TO:                 SEAOSC Directors & SEAOC Delegates

                        cc:       www.seaint.org/seaosc Web Page

                                     

FROM:           Brian L. Cochran, President

                        Don Gilbert, Administrator

 

DATE:            May 3, 2000

 

SUBJECT:   Minutes of Meeting 916 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 3, 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(1)

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

Shirin Ader                                         - Director

Dirk Bondy (DB)                                - Director

Albert Chen (AC)                              - Director(1)

Graeme Dick (GD)                           - Director

Saif Hussain (SH)                             - Director

William Nelson (WN)                        - Director

Shafat Qazi (SQ)                               - Director(1)

Fred Schott (FS)                               - Director

John G. Shipp (JGS)                        - SEAOC Past President(1)

Donald H. Gilbert (DHG)                  - Administrator

Kerry Volker (KV)                              - SEAOCC President

 

(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 1:10 p.m. and BLC introduced guest KV.

 

2                                  Approval of Meeting Minutes:

                                   

Ø      M/S/C to approve the minutes of the April 5 meeting of the Board of Directors as previously emailed.

                                               

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 report for April 2000 and approve the payment of expenses for the month.

 

            DHG               BLC asked DHG to develop a cash flow budget through June 30, 2000 to be presented at the next board meeting.

 

4                                  Committee Reports:

4A                               Executive Cmte. Items: No items.

                                   

4B                               SEAOSC Seminars: Discussed the scheduled seminars.  It was noted that PD&D seminars are scheduled for this afternoon as well as June 3.

 

4C                               Membership Report: DHG reported that membership totaled 1579 as of April 23 compared to 1619 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 Students were presented.

 

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

 

4D       BLC/JAH        Speakers Bureau (B18):  JEB reported this is a defunct cmte. since there has been no requests for programs and no one seems to want to be a speaker.  BLC and JAH agreed to speak with Herb Stockinger about revitalizing this cmte.

 

4E                               Younger Member Cmte. (B21): BLC reported for SQ that the Younger Member Cmte. has not been active this past year and that SQ requested that the board look into committees that have not been active within the past year.

 

4F                               Honorary/Awards Cmte.: JSL reported that the Honorary Membership Cmte. recommends Alan Porush, Tom Kamei and Hans Steinmann for Honorary membership and Robert Tobin and Mo Kanda as SEAOC Fellows.

 

Ø      M/S/C to accept the Honorary Cmte’s. recommendations.

 

                                    JSL also reported that the Awards Cmte. recommends Mel Green for the ASCE Howard Award; Henry Huang, Peter Maranian, Yeuan Chou and Bernhard Carden for the S.B. Barnes award; Andrew Adelman for the 2000 Public Service Award; tba for the Engineer of the Year Award; and Roy Johnston for the Lifetime Achievement Award.

                                   

Ø      M/S/C to accept the Awards Cmte’s. recommendations.

 

            DHG               JSL asked DHG to send letters to the Awardees notifying them to attend the June Awards dinner.                                                                     

           

5                                  SEAOC Business:

5A                               SEAOC Executive Cmte. Items: BLC noted that the Seismic Design Manual Vol. 2 is now printed and that the next SEAOC meeting is scheduled in Los Angeles on May 20.

 

5B                               SEAOC Old Business:

Approve Final Draft of the SEAOC Bylaws: Discussed.  Objections raised included (1) the elimination of proxy voting, (2) the criteria for approval of amendments, and (3) the approval of the make-up of the Executive Cmte.

 

                                    It was generally agreed that the board could live with the elimination of proxy voting in the absence of a director at a board meeting.

 

Ø      M/S/C (Abstained: JAH & GD) to remove the wording in Article VI, Section 4 that “Alternate Directors shall serve for one (1) year” and in Article IX, Section 2 that “… and the President-Elect and Treasurer”.

 

Ø      M/S/DEFEATED to strike the word “and” Article XI, Section 2, Item a and Item b in its entirety.

 

Ø      M/S/C (6/3; Abstained: GD) to retain the current wording of Article XI, Section 2 as is.

 

Ø      M/S/DEFEATED (For: 2/Against: 8) to request that SEAOC send these Bylaws changes to the membership for final approval before implementation.

 

2. Awards: BLC reported that the SEAOC Excellence in Structural Engineering Competition will be presented and judged at tonight’s dinner meeting.

 

5C                               SEAOC New Business: None.

                                                           

 

6                                  Old Business:

6A                               Structural Engineering Organizations Study: GD briefed the board on this Organizations Study emphasizing what the study is and what it is not.  The study looked at the functions of each organization and attempted to make an engineering analysis.  The board agreed to continue this ad hoc cmte. to further investigate alternative organization and take this to the next level which would probably be a recommendation to SEAOC to study the issue.  GD agreed to continue with BLC, JEB and JAH assisting.

 

6B                               SEAOC Awards Program: See above Item 5-2.

 

6C                               Engineer’s Duty to Warn: Tabled until next meeting.

 

6D                               Proposed Policy Recommendation re: Sketches: Tabled until next meeting.

 

7                                  New Business:

7A                               Other New Business:

                                    1. BB Bond: It was brought to the attention of the board that Richard Phillips recently resigned from the LA City special task force on BB Bonds because of its increasing political nature.  No replacement was appointed at this time.

 

8                                  Consent Items & FYI: See agenda packet.

 

9                                  Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 3:35 p.m.

 

 

 

 

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