The meeting convened at 4:30 p.m. at Zorbas Restaurant in Columbia, SC. The attendees were Steve Carroll, John Montague, Allen Thomas, Lee Stogner and Marilene Guardia-Baker.

Meeting Schedule

Council meetings are open to all IEEE members. At a minimum, Council Officers and Section Chairs are expected. If you cannot attend, please send me your updates. Section Chairs may send an alternate attendee. Please make announcement of these meetings in your local section and chapter meetings and newsletters. The next meetings are:

November 21 @ 7:30 p.m. at the Region 3 ExCom meeting in Atlanta, GA, for Council members attending the conference.

December 2 @ 7:30 p.m. via e-conference to discuss SCCESS Joint Seminar, being held in March ‘04. Need attendance of all sections.

January 13 @ 7:30p.m. via e-conference to discuss new Council plans for 2004, Section officers’ plans for 2004, plans for Southeastcon, follow up on SCCESS speakers, etc.

INITIAL/INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS

• Plans for attendance of Region 3 ExCom meeting on November 21 were discussed. Piedmont, Coastal SC and Central Savannah River Sections are planning to send representatives. Council Chair will also travel to Atlanta for the meeting. A brief Area 7 meeting is planned for Friday evening while at the conference.
• Minutes from October 7 meeting were reviewed and a change is needed. Need to remove Dave Green and place Becky Stogner as creator of password protection of ExCom directory. Motion to change meeting minutes as described above was accepted.

OFFICERS REPORT

• John M. reported that the council had paid $100.00 dues to the SCCESS. As of November 1, $5095.28 is in its account, which accrues about $5.00 interest per month; Allen T. made motion to accept John’s treasurer report – Lee S. seconded.

OLD BUSINESS

• Marilene mentioned that she is working on nominating SPAWAR Charleston for the Region 3 Professional Development Award, while Ken Lindler (Coastal Section Vice-Chair) is doing the same for Santee Cooper. No other nominations for Region 3 awards are planned by the SC Sections/Council. Deadline for nomination is Dec. 1.

• Lee S. advised that the Senior Membership drive for this year is coming to a close. We need to continue to upgrade our members during the upcoming year.
• Roster updates were turned in to Marilene B., who will send them to Lee S. to post on the website.

NEW BUSINESS

• Marilene B. has been asked to represent her place of employment at USC’s EE Department Industry Advisory Board. As such, she is hoping to leverage from this relationship to get the Student Branch at the university more involved with the local Columbia Section.
• Lee S. asked the sections to promote the council website some more. They can use the calendar to input section activities, job fairs, etc. Employment assistance site can be found here as well. Region 3 has only employment assistance program available and it’s a great source of information on available jobs in the region. The URL for the site is http://www.ieee.org/sc_council Section webmasters should add this link to the Section sites and advertise its use.
• Elections of officers for the 2004-2005 term were held at this meeting. Elected officers are: Steve Carroll (Chair), Brent Baker (Vice Chair), John Montague (Treasurer) and Richard Baker (Secretary). Committee Chairs are: Allen Thomas (Past Chair and SCCESS representative), Lee Stogner (Professional Development and Membership Development), Marilene Guardia-Baker (Past Chair and Educational Activities). Roster will be updated to include these changes, as well as information on the newly elected Section and Student counselors in the state.
• Remind Council Secretary that meeting reports for all meetings this year must be filled, as well as sending out the final meeting report to HQ. The new roster also needs to be sent to HQ as early as possible to get the R3 majordomo email changes made by January.
• Allen T. presented information on the SCCESS Joint Seminar held at USC Aiken (planned for March 9, 2004) and wondered if the council wanted to participate by offering programs in these sessions. We have done this in the past, except for the years the Council was busy putting on Southeast conferences at Clemson and Columbia. It is time we participate again. Allen would be our point of contact, we’d need a speaker (1hour and 15 min) per section. The council gets share of receipts based on attendance, so it is a good way to raise funds that can be used to help the Sections as needed. We would need to develop topics and speakers by Dec. An e-conference has been set for Dec 2 at 7:30 pm to discuss this with the Sections. In the past, each section has provided a speaker at no cost.
• Allen T. gave the Council a brief report on legislation efforts that may affect all engineers. The pending actions in front of legislation include a tort reform pushed by SC which puts limits for liabilities for corporations, and a house bill 2373 which proposes the elimination of Tier B engineers (ie Engineering Technology graduated would be allowed to get PE’s same as engineering BS graduates). Some of the issues hinge in that technologists are not trained in development and design of systems, but on operation of the system.
• Allen T. also requested to get other engineering societies in the state involved in SCCESS. Marilene B. mentioned that the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) is very strong in Charleston, and will get a point of contact for Allen. There are legal issues with federal employees and military servicemen participating in a legislative body such as SCCESS, so all such members would be non-voting members of the council.

DISMISSAL

The meeting adjourned at 6:00 pm.

Executive Committee Officers

Chair Marilene Guardia-Baker mgb@ieee.org

Vice-Chair Steve Carroll scarroll@ieee.org

Secretary Brent Baker bdbaker@ieee.org

Treasurer John Montague montague@ieee.org

Section Chairs

Piedmont Mark Stokes m.stokes@ieee.org

Columbia Brian Bendt brian.bendt@RHTelco.com

Central Savannah River David Mills d.mills@ieee.org

Coastal SC Russ Albright russell@computer.org

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