CFAS Monthly Board Meeting Minutes

CFAS Monthly Board Meeting Minutes

July 17, 2007

Attendees:

Paul Kronenwetter

Frank Gutowski

Francisco Gonzales

Walt Hamler

Alan Hoffberg

Tom Chitty

Tony Urzi

Beeler Gausz

Guests:

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

The meeting was called to order at 7:08pm.

1. Secretary's Report

A request was made for comments and changes to the May board meeting minutes. Alan Hoffberg made a motion to approve the minutes as distributed by email. Tony Urzi seconded the motion. The minutes were approved unanimously.

1. Treasurer's Report

Alan briefly discussed the treasurer's report. Alan sent the check to UCF last Friday. Frank motioned to accept the report.Francisco seconded. The treasurer's report was accepted unanimously.

1. Agenda Items

   1. Paul made a motion that the webmaster engage the hosting company to increase our service level up to $500 per year. Alan seconded. The motion passed unanimously. This will be incorporated as a line item into the webmaster budget for 2008.

   2. Walt described a number of requests he's received from commercial entities requesting services from our membership. He's decided that the club doesn't support these activities. The board present agreed with Walt's position.

1. Committee Reports

   1. Membership -

      1. New Members for May and June:

         Francisco made a motion to approve the above new members. Frank seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously.

         1. John Sweeney

         2. William Piccolo

         3. David Davies

         4. Douglas Landmann

      2. Francisco has had a few people ask if we issue membership cards or ID tags. CFAS has done this in the past, but not recently.

1. 1. Programs

      1. Walt suggsted that Alan create a program from his research he recently completed in Brazil.

      2. The planetarium will be unavailable for the August meeting, so the meeting will be moved to OSC. Derek is working with Brandon Lanman to arrange the switch. Future meetings this year will be swapped so we continue to alternate between sites.

      3. A program on the Dawn mission will be presented at the August meeting.

      4. Derek will be presenting at September's meeting.

1. 1. DSAC/Library

      1. No new information.

1. 1. Publicity

      1. No new information.

1. 1. Orlando Science Center

      1. Brandon Lanman is our new contact for OSC. He requests that the membership consider volunteering at the observatory as much as possible.

1. 1. Board Members at Large

      1. No new information

1. 1. Observing

      1. No update provided.

1. 1. Education and Outreach

      1. No update provided.

1. 1. Robinson

      1. UCF staff is still learning the software that controlling the telescope. Dr. Britt has again expressed interest in CFAS's support of programs once UCF learns to use the software.

1. 1. Astrolog Editor

      1. The latest Astrofest was published on the website today.

1. 1. Scientific Committee

      1. The astrophotography group met recently. Julius Metts presented the basics of astrophotography at the most recent meeting.

         1. The next meeting will be on July 28th at the OSC cafeteria covering capturing and processing images.

      2. A group interested in radio astronomy will meet after the next general meeting.

         1. Tom Dazey made contact with a UCF professor regarding interest in radioastronomy.

         2. UCF closes down their radio observatory during lightning season, so they will start observing again in October.

1. 1. NASA Night Sky Network

      1. The next NASA Night Sky presentation will be on June 18th. Dr. Lisa XXXX will present information on the Dawn Mission to be launched soon.

1. 1. Webmaster

      1. No update.

1. Old Business

   1. No old business was discussed.

1. New Business

   1. No new business was discussed.

1. Motion to Adjourn

   1. Frank motioned to adjourn the meeting, Franciscoseconded. The meeting was adjourned at 8:02pm.

/s/ Paul Kronenwetter – CFAS Secretary