Director's Report to the IEEE Region 3 ExCom
January 28, 2019

(1) Region 3 held a planning meeting in Orlando on January 12, 2019.
	At that time the officers and committee chairs met and discussed goals for the year.
	David Green, Chair of SOSC, will present these goals tonight for your approval.

(2) During the December 2018 Region 3 Committee meeting, a vote was taken to approve the
	slate of three candidates for Director-Elect 2020-2021.
	However, it was later discovered that not enough Section were represented to make the
	vote official.  So, the vote of the Region Committee must be repeated.
	This new vote will be administered by the asychronous voting procedure listed in the
	Region 3 Operations Manual, page 4, "Asynchronous Voting Policy and Procedures."
	These procedures require a prior discussion that may be accomplished by teleconference
	at an announced meeting.  I will assume that this opportunity for discussion was
	satisfied by our announced WebEx meeting of the Region Committee on 17 December 2018.
	Next, there is the vote that must last for seven (7) days and allow for voting members
	to change their votes.  I will ask Secretary Donohoe to set up the voting mechanism
	in the near future.

(3) The IEEE Board of Directors met in Cascais, Portugal, on 19-21 January 2019.
	Most of the meeting was a strategic planning retreat.  However, on Monday the
	Board conducted business of the Institute.  Several topics were discussed including
		Diversity, Inclusion, and Ethics in the IEEE
		Financial Transparency
		Membership
		New Business Opportunities

(4) We are looking forward to a successful Regional meeting this year at SoutheastCon 2019
	in Huntsville.  I have asked Director-Elect Gostin to plan the program for the
	Region 3 meetings for volunteers at this event.


Respectfully submitted,

Gregg Vaughn
IEEE Region 3 Director 2018-2019