Section – Jim Cody

Student competition will be held on June 12th (Note: Changed to June 16th - Cal State Fullerton won and will represent Philadelphia in Philadelphia at ISA TECH/99).  Communication with LA Section has been initiated.   Discussion to stage the student competition at the ISA Orange County Education Seminar was discussed.

  1. Standards and Practices – Earl Montgomery

No Report

  1. Publicity - Jim Utt

No Report.

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

John has ben elected District 11 Vice President Elect Elect.  He will begin serving as the DVP in two years.

  1. Web Page – Bob Harrison
    2.

    Bob has added the Hit Count on our website. The Education Flyer/Registration is on the web site.  Discussion was held to add job postings from the Chart to the Web Page.

  1. Old Business - Bis Mitra

None.

  1. New Business – All

The President's Summer Meeting will be in Scottsdale, AZ, June 19-24. Troy Johnson will attend.

The LA Section has requested a joint meeting to tour the Yorba Linda Water District.  All voted in favor to conduct the joint meeting.  Bis will follow up on the financial impact to conduct this joint meeting.

  1. Closing Remarks – Bis Mitra

The meeting was adjourned at 8:45PM.

Submitted by,

Christine Tachdjian, Secretary