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The following minutes capture the highlights of the Foothill
Section Executive Committee (EXCOM) Meeting held at the International
House of Pancakes Restaurant (IHOP) in Upland, CA on December 11th, 2003.
I.
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order by the Chair, Lyle McCurdy at 7:45
pm.
a. Quorum review Lyle
McCurdy
A quorum was present. The
following officers and guests attended the meeting; Mike Sedlar, Keith Reno, Carol Daniell (guest), Charles
Antoniak, Bill Holbrook, Jay Park, Steve Powell, Tom Cylkowski,
Gerald Hayler, and Lyle McCurdy.
b. Approval of minutes Mike Sedlar
Mike presented the November 13th minutes.
A motion to accept the minutes as written was approved without
discussion.
c. Approval of agenda - any new items or changes?
Lyle McCurdy
Chuck requested that we also discuss the Future Cities competition.
II. Section
and committee Reports
a.
Chair's report,
Lyle
Lyle reported that the LAC dinner will be held this coming
Saturday. It is paid for by
the LAC!
b. Treasurer's report Art
Sutton
Art was absent so there was no report.
c. Membership Committee report
Chuck Antoniak
Chuck reported that there have been no actions since last month.
d. Education Committee report
Jay Park
Mike Sedlar provided Jay with a copy of the roles and
responsibilities for the Education chair.
He also provided copies of the roles and responsibilities for the
other officer positions to the meeting attendees.
Jay reported that he needs more mentors for secondary school kids.
He will mail a request to be added to our website to Bill.
e. Student Activities report (DeVry, Cal Poly Pomona, Harvey Mudd,
UC Riverside) Faculty
Reps
Steve reported that 19 students signed up for the Comm Society
student chapter. 35 attended
the ET meeting in November. Circuits
and Systems has very strong officers this year.
f. Student-chapter reports or requests, if any
Student Rep(s) present
None—no student leaders were present. Steve(?) reported that the students want a banner and will
present a proposal soon.
g. PACE activities report Bill
Holbrook
Bill reported that he is still working on the $500 funding for
Mathcounts. Request went to
Winfred Miles at Region 6 and he wants to provide $250 before the event
and #250 after. A signature
(Mr. Sepapas?) is still missing but should be completed at the Salt Lake
City PACE meeting this coming weekend.
h. GOLD activities report
anyone?
No activity since last month.
i. AP/MTT Chapter report
Chuck Antoniak
Chuck reported that he has no luck coordinating with other
Chapters. Maybe we should
consider combining with the Pasadena Chapter?
j. Circuits & Systems/Electronic Devices Chapter report
TariqQayyum
Tariq was out of town, so there was no report.
k. Communication Chapter Report
Tom Cylkowski
Tom reported that a Corporate Telecommunications Seminar (CTSD) is
now scheduled for Feb 6th at Cal Poly, It will be ˝ day with three speakers invited;
Disney, SoCal Ed, and Northrop-Grumman.
The Comm Chapter EXCOM was held on 12/4 at IHOP.
The goal was to define mission/vision and setup an agenda for the
year. Some of this was
achieved at the first meeting. The
next EXCOM for the society is Jan 14. The chapter also needs money for CTS; they are requesting $500 for room reservations and lunch.
Mike moved that this funding be provided by the Section.
Steve seconded and the motion was approved.
l. Awards Committee report Keith
Reno
Nothing new to report.
m. Section Webmaster report Bill Holbrook
Bill reported that he still needs writeups on the Future Cities
competition to add to the website. Chuck
reported that the Future Cities competition is Jan 31st at the
Science Museum at Exposition Park. There
is still an issue of who gives the awards.
Since the award has to do with Communications, Chuck recommends
that the new Comm. chapter take it over.
He still needs the $150 that the EXCOM approved previously.
He also needs mentors for the Pomona and Moreno Valley Middle
Schools.
n.
Teller Committee
Report Keith Reno
(Proposed new Officer slate is Chair: Holbrook, Vice Chair:
Qayyum, Secretary: Sedlar, Treas: Sutton)
Keith reported that there were 13 votes for the recommended slate
of officers. The slate for
the Comm society Chapter was Chair; Cylkowski, Program Chair: Powell,
Secretary: Chow, Treas: Lo, Education Chair: Moussani.
There was one vote for this recommended slate of officers and 1
vote for a partial slate. Chuck
moved that the slate of officers be approved and the report of the teller
committee be accepted by the EXCOM. Gerald seconded and the motion was
approved.
Bill remarked that sections in other parts of the world have much
higher voting percentages. There
is concern in the IEEE that European sections could takeover the IEEE and
run it.
III. Old
Business
a.
Update on WTS 2004
(May 14-15, 2004 at Cal Poly & Call for Papers)
Steve Powell
Steve reported that the registration
system is up and running and that a new wireless panel is being formed
(Bell, Qualcomm).
b.
Update on Nov 21
Broadband Telecomm Seminar (BTS 2004) at CPP Steve Powell
Steve reported that the next seminar is November 19th,
2004. This year speakers were
from SBC, Charter, and Verizon. The
event was ˝ day and about 50 people attended.
Next year the event will be a full day.
n.
Update on
Historical Perspective of Vehicle Emmi90sn and
Air Quality in California Meeting Jay
Park
Jay reported that about 11 attended the meeting.
The emphasis was on smog data gathering.
It was suggested that a tour of the labs at UCR might make a good
future meeting. Jay will check into this for a Saturday in March.
o.
Planning for 2004
Activities—See Activities and Planning Calendar, All
IECES is planned for February.
Possibly Tom Thon to discuss Home Solar power?
V. New
Business
a.
Next Section EXCOM
Meeting Lyle
The next EXCOM meeting is planned for January 15th.
b.
Other…..
Nothing else new.
V. Adjourn
The meeting was adjourned by the Chair at 8:55 pm.
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