ISA NorCal Section
Board Meeting Minutes
August 16, 2001

 Attendees

President                    Bob Webb

Vice-President             Vacant

Treasurer                    Joyce Gober (Absent)

Secretary                    Dave Tateosian

Past President             Dave Tateosian

Section 11 DVP     Terry Molloy

Delegate                     Marge Widmeyer

Program Chair    Herb Roedel

Guests:                        Don Dellenbach

Nand Khidkikar

Suzanne Pippen

 Financial Reports 

The Section is in good financial shape.   Relative to 2000, the Section’s finances have continued to improve. As a non-profit, our goal is to keep our cash balance   fairly steady.

Program

September 19       Golf Tournament at Monarch Bay in San Leandro.   We have 18 foursomes signed up.   The dinner will be $25 for people interested in dinner only.   The deadline for sign-ups is September 5 for the tournament and somewhat later for dinner only.

October 17       Joint meeting with AIChE at Spenger’s.   Provometrics will be giving a talk on Energy Management

November 13        United Airlines SFO Maintenance Base Tour.

December       No meeting      

January 15       Tyco Thermal (Raychem) Tour in Menlo Park

February 18       NUMMI tour in Fremont to accommodate the 30+ people we turned away last time.   We’re limited to ~24 people for the tour.

March 19       Joint meeting with the SF State student section.   Dinner will be at the Alumni Club with a presentation on CAD.

April 16       Trying to set up a tour at Berkeley Process Controls and their automation controls.

May 18       Tour of the Koves Newland winery in Napa with dinner at Piccolino’s

June 18       Picnic and Past President’s night.   Considering relocating the picnic to Point Richmond with an early afternoon tour of the Red Oak Victory ship that’s being restored.

We’re going to look into advertising our events in the newsletters of the other professional societies.    We’ll try to do this on a reciprocal basis and consider a paid basis on a case-by-case basis.   Terry Molloy has the action for IEEE, Cheri Carson for AIChE, and Dave Tateosian for ASME.

Board Meetings

Board meetings will be in POWER Engineer’s offices in Point Richmond. The next meeting is September 5.   Meetings will generally be 1^st Wednesday of the month.   Please review these dates for conflicts.

Action Items for Next Month
Review the budget
Review proposed meeting dates for any conflicts
Glen Garfein update the NorCal mailing list