The April meeting began with the Pledge, Vice President Steve Morse presiding in Karsten's absence. Thanks to Doug Killibrew for the barbecued pork steaks.
With no new members or visitors to introduce we got down to business with an update from Laura on the previous day's Young Eagles event, the first of the season. She arrived at 8:00 a.m. to find 38 U.S. Navy Sea Cadets and family waiting. They had spoken to someone in the chapter besides Bill Jagust or Laura so it was a surprise to find visitors present so early. Pilots and ground crew got right to work, but it looked like an uphill battle. Fortunately reinforcements arrived from a somewhat slower YE event held the same day. With the help of two more pilots we ended up flying 107 Young Eagles in four and a half hours. The Navy Cadets presented a donation of $150 in a brief ceremony. A memorable quote for the day came from one of Joe Sargent's passengers. After landing the boy very excitedly told his parents, "That man let me fly!"
Laura announced our next event: May 10 in Washington, Missouri. As in the past we'll work with Janet, a third grade teacher who does a unit on aviation. We expect twenty to fifty from her class. On June 14 we'll be back at the ARC for International Young Eagles day. Bill Jagust will again run his education booths.
Also, by June, we intend to retire our old Windows 95 laptop and dot matrix printer in favor of newer hardware. A new version of certificate printing software is out that will not run on our current machine. A newer printer will also make the process easier: right now it takes a bit of practice to get a certificate to output correctly on our faithful, if rather temperamental, printer. George Stephenson moved that we decide in May on whether to buy a used laptop or a new one. Dave McGougan seconded.
In other Young Eagles news, Leo Lang has flown his 100th Young Eagle. Also, look for Chapter 32 in an article in the June EAA magazine.
Leo updated us on his water investigation. Bob Holmes recommended a plumbing company who, for approximately $7300, can do the entire job of hooking the ARC into the airport water system. This includes trenching. The alternative is the treatment system at $3900. Though more expensive the first system is "turn-key": the treatment system will require periodic changes of chemicals and other maintenance. Steve Morse volunteered to contact Holmes for documentation so that we can find out exactly what this would entail. Jim Bower noted that, when using the airport's water, the burden of responsibility is not on EAA32. Their water, the same used by Kilroy's, is periodically tested. Bob has said that most houses in the area have a water treatment system because of E. Coli. If we do use airport water Karsten has suggested we pay the airport a set amount each month as this will be a service they provide.
Steve Morse reminded us that we've gotten to this point before on the system and advised us to wait on voting on the expenditure until we hear from Gary on the outcome of the tax situation. Gary was away for the April meeting. Motion was made and seconded to wait until we know about the taxes.
Following up on last month's lock decision, Ron will put reflective film on the windows. The new lock is here and awaiting installation as of the April meeting.
Bud Cole addressed the group. He has a desktop blueprint machine that operates on ammonia and can be used to duplicate blueprints and similar drawings. He's willing to donate this to the chapter. He also has a five by seven foot back lit copy table, good for tracing and reproducing plans. The top is plastic, and it folds to about thirty inches deep. Both machines are 100 miles away in Brush Hill and will require transport. We voted, 12 for and 9 opposed, to take the drafting table and will discuss the details of moving same in the May meeting. We then discussed the blueprint machine. Ron Wright has some familiarity with such devices, noting that it the smell is not bad and, given the correct paper, we could reproduce some of the plans and drawings we have in our library. Steve suggests further investigation.
Bill Jagust noted that Gale's next day of work after the April meeting would be his last prior to retirement.
We adjourned the meeting, after which Jim Bower gave a presentation on electrical wiring.
Dave Deweese, Secretary
