DATE:            Nov. 3, 1999

 

SUBJECT:   Minutes of Meeting 910 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, Nov. 3, 1999 meeting held at Luminarias Restaurant in Monterey Park, CA.  Participants are requested to inform the recorder of any omissions and clarifications.

 

PARTICIPANTS:

Brian L. Cochran (BLC)                   - President/SEAOC Delegate

James A. Hill (JAH)                          - President-Elect/Steering/Seminar Cmtes.

Jack E. Bruce (JEB)                         -Vice Pres./Budget Cmte./SEAOC Delegate

Daniel J. Novak (DJN)                      - Treasurer

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

Shirin Ader                                         - Director

Dirk Bondy (DB)                                - Director

Albert Chen (AC)                              - Director

Graeme Dick (GD)                           - Director

Saif Hussain (SH)                             - Director

William Nelson (WN)                        - Director

Shafat Qazi (SQ)                               - Director

Fred Schott (FS)                               - Director

John G. Shipp (JGS)                        - SEAOC Past President

Donald H. Gilbert (DHG)                  - Administrator

Lee Adler (LA)                                   - SEAOC Executive Director

Bill Warren (BW)                               - Convention Cmte. Rep.

 

(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: The meeting was called to order by President BLC at 12:45 p.m. and SEAOC’s new executive director, Lee Adler, was introduced.  The following topics were added to the agenda:

4G – Convention Report

7F1 – Scholarship Program

7F2 – CUREe Nomination

7F3 – Letter to BLC from Peter Higgins re: Blue Book Distributions

7F4 – UCEB Discussion

 

2                                  Approval of Meeting Minutes:

                                   

Ř      M/S/C to approve the minutes of the Sept. 8th meeting of the Board of Directors as previously emailed.

                                               

3                                  Treasurer’s Report: The Treasurer’s Report for the months of September and October were presented and discussed.

 

Ř      M/S/C to receive the financial reports for September and October 1999 and approve the payment of expenses for these months.

 

4                                  Committee Reports:

4A                               Executive Cmte. Items:

                                    1. Approval to Cosponsor SEI/ASCE 2000 Congress: BLC explained that the executive cmte. agreed to cosponsor this seminar.

 

                                    2. Approval to Cosponsor EERI Seminar: BLC explained that the executive cmte.  agreed to also cosponsor this seminar.

 

Ř      M/S/C to ratify the Executive Cmte.’s decision to approve cosponsoring the above two seminars.

 

4B       JAH                 SEAOSC Seminars: Discussed potential seminars including having seminars on wood, masonry and the new Blue Book.

 

4C                               Membership Report: DHG reported that membership totaled 1644 as of Oct. 19 compared to 1651 one year ago.  DHG noted that on Oct. 28th, the membership database was culled of 189 non-paying members for FY 1999-2000 bringing the total membership to 1455. SQ suggested that a common database be created among the Member Organizations and a Web-based system allowing members to enter their own changes of addresses.  LA and the board concurred.

 

                                    Candidates for Membership: 17 candidates including 1 Member SE; 6 Member; 7 Associate, 2 Affiliate, 1 Industry Member; 0 Corresponding and 1 Student were presented.

 

Ř      M/S/C to approve the candidates presented for membership and the candidate for Life membership.

 

4D                               Steering Cmte. (B1): No report.

 

4E                               Building Code (B2): No report.

 

4F       BLC/BLC       Research Cmte. (B3): The board recommended sending a message to cmte. chairs requesting them to make recommendations of people to be on the Research Cmte. in an effort to revitalize the Research Cmte.  DHG to locate Farzad Naeim’s cmte. recommendations given last year.

 

4G                               Convention Report: BW reported that a terrific convention was held with over 600 people attending and thanked all who helped putting it on.  BW also asked directors to think about where SEAOSC’s next convention should be and whether the timing of the convention should be moved to August to make it more of a family-oriented vacation.  Feedback should be directed to Doug Thompson, chair of the next convention.  SQ suggested conducting a survey/questionnaire to attendees of the last convention via email.

 

5                                  SEAOC Business:

5A                               SEAOC Executive Cmte. Items: None.

 

5B                               SEAOC Old Business:

      BLC                1. Summary of Sept. 28th Board Meeting: The topic of the SEAOC board’s decision to distribute the Blue Book with the Professional Practice Guidelines was questioned and discussed. LA reported that the Professional Practice Guidelines are still being edited at the cmte. level and have not yet been approved for printing.  Many directors felt that it was a disservice to our members to not deliver a promised benefit of membership in a timely manner.

 

Ř      M/S/C to have Brian Cochran report SEAOSC’s displeasure with this situation to the SEAOC Executive Cmte. and request SEAOC to distribute the Blue Book as soon as possible.

 

2.      Bylaws/Articles of Incorporation: Discussed.  LA noted that the Chair of the Bylaws Cmte., Don Strand, has just issued a revised draft of these documents.  Further discussion was tabled until the December meeting.

 

5C                               SEAOC New Business: None.

 

6                                  Old Business:

6A       SQ                  1. Request to Support Taxpayers for Fair Competition: Discussed and it was suggested that a link to their web site be created on our web site. 

 

Ř      M/S/C to approve the Taxpayers for Fair Competition initiative.

 

            DHG               DHG to notify the Taxpayers for Fair Competition.

 

6B       SH                   2. Workload for New UBC: SH questioned whether SEAOSC should make its members aware of the additional workload needed to comply with the ’97 UBC requirements.  SH will write an article for the newsletter.

 

6C       JSL                 Recognition of Steel Cmte. Chairs: Referred to the Awards Cmte.

 

6D                               SEAOSC’s Nomination for BSSC: It was agreed to support Rawn Nelson as SEAOSC’s nomination to BSSC.

 

7                    New Business:

7A                               Request to Credit Technical Cmte. Participation to Professional Development Program: Not discussed.

 

7B                               Changing SEAOC Rotation for Conventions/President: Discussed alternating conventions to NC/SD/SC/CC as opposed to NC/SD/CC/SC. 

 

Ř      M/S/C to approve sponsoring the next SEAOC convention in 2002.

 

7C       JAH/DHG       Payment of Honoraria for Aug. 7 Seismic Design Seminar: Agreed to pay the three presenters at the seminar $200 each.  JAH to review the existing policy for potential changes.

 

7D                               Approval of QAC Letter for Distribution: Not discussed.

 

7E                               Proposed SEAOSC Bylaws Changes: Not discussed.

 

7F                               Other New Business:

1.      Scholarship Program: Not discussed.

 

2.      CUREe Nomination: Not discussed.  To be determined before Nov. 10.

 

3.      Higgins Letter re: Blue Book Distribution: See agenda item #5-B-1.

 

4.      UCEB Discussion: Richard Hess discussed his (and others of the Existing Building Cmte.) objection to the proposed killing of the UCEB by ICBO.  (See copy of Richard’s email distributed at meeting.)

 

Ř      M/S/C to ask SEAOC to recommend to ICBO that it maintain the 2000 UCEB and  continue with the code change process using SEAOC’s Existing Buildings Cmte.’s technical input.

 

8                                  Consent Items & FYI: See agenda packet.

 

9                                  Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 3:00 p.m.