An Executive Committee meeting of the CRES Amateur Radio Club
was held on 25 Sept 2002.  THe meeting was called to order by
President Mike Stansbery/WD8EBS at 6:30 PM.  Those present were
Mike Stansbuery, Mike Rauh/NV7X (VP) Jerry Scott/K9RV (Lab Mgr),
Rob Stampfli/KD8WK (Sec/Treas), Art Grandle/KD8ZG (Trustee), and
Dave Woolf/K8RSP.

First order of business:  Removing Club equipment from Lucent.
Mike signed a document with Lucent which essentially establishes
Club ownership of the Clubroom equipment by the Club.  After
polling those present, Mike agreed to set up a move date either
next Monday or Tuesday.  The equipment will be relocated
temporarily to member homes.  The equipment on the towers will
not be made available to the Club, although Dale McIlhargie
agreed, should he be present if and when the towers are
dismantled, he will give the Club first option of retrieving
that equipment.

Repeater:  For now, the repeater will stay in place.  Some
discussion was held about whether the repeater would be legal
if the phone line was disconnected.  Consensus:  As long as
we can control it via the link frequencies, it would be legal.
The Club might be able to afford a residential line, but not
a business one, and it would be next to impossible for us to
get Ameritech to install a residential line at the plant.
(Art suggestion:  A cellphone?)  Most likely buyer at this
point:  Mt. Carmel.  WD8EBS may have some "ins" with Mt.
Carmel management.  Tacit consensus:  Leave repeater and
ask plant buyer if we can continue to operate from the
premises.

Club Room: KD8WK suggested holding some of the equipment
aside and taking Jack Kirkpatrick up on offer to let us have
a clubroom in the Gahanna Sanctuary.  Consensus:  Not a good
idea.  Would be hard to make equipment secure, present access
issues, etc.

Equipment disposition:  Equipment list perused and items to
auction identified.  Several methods talked over.  Sealed
ballots nixed in favor of an open internet auction.  Here
are the groundrules agreed to:

  + The Club will retain some equipment for use in its Field
    Day event and other events.
  + All equipment offered "as-is", although we won't try to
    hide any defect we know about.
  + We will approach Ed Weston about a DSP unit he donated
    to the Club to determine if he wants it back or if we
    can auction it.
  + To bid on an item, bidder must be a member in good
    standing and must have paid 2002 and 2003 dues.
  + All items offered will have a minimum bid.
  + A running list of items and bids will be available
    for review on the internet during the auction interval.
  + Bids will be tendered to the Secretary, through an
    email account set up for that purpose.  Phoned bids
    will also be accepted.
  + From time to time (every evening that I have time to
    do so), the Secretary will update the internet to reflect
    latest bids.
  + At a pre-stated time, the auction will close.  Upon
    receipt of proper payment the person making the highest
    bid will take possession the item bid for.  However, any
    bid received within the last 24 hours will extend the
    auction for that item by 24 hours.  [ Note: The more I
    think about this, the more I think we should just establish
    an end date and be done with it.  The internet price-bid
    list should be viewed as an assistance provided for the
    bidders.  The highest bid received prior to the deadline
    should speak for itself. ]
  + Any items offered for auction that do not receive bids
    will be sold at hamfests with proceeds going to the Club.

KD8WK will draw up a list of items for sale and email the same
to K9RV and K8RSP, who will determine a minimum bid price.

Meeting adjourned at 7:30 PM.

Rob Stampfli
CRES-ARC Secretary