CFAS Monthly Board Meeting Minutes
CFAS Monthly Board Meeting Minutes
April 21st, 2004
Board members present:
Ray Jones
Frank Sperl
Frank Gutowski
Paul Kronenwetter
David Furrow
Alan Hoffberg
Laurence Lurie
Pat Weeks
Walt Hamler
Guests present:
Jeff Pettit
Ray Jones called the March meeting to order at 7:03 PM at Dan’s Family restaurant.
Old business:
Ray stated that he had received some good suggestions for improvements to our annual Astrofest star party. More discussions on these ideas will be held in the future. Ray also stated that next years Astrofest would probably be held at SCC again.
Ray stated that the Harmony Project was on hold until the group at Harmony allocated funds for, and started moving on, the observing site at Harmony.
New business:
Ray mentioned the upcoming Harmony Dark Sky festival and also the activities planned at the SCC planetarium. The board discussed who would be attending each event.
Frank Sperl proposed that CFAS consider applying for a science grant.
Ray Jones proposed that CFAS setup a fund that members could donate to that would be used for purchasing a permanent CFAS viewing site.
Secretary:
Walt Hamler made a motion to accept both the February and March 2004 Board meeting minutes. Paul Kronenwetter seconded the motion and the motion was approved by the board.
Treasurer:
Alan Hoffberg presented the Treasurers report for March.
Frank Sperl made a motion to allow the Treasurer to invest up to $5,000.00 of surplus cash in an interest bearing investment. The motion was seconded by Tom Chitty and approved by the board.
Membership:
Frank Gutowski presented 28 new CFAS member applicant’s names to be approved by the board. Walt Hamler made a motion to accept the new members. Paul Kronewetter seconded the motion and it was approved by the board.
Programs:
Pat Weeks stated that the May general meeting would have a presentation about astronomy gadgets. She added that she was looking for volunteers to participate.
Pat stated that Bob Reim would be postponing his presentation on astrophotography until the July meeting.
Pat announce that a representative from the Spectrum company would be giving a presentation on mirror coating soon.
Publicity:
No report from the publicity committee.
Orlando Science Center:
Larry Lurie announced that Richard Wright would give a presentation on his companies new software at the June general meeting.
BMAL:
Paul commented that Ed Williams would do an Astronomy Day presentation at the SCC planetarium on April 24th.
Observing:
Walt Hamler stated that the police firearms qualifications might interfere with the next few observing sessions at the SCC Star Range. He added that CFAS members should not set up their telescopes if the police were using the range due to potential injuries and that he would send a list of CFAS observing dates to the range officer.
Walt stated that a RV6 (?) telescope had been donated to CFAS and that he would be working on restoring it.
Walt commented that there had been no request for operator training at the UCF observatory and that the UCF visitor nights were over until the Fall semester.
Ray Jones proposed that CFAS help support the Orlando Science Center’s planned viewing of the Venus transit on June 8th.
DSAC:
No report from DSAC.
Science Committee:
Ray Jones stated that Michael Liguori had received some information from a group called “Transient Search” and would present more information on it at the next board meeting..
Astrolog Committee:
The Astrolog committee chair remains open.
Librarian:
No report from the librarian
A motion to adjourn was made by Walt Hamler at 8:25pm, it was seconded, and the meeting adjourned