The Executive Committee of the CRES Amateur Radio Club met on
Thursday, 02 February 2006.  The meeting was held at Donatos
Pizzeria, Morse Road and US 62, Gahanna, and was attended by
President Bill Erwin/N9CX, Past President Tricia Kovacs/KC8HIH,
Secretary/Treasurer Rob Stampfli/KD8WK, Equipment Manager
Stu Steenburgh/KB8DEO, VE Liaison Art Grandle/ KD8ZG, Station
Trustee Mike Rauh/W8GT, and members Dave Woolf/K8RSP
David Jeffords/K8ON, and Mike Stansbery/WD8EBS.  The meeting
was called to order by Bill at 7:10 PM.

Bill passed out an agenda for the meeting:

The first order of business was for the elected officers to
reappoint Art Grandle as VE-Liaison, Mike Rauh as Station
Trustee, and Carl Yaffey/K8NU as Contest Coordinator, for
the 2006 calendar year, which they did.  Per our
constitution, these appointments will be presented and
voted on at our next general meeting.

Bill then addressed his vision for how to conduct the
general meetings:  He would like Excomm meetings to handle
most of the business functions of the club.  He felt the
general meetings should present a more "outward focus" --
a shorter more structured business portion which observes
Robert's Rules of Order, better meeting etiquette (presume
we are conducting a meeting in which visitors are present
who might be considering joining the club), and Bill
indicated he'd like to have a program or presentation
associated with every quarterly meeting.

Bill presented dates for each of the four quarterly general
meetings which Vice President Dave Brown/K8AX had proposed.
The Excomm suggested several changes to (1) ensure there
is at least one meeting per quarter as is specified in
the constitution, and (2) take into account other Club
functions, such as Field Day and CQ-WE.  The following
dates were proposed by those present, subject to Dave's
approval:

	Wed 22 Mar - 1st quarter general meeting
	Wed 07 Jun - 2nd quarter general meeting
	Sat 24 Jun - Combined Field Day activity and club picnic
	Wed 13 Sep - 3rd quarter general meeting
	Wed 06 Dec - 4th quarter general/holiday meeting

Additional meetings of the membership may be announced
if other Club activities come up.  For instance, Tricia
indicated she is attempting to set up a tour of the WOSU
engineering facilities for club members.

One reason for selecting these dates well in advance is
so that we can advertize them on our Club web site and on
the repeater.  In addition, Tricia agreed to put together
a flyer that we can stock at Universal and at our VE exam
sessions.

Several suggestions emerged from the discussions on how
to conduct the general meetings:  An agenda will be passed
out at each meeting to help keep things on track;  Bill
indicated he would endeavor to start the meetings on time;
and side conversations will be discouraged.

After some further discussion, it was agreed that we
provide a full hour at the start of each meeting for
eating and socializing, and at the conclusion of the
meeting (after the presentation), folks who wanted
to would be encouraged to stick around for informal
discussions.

Bill indicated he was officially dissolving the Outreach
and Growth Subcommittee.  This committee's charter was
extremely ambitious, it has not developed a sense of
direction, and it has not met recently. A committee with
a more focused mission statement may be considered later
in the year.

Bill next discussed our club web site(s):  We currently
have an official club site maintained by Gordy Lashley/
WD8CZG, and a sub-site maintained by the Club Secretary,
Rob Stampfli that contains secretarial and treasurer
information.  Bill would like to see these sites merged,
at least from an external perspective.  Bill indicated he
had talked with Gordy about his (Bill's) ideas of what
should be on the Club's home page.  Rob will get together
with Gordy to discuss how to go about integrating the
sites.  It was agreed that retaining the separate web
servers was OK as long as all information could be
accessed through one site.  Someone suggested acquiring
the "w8zpf.org" domain.  Rob indicated this could be
easily done.  The Excomm approved an expenditure of $35
from Club funds to acquire this domain for five years.

Bill presented a list of programs proposed by Dave
Brown.  Several suggestions, including that of having
an additional presentation on antenna design (proposed
by Dave Woolf) will be taken back to the Vice President
for his consideration.  Bill said Dave had indicated he
would schedule all the programs at the New Albany
Public Library.  There was some sentiment that the
location should be moved around from meeting to meeting
to accommodate those living in different parts of town,
but it was generally agreed that the choice of meeting
location fell under the purview of the Vice President.
Stu Steenburgh offered to reserve the meeting room at
the NWS's Severe Weather Service near Port Columbus if
the use of that facility was desired.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:35 PM.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli
Secretary/Treasurer