CFAS Monthly Board Meeting Minutes
CFAS Monthly Board Meeting Minutes
January 21st, 2003
Board members present:
Ray Jones
Frank Sperl
Alan Hoffberg
Paul Kronenwetter
David Furrow
Laurence Lurie
Pat Weeks
Ray Jones called the November meeting to order at 7:15 PM at Dan’s Family restaurant.
Miscellaneous and New business:
Ray Jones announced that Robert Peterson had made a donation to CFAS in the amount of $100 to support our scholarship efforts.
Ray thanked the members that had participated at the Sally Ride festival in Cocoa Beach.
Paul Kronenwetter volunteered to take over responsibility for updates and maintenance to the CFAS main website.
The board approved the purchase of mounting rings and a Losmandy mounting plate for the TEC 140 telescope. This will allow the TEC 140 to be used as a portable scope.
It was decided to provide lunch for free at Astrofest 2004 to all members and to charge a reasonable amount to their guests. The amount will be determined later.
Ray mentioned the idea of purchasing T-shirts with a CFAS logo for patron members. Alan Hoffberg added that providing a polo shirt with a CFAS badge attached would cost approximately the same as a T-shirt and might be nicer. Pat Weeks made a motion to purchase 144 polo shirts and badges and to give a free shirt to patron members and to be sold to non-patrons, the price to be determined later. The motion was seconded and approved by the board.
The board approved purchasing a trailer to house the group’s electric generator. This will allow for more secure storage.
The board decided not to move our web forum from Yahoo to the AstronomyDaily website.
The board approved one honorary membership.
Secretary:
The meeting minutes from the December board meetings were not complete and will be approved at the next meeting.
Treasurer:
Alan Hoffberg submitted the Treasurers report and announced that CFAS had a surplus of about $1900 from 2003. Paul Kronenwetter made a motion to accept the report and Pat Weeks seconded.
Membership:
Ray Jones announced that Jean Bassick had given 30 days notice of her intention to resign as membership chair. He stated that Jean’s new job responsibilities would interfere with her ability to perform her responsibilities.
Six new membership applications (?????who?) were approved by the board.
Programs:
Pat Weeks stated that Jack Fox had given a good presentation at the last general meeting. She also added that Bob Reim would give a presentation on astrophotography at Astrofest 2004.
Publicity:
No report from the publicity committee.
Orlando Science Center:
BMAL:
Frank Sperl announced that the results from the survey were still be compiled.
Frank made a motion to allow Paypal online payments to be made to CFAS for all financial transactions including membership applications/renewals. He added that patron memberships would not include the fee charged by Paypal. The board approved the motion.
Observing:
Ray announced that monthly viewing at Harmony was moving to Saturday nights starting the following Saturday (1/24) and that viewing will be moved to another part of the golf course soon.
Ray announced that the Harmony Institute had been receptive to considering other alternatives to their renovation and moving of the FIT telescope to an observatory on their property. A new proposal is still being formulated and negotiations with the Harmony Institute continue.
Harmony has also agreed to host CFAS for a picnic and viewing in October.
Our application for membership in the NASA Night Sky Network (NNSN) is still pending. The volume of responses received by NNSN is causing the wait.
Astrofest 2004 is scheduled for March 19th and 20th at the SCC Star Range. The Vice-President will responsible for the programs presented and the BMAL’s will be responsible for providing lunch.
DSAC:
No report from DSAC.
Science Committee:
The science committee chair remains open.
Astrolog Committee:
The Astrolog committee chair remains open.
Librarian:
Ray Jones announced that Hunter Jackson had volunteered to serve as CFAS Librarian.
A motion to adjourn was made at 8:45pm, it was seconded, and the meeting adjourned