ASHRAE
Technology for a Better Environment
Mid Columbia Chapter, Tri-Cities, Washington
Mid Columbia Chapter Board of Governors Meeting for 2007-2008
7:00PM - August 28, 2007, Lois Payne’s House.
Attendees:
Dale Green* / Lois Payne* / Mark Simon*Jay Ashbaugh* / Wei Jiang* / Carl Brenneise
Gil Hibbs* / Rich Evans / Gregory Jourdan
(*BOG members)
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Mid Columbia Chapter Board of Governors Meeting was held at Lois Payne’s house on August 28, 2007. Agenda items and decisions follow:
Highlight of Action Items:
- Lois Payne – Contact Bing Liu about being membership committee chair.
- Wei Jiang –Send BOG members ASHRAE headquarter membership database login username and password.
- Lois Payne – Send Wei Jiang charter member and past presidents information.
- Wei Jiang – Post charter member and past presidents information on Chapter’s website.
- Carl Brenneise- Give Mark Simon chapter roster.
- Rich Evans – Send Greg Jourdanthe contact information of WSU Tri-Cities faculty in HVAC related area.
- Greg Jourdan – Contact faculties in WSUTri-Cities and Perry Technical Institute about ASHRAE student membership.
- Dale Green-Contact Sriram Somasundaram to get newsletter template.
- Dale Green – Give Rich Evans historian books.
- Lois Payne – Send out electronic copy of presidential newsletter to BOG members.
- Lois Payne – Put together 2007-2008 Mid Columbia ASHRAE Chapter budget.
- Jay Ashbaugh – Contact Greg Jourdan about giving a talk on heat pump at Chapter program meeting.
- Mark Simon – Finish bank account transfer.
- Review of Agenda
- The agenda was approved by the BOG members attending the meeting.
- Confirm Committee Chairs & Members
- Steve Strecker called Lois Payne about not being able to serve as Chapter membership committee chair for 2007-2008; Lois Payne will ask Bing Liu if she would like to be the new membership committee chair.
- Membership Committee Report – Steve Strecker
- Not Present
- Student Membership Report – Greg Jourdan
- Greg Jourdan went to the Wenatchee Valley College ASHRAE Student Chapter winter meeting and there were about 8-12 student members.
- Goal: Reach out to students in WSUTri-Cities, other colleges and also high school students.
- Research Promotion Report – Gil Hibbs
- Research Promotion raised about $2700 in year 2006-2007.
- 2006-2007 Golf Tournament RP raised $ 1838.73 for the Society and about $500 for the Chapter. There is still $200 unpaid by the participating teams.
- RP Goal for 2007-2008: To have 18 teams in Golf Tournament and full circle.
- CTTC Report – Jay Ashbaugh
- September Program Meeting: meeting will be held at noon on September 11th. Don Williams, “Caption Combustion”, will give a talk.
- February Program Meeting: Engineer’s Banquet on February 22nd, 2008.
- Honors & Awards Report– Lois Payne
- Lois Payne will work with chapter members on award applications.
- Newsletter Report– Dale Green
- Dale Green will contact Sriram Somasundaram to get the newsletter template. September’s newsletter will be sent out during the first week of September.
- Historian Report– Rich Evans
- Dale Green will give Rich Evans historian books he got from John Sutton.
- Rich Evans will put together historian narrative by Christmas.
- Web Page Report– Wei Jiang
- The Chapter website is up current with all meeting minutes and newsletters.
- Discussion on 2007-2008 Presidential Newsletter, ASHRAE Society Goals, and this year’s PAOE– Lois Payne
- Lois Payne will send out the electronic copy of presidential newsletter to BOG members.
- Lois Payne will review the POAE points with BOG members at every BOG meeting.
- Old Business
- Last May meeting minutes needs to be reviewed and approved at next BOG meeting.
- Need to finish bank account transfer. Add Mark Simon and Lois Payne as signers and remove Wei Jiang and Bing Liu from the bank account.
- Carl Brenneise moved to approve reimbursement of $75 for pin purchase for Lois Payne, Jay Ashbaugh seconded the motion and the motion was approved.
- New Business
- September Chapter program meeting will be held at Clarion.
- Most Chapter program meetings will be in the evening and a few of them will be lunch meetings.
- Greg Jourdan volunteered to give a talk on heat pump at Chapter program meeting and Jay Ashbaugh will follow up this with Greg.
Next BOG meeting will be held at 5:30 PM on September 25, 2007 at MEIER Enterprises.
The meeting adjourned at 8:30 pm.
Respectfully Submitted,
Wei Jiang,
Secretary 2007-2008
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc.
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