Minutes from EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING 28 August, 2002

 

TO: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OFFICERS

SECTION CHAIRS

STUDENT BRANCH COORDINATORS

FROM: BRENT BAKER, SC COUNCIL SECRETARY

DATE: 10 OCTOBER, 2002

 The meeting convened at 7:30 pm via e-conference. The attendees were Nancy Gunderson, Marilene Guardia-Baker, John Montague, Nancy Gunderson, Steve Carroll, Lee Stogner, David Mills, Bill Harrison, Jim Howard, Mark Stokes, and Brent Baker. 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 meeting is:Sunday, November 3rd @ 4:30 p.m. at Zorba’s restaurant .

MEETING MINUTES

  • Voted to approve meeting minutes from April & June meetings (minutes for June meeting have not been finished as of the August meeting)

  • Motion was made to add section chairs to the Excom members in April’s meeting minutes (Mark S. seconded motion)

    • BYLAWS

    Amendments to the proposed bylaws were made by John Montague and they are as follows:

  • Article VI, Section I – amend to state that junior Past Council Chair is not a section representative on the Nominations Committee

  • Article VI, Section 3 – amend to require at least 2 nominations for Chair position. Request, but not require, at least 2 nominations for other officers

    • Motion was made to work on revising proposed bylaws offline before voting on final approval (John M. seconded motion)

    NEW BUSINESS

    Employment assistance program (Lee Stogner reporting)

    • Have currently collected 20 responses to employment survey

    • Have begun a series of activities to help the membership, starting with LeEarl’s letter to Congress to highlight the issue

    • Will host Employment Summit in the fall to communicate employment issues to a broader audience

    • Career Services group under the leadership of Bob Adams is releasing new materials that can be used by individuals and Sections to help members find jobs

    • Lee is in the process of trying to get the PACE network to conduct employment-based M-PACs as a means of bringing these materials to people (M-PACs consist of several speakers at several section meetings or possibly a Saturday morning or a day devoted to organized delivery of material that benefits the member(s) – materials are cheap/free – it just takes people willing to help organize it - Region 3 PACE will help)

    • Have proposed holding M-PACs at two places on consecutive days (at different Sections, excluding the Coastal Section) – will need volunteers to help with this

    CHAPTER PETITION

  • John Montague reported that nothing has been done towards the creation of a Chapter petition. He will e-mail a petition form to Section Chairs, which are to be returned after September section meetings

  • There have been only six signatures so far that will go towards the creation of a Technical Chapter for South Carolina

    • EMPLOYMENT COORDINATOR POSITION

  • The Employment Coordinator is the liason to the IEEE-USA Employment and Careers Services Committee and is tasked to help coordinate employment assistance seminars, job fairs, etc. when there are large layoffs

  • Lee S., Bob Adams, and Bill Harrison discussed the possibility of merging the positions of the Employer Coordinator and the Industry Relations (IR) Representative into the same person

  • A job description for the IR Representative has been written according to Bill H.

  • Lee S. suggested getting GOLD members involved with the E.C. issue

    • SECTION EVENTS FOR REMAINDER OF YEAR

  • Columbia Section – Section meetings in September, October, November, and December (Christmas party)

  • Piedmont Section – planning tour of Oconee Educational building (base of Team 343 of FIRST robot competition), possible tour of Greenville Zoo; October section meeting presentation will be on Intellectual Property Rights

  • Savannah Section – have planned an Excom meeting to set up a fall schedule

  • Coastal Section – no lineup as of yet

    • BUDGET

  • Bank account currently contains a balance of $1462.58

  • Council should receive $4,730.26 from SoutheastCon 2002 (this includes the $1000.00 in seed money due the council for helping to fund the conference)

  • A motion was made by Nancy G. and seconded by Steve C. to not accept dues from sections due to the money generated by SoutheastCon 2002 (vote was unanimous for this)

    • DISMISSAL

    The meeting adjourned at 10:00 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 Nancy Gunderson n.gunderson@ieee.org

    Section Chairs
    Piedmont Mark Stokes m.stokes@ieee.org
    Columbia John Montague montague@ieee.org
    Central Savannah River David Mills d.mills@ieee.org
    Coastal SC Tim Washington twashing@scires.com

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