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Saturday, December 6, 2003 TASMA General Meeting - Minutes

Board Members Present:
Chairman: Joe Macera, KG6ECQ
Vice-Chairperson: Pat Finke
Secretary: Ted Fukushima, N6ZZK
Board Member-at-Large: Howard Brown, KG6GI
Technical Committee Chairman: Alex Groza, WB6DTR

Joe called meeting to order at 11:18

AGENDA ITEM 9, ELECTION OF OFFICERS will be moved to after item 10

There were no minutes available for the August General meeting.

Treasurer’s Report:

11/8: $ 4, 268.55 net worth
Lots of members are not renewing.
243 members beginning, 117 has expired memberships.
Howard motion to approve report. - Gary Franks seconded. - Past unani.

Correspondence Summary:

196 pieces versus 300 last year (mostly new members last year.)
49 memberships 11 new, 34 renewal, 4 del. Renew
67 technical committee
32 business
44 other.
Gary asked about e-mail distribution. Howard replied that it is posted to the web site and the option has been placed on the application. Lou asked about the repeat of information that wouldn’t normally be in the newsletter like the By-Laws. Gary asked about sending a post card to everybody with the option to receive electronically. Joe replied that sending the request via e-mail would also validate the e-mail address.

Committee Report:

No rep. from Tech. Comm.There is a report from the Tech Comm in the newsletter. Joe asked if there was anybody with any issues. Howard noted that there is no sec. Tech comm., Matt has stepped in to fill in as secretary. With the amount of paperwork. Lou Frank will pickup about 1/3 of the paper work to help Matt out and not to interfere with his education.

Howard noted no quorum for March.

Gary asked about contacting co-sharing , adjacent. via e-mail. Howard asked about the logistics of having valid e-mails. Gary replied that as a trustee, they would have active e-mails. Howard replied that there was still work in the typing of the letters.

Howard updated on the auditing of the repeaters. Joe noted that it was a big task.

A question was asked about what is a “active” repeater. What kind of activities and usage. Joe said that if there was a repeater or not, not amount of usage. Howard said 60 days after it is discovered that there is no repeater, then there is a decision to de-coordinate, then voted on the next Tech Comm., so roughly 90 days.

Spectrum Management

Saved to the band plan changes.

Database

Database updated to March. No May. July and September is not in the database and November did not have a quorum.

Howard will have it updated by early next year for the ARRL submittal. The paper records are in Joe’s garage, so Howard has been electronically scanning the files and placing it on the FTP site. It contains every transaction and mail received current to early this year and going back three years.

Bob asked what the current size of the computer files are. Howard wasn’t sure.

New Business:

By-Laws changes: At the August meeting, three changes were proposed. Question about fairness and delegate membership.

First change was to allow only one person hold one delegate and one regular membership and prevent stuffing the ballot box. Second was to change the language to each membership is entitled to one vote. Third was to change the language to each person.

Joe asked if there was any question. Bob added that he proposed the first two proposals and added that Jim sent a note against the proposals. With people creating a clubs, one person could have multiple votes.

Bob asked that the third proposal does not limit the number of delegates. Bob is endorsing the one and two and think the third is superficial.

Question was asked that if a person could have two votes. Bob added that TASMA support organizations and should have a voting right.

-Biggest problem is attendance. Open others to come and vote and make changes. -Gary added that membership is going down due to changes in the By-Laws and other trustees are disgusted. Recommended a focus on memberships and not fine tuning By-Laws. Presentations at meeting, focusing more to membership.

Howard added that with more items would make meeting more interesting. The By-Laws changes is not a major issue, since it is not a big problem.

Band Plan Changes

Reviewed at ARRL, Tech Comm. approved in Sept., Board reviewed in November.
Joe asked if there were any comment.
Joe noted that one comment was received last night.
Joe noted that no repeater will move. Everything will be grand-fathered in.
Bob added that one repeater odd split out will have to move 20 Khz down.

Question on 145 spacing. Will go to 15Khz spacing. Bob replied that it is a hot potato issue will large opposition. Gary asked if 145 went 15 kHz, how many repeaters would be affected. Bob replied he did not know.

Howard asked Bob to review what the proposed Band Plan will do.
Wording of NARCC with the other councils mentioned in the Band Plan.
No AM DSB assignment.
Simplex cross-band repeaters popping up and causing interference.
Growth of internet applications.
-remarked that with his EchoLink system, after investigating and setting up a good relation with other Echolink systems on the same frequency, there has been no problems with his system. But he can see a problem coming in the future with others setting up system with concerns to others.

Bob think that the Band Plan should be reviewed again next year to correct other problems.

No wide split frequency for portable repeaters.

Tertiary repeater

145 band edges.

SAREX

Simplex guard bands,
National simplex freq.
Packet channels.
Odd split repeaters.
Restriction with Mexico systems.
Open/Private repeaters.

Elections

Joe asked for any nominations for any positions. Howard nominated Bob Dengler for Chairman. Bob accepted.

Gary made a motion to make the rest of the officers incumbents. Lou seconded.
Vice Chairman, Sec. ,Treas., and Board Member at larger are reelected. Passed uni.

12:35 p.m. recessed for election.

1:03 p.m. Joe resumed the meeting. Results:

18 ballots submitted, 2 were invalid.
Bob Dengler was elected.
All By-Laws changes approved.
Band Plan Changes were approved.

Next General meeting on Saturday April 3rd. Location to be determined.

Motion to adjourn by Gary, seconded by Lou. Passed

Meeting adjourned 1:07 p.m.

Summary of Motions – TASMA General Meeting, December 6, 2003

Mr. Brown made a motion to accept the 4th Quarter Treasurer’s and Membership Reports. Mr. Gary Franks seconded the motion. (Motion passed unanimously)

Mr. Gary Franks made a motion to make the current officers for Vice-Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer and Board Member-At-Large as incumbents to the 2004 term, leaving only the election of Chairman on the ballot. Mr. Louis Frank seconded the motion. (Motion passed unanimously)

Mr. Gary Franks made a motion to adjourn. Mr. Louis Frank seconded the motion. (Motion passed unanimously)

The official election results were:
Election of Officers Chairman:

Proposed By-Laws Changes :

  1. By-Laws change to append to the end of Article I, Section 1b: “One person may hold one delegate membership in addition to a single regular membership.” (12-3-1)
  2. By-Laws change to change the last sentence "Each member shall have one vote." of Article I, Section 3a to: “Each membership is entitled to one vote.” (13-3-0)
  3. By-Laws change to append to the end of Article I, Section 3a: “No one person shall hold more than two votes.” (11-5-0)
Proposed Band Plan Changes: Shall the current band plan (approved 12/1998) be replaced with the proposed band plan update approved by the Technical Committee, and found on pages 5 through 8 of this newsletter? (14-2-0)

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