Chapter Board Meeting Notes - 12 March 2011

The April meeting program will be Stu making a presentation on his new engine and an update on his Zenith kit.

The May meeting will be kept short to support the Spot Landing Competition. Whatever the weather impact on the flying portion of the activity we will do the "Burger Burn". Stu says he has grill and will travel.

June will see us making plans for the Fly Mart and fencing party. An around the room may be the scheduled program. Both Daly Hadley and Don and Sharon Hall may have airplanes to be featured at some future date, maybe June or later.

The Fly-In to NAS Whidbey won't happen in April. Per one of our members who is a civilian employee at the base the person in charge of the aero club will welcome us. The Public Affairs says "NO WAY" to a fly-in by private airplanes. There are other groups that have applied to fly in but were turned down. Too much liability. Small plane landing gear is too susceptible to hanging up on arresting gear wires for one potential problem. He said groups that want to visit via ground travel are welcome and the base has even provided bus transportation from off base locations to ease entry or even get from the ferry landing. Tours of the tower and other facilities have been accommodated.

Stu will get the By-Laws per what we have received from EAA, and are probably in the records he received when he took over as Secretary, to Tom. Tom said that being a non-profit organization requires current updates of our by-laws. We discussed a couple changes I am aware of that were made in the past. I don't know if they will show up in the records found since the chapter history goes back over 25 years. There is plenty of time for things to have gotten lost.

We need to add the requirement to send in the annual EAA document package to our "Annual To Do" list. By not getting it in on time there is a period when we do not have insurance coverage from the chapter and the chapter does not show up on the current list of active chapters. I don't know what else gets missed. Also to be added is the renewal of school subscriptions if the decision is to continue the program as EAA does not send out a renewal notice.

Tom will send email of the redistributed list of schools to be contacted about the Sport Aviation subscriptions to school libraries. We have had some reports of "keep them coming" and "stop sending them". One thought was encouraging members to contribute their copies to various schools when they have finished reading them. There are several ways this might be accomplished. We will contact the schools that remain to be contacted per the list that Tom will email.

The "Life Membership" qualification criteria for members were discussed. Basically we don't have an established policy written down. We need to revisit this to establish an ongoing policy. I have worked with Tom to identify chapter members who have been so honored and the reasons they were selected.

The Spot Landing Contest scheduled for May was discussed but tabled until next month for final details. Having a "Burger Burn" featuring rollers and sliders was planned. Final planning and organization remains.

I made specific mention of appreciation for the continued strong support of chapter activities by David and Kathy Mischke. Their support of all chapter activities has been continuous and significant.

That covers as many of the items as come to mind at this late hour.

We will update email addresses with Verizon as the provider to Frontier. A number of addresses were kicked back despite efforts to get the list updated.

Ross