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FY 2001-2002

 ISA NorCal Board Meeting Minutes

FY 2001 - 2002

 

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 1st 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

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October 4, 2000

Minutes by Cheri Carson, Section Secretary

Location: IHOP, Martinez
Attendees:

President Dave Tateosian
Past President/Delegate Glen Garfein
Treasurer/V.P Bob Webb
Secretary Cheri Carson
Program Co-Chairs Herb Roedel
Jim Noel
District 11 VP Terry Molloy
  1. Call to order - 6:10 p.m.
  2. Minutes of August 30th board meeting were approved.
  3. Treasurer’s Report - Bob Webb
    We broke even on the golf tournament. The NorCal section continues to be financially sound.
  4. Program Chair - Herb Roedel, Jim Noel

    October 17 - Panel on E-Commerce, Hotel Mac - Point Richmond
    The panel has been set.

    November 14 - Plant Tour at Genentech - Vacaville Plant Tour Dinner will be catered at their facility. We intend to honor Hans Koning-Bastiaan who was named Engineer of the Year by Control Engineering magazine for his efforts at this plant.
    Jim Noel suggested that we order a supply of hats from ISA as a token "thank you" to our tour guides. "Hats off" to our hosts!

    December - No meeting due to holidays

    January 16 - BART control center tour at Lake Merritt station in downtown Oakland .  We will not have an organized dinner for this event, but all tour participants are welcome to join the NorCal board at the Jade Palace restaurant at 5:00 p.m.  It is located at 8th and Broadway.

    February 20 - Joint meeting with AIChE at Spenger’s in Berkeley Presentation by Pat Kennedy of OSI on PI software.  AiChE usually charges about $35 for their members.  If necessary, we will subsidize ISA members to keep the cost at $25/person.

    March 19 – Plant tour – NUMMI in Fremont.  This will be limited to 24 people.  Dinner will be served in their cafeteria.

    April 17 - Joint meeting with SFSU Student section, Tour of SFO.

    May 15 - Plant tour at a winery or refinery TBD.

    June 19 - BBQ/Past President’s Night at Heather Farms Park in Walnut Creek

  5. Courses:

    CCST review course and exam - Feb/March 2001.  Bob Hammaker is sending out e-mails now inviting people to sign up.

    Foundation Fieldbus - Glen has volunteered to coordinate this class.  Dave asked for an outline of the course and its objectives to be presented at the November board meeting.  Bob has some contacts he met at ISA New Orleans who are potential presenters.

    Control Valves - Terry Molloy is coordinating this class. Dave has asked Terry to also prepare a course outline for the November board meeting.  In addition, Dave asked Glen and Terry to talk to each other to determine possible class dates (late first quarter after CCST or 2nd quarter).

  6. CWEA - Water/Wastewater industry conference at San Ramon Marriott, Oct. 24  

    Glen will man an ISA table.  Terry and Dave also may stop by.  Note: ISA application forms that have SECBRO are available online at (webpage no longer available).  These special applications marked SECBRO entitle our section to get an additional  $5 rebate for new members who join between September 1 and December 31, 2000

  7. Web - Bob Webb

    The NorCal section web page has been updated.  The Santa Clara Valley section will be added to our site.

    A motion was proposed and passed to spend $1000 to fix problems with our site and to set up the infrastructure for a database (to be able to do things such as an on-line Roster and Buyer’s guide).  The motion also committed to pay up to $50/month for one year for a host.

  8. Golf Tournament Follow-up – Dave Tateosian

    Dave will be writing thank you letters to the vendor sponsors and participants.  He will also encourage those who are not currently ISA members to join.

  9. Transmitter newsletter - Terry Molloy

    Terry presented his budget to have CMES publish the Transmitter.  Dave asked Terry to prepare a draft contract for the November board meeting.

  10. The next board meeting will be Wednesday, November 8, at IHOP in Martinez.  Please note this is the second Wednesday of the month.
  11. Meeting adjourned at 8:35 p.m.

 

July 12, 2000

Minutes by Cheri Carson, Section Secretary
Location: Bertola's Restaurant, Martinez

Attendance:
President Dave Tateosian
Past President/Delegate Glen Garfein
District 11 DVP Terry Molloy
Treasurer Bob Webb
Secretary Cheri Carson
Honors & Awards Tony Watkin
Guest Dawn Day
Guest Nand Khidkikar

1. Call to order - 6:05 p.m.

2. The next Board planning meeting will be Wednesday, August 2, at Bertola's in Martinez. Cocktails at 5:30 p.m., meeting starts promptly at 6:00 p.m.

3. Survey Questionnaire Response - Dave Tateosian
The NorCal section has 565 members and the Santa Clara Valley section has 332. The purpose of the e-mail survey was to ask members what activities and events they are interested in and how to increase participation and membership in our section.

Question 1: What activities can the section put on that are of interest to you? Is there a particular topic for a meeting or class that you would like to see presented?

Plant tours, technical classes, and panels/presentations were all listed. Also mentioned were conducting joint meetings with other similar technical groups: AIChE, IEEE, and AFE. 

Possible meeting/class topics included: 
Environment protection, CEMS standards and vendors
Asset management discussion
CCST class and exam
Artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, related control topics
Integration of process control with business networks
Internet
Foundation Fieldbus 

Plant tours at the following sites were suggested:
Blommer Chocolate - Union City
Equilon - Martinez
UCLLNL - Livermore
North Marin Water District
BART control center
ISO - Folsom 
SLAC - Palo Alto

Question 2: What activities that we have been putting on are not of interest to you? Why? 
Non-golfers not interested in golf.
Modify Past President's night to increase attendance.

Question 4: Do you have any connections that would help us arrange an interesting speaker, tour or class?

Some of the vendors can help supply speakers. Some individuals know people who can help with tours. We need more members to think about contacts they know to help in these areas. Talk to any section leader with names!

Question 5: Do you have any suggestions for (inexpensive) meeting locations?
California Maritime Academy - Vallejo
Spenger's - Berkeley
Elk's Club - South San Francisco
PG & E Learning Center - San Ramon
Hotel Mac - Point Richmond
USS Posco Learning Center - Pittsburg
Lunch meetings at various Bay Area sites

Question 6: What are the barriers (that the Section can address) to you being more involved?
Different demographic groups with different interests, lack of time (maybe try some kind of Internet meeting that doesn't require driving)

Question 7: What has the Section done that has or hasn't worked well?
Recommendation to send e-mail or snail mail meeting notices to non-members to increase participation. Have a committee to check on individuals who have let their membership lapse.

Question 8: Has the Section Roster & Buyer's guide been useful to you?
Mostly yes, but put it on CD and on the local ISA website.

Question 9: Other suggestions or ideas?
Find a way to get people from IT field and other non-traditional ISA fields involved in our section.
Get some younger, recent graduates involved.

4. Tentative monthly programs for 00/01 year (usually 3rd Tuesday of each month):
September 13 - Golf Tournament at Franklin Canyon in Rodeo
October - Discussion on e-business
November - Plant tour
December - No meeting (holiday break)
January - Plant tour
February - Joint meeting with IEEE or AIChE
March - Plant tour
April - Joint meeting with SF State student section - Panel discussion
May - Plant tour
June - Picnic and Past President's night

5. Budget Review for 00/01 - Bob Webb
Bob proposed a budget very similar to the 99/00 budget, which was approved by the board.

6. We did not have a quorum (30 ISA members) at the June meeting) to approve the proposed amendments to our bylaws. Terry will put a notice in the September Transmitter to take a bylaw vote at the September 13 golf tournament.

7. Meeting adjourned 8:05 p.m.