BCARES BOARD MEETING----13 JAN 2005

CALL TO ORDER

The meeting was called to order at 7:04 PM in a Ball Corporation meeting room by Jim Kubitschek (KGØHU).

Persons Present

Board status Name (position) Present?
BARC Primary Mike Derr W3DIF Y
BARC Alternate Jane Przedpelski KCØFGE (Asst. Secretary) Y
LARC Primary Dan Hysom KB3CXD N
LARC Alternate Ron Putnam KCØIUK N
RMVHFS Primary Len Koppl KDØRC N
RMVHFS Alternate Mike Borenstein NØBP Y
2-Year At Large, Even Year, Primary Pete Goldman WB2DVS (Secretary) Y
2-Year At Large, Even Year, Alternate Doshia Kretke KBØNAS Y
2-Year At Large, Odd Year, Primary Jim Kubitschek KGØHU (Chairman/EC) Y
2-Year At Large, Odd Year, Alternate Nima Gharavi NØYX (Assoc. Vice Chairman) N
1-Year At Large, Primary Dale Scott KAØQPV (Vice Chairman/AEC) N
1-Year At Large, Alternate George Weber KAØBSA (Assoc. Chairman) Y
Office of Emergency Management Larry Stern (Treasurer) N
Boulder County Sheriff's Office Chuck Pringle KCØDGP N

Others: JD Burke KC0MWB
Jack Ciaccia WM0G
Rick Woodsome K0ETN

REVIEW OF MINUTES OF LAST MEETING FOR APPROVAL

The minutes of the December Board Meeting were approved and accepted without corrections.

OLD BUSINESS

  1. Website
    JD (KCØMWB) presented the updated website version and will send further revisions to the Board for comments. He hopes to have it finalized by the end of February.
  2. Grant Proposal Update
    Larry Stern presented the total proposal, which included our grant proposal, to the Central Colorado Emergency Coordination Committee. It will now be directed to Homeland Security.
  3. BARC Representatives to BCARES
    Mike (W3DIF) has been named Primary for 2005; Jane (KCØFGE) will continue as Alternate. Mike announced the BARC 2005 officers Jack (WMØG) President; Gary Carroll (WØQN) Vice President, Mike (W3DIF) Treasurer, and Jane (KCØFGE) Secretary.
  4. Equipment
    Pete (WB2DVS) noted that he is missing ATV backpack batteries. Equipment goals include: Rick will look into PSAP feed situation (2 m vertical antennas on roof). Rick will try some headphones he has and leave a headset; he will then look into wireless headsets.
    Pete will take the lead in working on these three items.
  5. New Members
    George (KAØBSA) has collated all available information. Mailing labels for letters to members about the annual meeting are ready to go. Jim (KGØHU) requested that the letters be sent ASAP. George will send the letters Monday and will use his address for update returns. A membership list will be included.
  6. Hospitals
    Doshia (KBØNAS) has been making annual visits. The new Exempla Hospital is open. She and Jim (KGØHU) met with Exempla’s Emergency Coordinator.
    Jim announced a huge exercise in June involving hospitals on June 10, 11, and 12. This will be the Colorado efforts supporting the National Disaster Management System (NDMS). Ham activity will involve approximately 100 hams using packet and voice communications.
  7. Rocky Mountain VHF Society
    Mike (NØBP) reported that their Lee Hill repeater now has EchoLink.
  8. MOU Status
    Jack (WMØG) asked about the status of the Memorandum of Understanding with Broomfield County. Jim (KGØHU) has a meeting set up with Broomfield in February. He has also been in contact with an ARRL lawyer. Doshia (KBØNAS) brought up a question of amending BCARES By-laws to include Broomfield. It was noted that Larry Stern is OEM director for Broomfield County as well as Boulder County. And there was no decision regarding the amendment of our By-laws.

NEW BUSINESS

  1. Annual Meeting Planning
    Jim went through his presentatiion for the meeting. Discussion centered around breaking the information into several parts with different speakers. There will be “show and tell” during intermission and after the meeting. George (KAØBSA) will introduce Crossband and Mike (NØBP) EchoLink.
  2. Pagers
    It was noted that Chuck Pringle (KCØDGP), Boulder County Sheriff’s Office, has authorized the purchase of 3 more pagers for BCARES. In addition, maps of Boulder County will be available for back pack usage.
  3. Next Meeting Tentative Date
    The next meeting is scheduled for THURSDAY, 10 FEBRUARY 2005, in the usual Ball Corporation meeting room.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:55 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,
Jane Przedpelski (KCØFGE)
Assistant to the Secretary