TO:              SEAOSC Directors & SEAOC Delegates

                    cc:      www.seaint.org/seaosc Web Page

                               

FROM:         James A. Hill, President

                    Don Gilbert, Administrator

 

DATE:          November 1, 2000

 

SUBJECT:    Minutes of Meeting 920 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, Nov. 1, 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(1)

George E. Battey III (GEB)          - Director

Dirk Bondy (DB)                          - Director(1)

Albert Chen (AC)                         - Director

M. Saiful Islam (SI)                      - Director(1)

Martin Johnson (MJ)                    - Director

Mike Mehrain (MM)                     - Director

Fred Schott (FS)                         - Director

Mel Green (MG)                          - SEAOC President-Elect (1)

Donald H. Gilbert (DHG)              - Administrator

Bill Warren (BW)                         - Member

 

(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 3:15 p.m.

 

2                            Approval of Meeting Minutes:

                             

Ř     M/S/C to approve the minutes of the Oct. 4 meeting of the Board of Directors as previously emailed.

                                       

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

 

Ř     M/S/C to receive the financial reports for October 2000 and approve the payment of expenses for the month. 

 

4                            Committee Reports: The chairs of each committee and the board contact persons for the committees (Table 1) were reviewed and assigned. The Seminar Cmte. (B20) and the Professional Development Cmte. (C10) were combined into the Education Cmte. (B6) which was then renamed the “Seminars/Professional Development (B6)” Cmte.

 

4A                          Executive Cmte. Items: None.

         

4B                          SEAOSC Seminars: The schedule of dinner meetings and seminars were reviewed and discussed.

 

4C                          Membership Report: DHG reported that membership totaled 1605 as of Oct. 10 compared to 1644 one year ago.

 

                              Candidates for Membership: 10 candidates including 0 Member SE; 3 Member; 7 Associate, 0 Affiliate, 0 Industry Member; 0 Corresponding and 0 Students were presented.

 

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

 

                              Membership Cmte. Chair, Juan Carlos Esquivel, was to attend the board meeting to discuss the process of approving potential members.  Discussion deferred until next meeting. [Please refer to item 7B for subsequent action.]

 

4D                          Steering Cmte. (B1): JEB noted that this cmte. has not been meeting recently.

 

4E                          Building Code (B2): JEB reported that the cmte. has not met recently but is still active.

 

4F                          Research Cmte. (B3): No report.

 

5                            SEAOC Business:

5A                          SEAOC Executive Cmte. Items: None.

 

5B                          SEAOC Old Business: The minutes to the Oct. 21 SEAOC board meeting was discussed including the status of the adoption of the IBC 2000 by the State of California.

 

5C                          SEAOC New Business: None.

 

6                            Old Business: None.

 

7                            New Business:

7A                          Consideration of Payment of Honorariums to Seminar Speakers: JEB as chair of the Seminar/Professional Development Cmte., suggested that presenters of the last seminar be paid a $250 honorarium pursuant to Policy #40.

 

Ř     M/S/C to approve the recommendation of the Seminar/Professional Development Cmte. to pay $250 honorariums to the presenters of the Seismic Design Manual Vol. 2 Seminar held on Oct. 21.

 

7B                          Value of Membership: DHG and Bill Warren discussed the value of membership noting that a greater differential needs to be established between member and non-member rates.

 

Ř     M/S/C to approve charging non-members twice the cost of the member rate for macro and PD&D seminars.

 

                              It was discussed whether to charge attendees of dinner meeting who come only for the program (i.e. - not for the dinner) a fee but it was agreed to just remove the wording from the dinner meeting flyer stating that attendees may attend free of charge.

 

7C                          Other New Business:

1.     ATC Report: RLH reported that AISC has issued a MOU for it to be named as the replacement for SAC for future work with FEMA.

 

2.     Insurance Proposal by Chuck Kofoed: Distributed and agreed to discuss at the next meeting.  Directors are encouraged to read the distributed document.

 

8                            Consent Items & FYI: See agenda packet.

 

9                            Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 5:35 p.m.

 

 

 

 

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