IEEE Region 3
              Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) Meeting
                            Knoxville, TN
                          22 November  2002
                            DRAFT MINUTES


Attendees: J. Beall; R. Harris; W. Harrison; J. Howard; D. Jackson;
           D. McLaren; R. Riddle (Vice Chair), R. Thompson

Corresponding: W. Ratcliff

Guests:    C. Hickman; D. Green; D. Hill

1. Vice Chair Riddle welcomed the SPC attendees and reported on the
   status of Chair Duggan who is recoverning but unable to attend.

2. The meeting agenda was accepted with the addition of three items:

   - Motion for SPC mentor involvement as member of the committee

3. Minutes of the SPC Meeting of 5 April 2002 were not approved due
   to a printing problem with the set of minutes available to the
   committee.  (The minutes were approved the following day thanks to
   help from Chip Dawson to access the web copy of the minutes.)

4a. The committee reviewed the proposed 2003 Strategic plan.  The group
   voted to recommend the plan to the ExCom with the single change of
   changing the word "entities" to "organizational units" in V.A.b of
   the plan.

4b. The committee voted to adopt the ten proposed G&O's for the the SPC
   committee (labeled "Draft 11-16-02").

5. Bill Harrison discussed plans for the the Region 3 Operations
   Efficiency ad hoc committee.  He committed to delivering a draft
   proposal for SPC review by 1 May 2002 working towards closure (with
   the ExCom) by the end of the year.  This effort supports SPC G&O
   #4.  Potentially, a revision to the bylaws would be necessary after
   this effort.

6. Vice Chair Riddle noted that several Mentor reports had been
   recieved.  He also noted that Jim Beall had a motion to discuss.
   Various Mentors reported on their activities.

   Jim Beall proposed that all mentors be made members of the
   corresponding committees with voice and vote.

   After discussion, the group passed the following motion:

   SPC recommends that the ExCom recommend that Committee Chairs
   appoint their mentors as full members of their committee.  The
   mentor should actively participate in the committee.

   The group decided that a mentor to the Gold Committee should be
   named and Vice Chair Riddle accepted the task of identifying the
   mentor.

7. Vice Chair Riddle referred members to Chair Duggan's report
   regarding the status of history update project.

8. There was no old business.

9. Dave McLaren asked that a link be made between the Region 3 Web
   Site and the Life Member site.  Bill Ratcliff took the action item
   to make this happen.

10. After a review of actions, the group adjourned.