SUN LAKES AERO CLUB
MINUTES OF THE
BOARD MEETING
Date of Meeting: April
19, 2006
Present at the Meeting:
Dick
Vaughn, President
Bernie
Peterson, Treasurer
Gary Vacin,
Provost
Bill
Johnson, Activities Officer
Al Galvi,
Member at Large
Absent from the Meeting:
Bob Walch,
Vice President
Elton Dyal,
Program Officer
Ray
Schrecengost, Member at Large
NOTE:
The monthly SLAC Board meeting regularly scheduled for 9:30 AM Tuesday,
April 18, 2006 was moved to 9:30 AM Wednesday, April 19, 2006 since there were
not enough Board members who could attend on Tuesday morning for a quorum.
Call to
Order:
Dick Vaughn
opened the meeting at 9:30 AM.
Approve
Minutes of March 14, 2006 meeting:
One
correction noted: The Activities report stated "He (Bill Johnson)
also discussed plans under development for a local Field Trip." Bill
Johnson and the attendees did not recall that discussion, so the statement is
rescinded.
Motion-Bernie
Peterson; Second-Dick Vaughn; Report accepted with the above notation.
Treasurer's
Report:
Bernie
Peterson reported there is $1,094.39 in the Club's account.
Bernie
replaced Ray Schrecengost as Treasurer during the past month, and has assumed
the duties of maintaining the Member Roster, Attendance, posting of Income
& Expenses, etc.
Website
Report:
In Vern
Nelson's absence, Dick Vaughn presented notes from Vern.
Recommendation
to terminate the "Traffic Facts" for the SLAC Website
through Go Daddy (the service), which is an annual cost of $17.88 due on May 8,
2006.
Recommendation
to renew the monthly SLAC Website through Go Daddy (the service), which is
an annual cost of $119.40 (monthly $9.95) discounted last year to $95.52.
For the next annual renewal the service is being discounted to $58.72
($4.90 per month)
Motion-Bernie
Peterson; Second-Gary Vacin; Accepted renewal as stated.
Activities
Report:
Bill
Johnson noted the cancellation of the Fly-In to Lake Powell - Page, Arizona due
to the lack of planes. It was also noted with a thank you
to Jim Parish who did a considerable amount of planning for the several
optional events.
Bill Johnson reviewed plans for the next Fly-In to San Diego - USS Midway Carrier & Museum. We currently have three pilots/planes signed-up and a total of ten seats available. An announcement for sign-up will be made to the members at tonight's monthly SLAC meeting (April 19, 2006). There was discussion also of an alternate Fly-In destination if we are not able to fly into San Diego due to weather, namely the "marine layer" that is prevalent there. Lake Powell, Palm Springs Air Museum, and the Patton Museum were suggested as alternatives, and will be reviewed.
Programs
Report:
In Elton Dyal’s absence, Dick reported that Greg Chenoweth, Manager of the Chandler Municipal Airport, will be the speaker at tonight’s Monthly SLAC meeting.
Gary Vacin
made a suggestion for a future speaker for “sailplanes”. Since he has some information related to
this, he will contact Elton to share that for scheduling into a future monthly
program.
Provost
Report:
Gary Vacin
was recently appointed as Provost by President Dick Vaughn. Gary reported that he has taken over the
duties from Bernie Peterson.
New
Business:
Al Galvi
opened a discussion of concern about the direction of the club in the following
areas:
1)
Fly-Ins
– concern over the few pilots who have been signing-up. Discussion ensued about how to stimulate
more pilots to fly for the club. Al
suggested a “raffle”, which would benefit the pilots signed-up, in meeting
their cost for the trip. Details of how
a raffle would work will have to be outlined for further discussion by the
Board. Also, there was discussion of
compensating pilots of rental aircraft differently than for pilots of owned
aircraft as an added incentive. This
also will have to be detailed for further discussion by the Board.
2)
Speakers
for the Monthly Programs – Concern was expressed about the quality of some of
some past speakers. Board members were
asked to give thought to how to improve that, what would be good for future
programs, and to bring that to the next Board meeting in May.
Next
Meetings:
Monthly
Board Meeting: Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Monthly
General Meeting: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Meeting
Adjournment:
Dick Vaughn adjourned the meeting at 10:30 AM.
Respectfully
submitted,
Bill
Johnson, Recording Secretary