The CRES Amateur Radio Club held its first general membership meeting
of the calendar year on Tuesday, 28 February 2017, at the Reynoldsburg
branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library.  The following members
and guests were present:

 K8LJ		Bob Kenyon		- President
 N4HAI		Tom Foy			- Vice President
 KD8WK		Rob Stampfli		- Secretary
 W3CRZ		Bob Cartwright		- Treasurer
 WD8TA		Tate Antrim		- Internet
 K8RSP		Dave Woolf		- Immediate Past President
 K8AX		Dave Brown
 WA8LBZ		Al Mecozzi
 		Bob Searls
 N9CX		Bill Erwin
 WD8EBS		Mike Stansbery
 KB8DEO		Stu Steenburgh
 WA8EVP		Don Weatherby
 W8NEE		John Raile
 KD8RTA		John Buck
 K8LE		Andy Elliott
 W8REW		Ed Weston
 N4OTR		Lois Foy
 N4DLR		George Foy
 AC8YE		Larry Howell
 K8TX		Dan Merrick III
 KE8CRM		Russell Ward
 KE8CRL		Alicia Ward
 N8WL		Steve Katz
 W8AGS		John Lawson

President K8LJ called the meeting to order at 6:44 PM.

Four guests and first time attendees introduced themselves.

The Secretary's minutes from the December meeting were approved.

The Treasurer reported we now have 37 paid members and $7216.85
in the bank.

K8LJ reported that our VE team will hold an exam session at
Parkview Presbyterian church on April 1st.

K8RSP reported that the existing repeater appears to be working
well.  K8LJ added that our Echolink interface is likewise
functioning OK although there appears to be a conflict between
one of our repeater codes and an Echolink code.

N4HAI informed us that our next meeting will be held on Thursday,
April 20th.  It will also be held at the Reynoldsburg branch of
the Columbus Metropolitan Library.

K8LJ next conducted our 2017 elections, which were postponed from
our last meeting.  The offered slate included:

		George Foy, N4DLR	- President
		Tom Foy, N4HAI		- Vice President
		Rob Stampfli, KD8WK	- Secretary
		Bob Cartwright, W3CRZ	- Treasurer

No additional nominations were made from the floor, and by a show
of hands the above slate was elected unanimously.

K8LJ told the meeting that the club had reserved and paid for our
normal spot at the Infirmary Mound park for our 2017 Field Day
exercise.

N8WL passed out a Field Day survey form and asked those present to
fill the form out and return it to him, preferably this evening.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:02 PM after which K8RSP gave a talk
about the progress he has made with making our new Fusion repeater
ready for use.  He also demonstrated the use and modes of the new
device.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli, KD8WK
CRES-ARC Secretary