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