Approved Minutes of August 27, 2005 Region 2 Executive Committee Teleconference
Attendance: John Dentler, Dan
Repperger, Jerry Gibbon, Murty Polavarapu, Ron Ticker, Doug Tipton, A. B. Shafaye, Thom Tullia,
Moshe Kam, Adewole Akpose, Dave Vaglia, Parviz Famouri
Director-elect John Dentler called the teleconference to order at 9:00 AM. It was noted that Johnstown Section will not participate in the SC”05. As of now there are 18 primary delegates from Region 2 that will attend the SC”05. The Region will reimburse the cost of travel for primary delegates fully and each additional people by $500 per attendee. The estimated cost for the primary delegates are about $900 including registration. It is estimated that the travel will be a total of about $15,000 cost to the Region.
John Dentler announced the list of the people (attached) who will be funded to go, extra people from the section will be funded by $500.
The suggested $200 for airfare was discussed and was decided that it is too low since the gas prices have gone up. Therefore, average of $240 for airfare was adopted and it was noted that we are still under budget.
Also it was noted that the 2007-2008 Director-elect
candidates needs to be identified before March 15, 2006. It was suggested that
Moshe Kam announced that there will be a call for nomination around Sept. 15. The Region 2 Nomination Committee is composed of past-directors. The Committee will send a description of the job to the nominees. Names will be distributed before the winter meeting. The procedure to be used is the same as the one used the last time around.
One of the dates to be excluded for meeting is third Saturday in February which is engineering week.
Region 2 proposed assessment: Moshe Kam suggested to Thom Tullia to bring the issue of consistent assessment for Regions 1-6 to RAB.
Also it was noted due to Region 2 low asset, SAC needs to present its next year’s estimated budget before the end of this year.
Sections Congress Issues:
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Credit Card Acceptance at local meetings
· Expand Email Aliases (IEEE Virus Scan etc) to Family members to protect home computers
· Better information on GOLD programs and IEEE advantages for youth
Jerry Gibbon mentioned that there is lots of traffic in virtual community (VC) and the VC is well thought of process and it should not be brought down. It was also noted that VCs have grown for the past one year.
Murty said that we need to get local sections more involved in local conference planning process.
IEEE must involved greater degree of participant of the local section in technical conferences for local arrangement
Murty seeks nominations for IEEE precollege awards.
Parviz asked the committee members that if there is a problem with him distributing CDs at the October meeting with pertinent Region 2 information. Everyone agreed to bring a laptop to the meeting.
Thom inquired about SMAIEEE database, access etc. Section and Area Chairs discussed their experiences with SAMIEEE.
The teleconference was adjourned at 10:30 AM.
Next meeting Section Congress 2005.
Respectfully submitted
Parviz Famouri