TO:              SEAOSC Directors & SEAOC Delegates

                    cc:      www.seaint.org/seaosc Web Page

                               

FROM:         James A. Hill, President

                    Don Gilbert, Administrator

 

DATE:          Sept. 6, 2000

 

SUBJECT:    Minutes of Meeting 918 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, Sept. 6, 2000 meeting held at the Luminarias Restaurant, Monterey Park, CA.  Participants are requested to inform the recorder of any omissions and clarifications.

 

PARTICIPANTS:

James A. Hill (JAH)                      - President

Jack E. Bruce (JEB)                    - President-Elect/Steering/Seminar/Delegt.

Daniel J. Novak (DJN)                  - Vice President/Budget Cmte.

Richard L. Hess (RLH)                 - Treasurer

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

Shirin Ader (SA)                          - Director

George E. Battey III (GEB)          - Director

Dirk Bondy (DB)                          - Director

Albert Chen (AC)                         - Director

M. Saiful Islam (SI)                      - Director

Martin Johnson (MJ)                    - Director

Mike Mehrain (MM)                     - Director

Fred Schott (FS)                         - Director

James S. Lai (JSL)                      - SEAOC Delegate

John G. Shipp (JGS)                    - SEAOC Past President

Mel Green (MG)                          - SEAOC President-Elect

Donald H. Gilbert (DHG)              - Administrator

Bill Warren (BW)                         - SE Licensing Cmte.

 

(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 JAH at 2:10 p.m.

 

2                            Approval of Meeting Minutes:

                             

Ø     M/S/C to approve the minutes of the June 7 meeting of the Board of Directors as previously emailed.

                                       

3                            Treasurer’s Report: The Treasurer’s Reports for the months of June, July and August were presented and discussed.

 

Ø     M/S/C to receive the financial reports for June, July and August 2000 and approve the payment of expenses for the respective months. 

 

The FY 1999-2000 audit was presented and discussed noting that there were no material exceptions to the report.

 

Ø     M/S/C to accept the audit report for FY 1999-2000.

 

4                            Committee Reports:

4A      RLH              Executive Cmte. Items: JAH discussed the executive cmte. meeting that was held on July 29th.  JAH asked RLH to contact ASCE’s SEI to see about ways that the two organizations could work together such as having a joint meeting.

         

4B                          FY 1999-2000 SEAOSC Seminars: Included FYI.

 

4C                          FY 2000-2001 SEAOSC Seminars: Discussed and it was noted the importance of planning the year’s events.

 

4D                          Candidates for Membership: 23 candidates including 3 Member SE; 4 Member; 13 Associate, 1 Affiliate, 1 Industry Member; 1 Corresponding and 0 Students were presented.

 

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

 

4E                          Program Cmte. (B15): See the report from David Pomerleau regarding Orange County dinner meeting programs.  FS stated that the Tri-Counties Chapter is going well.  No report from Dilip Khatri on the Los Angeles County Chapter.

 

4F                          Existing Buildings Cmte. (B19): Chair of the EBC, Vahe Petrossian, gave a verbal report on the current activities of the EBC.

 

4G                          Seminar Cmte. (B20): JEB stated that he and DHG will be meeting Monday, Sept. 11th to further discuss seminars.

 

4H                          Budget Cmte. (C2): The FY 2000-2001 budget was presented, reviewed and discussed by DLN.

 

Ø     M/S/C to approve the proposed FY 2000-2001 budget and renew Donald H. Gilbert & Associates’ agreement for the same period of time per the provisions in the proposed budget.

 

5                            SEAOC Business:

5A                          SEAOC Executive Cmte. Items: None.

 

5B                          SEAOC Old Business: BLC summarized the State board meeting held Aug. 15th at the Convention in Vancouver, B.C. noting among other things that the roster is now scheduled to come out at the end of September.

 

5C      BLC              SEAOC New Business - Appointment of Strategic Planning Reps: BLC suggested that JAH, JEB and either BW or Shafat Qazi be the three SEAOSC reps for the Strategic Planning Cmte. for a meeting on Oct. 6th in Sacramento.  BW stated that he is already attending the SEAOC board meeting.

 

6                            Old Business: None.

 

7                            New Business:

7A      JAH              Bookbinder Letter re: Recommended Guidelines for the Practice of Structural Engineering in California: Referred to the Professional Practice Cmte. for a recommendation.  JAH to contact Les Tso.

 

7B      DHG             Co-Sponsor EERI’s 7NCEE National Conference: It was agreed to co-sponsor this event.  DHG to notify EERI.

 

7C                          Discussion re ATC: Not discussed.

 

7D      DHG             Request to Support ASCE Regional Student Conference: It was proposed that SEAOSC purchase booth space at the April 10-21, 2001 event at CSU Long Beach for $300.  It was also discussed whether to purchase or rent a physical booth and DHG was asked to look into this.

 

Ø     M/S/C to approve the purchase of booth space at this event for $300.

 

7E                          Proposed Policy for Board Involvement: Not discussed.

 

7F                          Other New Business:

1.     Web Site: JAH suggested that SEAOSC charge nonmembers for ads on the website since it was noted that a headhunter firm recently flooded the website with 60 ads.  BW said he notified Shafat Qazi about this and it was agreed that the ads on the website should be set-up to be self-policing.

 

2.     Steel Cmte. Report: Cmte. Chair Peter Maranian and members Henry Huang, Ifa Kashefi and Bob Lyons (SEAOC Steel Cmte. Chair) presented a letter to JAH and a report with the opinions and recommendations of the cmte. regarding the SAC project 100% Draft. 

 

Ø     M/S/C to support the cmte.’s first three recommendations on page three in their cmte. report.

 

3.     SE Licensing Cmte.: BW discussed the SE licensing issue and offered a proposal outlining a vision and strategy for the future in the “Proposal for the Establishment of the Academy of Structural Engineering”.

 

8                            Consent Items & FYI: See agenda packet.

 

9                            Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 6:10 p.m.

 

 

 

 

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