[SJAAboard] Special Committee Meeting Tuesday May 27

[Gary Mitchell]

Mark Wagner wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 10:10 am, Rob Hawley wrote:
> 
>>We will be at Houge anyway to do an Ephemeris labeling that night starting at 8
>>PM.
>>
>>This is not full board meeting where we will cast binding votes. I can show
>>everyone my more aggressive reduction proposal. I suggest attendees come with
>>their own lists.
> 
> 
> Sorry, even I'm surprised at this, but my dance card is filled  in the evenings next week, Monday
> through Saturday.
> 
> If you all want to address this topic on Tuesday night, you'll have to do it without me.  I'm fine
> with that, I'll proxy my non-binding vote to Rich.
> 
> I do feel this is a good starting point, but I have to warn that making a decision on the number
> of scopes is ultimately tied primarily to storage, and also convenience.  Here is my position and
> recommendations, which were  discarded out of hand.  I guess somehow they were interpreted into
> "Mark's Deep Cuts".... this is what I would like Rich to represent for me if the meeting takes
> place next Tuesday night:
> 
> http://sjaa.net/pipermail/sjaaboard_sjaa.net/2008-May/001484.html

Whittling that down to the essentials, it sounds like you'd limit
the program's purpose to my first of three purposes, (for members
who are relatively new to astronomy).  And then hold the inventory
to around a dozen or so simple and robust scopes.  Yes?

Whether any of us agree with that or feel it's too limited, we
might want to at least start with that.  We can always consider
expanding the program's purpose later (in small steps).

So, Mark... what would you have us do with things like the solar
scope?  Sell it, leave it in the program as an exception, or pull
it out of the program but still keep it for special cases?

Gary