IEEE Central Texas Section - Power Engineering Society

IEEE
Central Texas Section
Power Engineering Society
Austin Chapter

Chapter Committee
Regular Monthly Meeting
Texas Department of Transportation (TxDot), Austin, Texas
2008 April 8, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

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Participants

Name	Organization	Title	Present
Stacy Smith, P.E.	IEEE	Chair	Yes
Rheuben Hair	IEEE	Vice Chair	Yes
Stan Friend	IEEE	Secretary	Yes
Bobby Spear	IEEE	Treasurer	Yes
Catalina Martinez, E.I.T.	IEEE	Webmaster	No
Don Dumtra	IEEE	Member at Large	Yes
Ron Brown, P.E.	IEEE	Past Chair	No
Steve L. Kanetzky, P.E.	IEEE	Past Chair	No
Roy Matthews, P.E.	IEEE	Past Chair	No
Walter May, P.E.	IEEE	Past Chair	Yes
James Mercier, P.E.	IEEE	Past Chair	Yes
Mike Noth, P.E.	IEEE	Past Chair	Yes

If this differs from your understanding, please notify Stacy Smith.

Agenda Item and Completed Action	Action Before Next Meeting
1. NEC Code Class Results Stan reported Hill Country was holding our funds and that IBEW had received the final NEC books and CDs to be distributed to PES members at the next meeting. Stacy reported that she had received the Grayboy invoice and it was correct. She passed it on to Bobby for payment. Bobby reported that he had received some payment checks from CTS but there are more to come. He passed the IBEW check to Mike.	Bobby and Stan to work with Hill Country for a check payable to IEEE CTS, by April 22. Mike and Stacy to get with IBEW (Gilbert) to reconcile payment required get a corrected invoice, and to pick up the books for PES members, by April 22 Bobby to send Grayboy and corrected IBEW invoices to CTS for payment, by April 29. Mike, Stan, Stacy, and Bobby to prepare final report on the code class for our next meeting, May 13. ChapComm Members to consider having an education program each year.
2. 2008 General Meeting Schedule Stacy has tentative programs lined up through January 2008.	Stacy to finalize the schedule and forward to Catalina to post on Website
3. Website Catalina has posted Walter’s photo. Don provided ChapComm members corrected email addresses. Mike advised his email address had changed to milke.noth@lcra.org.	Catalina to post a photo of and herself and update other pages of the Website. Don to provide help.
4. Student Chapter members The expected group of students did not appear at the last meeting. Bobby expressed potential problems in paying for their free meals. Don agreed to provide credit card payment for student meals as necessary pending reimbursement by CTS.	Completed
5. Chapter awards Stacy submitted awards forms.	Completed
6. Meeting time. ChapComm members who planned to eat showed up on time and the meeting ended on time.	Completed
7. Name tags Members complemented Stan on his super creative work in setting up the new name badges and meal receipts for chapter meetings. The ChapComm approved a new menu of 11 options to be posted on the Website—prices were the same but meal variations (chicken, beef) were spelled out.	Don to provide a copy of the new menu to ChapComm members. Stan to develop a way to identify the meal selected on the face of the nametag.
8. Next meetings The next regular meeting is scheduled for May 13 and the second Tuesday of each month at TxDot for the rest of the unless the chapter membership is notified otherwise.
Recorded by Don Drumtra

Updated 2008 April 28 by Catalina Martinez