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