Board of Directors Summer Planning Meeting Minutes
Ground Round Restaurant
Attendees: Bob
Chaput
Peter Merfeld
Tim Merritt
Erik Wiberg
Walter Fagerlund
Patricia Korbet
Jeremy Bragg
Leslie Corrow
Jennifer Tooley
Dirk Brunner
1.
Welcome.
2.
Budget 2005-2006:
Chris Taylor (Section Treasurer) unable to attend meeting. Chris’ draft budget was reviewed by line
item. Following modifications suggested
by board members:
a.
Receipts
i.
Line Item 34, ACEC Fall Forum: ASCE participation
expected to be minimal; revise to $0.00 budget.
ii.
Line Item40, Miscellaneous: Revise to $0.00 budget.
iii.
Line Item 46, ASCE SPAG Grant: Erik Wiberg to prepare MEPC/Eweek related
grant; Received $7,500 last year, show $5,000 (nets out to zero with line item
96.
iv.
Line Item 47, Informant: Remove line item from budget.
b.
Disbursements:
i.
Line Item 54, Communications: Website and Informant
Newsletter: Increase to $5,500. See Informant/Webpage committee report below.
ii.
Line Item 60, Student Chapter: No one could recall
discussion on disbursements last year.
Be thought disbursement made in fall after budget books have been
finalized for the year. Bob Chaput to
contact UMaine student chapter faculty leader.
iii.
Line Item 65h, UMaine Gift Account: Increase to $1,000.
iv.
Line Item 90, Scholarship, Gifts, UMaine Pace Setter:
Increase to $5,000 for application to scholarship. Leslie reported strong interest from high
school students last year.
v.
Line Item 92, Legislative Affairs: Decrease to $700.
vi.
Line Item 97, Miscellaneous: Increase to $300.
vii.
Line Item 96, ASCE SPAG Grant: Increase to $5,000 (nets to zero with line
item 46.
c.
Request revision by Chris Taylor for board action at
September meeting.
3.
Programs:
a.
Tim Merritt reviewed plans for monthly meetings. October joint meeting with NH Chapter has
fallen through.
b.
The board formed a Program Committee comprised of the
Section Vice –President will chair the Program Committee, President-Elect, and
Technical Seminar Committee Chair. Objective
is to coordinate program development and provide institutional memory.
4.
Committees:
a.
Informant/Webpage (Walter Fagerlund and Patricia
Korbet)
i.
Walter and
Patricia would like to explore outsourcing of website updates due to broadband
and time demands. A request for member
support will be made in the Informant.
Private consultants will also be solicited.
ii.
Informant submission deadline remains the 25th
of every month.
b.
Younger Members (Jennifer Tulie)
i.
55 tickets acquired for
c.
Membership Recruitment:
(Be Schonewald): Position usually held by past president. Status quo.
Primary venues/attraction is monthly meetings and technical seminar. Increase meeting fees for non-Maine Section
member was discussed. Would be difficult
to manage. Erik presented information
compiled for SPAG grant report; information shows that national members
assigned to Maine Section has increase over past several years and percent of
Maine Section members who are “current” in dues has also increases.
d.
A/E Legislative Task Force (Jeremy Bragg and Be
Schonewald). Board agreed that A/E Task
Force and Government Relations Chair should be combined.
e.
DEP Task Force (Dirk Brunner): Slow moving group. No hot topics. Group originated from ACEC initiative. Dirk to continue in roll.
f.
Scholarship (Leslie Corrow). Leslie to continue to
manage
g.
Model Contest (Be Schonewald): Interest has been disappointing last few
years. Brief discussion to tie into
scholarship campaign, but decided against since the scholarship is for
graduating students and the model contest is open to all primary educations
students. Bob Chaput and Eric Landis to
coordinate in disseminating model contest information to the schools.
h.
Transportation Conference (Bob Chaput)- Kickoff meeting
scheduled for
i.
Technical Seminar (Walter F.)- Not much to report at
this time. Need to get ideas to Walter.
5.
Old Business
a.
Board Members for Candidates for Engineer/Young
Engineer of the Year- Some general discussion on the subject but decided to
table until September board meeting due to time constraints.
b.
ASCE Re-governance Zone 1 meeting- Joint meeting with
N.E. Council Meeting to be held in Albany, NY on September 10, 2005.
c.
Blodgett’s Welding Seminar: Jeremy Bragg reporters that
Blodgett’s is interested in holding seminar in the
6.
New Business
a.
Government Relations Chair-Jeremy Bragg interested in
chair will work with Be Schonewald.
b.
Eweek SPAG Grant
c.
Report of Leadership- National needs this report of our
Leadership for the coming year. Bob C. to put together with assistance from
Walter F.
d.
Historic Landmark for Cold Regions Conference- Pretty
much have exhausted the Historic Landmarks but if anyone has an idea please
contact Phil Dunn.
e.
2006 Cold Regions Papers (Hands-on)- General
announcement that Phil D. was looking for local engineers to submit abstracts
for the Cold Region Conference. The abstracts due in October.
7.
Adjourn
Prepared by:
Erik Wiberg
Bob Chaput