Minutes of Meeting 911
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, Dec. 1, 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(1)
Dirk Bondy (DB) - Director
Albert Chen (AC) - Director(1)
Graeme Dick (GD) - Director(1)
Saif Hussain (SH) - Director(1)
William Nelson (WN) - Director(1)
Shafat Qazi (SQ) - Director(1)
Fred Schott (FS) - Director
John G. Shipp (JGS) - SEAOC Past President
Donald H. Gilbert (DHG) - Administrator
(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 2:45 p.m.
2 Approval
of Meeting Minutes:
Ø
M/S/C to approve the minutes of the Nov. 3rd meeting of the Board of Directors
as previously emailed.
3 Treasurer’s
Report: The Treasurer’s Report
for the month of November was presented and discussed.
Ø
M/S/C to receive the financial reports for November 1999 and approve the
payment of expenses for the month.
4 Committee Reports:
4A Executive Cmte.
Items:
1. CUREe Nomination: BLC
explained that SEAOSC nominated John Shipp to replace Greg Brandow for the
SEAOC representative to CUREe.
Ø
M/S/C to ratify the Executive Cmte.’s decision to approve the CUREe
nomination.
4B JAH SEAOSC
Seminars: Discussed the scheduled and potential seminars including a seminar on
LFRD for Wood to be held possibly in late February.
4C Membership
Report: DHG reported that membership totaled 1480 as of Nov. 17 compared to
1473 one year ago.
Candidates for Membership: 4
candidates including 0 Member SE; 1 Member; 3 Associate, 0 Affiliate, 0
Industry Member; 0 Corresponding and 0 Student were presented.
Ø
M/S/C to approve the candidates presented for membership.
DHG A
list of delinquent members was discussed and it was agreed to publish the names
of these delinquent members in the January newsletter.
4D Seismology Cmte.
(B4): Minutes to the last cmte. meeting was
distributed. JGS provided Dilip
Khatri’s name as a possible nomination for the Chair of the Masonry Subcmte.
4E Disaster
Emergency Cmte. (B5): No report.
5 SEAOC
Business:
5A SEAOC Executive
Cmte. Items: BLC stated that an Executive Cmte. meeting is currently being
planned to occur sometime in mid-December pending the schedules of the
participants.
5B SEAOC Old
Business:
1.
Bylaws/Articles of
Incorporation Changes: Discussed. Three important issues were identified: (1)
creating a membership organization vs. a master organization of regional
associations; (2) defining the voting members of SEAOC to be both SEs and CEs;
and (3) that the Bylaws be able to be amended by either the SEAOC Board or the
voting members.
Ø
M/S/C (unanimous) to support the following change in concept to
the Oct. 20 draft of the Proposed Changes to the Articles of Incorporation: (1)
reinstate the original wording of the Articles to the effect that SEAOC is a
Master Organization of Regional Associations; and
Ø
To support the
following changes in concept to the Oct. 20 draft of the Proposed Changes to
the Bylaws: (1) define voting members of SEAOC as being defined by the Bylaws
of the respective Regional Associations; and (2) in Article XI, change the
wording from “and” to “or”.
BLC/DHG BLC/DHG
were charged with editing the Oct. 20 draft of the Proposed Changes to include
these concepts and to distribute the revised copy ASAP so that comments can be
finalized for the Jan. 22 SEAOC board meeting.
5C SEAOC New
Business: None.
6 Old
Business:
6A BLC Request
to Credit Technical Cmte. Participation to the Professional Development Program:
Referred to the Education Cmte. for a recommendation to be presented to the
board. BLC to contact Ming Yeh.
6B JAH Approval
of QAC Letter: Agreed to have JAH discuss the letter with David Breiholz to
ascertain the letter has the right tone.
6C Proposed SEAOSC
Bylaws Changes: Not discussed.
6D Scholarship
Program Discussion: Not discussed.
6E UCEB Status
Discussion: Not discussed.
6F DB Excellence
in Design & Construction Competition: Agreed to have DB chair a cmte. to
develop these awards.
7 New Business:
7A JGS/DHG Appointment
of Nominations Cmte.: Agreed to
nominate the following people to act as the Nominating Cmte. for both the
SEAOSC Officer and Director nominations and the SEAOC Presidential nomination:
SEAOC Chair John Shipp, SEAOSC Chair Manny Morden; Member SEs Rawn Nelson,
Allan Porush and John Coil; Members Amer Soudani and Marshall Lew; Affiliate
Sandy Pringle; Alternate/Observer James Lai.
Other possible alternates: Dave Breiholz, Dennis Drag and Ted
Christensen. JGS asked DHG to contact
these individuals.
7B BLC Nomination
for SEAOSC Director to ATC: Agreed to nominate Richard Hess. BLC to
contact. Alternate nominee agreed to be
Farzad Naeim.
7C JSL Reduction
of Number of Directors Discussion: Agreed to the concept of combining the
Offices of Treasurer and Vice President to reduce the number of directors on
the board by one person. JSL to develop
proposed Bylaws language. If approved,
DLN would serve as Treasurer for FY 2000-2001 in the absence of electing a
Treasurer. After which the position of
Vice President would be eliminated.
7D Promotional
Letter to Mayors: Not discussed.
7E Pension Plan
Proposal: Not discussed.
7F Other New
Business: None.
8 Consent
Items & FYI: See agenda
packet.
9 Adjournment:
The meeting was adjourned at
5:50 p.m.
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