DATE: June 3, 1998

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Manuel Morden (MM) - President
James S. Lai (JSL) - Pres.-Elect/Seminar Cmte./Steering Cmtes.
Brian L. Cochran (BLC) - Vice President
James A. Hill (JAH) - Treasurer/Budget Cmte.
Dennis J. Drag (DJD) - Secretary(1)
Melvyn Green (MG) - Immed.Past Pres./SEAOC Delegate
Lawrence P. Brugger (LPB) - Director
Tom Harris, Jr. (TH) - Director
Gary C. Hart (GCH) - Director(1)
Richard L. Hess (RLH) - Director
Farzad Naeim (FN) - Director(1)
Doc X. Nghiem (DXN) - Director
Douglas S. Thompson (DST) - Director
Williston "Bill" Warren (BW) - Director
Richard A. Ranous (RAR) - Sr. Past Pres./SEAOC Delegate
John G. Shipp (JGS) - SEAOC 1998 Pres.-Elect(1)
Donald H. Gilbert (DHG) - Administrator
Shafat Qazi (SQ) - Computer Applications Cmte. Chair

(1) By Reference (Not present at meeting)

Note: M/S/C means "Moved/Seconded/Carried"

1 Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 2:25 p.m. by MM.

2 Approval of Meeting Minutes: The minutes of the May 6, 1998 meeting of the Board of Directors, which were previously distributed, were approved.

3 Treasurer Reports: M/S/C to approve the financial reports for May, 1998 and the payment of expenses for the month of May, 1998.

4 Committee Reports:

4A SEAOSC Seminars: Seminars and dinner meetings were discussed.

4B Membership Report: DHG reported that membership totaled 1595 as of May 19 compared to 1589 one year ago. As of June 3, 1998 SEAOSC has 1600 members.

Candidates for Membership: 16 candidates including 4 Member SE; 3 Member; 1 Associate, 1 Affiliate, 2 Industry Member; 0 Corresponding and 0 Student were presented and it was M/S/C to approve them for membership.

Membership Drive: DHG reported that he would speak with Lynn Bockemohle to schedule a meeting of the Membership Drive Cmte. so that potential candidates can be followed-up.

4C Younger Member Cmte. (B21): TH discussed Jason Tani's recommendation to have field trips for younger members. The Board agreed and will encourage. Suggested discussing this topic on the list server.

4D Ballot Cmte.: DHG reported that the Ballot Cmte. consisted of himself, DJD and BW and announced the results of the 1997-98 election:

Treasurer: Jack Bruce, Member SE:Graeme Dick and Saif Hussain, Member: Shafat Qazi, Member SE from Tri-Counties Chapter: Fred Schott, Member SE from Orange County, Bill Nelson. The proposed Bylaws changes were approved by a vote of 97%.

5 Delgts SEAOC Business:

5A SEAOC Executive Cmte. Items: None.

5B SEAOC Old Business:

ALL (1) Future of SEAOC: Discussed. M/S/C to send a delegation to one or all of the Board of Directors meetings of SEAONC, SEAOSD and SEAOCC to open a dialogue between the associations for better understanding and to write an article stating SEAOSC's position on the centralization of SEAOC for possible publication in Plan Review.

ALL (2) Executive Director Contract: Discussed. M/S/C to accept Draft #2 of the Revised Job Description as SEAOSC's position of what SEAOC's Executive Director's duties should be as amended to reflect changing the title from executive director to administrator and changing that this person serves as "Chief Operating Officer of SEAOC" to "Chief Administrator of SEAOC." Further discussion regarding renewing the current executive director's contract was tabled until the next meeting at which time the ramifications of any action will be discussed.

MM (3) Internet Site M.O.U.: M/S/C to have MM appoint 3 SEAOSC members and have Ken Kuttrell appoint 3 SEAOC members to a committee which has the authority to negotiate a Memo of Understanding ASAP between the SEAOC Member Associations and SEAOSC for the ownership and maintenance of the seaoc.org Internet site. It is understood that this cmte. is to be able to meet as often as needed and all expenses will be split 50/50 with SEAOSC and SEAOC. MM appointed JSL, BW and SQ to this committee. MM to ask Ken Luttrell to appoint the SEAOC members. The general understanding was that if this committee could not negotiate a compromise, then SEAOSC would change the name of the Internet site to another name and then relinquish the seaoc.org name to SEAOC after enough time had elapsed to have people re-direct their bookmarks and search engines to reflect the new address.

5C SEAOC New Business:

DHG Suggest Names for Fellow: Discussed SEAOSC members to be nominated for Fellow. Decision deferred until next board meeting. DHG to locate list developed by last year's cmte.

6 Old Business:

6A SQ/DHG Electronic Roster: SQ suggested that SEAOSC members be able to submit address changes to the SEAOSC office from the web page. Approved. SQ & DHG to implement.

6B JSL Joint Meeting w/Business Forum and CSES: Approved to have JSL further investigate having a joint meeting.

7 New Business:

7A JAH Renewal of DHG&A Contract: Referred to the Budget Cmte.

7B MM Inspection Practices Cmte. Letter: Requested to have topic removed from agenda.

7C JSL/DHG Construction Quality Assurance Subcmte. Document: Guidelines for Construction Materials - Structural Steel Materials: Referred to SCREQ Steering Cmte. DHG to send copies of the document to the SCREQ Cmte. members.

7D Other New Business:

JSL 1. Student Scholarship Program: JSL proposed establishing a corporate scholarship program for students. All agreed.

2. MM expressed his thanks to the Board in helping him and SEAOSC through a difficult year.

3. It was moved by JSL, seconded and unanimously carried to thank MM for his guidance this past year.

8 Consent Items & FYI: See agenda packet.

9 Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 5:35 p.m.

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