TASMA

Two Meter Spectrum Management Association
358 South Main Street, #90 Orange, CA 92668
Minutes of the June 5, 1998 Board Meeting

Members having been duly notified by Newsletter posted May 1, 1998, a TASMA General (Special) Meeting and a TASMA Board Meeting were held on June 5, 1998, at the Ontario Safety Center, in Ontario California.

Minutes of the TASMA Board Meeting.

The meeting was opened by Chairman Larry Bryant N6YLA at approximately 2127 hours, with other Officers present being Vice Chairperson Pat Finke KC6ACL and Secretary JaMi Smith KK6CU. Treasurer Bob Thornburg W6JPY was absent. Many Members that were present during the previous General Meeting remained for the Board meeting.

Larry Bryant first addressed an issue which he had been asked to address in the Board Meeting by Jensen Woods AH6MX, respecting the amount of time that it was taking for The TASMA Secretary to get Mail from the TASMA PO Box and then forward it to the Secretary of the Technical Committee.

Larry Bryant stated that since by previous arrangement that the Mail was now being forwarded from the PO Box to the TASMA Secretary on a regular basis, and that Technical Committee correspondence was also being forwarded to the Secretary of the Technical Committee on a regular basis, and that the Secretary of the Technical Committee seemed to think that things were now working smoothly, and additionally since all of this had just been discussed and thoroughly hashed out in the previous Meeting, that as far as he was concerned the issue was resolved, and was only brought up here in the Board Meeting because he had been specifically asked to address it.

Larry Bryant then stated that the second issue was a letter of complaint, addressed to him, by William Houlnd, Secretary of the Hilltop ARC, and Albert Tadro, President and Chairman of Hilltop ARC. He further stated that the letter was four pages long, and contained four allegations against two members of the TASMA Technical Committee, and one other individual who was not a member of TASMA (and therefore not under TASMA's jurisdiction with respect to the complaint).

Larry Bryant stated that the complaint was with reference to the SOBAR (test) coordination on 147.060 / 147.660, and he then outlined the contents of the letter and allegations against the two TASMA Technical Committee Members, which in essence were that these Technical Committee Members concealed and misrepresented facts in dealing with other Members of the Technical Committee which caused the issuing of a coordination for a new repeater operated by SOBAR, during the time that the Hilltop ARC was asking the Technical Committee to allow the existing coordination to continue in effect during the replacement of the repeater and reorganization of the club after their former President had become a silent key and his repeater dismantled. The allegations also extend to misrepresenting facts in official TASMA correspondence.

Larry Bryant stated that he believed that the allegations were very serious and that he wished that the Technical Committee Chairman could have been present for the Board Meeting. The two Technical Committee Members against whom the complaint was lodged, were present at the Board Meeting, and a very lengthy investigation and discussion, including a discussion of the history of this situation, followed. During the discussion it was stated that it appears that many of the parties involved appear to have misunderstandings about what had actually happened, and what was continuing to happen, with respect to both repeaters and the coordination. It was also stated that the coordination was only issued as a temporary coordination (for a short 2 month test) for SOBAR to operate an interim repeater until such time as the Hilltop ARC could get their own repeater operational and on the air, at which time SOBAR would cease operating the temporary repeater. It was further stated that the Hilltop ARC actually needs to get a site for the repeater and actually needs to get an operational repeater up and on the air, and actually needs to file an RFC before this issue can be resolved any further, and also that SOBAR was simply operating a repeater in the interim which the Hilltop ARC people were welcome to use.

Larry Bryant ultimately resolved that while there were several serious issues involved here, it was clear that they could not be resolved that night, and that he was not going to ask the Board to take any action on it at the current time.

There was additional extensive discussion on TASMA policy and procedure, relating to this and other issues .

Larry Bryant stated that further action regarding the letter from the Hilltop ARC will be held in abeyance pending further information.

There being no further business, Larry Bryant adjourned the meeting at approximately 2220 hours.

Secretaries Note: Since there are still unresolved issues pertaining to the letter from the Hilltop ARC, the tape of this meeting will be retained in the event that it becomes necessary to transcribed further specific information from these proceedings.

The forgoing Minutes of the June 5, 1998 TASMA Board Meeting, and are respectfully submitted by:

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JaMi Smith, TASMA Secretary