Sunday, January 18, 2015

January 17, 2015 Meeting Minutes

January's meeting began with the Pledge, Dave Doherty presiding.

Our holiday meeting went well.

Don Doherty gave the Treasurer's report, including checking and savings account balances, soon to be incremented by dues, and then decremented by the water line.

Visitors included Mark Trokey, who is working on an Airdrome Aeroplanes Fokker D-VIII. He's having issues with his VW power plant and is interested in talking with chapter members familiar with such engines. Michelle Fobbs, friend of Jeff Stephenson, was also present.

The ground's torn up outside due to airport construction, in particular our new well. There's a tall pipe in place to take care of the 500 year level. Our old well is disconnected. The water processing plant's not yet connected in the main building, pending a report from DNR. Everything should be complete by February including grading. We're also getting a new concrete slab poured due to some cracks that appeared.

Dave witnesses some of the process, including digging one well to feed the water drill that dug the main well. A dedicated technician was on site to make sure the tool remained defrosted.

To pay for our part of the water project we're going to sell some airplane projects, including the RV-12. Sub-kit one of five is in the ARC.

Other airplane projects include the FlyBaby and Sonerai.

Jeff Stephensen's working on new member packets and is updating the roster. It will exist in the cloud; four or five people will have access to make updates. If you are a new member and have not received a member packet please contact Jeff Stephenson.

We now have a new lifetime membership for $475. Jackets for existing lifetime members are on order and will arrive shortly.

Ron Burnett left food coupons with Bill Doherty to take care of this month.

Rick May spoke about Young Eagles. 2014 numbers are in the last newsletter. Back in November someone flew the 1,900,000th Young Eagle, so 2015 will likely see number 2,000,000. Rick handed out a document describing this year's program including event dates and volunteer jobs. If you are interested let Rick know as he maintains an email list to keep you up to date. Rick handed out participation awards to those not present at the Christmas party. He mentioned that we need a Food and Beverage director for the chapter, a position that will apply to YE as well. We made a motion to create the position, seconded, voted in favor. We noted that this will also involve tracking food expenses and will discuss further at the upcoming board meeting.

New Business

Dues are due now. Fill out the new form if you haven't yet.

MACTS is not in January as in years past. It will likely take place this spring.

Besides the fresh water Dave would like to accomplish some other building projects: lighting the EAA sign, driveway seam sealing, south side trim needs paint, paint "EAA32" on the roof for passing planes, paint metal work inside the ARC blue, sell the RV-12 and BD-4 project. The BD-4 needs to be photographed. Ron Wright suggested getting a quote on sealing from the crew that's on site for the well.

Saturday January 31 at noon will be our next board meeting.

Jeff Stephenson's moving our roster to an electronic format, just like the newsletter. It'll go from the existing Access database to a Google Doc. This way we'll be able to get things current, and we'll save us in expenses. Contact Jeff or Dave Doherty if you'd like a physical, paper copy mailed to you via U.S. Mail.

Upcoming Events

Chapter 64 just turned 50 and will have an event tonight at Parks.

Don mentioned the we're continuing our Movie Nights. Suggestions included Kelly's Heroes, To Hell and Back, Red Tails, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, and First Light, about a pilot in the Battle of Britain.

Jeff S. proposed out another fly-out meeting/event.

Motion made and seconded to close meeting, we'll reconvene for the presentation: George Andre, former SR-71 pilot and current Reno air racer.