Americus Amateur Radio Assoc.

Americus Amateur Radio Association The June meeting kicked off 20 minutes late, thanks to a couple of late running folks. We won't say who. Including the tardies, there were 9 members present. As there was no May meeting, there was no minutes to read, until someone suggested the April minutes be read. Which no one had a copy of. So, it was moved and seconded that the April minutes and the June minutes be read and approved in July. Confused? Good. The next subject was the glaring fact that since adopting the new by-laws, that state the board will be comprised of the 3 officers and 2 at large members, we still had the 3 officers plus a 6 member board. In the end, we axed the four "excess" board members and determined the fair thing to do is to keep the most recently elected people as officers and board. See the "officers" page for who's who. The next order of business we tackled, emboldened by our success on the last problem, was to amend the by-laws to allow the board to pay bills without having to wait for a club meeting to gain approval from the whole club. Sometimes that made some bills being paid late, if it came right after a meeting and was due before the next. So, as per Article VIII of the By-laws, the amendment will be the beginning of page 6 of the bylaws and will read thusly: Amendment Number One to the By-laws of the Americus Amateur Radio Association Passed June 26th, 2010 "The Board shall have the authority to pay recurring and just bills with the unanimous consent of the Board without a full club membership vote." This was passed by a 3/5 board majority as per Article VIII of the By-laws. Basically what this does is make it where bills can be paid before being past due having to wait for the next club meeting. Next was the broken Yaesu FT 1000MP MkV. After discussing our options on what we could do: (send to Yaesu, sell as is, or get a local to look at it), we decided the first stab would be to get a local to look at it. Lani was that local, although he might not know it yet, per se. Next item was brought by Mitch K4MCH, informing us that the new Sumter County Fire Dept. Chief Joe Pollock will be the county EMA director as of July 1st. Having said that, Mr. Pollock is very interested in having the club come on board as part of a disaster volunteer response group in the county. This could have some very beneficial outcomes, both for us and the SCFD. While the parameters of our involvement aren't set yet, Mitch was instructed to pursue that idea. Buddy reported that Warren Scott Contracting is interested in giving us the tower at their office on Felder Street if we take it down. It's about 100'. Mitch said he feels the SCFD might be willing to help take it down. Did I mention beneficial? Stay tuned.... Speaking of towers, the 180' tower at Crop Production Services on Souther Field Road is still in the running for a new 147.27 home. Albany Tractor has a GPS antenna on the side near the top, and have told us we're welcome to the unused VHF antenna and hardline on the top. CPS says Albany Tractor has the tower leased. CPS says ask AT, AT says ask CPS. Confused again? Good. The bottom line is we need to see if there is a written contract between the two (we don't think there is from what each says), and see about securing that location. A combination of members that know these people will see about it once and for all. Stay tuned again..... After a brief argument with Bob Order, (Robert R. Order?), we adjourned. As a side note, as it was Field Day, we talked it up some, but some of us were scared of the heat, and the rest of us were glad of it. **Note: For those reading and not familiar with the club by-laws, (which would be most everybody, including those at the meeting) there is a link to them on the front page.
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Americus Amateur Radio Association

The June meeting kicked off 20 minutes late, thanks to a couple of late running folks. We won't say who. Including the tardies, there were 9 members present. As there was no May meeting, there was no minutes to read, until someone suggested the April minutes be read. Which no one had a copy of. So, it was moved and seconded that the April minutes and the June minutes be read and approved in July. Confused? Good.

The next subject was the glaring fact that since adopting the new by-laws, that state the board will be comprised of the 3 officers and 2 at large members, we still had the 3 officers plus a 6 member board. In the end, we axed the four "excess" board members and determined the fair thing to do is to keep the most recently elected people as officers and board. See the "officers" page for who's who.

The next order of business we tackled, emboldened by our success on the last problem, was to amend the by-laws to allow the board to pay bills without having to wait for a club meeting to gain approval from the whole club. Sometimes that made some bills being paid late, if it came right after a meeting and was due before the next. So, as per Article VIII of the By-laws, the amendment will be the beginning of page 6 of the bylaws and will read thusly:

Amendment Number One
to the By-laws of the
Americus Amateur Radio Association
Passed June 26th, 2010

"The Board shall have the authority to pay recurring and just bills with the unanimous consent of the Board without a full club membership vote."

This was passed by a 3/5 board majority as per Article VIII of the By-laws. Basically what this does is make it where bills can be paid before being past due having to wait for the next club meeting.

Next was the broken Yaesu FT 1000MP MkV. After discussing our options on what we could do: (send to Yaesu, sell as is, or get a local to look at it), we decided the first stab would be to get a local to look at it. Lani was that local, although he might not know it yet, per se.

Next item was brought by Mitch K4MCH, informing us that the new Sumter County Fire Dept. Chief Joe Pollock will be the county EMA director as of July 1st. Having said that, Mr. Pollock is very interested in having the club come on board as part of a disaster volunteer response group in the county. This could have some very beneficial outcomes, both for us and the SCFD. While the parameters of our involvement aren't set yet, Mitch was instructed to pursue that idea. Buddy reported that Warren Scott Contracting is interested in giving us the tower at their office on Felder Street if we take it down. It's about 100'. Mitch said he feels the SCFD might be willing to help take it down. Did I mention beneficial? Stay tuned....

Speaking of towers, the 180' tower at Crop Production Services on Souther Field Road is still in the running for a new 147.27 home. Albany Tractor has a GPS antenna on the side near the top, and have told us we're welcome to the unused VHF antenna and hardline on the top. CPS says Albany Tractor has the tower leased. CPS says ask AT, AT says ask CPS. Confused again? Good. The bottom line is we need to see if there is a written contract between the two (we don't think there is from what each says), and see about securing that location. A combination of members that know these people will see about it once and for all. Stay tuned again.....

After a brief argument with Bob Order, (Robert R. Order?), we adjourned.

As a side note, as it was Field Day, we talked it up some, but some of us were scared of the heat, and the rest of us were glad of it.

**Note: For those reading and not familiar with the club by-laws, (which would be most everybody, including those at the meeting) there is a link to them on the front page.