August 26, 2007

Steve Morse and Laura Million both returned from Oshkosh with reports of another fun convention.

The meeting began with the Pledge. VP Dave Deweese took the helm as Karsten was in transit.
Visitors included Chris Seto. This young man already appears to be a canard enthusiast, hopefully we'll be seeing more of him.

New members included Jeff McKee and Robin Straub, daughter of our own Fred Inman. Good to have you both on board.

The two-year terms of the current officers will be up at the end of 2007. A volunteer for the officer committee will be needed. If anyone would like to run for office please let any of the current officers know.

The County Fair and Air Show is coming up Labor Day weekend. Silver Swallows reunion is on 9/8 and we'll be flying Young Eagles.

The topic of a memorial for Jerry Geiger was brought up. Over the next few months the chapter will be receiving tools, books, and plaques from his collection. Should be like a trip through history. We'll get some of the plaques up on the wall to keep the Bill Blake memorabilia company.

Steve brought up two options for and argon tank for the new welder. We decided on a downtown St. Louis firm that is convenient for pickup, saving delivery fees. Our new aircraft scales are here. We decided to make them available for check-out by members so that they can take the scales to the airplane instead of the other way around.

Warm as it was the topic of heating the ARC came up as well, specifically the idea of using two propane furnaces in the loft. Considering that we currently pay an inactivity charge for our propane tank using more over the winter makes sense. The rough estimate is $1000 to $1500, more details will follow.

Our treasurer reported on our current checking and savings balances which will drop a bit when we pay for our new scales. Tracy sent a letter announcing that the hangar rental will increase 1.8% due to a rise in the consumer price index.

Note: Regarding the phone hotline, if you use this for information please listen to the entire message before hanging up. If you hang up prior to this there's no record that anyone called, and currently the hotline shows no usage. If we determine that everyone is using the web to get information we could discontinue the hotline at a savings of $23.50 per month.

We are beginning to get a few nibbles on the Mustang II project. Gale has communicated with two interested parties and was on hand to take some photographs for a potential buyer in Canada.

The meeting adjourned and Ernie enlisted some help to load the trailer for the air show.