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CFAS Monthly Board Meeting Minutes

CFAS Monthly Board Meeting Minutes

Aug 17, 2006

Attendees:

Frank Gutowski

Tony Urzi

Larry Lurie

Walt Hamler

David Furrow

Francisco Gonzalez

Alan Hoffberg

Tom Chitty

Guests: (None)

  1. President's Call to order. Welcoming remarks.

  2. The meeting was called to order at 7:03.

  3. President talked about the meeting at Denny’s after the July general meeting and how interesting it was. Will be looking forward to next one.

  4. Walt mentioned an email he got from Emil Neata requesting his Astronomy website to be linked to our website. Tom Chitty didn’t like the idea since we didn’t have a way of verifying the purpose of the request, I also didn’t like the idea. It was agreed that Walter would respond to the email letting him know of our decision.

  5. Since the secretary was out of town Francisco volunteered to take the minutes.

A request was made for comments and changes to the Jun board meeting minutes. Tom made a motion to approve the minutes. Francisco seconded the motion. The minutes were approved unanimously.

  1. Treasurer's Report

Alan explained the treasurer's status and budget variance report.

David motioned to approve the treasurer's report. Frank seconded. The report was accepted unanimously. Also Alan is going to order the new name tags to be used at Cfas meetings and events. Will cost 100.00 for a 1000 tags. We also got 8 attaches (briefcases) at about US$14.06 each, will be sold for US$15.00.

  1. Agenda Items

      1. Dark Sky Sites.

    2. No mention, other than going to Ocala weather permitting this weekend.

  2. Committee Reports

    1. Membership -

      1. New Members for August:

        1. Matt Blanzy

        2. Christopher Gullette

        3. Herman Evans

        4. Richard Cooley

        5. Ed & Lynn Rosack

        6. Tom Dazey.

Francisco moved to accept these membership applications, Frank seconded this motion. Francisco agreed to bring enough membership applications to the general meeting.

    1. Programs

      1. Dr. Fernandez form UCF will speak at the next meeting.

    1. Publicity

      1. One even held at South Creek Branch library by Tony Urzi. He read a thank you note sent to him, thanking him for the presentation.

      2. Possible presentation at the Oviedo Branch library by the end of October. No topic has ben set yet.

        1. Also Bonnie from Weire Grass requested assistance for the weekend of CAV star party. Possible members living in the area may volunteer to help.

Orlando Science Center

      1. Larry metioned that finally the OSC approved CFAS to bring refreshments for meetings.

      2. It was mentioned to try to reach OSC membership by email about CFAS meeting there.

Astrolog Editor

      1. Next deadline is September 10.

    1. Scientific Committee

      1. Inactive

    1. NASA Night Sky Network

      1. Next toolkit available next month about eclipses, transits etc…

  1. Old Business

Nothing.

  1. New Business

    1. Nothing was brought forward.

  1. Motion to Adjourn

    1. Walter motioned to adjourn the meeting, Lawrence seconded. The meeting was adjourned at 8:16pm.