Our next meeting will be

Wednesday March, 12th.

Location and Time TBD

ATTENDEES:

Doug May, Frank Manning, Matt Angiulo, Dustin Grissom, Kathy Grissom, David Hahs, Laura Lund.

TREASURER REPORT:

As of 2/15/2008 we have $5030.12 in checking account. We have many expenses planned however.

NEWSLETTER:

· Newsletters stamped and sealed during the council meeting. They were placed in the mail following the meeting.

· Many sections send out electronic copies of the newsletter through email exclusively. This saves about $200.00 per newsletter. Should we do this?

· Dustin proposed that we send out one physical copy of the newsletter per year and send out all others electronically.

· This would allow us to send out more newsletters and save money.

SPEAKER EVENTS:

L Scott Miller- Event at PASM 2-21-08

Event was successful – Probably had ~ 100 people are so.
We paid more then we have in the past. Brian will look into seeing if we can lower the costs. He offered to cover some of the expenses from his budget.
We paid more for food then we ever have in the past.

John Purvis – Event at UofA 3-6-08

Event will follow an evening AME class.
Student Section to host and M.C. the event.
Tucson Section will provide pizza

We should invite David Lo & Embry Riddle to this event and all similar future events.

ENGINEERS WEEK (and PASM display):

· Doug participated in the Foothills Mall Event on February 16^th.

· It was a great success. Kids loved the orbital mechanics pendulum.

· He gave out one educator associate form.

· Student Section took over at about 12:30 and let the kids use a flight simulator.

STUDENT SECTION NEWS:

Feb 9^th was the 1^st flight of the DBF plane
Will test again this Saturday.
Need to Email Ray Spall with battery questions
Report is due March 4th. Must be in the mail by Feb 29^th. They’ll be done by the 24^th. Matt will find people to review it and give them edits.

AERIAL ROBOTICS:

Have a new Team of ECE Students using the project for their senior design.
They now have a small hovering vehicle
Physics fun night at PCC coming up the 1^st week of March.
Team will be flying a blimp with a camera over the crowd.

WEBSITE:

Need to pay for another year of service.
Currently having trouble getting access to the site
- problem above has been resolved.

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS:

· Jeff wants to do a happy hour or Behind the Scenes Tour at PASM or at the airport (airport tour is the 1^st wed of every month or something like that).

· Email Matt and he’ll give you the password for gmail account a long with the list of member email addresses.

MEMBERSHIP:

· Doug put a senior member article in the newsletter.

· Doug got a lot of responses about references for upgrades

· We should probably get a lot of upgrades as a result

· We should do an article about lifetime memberships in the next newsletter.

Congressional Visits Day (CVD):

· Matt went to the Region VI Public Policy Colloquium and got a lot of information regarding CVD.

· Matt applied and was grated the $500.00 MPP Reimbursement from the AIAA to attend. Travel expenses will equal $820.00.

· Electronic copies of all CVD related materials will be available soon.

· CVD will be April 15^th and 16^th.

GLIDING EVENT:

· No action yet but we will plan

· Maybe we can arrange it for the 1^st week in May.

2008 Elections:

· By the current set of section bylaws, Matt is not eligible to run for Chair.

· No one is available to fill the roll and forcing the issue may be foolish.

· It was agreed that we shouldn’t function outside of our bylaws

· An agreement was reached that we’d start to follow the bylaws from now on. It was proposed that Matt be allowed to hold the office of Chair with the term limit effectively reset. Section should start looking for a Vice Chair to take over when the 2 year limit has been reached (if not sooner). This is still up for officer debate. Are there other suggestions?

· A ballot is drafted and available on the web. We should plan to hold sections elections using the online ballot with electronic submittal.