TO: SEAOSC Directors & SEAOC Delegates

cc: www.seaint.org/seaosc Web Page

FROM: Brian L. Cochran, President

Don Gilbert, Administrator

DATE: June 6, 2000

SUBJECT: Minutes of Meeting 917 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, June 6, 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.(1)

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 (SA) - Director

Dirk Bondy (DB) - Director(1)

Albert Chen (AC) - Director

Graeme Dick (GD) - Director(1)

Saif Hussain (SH) - Director(1)

William Nelson (WN) - Director(1)

Shafat Qazi (SQ) - Director

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 3:30 p.m.

2 Approval of Meeting Minutes:

Ø M/S/C to approve the minutes of the May 3 meeting of the Board of Directors as previously emailed.

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

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

The FY 2000-2001 draft budget was presented. It was referred to the Budget Cmte. Cmte. members are DLN, Chair, Richard Hess (incoming treasurer), BLC, DHG and another person to be determined.

4 Committee Reports:

4A Executive Cmte. Items: No items.

4B BLC/JEB SEAOSC Seminars: It was noted that a seminar on the Seismic Design Manual Vol. 2 needs to be organized ASAP. BLC, JEB and DHG are to help organize.

AD It was also noted that SEAOSC has been asked to help set-up a SAC seminar to disseminate current information. AD volunteered to help organize.

4C Membership Report: DHG reported that membership totaled 1590 as of May 23 compared to 1635 one year ago.

BLC A discussion ensued about how SEAOSC could increase membership, seminar and dinner meeting attendance, and cmte. participation.

Ø M/S/C set up a cmte. to review SEAOSC’s current cmte structure and make recommendations to the board on ways to increase cmte. participation and possible restructuring of the current cmtes.

Candidates for Membership: 5 candidates including 0 Member SE; 1 Member; 3 Associate, 0 Affiliate, 1 Industry Member; 0 Corresponding and 0 Students were presented.

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

4D SQ Computer Applications Cmte. (B7): SQ volunteered to be the CAC chair next year.

4E DHG Ballot Cmte. (C6): DHG reported that he and Dennis Drag counted the ballots at noon today and can report that a total of 448 ballots out of 1262 voting members were returned. Elected are: Saiful Islam, Mike Mehrain, Martin Johnson (representing Orange County), George Battey III and Richard Hess (Treasurer). The changes to the Bylaws were adopted by a vote of 95% of the voting members who voted. DHG to notify the nominees.

5 SEAOC Business:

5A SEAOC Executive Cmte. Items: None.

5B SEAOC Old Business:

1. Review of May 20^th Board Meeting: BLC briefed the board on the last SEAOC board meeting noting that the Bylaws changes were approved by the delegates. A special election for the membership to approve the changes to the SEAOC Bylaws should be held in the near future.

5C SEAOC New Business:

1. Seismic Design Manual Seminars: Discussed under item 4B.

2. Appointment of Strategic Planning Reps: Representatives to be determined at a later date.

JGS/FS 3. Volunteers Needed for SE Exam Interview Panel: Discussed. JGS and FS volunteered. It was requested that people contact DHG if they are interested in this.

6 Old Business:

6A Structural Engineering Organizations Study: Tabled indefinitely.

6B FS/DHG Engineer’s Duty to Warn: Discussed. FS distributed three letters for further discussion.

Ø M/S/C to forward the letters from FS to SEAOC.

6C Proposed Policy Recommendation re: Sketches: Discussed.

Ø M/S/Defeated to support the recommendation with the deletion of section (iii).

Ø M/S/Defeated to support this recommendation as is to area building officials.

It was agreed to forward this subject to the Professional Practice Cmte. for a recommendation to be made to the board.

6D Taxpayers for Fair Competition: Discussed and agreed that individual members should support this topic through contributions.

7 New Business:

7A DN Renewal of DHG&A Agreement: Referred to the Budget Cmte.

7B Request to Support AB1756: Discussed and agreed that since SEAOC is on record in support of this bill, it would be counterproductive for SEAOSC to also support it.

7C BLC Suggested Changes to SEAOSC Bylaws: BLC stated that these proposed changes were received too late for this year’s ballot and will be reviewed by the Bylaws Cmte. during the next fiscal year. It was suggested that the ballot information state that the election of the treasurer will ascend to the presidency. BLC to discuss in the Bylaws Cmte.

7D Selection of SEAOC Delegates for 2000-2001: It was agreed that SEAOSC’s 3 delegates in October 2000 will be BLC, JAH and Mel Green with DLN as Treasurer for a 2-year term. In 2001-2002, the delegates will be JAH, JEB and DN.

7E Other New Business: None.

8 Consent Items & FYI: See agenda packet.

9 Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 6:50 p.m.

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