Region 3 Director-Elect Report
March 25, 2002

We need your section's input to plan future Region 3 activities.  If
your section has has not yet responded, please go to
https://www.weiweb.com/ieeesurvey/ and respond to the IEEE Region 3
Section Survey.  I plan to compile the results and present them at the
Region meeting at SoutheastCon.

I attended the IEEE Board of Directors meeting in Tempe, AZ February
13-17, where I represented Region 3 at the IEEE-USA Board meeting and
at some the Regional Activities Board meetings.

I am serving on the IEEE Subcommittee on Section/Chapter Rejuvenation.
This committee tries to help the recovery of Sections, Sub-sections
and Chapters which have become inactive or appear to have become
inactive as a result of reports not being received from them.  This
committee attempts to find out about the situation which has led to
the apparent inactivity, and to find ways of reactivating the entity
if this is possible.

I have also been asked to chair an ad hoc committee of the Region 3
Strategic Planning Committee.  This SPC ad hoc committee has been
formed to take a look into possible inconsistencies between the roles
of, and voting by, Standing and Ad Hoc Committees (and the chairs) in
the R3 ExCom and the R3 Committee.  There is also concern about the
difference between Standing Committees and Ad Hoc Committees, the
allowed numbers of each (and who can vote), the way they should be
treated in the ByLaws and the Operations Manual.  Recommendations will
be brought to SPC (and then to ExCom) for clarifying the Region 3
policy, and thus for future revisions to the Bylaws and Operations
Manual.

Bill Harrison