Mid-Columbia Chapter Board of Governors

Meeting Minutes

Monday, November 25th, 2015 at 5:00 pm, Meier Architecture-Engineering offices

Voting Members / Present / Chapter Officers / Present
Rahul Athalye – President, CTTC Chair / X / Greg Jourdan – Student Activities Chair / X
Viraj Srivastava – Secretary, GGAC Chair / Colin Bates – Research Promotion Chair
Yulong Xie – Treasurer / X
Derek Archer – BOG Member at Large, Administrator, Webmaster / X / Lucy Huang – Young Engineers in ASHRAE Chair
Weimin Wang – Membership Promotion Chair, BOG Member at Large / Steve Strecker, Historian
Guests / Guests
None

1.  Call to order. Attendance/Introductions. Determination of quorum. 5:05 pm.

2.  Next BOG meeting: Wednesday, December 30th, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Meier Architecture- Engineering offices.

•  Changed to Dec 21st.

3.  Approval of past meeting minutes. October 28th. Voted.

4.  Secretary to start sending minutes to Regional Chair, these are:

•  Kevin L. Marple (Region XI Director and Regional Chair)

•  Keith A. Yelton (Regional Director and Director-at-Large for XI)

•  Rahul to send minutes to Kevin, Keith. Derek to put minutes on website.

5.  Moving the BOG meeting/Program meeting around the Chapter.

•  Rahul to check with Ron for Yakima contacts.

•  Greg to contact Perry Tech, Yakima. Or Kem Russell.

6.  PAOE Points – Review PAOE points file for individual committees.

•  Committee chairs to review PAOE entries.

7.  Recruitment Drive

•  Golf tournament attendees to be contacted.

•  Rahul to check with the Spokane chapter on how they manage attendance and recruitment.

•  Focus on quality programming, networking events.

8.  Chapter newsletter redesign – Rahul/Derek are working on new design.

9.  Committee Plans 2015-2016. No update.

10.  Treasurer Report – Yulong Xie

•  Yulong and Rahul to sign in bank forms.

•  Derek got IRS form in.

11.  Committee Reports

•  Membership Promotion (Weimin). No changes.

•  CTTC (Rahul).

-  January programming, contact Traci Hanegan.

-  Feb meeting, Greg to check calendar. Greg will do February meeting presentation (Legionella or DDC controls).

-  Rahul to contact Fujiyama for Christmas party.

•  Attendance committee (Rahul). YEA social was well attended. Rahul to send list to Derek about who was there.

•  Research Promotion (Colin). No update.

•  Student Activities (Greg). Greg to ask for money to take 15 students to Orlando. $5k from Fluke.

•  YEA (Lucy). No update. New chair needed.

•  History (Steve). Derek asked for things from members on website. Greg suggested checking with Rich.

•  GGAC (Viraj). New chair needed.

•  Honors and Awards (Derek). Derek sent email to Ron for fellow application. Greg to check if we have a student branch.

12.  New business

•  CRC attendees. Do they need visa? Did not get to this item.

13.  Adjourn: 6:03 pm.