April 18, 2015 Meeting Minutes

April 2015's meeting began with the Pledge, Dave Doherty presiding.

Mr. Bill brought his new, fabled yellow Sonex in so we could see that it was, indeed, real. Jim Hann came straight from work, still dressed in his pilot's uniform.

We approved the minutes from last month's meeting.

Don Doherty gave the Treasurer's Report including checking and savings balances.

New member Chris has built several planes and has always intended to join EAA.

Last month we discussed a new phone setup.

We have water again in the ARC. We still need to purge the lines, run some chlorine through, and replace the water heater. Even without the cleaning our new water supply is pleasantly free of the smell our prior water had. We voted on and approved the purchase of a new water heater.

Rob Burnett has Dierbergs and Shop-n-Save cards.

Last week was Young Eagles. Rick May reports we had 23 total volunteers and 9 pilots, flying 54 kids and maybe 3 adults flew. Laura had 23 scouts for her merit badge presentation. Note to ground crew: please have your pilots sign the forms. Pat Donovan had a good system: he printed a sheet of adhesive address labels with all his information. Bill Doherty reports that we cleared around $180 on food sales, and requests volunteers to cook and sell food at future events. We need two or three at each event. We could use more volunteers at the events in general.

New Business:

We'd like to add Tom Baker and Tom Huebbe to the Memorial Wall at Oshkosh. It will cost $700, and so far we've collected $500. See Dave Doherty if you'd like to contribute. A number of our chapter's members are already on the wall.

Sun-n-Fun is coming up this month. Two members present at the meeting plan to attend. On the 20th there will be a memorial there for Tom Baker and another who recently passed.

Missouri Aviation Convention and Trade Show (or whatever its new name will be) is coming up, though we don't know the exact date. Bob Kraemer will let Dave know when he (along with other flight instructors) learn the date.

The airport is going to seam seal the driveway up to our parking lot. We need to do the same and will need a team of people for this project.

The flagpole needs paint as does the south-facing blue trim.

Dave would like to do something with the interior, cinder-block wall, making it presentable and functional. Rick, for example, suggests hanging a flat-screen to display information at YE events.

Dave would also like to paint EAA32 on the roof, visible from the air.

We'll have a work day in May, date to be announces.

Our RV-12 construction is about to start, Tom Crocco and the group will meet after today's meeting and presentation.

Does anyone want to buy a BD-4 project?

April 25th at noon will be the next Board of Directors' meeting.

The newsletter is now sent out via email unless specifically requested otherwise.

Jeff Stephenson reports that the roster is now available as a cloud document and is up-to-date. A link's available on the chapter website.

The movie of the month starts up again this month with The Bridges of Toko-Ri. We start out with barbecue and a pot-luck dinner starting at 6:00 pm.

Jeff Stephenson announced that he proposed to Michelle on Valentine's Day. He invites members to fly out to Kilo 33, the wedding will be in Dent County. They're in the process of moving to St. Charles.

Dave notes that our passed hat contained enough to cover the balance of Tom Baker and Tom Huebbe's addition to the Memorial Wall.

Motion was made and seconded to adjourn.

Our guest speaker, Alan Hoffman, will speak on the history of Lambert Field.