1 Call to Order: President JSL called the meeting to order at 2:40 p.m.

3 Treasurer’s Report: The Treasurer’s Report for the month of November was presented and discussed.

4 Committee Reports:

4B SQ/DHG SEAOSC Seminars: SQ requested that seminars be scheduled in advance so that information and registration forms can be posted on the Internet.

BLC It was questioned whether it was prudent to continue planning the Feb. 20 macro seminar on the SEAOC Seismic Design Manual in light of learning from SEAOC that the publication date for Volume 1 has now been delayed until mid-Jaunuary. The Board agreed that this seminar should be postponed and perhaps replaced by the Division 93 seminar (by the EBC Cmte.) which had been originally scheduled for Nov. 7, 1998. BLC to find a replacement topic for this date.

4C Membership Report: DHG reported that membership totaled 1473 as of Nov. 23, 1998 compared to 1470 one year ago. A list of delinquent members which will be published in the January NEWSletter was reviewed.

Candidates for Membership: 37 candidates including 2 Member SE; 2 Member; 1 Associate, 0 Affiliate, 0 Industry Member; 0 Corresponding and 32 Student were presented. The students are all from the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student chapter.

4D Seismology Cmte. (B4): No report.

4E WN Disaster Emergency Cmte. (B5): WN gave a verbal report. The board discussed the purpose of the cmte. and WN was advised to contact Rick Ranous for further background.

4F DHG 1999 Convention Cmte.: BW reported that a Convention Cmte. meeting is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6^th. (Subsequent Action: It was agreed to change the time for this meeting to 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. and that pizza will be served for lunch. DHG to refax cmte. members the revised time.)

5A JSL SEAOC Executive Cmte. Items: None.

5B Delgts SEAOC Old Business:

Minutes of the Oct. 6^th A.M./P.M. Board Meeting Minutes: MM discussed the minutes and the directors expressed their pleasure with the revised style.

SEAOC Budget/Audit – MM discussed the proposed SEAOC budget and stated that the line item for "Plan Review" was cut back in an effort to reduce expenses in order to balance the SEAOC budget. It was the Budget Cmte’s plan to have Allen Goldstein continue writing the column and then send it electronically to each Member Organization who will print it and distribute it in their respective monthly newsletters.

Roster Status Report – JSL reported that the roster is currently being proof read by the SEAOC executive office and will be distributed on Dec. 15^th. JSL also reported that he has been working to get the roster on the Web and had requested the electronic file be forwarded from the SEAOC office to Mark Deardoff, Chair of the SEAOC Computer Applications Cmte.

Delgts Special Endowment Practical Research Fund (Jay Allen’s Proposal) – Discussed.

5C ALL SEAOC New Business:

Guideline to Pursue Special Projects – SEAOSC’s position statement of March 1996 was discussed. JSL requested comments on this topic be submitted to him before Dec. 11^th so that he can forward this document to JGS. MM recommended changing the words "pursuit of" to "participation in" in the title and first sentence.

6A BLC Approval of Guidelines for Construction Materials Document: Tabled.

6B SEAOSC Bylaws Tracking Cmte.: MM reported for RLH that a meeting is going to be held soon and that RLH is included on all SEAOC correspondence.

6C SQ/DHG Purchase of a Data Projector: SQ reported that a Toshiba digital data projector has been purchased that includes a digital camera that acts as an overhead projector. The Board requested a demonstration be given before the Feb. 1999 Board meeting.

6D Student Scholarship Program: JSL reported that solicitation letters to companies and letters to student advisors have been mailed.

6E JSL Young Member Mentor Volunteer: JSL suggested the Board establish a "Big Brother/Big Sister" program for new members and students. JSL to assign board members to new members.

6F JSL Election of 1 SEAOC Director At-Large by SEAOSC – Discussed and agreed not support.

7A ALL Referral Service on Web Page: SQ reported that he established the referral service on the SEAOSC Web Page and asked directors to check it out.

7B CSES Meeting Report: Rawn Nelson spoke about CSES becoming the Business Forum arm of SEAOSC and clarified some questions for the Board.

7C BW/JEB Share Advertising Revenue by Other than SEAOSC: JSL requested BW develop a policy for sharing revenue earned from ads on the seaint.org Web page with other organizations that have web pages hosted by SEAOSC via seaint.org.

7D JSL/DHG Online Virtual Cmte. Proposed by Dennis Wish: JSL recommended establishing an ad hoc SEAint Web tracking cmte. to discuss technical and non-technical topics on the Internet. DHG to fax Dennis Wish’s letter to JSL to the Board. JSL to write letter notifying Dennis Wish of creation of the cmte.

7E DHG ASCE Technical Cmte. Bylaw: Delegated to DHG to return requested information.

7K Other New Business:

JEB Letter from Clayton Steele – Discussed. JEB volunteered to discuss topic with Clayton Steele.

NCSEA From Experience – Rawn Nelson requested permission to reprint selected articles to be used as examples for a NCSEA library.