DATE: Nov. 4 1998

PARTICIPANTS:

• M/S/C to approve the minutes of the Sept. 9, 1998 meeting of the Board of Directors which had been previously distributed via email.

• M/S/C to receive the financial reports for September and October 1998 and approve the payment of expenses for both months.

• M/S/C that the Treasurer is directed to relinquish the monthly checks to SEAOC for SEAOC membership dues owed.

• M/S/C to confirm the above appointments made by the Executive Cmte.

4B BLC SEAOSC Seminars: It was reported that the PD&D seminar scheduled for Dec. 2 is still not confirmed due to speakers being unavailable. BLC to continue arranging.

DHG The jointly sponsored seminars with ATC on FEMA 273 were discussed and that Donald H. Gilbert & Associates should provide registration services for these seminars.

• M/S/C to assign Donald H. Gilbert & Associates to handle the ATC jointly sponsored seminar on FEMA 273 on January 22 and 23.

4C Membership Report: DHG reported that membership totaled 1651 as of Oct. 15 compared to 1623 one year ago and 1624 two years ago. It was noted that as of Nov. 4, the membership totaled 1390 because last year’s delinquent members were dropped as of Oct. 28^th.

Candidates for Membership: 24 candidates including 1 Member SE; 13 Member; 5 Associate, 1 Affiliate, 1 Industry Member; 0 Corresponding and 3 Student were presented.

• M/S/C to approve the presented candidates for membership.

4D BLC Steering Cmte. (B1): BLC gave a verbal report and distributed a copy of the document, Guidelines for Construction Materials, to members of the Steering Cmte. for their review and comment.

4E DT Code Cmte. (B2): DT gave a verbal report of some of the accomplishments of the cmte. and what the cmte. is currently working on.

4F GD/FN Research Cmte. (B3): GD stated that the Research Cmte. is dormant and FN spoke about what the cmte. may do in the future.

4G BW/SQ/DT Convention Cmte. (C14): BW distributed updated status reports supplied by Convention General Chair Steve Perlof and Technical Chair Tom Harris. SQ volunteered to assist Steve ASAP in establishing an email account. The general theme of the convention is "SEA Santa Barbara" and the theme for the technical program is "Structural Solutions for the New Millenium". DT to tell Steve that the Board has directed the Convention Cmte. to meet monthly.

5 SEAOC Business:

5A JSL SEAOC Executive Cmte. Items: None.

5B Delgts SEAOC Old Business:

Seismic Design Manual Seminar Series – JGS stated that this seminar series is being established jointly with ICBO.

Roster with Firm/Vendor List – JGS stated that this project is progressing.

SEAOC Budget/Audit – JGS reported that a meeting of the Budget Cmte. is scheduled for Nov. 17^th.

5C SEAOC New Business:

Outside Funding – (Same as next item.)

Special Endowment Practical Research Fund – Discussion tabled until next meeting.

DHG Student Membership Dues – DHG to find out how much the other Member Organization’s charge for student memberships.

FS Cal Poly SLO Student Chapter – FS spoke to this issue which has been brought up by Paul Fratessa who is unhappy that the SLO students had been told by SEAOC that students need to be members of a local Member Organization. They had thought that they and were members of SEAOC. FS to speak with the student group and/or school to clarify that SEAOSC welcomes student members from Cal Ploy SLO.

1998-99 SEAOC Board Meeting Venues – JGS reported that he has requested the quarterly SEAOC meeting venues be revised to include one meeting at each Member Organization’s location.

JGS President’s Report – JGS briefed the Board on the monthly President’s message that he has planned for SEAOC.

SQ NCEES Electronic Technology Task Force – Referred to Mark Deardoff as Chair of the SEAOC CAC. SEAOSC to advise Mark of the names of possible appointments.

6 Old Business:

6A BLC Approval of Guidelines for Construction Materials Document: Referred to the SCREQ Steering Cmte. for comment. BLC to call a meeting.

6B JSL Response to April 27, 1998 Letter to MM from COLA re: Structural Observation: Separate letters have been prepared by RLH’s office to LA Council Members, Andrew Adelman, General Manager of LA Building & Safety and Mayor Riordan. JSL to sign the letters.

6C RLH/DHG Appointment of SEAOSC Bylaws/Policy Change Tracking Cmte.:

Agreed to appoint RLH as Chair. DHG to request of SEAOC that RLH be added to the mailing list to receive the minutes of the SEAOC Bylaws/Policy Cmte.

6D SQ/DHG Purchase of a Data Projector: SQ reported that a medium-priced Epson data projector has been selected for purchase. It will be purchased within the next month. It was suggested that a training session be held in January or February (prior to the LA dinner meeting) to familiarize presenters with how to make presentations.

7 New Business:

7A Expand Cmtes to Include an ICC Subcmte.: This topic was previously discussed during the SEAOC President’s Report.

7B RAR/DHG OES Safety Assessment Program: RAR reported on various changes that have occurred recently with OES disaster emergency procedures. OES will not become involved until all local resources have been exhausted. RAR then recommended that SEAOSC, through its Disaster Emergency Cmte., contract with each of the local counties (LA, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernadino) to provide mutual aid assistance. The OES contact in the Southern Region is out of Los Alamitos. DHG to request Dale Wah to contact RAR.

7C II/Schuricht Joint Meeting of Business Forum w/CSES: John Schuricht was introduced as the President-Elect of CSES. He proposed that CSES work together as SEAOSC’s Business Forum without dissolving either organization. This would be similar to SEAOSC operating as ASCE’s Structural Technical Cmte. The Board was receptive to the idea and II is to work with CSES.

7D MY Student Scholarship Program: MY briefed the Board on the student scholarship program where $5,000 in scholarships will be raised and then distributed on Student Night on Feb 3, 1999. Firms donating to this fund will be invited to attend the diner meeting and assist the SEAOSC Auxiliary in awarding the scholarships to the students. This program will be done in conjunction with the Auxiliary’s efforts to honor a student from each engineering school.

7E BLC Proposed Seminar on Composite Building Systems: JSL reported that Bungale Taranath has requested that he present a seminar about his textbook on this subject. The Board approved. BLC to contact Bungale.

7F SQ Help Needed for Web Administration: SQ reported that he is being contacted by many other SEA organizations to have seaint.org host a web site for the SEA organization. As such, SQ recommended that the time has come to hire a part-time person for 10 hours/week to help manage the web site. JGS recommended that SEAOSC charge a maintenance fee. The Board agreed for SQ to establish a contract for a part-time person that will be budgeted from within the website budget line item. Note that advertising revenues offset cmte. expenses .

7G Young Member Mentor Volunteer: Tabled until next meeting.

7H JSL Discussion re: SEAOSC Bylaws & Policy Changes:

Board Composition - JSL proposed the election of an additional CE member to the Board of Directors.

• M/S/C (FS opposed) to have the Nomination Cmte. nominate 2 Member SE’s and 1 Member to the FY 1999–2000 SEAOSC Board of Directors and succeeding years.

FS stated the minority opinion that this organization is the Structural Engineers Association and as such we should not lower the bar to those members who have not obtained an SE license.

Election of 1 SEAOC Director At-Large – JSL suggested the Nomination Cmte. print the name on the ballot of the SEAOC Delegate/Director to be elected by the membership. Further discussion tabled until next meeting.

7I Request from Testing Standards Cmte. to be a Stand-Alone Cmte. or a Subcmte. of Research: GD briefed the Board on why the cmte. made this request.

• M/S/C to make the Testing Standards Cmte. for Structural Systems and Components a subcmte. of the Research Cmte.

7J JSL/RAR Request from OES for 2 Speakers: JSL volunteered RAR and the Chair of the Disaster Emergency Cmte. Dale Wah. JSL to contact Dale Wah.

7K Other New Business:

BLC ASCE’s Popsickle Bridge Contest – BLC appointed judge to this contest on Feb. 19^th at UCLA

Uniting the Professional Organization’s – BN brought up the recent thread on the list server regarding uniting professional organizations. Rawn Nelson spoke to this topic and his email response.

8 Consent Items & FYI: See agenda packet.

9 Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 5:55 p.m.