DATE:            May 5, 1999

 

SUBJECT:   Minutes of Meeting 907 of the SEAOSC Board of Directors

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The attached meeting report is our understanding of the items discussed and conclusions reached during the Wednesday, May 5, 1999 meeting held at Luminarias Restaurant in Monterey Park, CA.  Participants are requested to inform the recorder of any omissions and clarifications.

 

PARTICIPANTS:

James S. Lai (JSL)                           - President/SEAOC Delegate

Brian L. Cochran (BLC)                   - Pres.-Elect/Steering/Seminar Cmtes.

James A. Hill (JAH)                          - Vice President/Budget Cmte.

Jack E. Bruce (JEB)                         - Treasurer/SEAOC Delegate

Richard L. Hess (RLH)                     - Secretary

Manuel Morden (MM)                       - Immed. Past President/SEAOC Delegate(1)

Graeme Dick (GD)                           - Director

Saif Hussain (SH)                             - Director

Farzad Naeim (FN)                           - Director(1)

William Nelson (WN)                        - Director

Shafat Qazi (SQ)                               - Director

Fred Schott (FS)                               - Director

Williston "Bill" Warren (BW)             - Director

Doug Thompson (DT)                       - SEAOC Delegate

John G. Shipp (JGS)                        - SEAOC President

Dan Novak (DN)                                - 1999-2000 Treasurer(1)

Shirin Ader (SA)                                - 1999-2000 Director(1)

Donald H. Gilbert (DHG)                  - Administrator

Rawn Nelson (RN)                            - Invited Guest: SEAOSC Past President

Ron Hamburger (ROH)                     - Invited Guest: SEAOC President-Elect

John Paquette (JP)                           - Invited Guest: SEAONC President

Terry Volker (TV)                               - Invited Guest: SEAOCC President-Elect

Simon Wong (SW)                            - Invited Guest: SEAOSD President

Don Strand (DS)                               - Invited Guest: SEAOC Bylaws Cmte. Chair

 

(1) By Reference (Not present at meeting)

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

 

 

 

ITEM   ACTION         COMMENT AND/OR QUESTIONS

1                                  Call to Order: President-Elect BLC called the meeting to order at 1:35 p.m.

 

2                                  Approval of Meeting Minutes:

                                   

Ø      M/S/C to approve the minutes of the April 7 meeting of the Board of Directors which had been previously distributed via email.

 

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

 

Ø      M/S/C to receive the financial reports for April 1999 and approve the payment of expenses for the month.

 

Ø      M/S/C to approve the airfare expense for Bill Warren to attend the April 24 SEAOC meeting.

 

4                                  Committee Reports:

4A                               Executive Cmte. Items: None.

 

4B       BLC/JSL        SEAOSC Seminars: The SEAOC Seismic Design Manual Seminar scheduled for June 12 was discussed.  It was agreed that SEAOSC is to make all arrangements for the seminar and that DHG&A would receive $10/registrant for providing registration services.

 

4C                               Membership Report: DHG reported that membership totaled 1619 as of April 23 compared to 1587 one year ago.

 

                                    Candidates for Membership: 2 candidates including 0 Member SE; 1 Member; 1 Associate, 0 Affiliate, 0 Industry Member; 0 Corresponding and 0 Student were presented.

 

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

 

4D                               Speakers Bureau (B18): JEB reported for Chair Tim McCormick that there have been no requests for speakers and no cmte. activity.

 

4E                               Younger Members Cmte. (B21): SQ reported that the cmte. has not been active this year.  Several suggestions for the cmte. were made.

           

4          BW                  Convention Cmte. (C14): BW gave a verbal report on the Convention Cmte. noting that there will be a cmte. meeting at Fess Parker’s Resort in Santa Barbara on May 15 at 11:00 a.m.

 

5                                  SEAOC Business: JSL introduced the invited guests and asked the SEAOSC attendees to introduce themselves.

 

5A                               SEAOC Executive Cmte. Items: None.

 

5B       JSL                 SEAOC Old Business:

1.      RFQ for Executive Management Services: Discussed as part of the Executive office evaluation.

 

2.      Executive Office Contract Renewal/Evaluation: Each SEAOSC director and SEAOC delegate discussed their personal experience and stated reasons why they felt that the SEAOC executive office contracts should not be renewed after Sept. 30.

 

3.      Reformulate Board to 7 Members & SEAOC Bylaws Cmte. Recommendation: DS discussed several proposals to change the SEAOC Bylaws and discussed each proposal.

 

4.      SAC Response to RFP: Tabled.  To be discussed under New Business.

 

5.      Blue Book: The distribution of the Blue Book was discussed.

 

Ø      M/S/C to approve the automatic distribution by SEAOC of complimentary copies of the Blue Book to Member SE, Member and Associate member categories and all other member categories upon request to the SEAOC office.  SEAOSC is to be assessed $2,000 for the distribution of the books.

 

6.      SEAOC.org/SEAOSC.org Domain Name Exchange: JSL stated that the ownership exchange between SEAOSC and SEAOC has been completed and mailed.

 

7.      SEAOC Out-of-State Membership Category: Discussed this proposed new membership category where out-of-state engineers would join SEAOC to receive the newsletters of each Member Organization for $180/year.  SEAOC would collect the dues and then send each Member Organization $25/year for their respective newsletters.  The directors felt that this was not a good idea because SEAOC is not the member-holding entity of the organization – the Member Organizations are.  However, SEAOSC would like to further discuss ideas and ways for increasing membership because it feels that increasing membership is vitally important.

 

5C                               SEAOC New Business: None.

 

6                                  Old Business:

6A                               Review Proposed Concrete Code Change by Seismology Cmte.: .

                                    Topic removed from agenda.

 

6B       JSL/DHG       Determine Legislative Positions: Discussed.  JSL to send a letter to JGS requesting that SEAOC send information directly to the SEAOSC Legislative Cmte. Chair.  DHG to draft a letter for JSL. 

 

            SQ                  ROH suggested that a listserver be established for the discussion of legislative issues.

 

            JGS                JGS to fax DHG a matrix of legislative issues.

 

                                    AB80: JGS stated that SEAOC sent a letter in opposition to AB80.

 

                                    AB300: FS suggested that SEAOC support for this be changed from “Watch” to “Approve”.

 

6C                               AB 1626 by Carol Migden: Discussed as part of agenda item 6B.

 

7                                  New Business:

7A                               Rebate to CAC Expo Vendors: It was suggested and discussed that SEAOSC offer a rebate of part of the $700 cost of the vendors who attended the April 7 CAC Expo.

 

Ø      M/S/C (JAH & SQ opposed) to do nothing in regards to the April 24 CAC Expo.

 

7B                               Reconsider Vote on Approval of SAC Response to RFP: Discussed.

 

Ø      M/S/C (JSL abstained) that the Board of Directors of SEAOSC instruct its delegates to vote NO on the motion to approve the recommendation of the Executive Cmte. to support the SAC project response to the San Bernardino RFP, in accordance with Article X, Section 3 of the SEAOSC Bylaws.

 

7C       DHG               What is SEAINT?: Discussed.  DHG to research the disclaimers for this issue for further discussion at the June 2 board meeting.

 

 

7                                  Other New Business:

                                    1. Letter from CE News: JSL read a letter from Terry Stringer, P.E.   Rawn Nelson was asked/volunteered to respond to this letter.

 

8                                  Consent Items & FYI: See agenda packet.

 

9                                  Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at ­­­­5:30 p.m.

 

 

 

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