{"id":3775,"date":"2013-11-30T23:15:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T04:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecngx342.inmotionhosting.com\/~hcraor5\/\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2013-11-30T23:15:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T04:15:21","slug":"board-meeting-minutes-05072013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/?p=3775","title":{"rendered":"Board Meeting Minutes 05\/07\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>HCRA Board of Directors Meeting<\/strong><b><br \/>\n<\/b><i>May 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 2013<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0Location: West Springfield, MA<br \/>\nTime: 7:30 PM<br \/>\nPresent: KK1W, KB1NWH, AA1YW, N1MFL, W1MSW, N1FJ, W1MJB, Kx1x<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>OFFICER REPORTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Vice President &#8211; KB1NWH<\/span><br \/>\nReport &#8211; Database is up to date.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Treasurer &#8211; AA1YW<\/span><br \/>\nCurrent financial report &#8211; $7796.67<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Secretary &#8211; N1MFL<\/span><br \/>\nCurrent secretary report &#8211; No mail, everything is up to date<\/p>\n<p><strong>DIRECTOR REPORTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Technical \u2013 W1MSW<\/span><br \/>\nCurrent report &#8211; working with AB1RS. possible other jobs according to Ed.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Zero Beat, N1FJ<\/span><br \/>\nCutoff date for June Zero Beat &#8211; May 30th<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Membership &#8211; N1KXR \u2013 Not Present<\/span><br \/>\nMembership Report did the info from the April VE session applications get to Ed for inclusion in the db?<br \/>\nFoxhunting 2013 &#8211; status please? &#8211; See separate email from Rich for his comments<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">At Large &#8211; W1MJB<\/span><br \/>\nReport &#8211; No report<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Program &#8211; Kx1x<\/span><br \/>\nMay &#8211; Bill\/W1GTT recap &#8211; Good meeting, subject seems to have resonated with the membership<br \/>\nJune &#8211; Field Day Meeting or ???- added an \u2018inside\u2019 \u00a0tailgate party. Jeff and Frandy will handle notifying the membership.<br \/>\nSeptember &#8211; Tom\/K1KI, ARRL Diamond Anniversary<br \/>\nOctober &#8211; John\/N1OLO from Hamsource<br \/>\nNovember \u2013 Open &#8211; Frandy will talk with K1VR about a November meeting, or perhaps in 2014.<br \/>\n<strong>OLD BUSINESS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We need to give out the DD cards for the 10 meter contest to Juergen\/AB1SU and Larry\/WB1DBY \u2013 W1MSW &#8211; Matt will follow up and mail them to the winners.<br \/>\nPolling the members at the meeting it was decided to use the webpage as a center for FD activity \u2013 KK1W &#8211; Facebook will be the spot to post fd stuff, use the website as info announcements.<br \/>\n<strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Review June election slate &#8211; Tech position still open as of this meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NEW BUSINESS<b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Field Day. New location and planning. Refund received from Dufresne Park &#8211; KB1NWH, W1MSW<br \/>\nWRTC 2014. Support and equipment purchase &#8211; KK1W &#8211; HCRA would entertain up to six packages for purchase.<br \/>\nPaypal membership is ready to test &#8211; KK1W, NT1K \u2013 Two people have used it so far with good results (W1MJB, KK1W). Ed\/KB1NWH will run a report to see how many donations were received via renewals. Jeff will work with Dave\/AA1YW to get him the Paypal sales information.<br \/>\nShould we separate the duties of editor and publisher\u2019 (similar to YCCC structure)? &#8211; KK1W &#8211; Jeff volunteered and was appointed as webmaster. He will handle most of the distribution of ZB. Frandy will still take care of the USPS issues for the time being.<br \/>\nSuggestion about using online webinars or videos as a meeting subject &#8211; W1MJB &#8211; Matt will look into the idea for a meeting in 2014<br \/>\nDonation from Rob\/N1NTE coming for $100.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012\/2013 Board Meeting Dates<\/strong><br \/>\nJune 11<sup>th<br \/>\n<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Respectfully submitted by Dave Scarpa\/N1MFL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HCRA Board of Directors Meeting May 7th, 2013 \u00a0Location: West Springfield, MA Time: 7:30 PM Present: KK1W, KB1NWH, AA1YW, N1MFL, W1MSW, N1FJ, W1MJB, Kx1x OFFICER REPORTS Vice President &#8211; KB1NWH Report &#8211; Database is up to date. Treasurer &#8211; AA1YW Current financial report &#8211; $7796.67 Secretary &#8211; N1MFL Current secretary report &#8211; No mail, everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}