TO:                        SEAOSC Directors & SEAOC Delegates

                        cc:                         www.seaint.org/seaosc Web Page

                                                Mel Green

                                                Ron Hamburger

                                                Joe Sutton

 

FROM:                        Brian L. Cochran, President

                        Don Gilbert, Administrator

 

DATE:                        April 5, 2000

 

SUBJECT:                        Minutes of Meeting 915 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, April 5, 2000 meeting held at the SEAOSC offices in Whittier, 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(1)

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

Ronald O. Hamburger (ROH) - SEAOC President

Joseph Sutton (JS)            - SEAONC President

Melyvn Green (MG)            - SEAOC President-Elect 2000-2001

 

(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 2:35 p.m.   BLC introduced guests ROH and JS.

 

2          Approval of Meeting Minutes:

                       

Ø                  M/S/C to approve the minutes of the March 1 meeting of the Board of Directors as previously emailed.

                       

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

 

Ø                  M/S/C to receive the financial report for March 2000 and approve the payment of expenses for the month.

 

4          Committee Reports:

4A       Executive Cmte. Items: No items.

                       

4B       DHG SEAOSC Seminars: Discussed the scheduled seminars.  The board also reviewed Dave Adam’s letter re: the March 25th seminar. BLC requested DHG to write a response letter to Dave Adams.

 

4C       Membership Report: DHG reported that membership totaled 1569 as of March 14 compared to 1603 one year ago.

 

            Candidates for Membership: 11 candidates including 0 Member SE; 2 Member; 4 Associate, 0 Affiliate, 2 Industry Member; 0 Corresponding and 3 Students were presented.

 

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

 

4D       Professional Practice Cmte. (B14): FS gave a verbal report of the activities of the Professional Practice Cmte.

 

5          SEAOC Business:

5A       SEAOC Executive Cmte. Items:

            1. Recap of March 17th Conference Call:

a.                  Budget: BLC, ROH and JS discussed SEAOC’s projected budget and various ways that costs could be cut and revenues could be raised to meet the potential shortfall so that membership dues are not raised.  Increased advertising (in Plan Review, Roster, banner ads on the web) was discussed as one of the best ways to generate revenues.

b.                  Position in the State Architect’s Office: BLC asked ROH to relay to SEAOC that SEAOSC is very interested in having the structural engineer’s position filled at DSA.

c.                  Sunset of BOPELs/SE Exam: BLC reported that the proposed sunset of BOPELs has been delayed from 2001 to possibly 2004.  ROH stated that Bill Warren is SEAOSC’s representative on the licensing cmte. and that BOPELs has asked SEAOC “not to stir the pot while their sunset review was under way”.  BLC requested that more members become involved with this issue and assist Bill Warren.  BLC asked SQ to generate more interest in this issue through advertising it on the web.

d.                  Web site: It was reported that it had been agreed that the Messersmith Group would handle the seaoc.org web site and that SQ will handle the maintenance of its list servers.

e.                  Taxpayers for Fair Competition: BLC discussed the topic and requested DHG place information in the next board agenda packet.

f.                    Cmte. to Interview SE Exam Candidates: Discussed and agreed that no action was needed at this time.

g.                  Bylaws Change: ROH and BLC reported that another draft will be issued for “final” approval at the May 20th SEAOC board meeting.

 

5B       SEAOC Old Business: See item 5A above.

 

5C       SEAOC New Business:

            1. Solicitation of Additional Responses to Salary Survey: BLC requested that board members’ companies respond to the salary survey solicitation.

                       

6          Old Business:

6A       Structural Engineering Organizations Study: BLC explained the study in GD’s absence and tabled the topic until next meeting.

 

6B       DB SEAOC Awards Program: Discussed.  It was noted that smaller firms were reluctant to compete against larger design firms.  It was suggested that the judges define their criteria before selection of the winners.  DB will communicate SEAOSC’s suggestion to the award organizers that divisions within the competition should be made.

 

6C       BLC Engineer’s Duty to Warn: Discussed.  BLC will contact Arnold Bookbinder to discuss further.

 

Ø                  M/S/C to continue discussion of this topic.

 

7          New Business:

7A       Proposed Policy Recommendation re: Sketches: Tabled until next meeting.

 

7B       Nomination of Appointment to NCSEA Board of Directors: ROH stated that SEAOC currently does not have a director on the NCSEA board of directors but rather has a non-voting delegate and that it is desired that an “upcoming person” be appointed rather than an “outgoing person”.  Each SEAOC Member Organization is to forward a nomination to ROH for his selection of the appointment.

 

Ø                  M/S/Defeated to forward MG’s name to ROH for possible appointment to the NCSEA board of directors.

 

Ø                  M/S/C to forward DJN’s name to ROH for possible appointment to the NCSEA board of directors.

 

7C       Selection of Field Day Date: Discussed moving the date of Field Day in light of the SEAOC Convention being held Aug. 15-19th.

 

Ø                  M/S/C to hold Field Day on July 19, 2000.

 

7D       Other New Business:

1.                  Life Time Achievement Award: It was discussed whether to establish an annual Lifetime Achievement recognition award to be given at our June meeting.

 

Ø                  M/S/C to establish a Lifetime Achievement Award.

 

8          Consent Items & FYI: See agenda packet.

 

9          Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 5:25 p.m.

 

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