[Sjaa-board] SJAA Board Meeting Raw Minutes - August 13, 2011

[Mark Wagner]

Rich Neuschaefer acted as Secretary for this board meeting.


SJAA board meeting August 13, 2011

Meeting called to order 6:40  PM

All voted to approve the past minutes.

Attended:
Mark Wagner
Rod Norden
Rich Neuscheafer
Gordon Reade
Robert Armstrong
Lee Hoglan
Kevin Roberts

Absent excused:
Greg Claytor
Rob Jaworski

Treasurer's Report:
Robert presented the report.

Membership Report:
Total Members: 271
Approved members on the monthly report.
All voted and approved.

Loaner Scopes:
Lee gave the loaner report, scopes out.
Mr. Hata gave the club donated a Celestron Super Polaris mount and bag 
for mount.  He also donated UO 2" 13mm? wide view eyepiece.

School Star Parties:
Gordon said school star parties were light because schools are out for 
Summer break.

Slide and Equipment Night:
Rich, see if Bryan will attend.
Mark, see if TeleVue will attend.

Sept 23rd - Mark doing class Deep Sky Observing. Mark will talk about 
Cal Star event. See who will be outside?

Oct 21st - Beginner class, Rod will give constellation talk outside.

Houge Park lights, Mark looking the city approving a switch.

New Business:

Lecturns: maybe yes, maybe no.  :-)
Budget for a lecturn.. $250, Mark will look into what is available.
Motion that budget is $250, Robert 2nd, all approved.

Public Address Ssytem, Kevin will look into PA system.

Sky & Telescope:
Robert in favor of continuing to offer S$T when renewing a membership.
Gordon and Mark suggested promoting S&T and Astronomy Magazines.

Bay Area Science Week:  Some group outside of AANC. Not associated with 
national astronomy day.

Loaner Tracking On-Line (Kevin): Suggests we all have easy access to 
info on loaner scope status.  Mark suggested using a webpage that Lee 
can use to enter data when loaning and receiving a loaner scope.
Mark suggested making the loaner update page that any of the board 
members can have write access.  Rich suggested we identify who makes the 
update.

Discussion (Robert) on how much money the club needs to spend to meet 
our contract obligation with the city to spend what we bring in via 
auction, swap, etc. We will be spending money on club equipment like a 
lecturn as well as telescope loaner equipment.

Mark suggested selling off our old scopes to help buy more new scopes 
and equipment.

Robert moves to buy more simple, non-goto scopes.
Kevin 2nd.
All approve

Mark moves that the meeting be ajourned ( 7:49 pm ).
Rod 2nd
All approve

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