BCARES Board Meeting
2/11/02

A meeting of the BCARES Board of Directors was held on Monday, 11 Feb. 2002. The meeting was held at the Boulder Police Dept. The meeting was called to order at 19:00 by Doshia Kretke, outgoing vice chairperson. Len Koppl, outgoing chairman was absent.

The following board directors were present:
Pat Lambert (LARC),
Jim Andrews (BARC),
Dale Scott (at large, 2yr, even),
Pete Goldman (at large, 2yr, odd),
Jim Kubitschek (at large, 1yr)
Chuck Pringle (Boulder Sheriff).

Absent were directors Larry Stern (OEM) and Len Koppl (RMVHF). Len's alternate Mike Borenstein was present. Also present were alternates:
Steve Price (LARC),
Jack Ciaccia (BARC),
Doshia Kretke (at large, 2yr, even),
Grant Killy (at large, 2yr, odd)
Rick Clark (at large, 1 yr).

Other people also present at the meeting included: Gary Masters, Rich Ferguson, Troy Emerson, Chuck Duey, and George Kretke.

Election of Officers

The first business consisted of the election of officers for 2002. Per the by-laws, the officers must be directors and only directors were allowed to vote. Jim Kubitchek was elected Chairman. Doshia then turned over the meeting to Jim to chair. Next Dale Scott was elected Vice-Chairman. Jim Andrews was elected secretary. Larry Stern was elected treasurer.

Appointed positions

The next item of business was to appoint (or confirm) other appointive positions in BCARES. Members noted with (?) will be contacted by the chairman to confirm their acceptance of the position.

Staffing --- Rich Ferguson, Len Koppl (?) & Pat Lambert
Training --- Pat Lambert
Membership --- Len Koppl (?)
Mon Net Mgr --- Rick Clark
Sunday Net liaison --- Jack Quinn (?)
Louisville, Lafayette & Erie PD liaison --- Dale Scott & Jack Ciaccia
Superiour PD liaison --- Len Koppl (?)
Boulder PD liaison --- Jim Andrews
Longmont PD liaison --- Pat Lambert
CU PD liaison --- Jim Andrews
Lyons & Allenspark liaison --- Jim Kubitschek
Red Cross liaison --- George Kretke
Hospital liaison --- Doshia Kretke
OEM liaison --- Jim Kubitschek
Broomfield & D27 liaison --- Len Koppl (?)
CU football coordinator --- Jim Andrews
Equipment Mgr --- Pete Goldman
TV --- Jim Andrews
Packet --- Len Koppl (?)
Webmaster --- Rich Ferguson

Coming Events

Considerable discussion was held on which upcoming events BCARES should support. We will definitely support the CU Police Dept with TV coverage of the CU football games. We decided we will also support the July MS-150, two day bicycle ride. This will be considered as BCARES' major 2002 training exercise. We will need full resources to staff a multi-day, multi-jurisdiction, VHF & HF event. Pat Lambert will coordinate. We will also support the Fire Mitagation Conf. to be held next Sept. in Longmont. The board decided to NOT include the previously announced Denver March of Dimes walk nor the Summit County Courage Classic bicycle ride. We will encourage members to individually volunteer for these events, but BCARES as an organization will not participate. We also discussed the June Field Day. BCARES will not have an official field day activity, but will encourage members to participate with either BARC or LARC field day activities.

Other Business

Pat Lambert said we need to discuss and finalize the modifications and corrections of the by-laws. He will bring the proposed changes to the next meeting. Chuck Pringle stated that all reference in our by-laws and other documents to the BRCC need to be changed to the Boulder County Sherrif's Office (BCSO). Chuck explained that the BRCC no longer exists. The Boulder PD created their own new communications center. Likewise the BCSO created their own comm. center. At present both centers occupy the same room, but are organizationally two totally seperate entities.

Pat Lambert as training officer expressed concern about our declining membership. He will start training tomorrow for two potential new members. They are Dawn Wanser and Dennis Alexander. It was decided that BCARES will have a recruiting table at both the LARC and BARC spring / fall swapfests. The LARC & BARC directors will be responsible for these tables. A committee of Len Koppl, Rich Ferguson & Pat Lambert will bring to the next meeting a list of reserve members they will recommend be dropped from our rolls.

Pat complained about the severe inter-mod problems, etc. recently experienced on the RMVHF 146.76 repeater. Mike Borenstein explained that the Sheriff's radio tech, Scott Whitehead, discovered the coax was contaminated by water. A temporary RG-213 patch was made, but the antenna hardline needs to be replaced with new hardline. Mike is working with Chuck, Scott and Dean on resolving this problem.

Pat announced that a total of $40 was collected for QSL.net at last week's annual meeting. The board decided to also donate an additional $60. Jim K. will ask the treasurer to send a check for $100 to QSL.net.

A visitor, Gary Masters, KC0HQW, introduced himself as the public safety officer for Colorado Repeater Assoc. (CRA). Gary explained that CRA has a system of linked 2m & 70cm repeaters in Colorado. They include 145.46 & 447.975 on Lee Hill in Boulder County. Gary offered the use of these repeaters to BCARES for emergencies and other public safety operations. He did ask that we contact CRA in advance for planned events. Gary also said that due to severe intermod problems, CRA will be implementing PL tone access to their repeaters this summer. The PL frequency will be 107.2 Hz. He encouraged users to reprogram their radios soon with this tone.

Pete Goldman, equipment officer, discussed our equipment. He needs some used laptop computers that are capable of running Windows. He has had to replace some of our old worn out thermal printers. The new printers require windows drivers. Also the new IC-706 HF rig uses windows drivers. He will work with Chuck to see if there are some used laptops available in the BCSO.

Rich Ferguson, webmaster, said he will post the new list of officers on the web this week. The BCARES web site is www.qsl.net/boulderares. Rich's e-mail address is rferguson@att.net

The date for the next meeting was discussed. Chairman Jim K. said he will not set the date now, but will announce it later. There being no more business to transact, the meeting was adjourned at 21:00.

Respectfully Submitted

Jim Andrews, WA0NHD, Secretary