ISA NorCal Board Meeting Minutes

December 11, 2003

Attendees

Brad Rupert         Vice President
Terry Molloy        Treasurer 
Glen Garfein        Web Page Editor, Alt Delegate, Constitution & Bylaws Chair
Herb Roedel     Programs Chair
Bob Hammaker    Education Chair
Stephan Gaertner    Standards and Practices Chair
Nand Khidkikar  Delegate and Past President
Brian Steacy        Publicity Chair
Suzanne Pippin  President
Mark Massey     Guest, SFSU Student ISA Member 

Meeting Location/Start Time

Advanced Control Solutions, 3065 Richmond Parkway, Suite 106, Richmond, CA. December 2003 Called to order at 5:50 PM

SFSU Student Section participation

Mark Massey, who just graduated from SFSU and a student ISA member, was our guest at the meeting and provided input for future ISA meetings that would be of interest to the SFSU student section. Power generation controls is a student interest as well as being able to see actual process control equipment and having its control applications explained at various plant tours.  Board suggested someone from EPRI to be guest speaker at the April SFSU student section joint meeting – Terry has name of person and will follow up.

Mark indicated that there is no ISA advertising at SJSU ( San Jose State U), although IEEE and SWE do advertise. This is due to no ISA representation at SJSU although they have a power and controls curriculum. Ask Bob Webb to follow up.

Financials

Terry passed out the financial worksheets for YTD and the Norcal section is in good shape.  

Section Meetings  

Herb reviewed the following meetings for the section:

Jan 20   CCST Exam Benefits and Overview Presentation – CMA 15$ for dinner for 25 people.  Need to invite students.

Feb 17   Mass Measurement Roundtable – have it at CMA.

Mar 22   NUMMI tour – Monday night at 4:30pm.  – no dinner

Apr 20  SFSU Student section joint meeting with a speaker from EPRI that Terry will look into.   

May 12  BBQ Dinner with Jim Pinto as speaker at Norcal TECH 2004

May 19   Lunch meeting on Security Issues at PG&E in SF – info from Bob  Webb.  

Herb still trying to get into Sacramento Sanitation District or Marin County Water District tour.  

Training

Discuss Tentative schedule/dates for the year and to start advertising

    PLCs – Feb. 21 by Bob H. with possible 2nd class at Norcal TECH 2004

    Basic Process Control – Feb. 21 by Terry

    Controller Tuning Workshop – April 17 at CMA, 10 students max. by Stephan

    Control Valve Basics – Terry to teach a class in March – date TBD

    CCST Review Class – March 6, 13, 20 with April 3 Exam by Bob H. Robbi J. and Stephan G.

All classes to be held at CMA in Vallejo, CA.

 Norcal ISA Palo Alto Meetings  

    Schedule for the year.

    Feb 10 – Stanford DCS Energy Management System

    Mar 9 – Wastewater and Pharm DCS systems

    Apr 13 – Controls Systems Security

    May 11 – Industrial Wireless Networking

    Jun 8 – Personal Experiences and Planning

Resale of Books from ISA

A motion was made and passed by the Board to purchase two (2) sets of books listed in ISA HQ e-mail. Books to be kept at CMA and used for reference. Terry to purchase books and they will be promoted at the TECH 2004. Suzanne to order additional ISA publications for TECH 2004.

Glen’s Letter to RTP on President’s Meeting

A motion was made and unanimously passed by the Board that the Norcal ISA section agrees and concurs with the content of the letter that Glen wrote to Lowell McCaw about his experiences at the October President’s Meeting in Houston. Letter sent to Lowell and ISA HQ Executive Board on 12/24/2003.

Transmitter Subscription Only Offer

A motion was made and passed that a letter would be sent to all expired Norcal ISA members with a separate Transmitter newsletter with advertisement to offer the newsletter-only for a modest subscription charge. The cost of this special mailing will not exceed $400.00. Terry to plan special mailing

 ISA Norcal Tech 2004 – Conference and Exhibit

Schedule separate Norcal Tech Conference meeting to be held on Tues. 12-30-03. Terry to send agenda which will include:

      Facilities Review

     Call for Papers –

     -Continue to get speakers and presentations for the exhibit

    - Send excel spreadsheet from Guru to everyone

      Keynote Speaker(s) – Jim Pinto has accepted for 12th dinner and 13th lunch

      Exhibitors and advertising

Glen to get  pre-registration on the web. Need to set price for 2 days to include lunch for both days - $30.00 til April 1, then $35.00 for both days after April 1, then $40.00 for on-site registration.  $15.00 toward a one-day conference for persons attending training classes during the conference.

Start to plan an ad campaign and advertising to promote the event. Brian Steacy to head.  

5 commitments for booths so far.

Other business, comments, suggestions, ideas for improvement

Identify nominating committee to be chaired by Past President, Nand.

CMA would like to put together a Process Control curriculum. Need a task force to spend time to put together.

Need a quartermaster in the section to track Norcal ISA Assets. Terry currently has 3 tables belonging to the section that need storing. Bob H. to look into storing them at CMA.

Local Calendar for 2004

     January 8, 2004 -Board meeting

    February 5, 2004 -Board meeting

    March 4, 2004 -Board meeting

    April 1, 2004 -Board meeting

    May 6, 2004 -Board meeting

    June 3 2004 -Board meeting and dinner

Meeting Adjourned At 8 PM