IEEE Kansas City Section Meeting Minutes

EXCOM Meeting Minutes - DRAFT
Kansas City Section
12 Noon – 1:00 PM Teleconference
07 Mar 2006

The following EXCOM Voting Members attended by teleconference:
- Dr. Ken Vollmar – Section Chair
- Dick Hodgman – Section 1st V-Chair
- Duane Highley – Section 2nd V-Chair, SW MO Subsection Chair
- Kirk Duncan – Section Secretary, PES Chair
- Bill Ritter – Section Past-Chair
- Dick Hodgman for Fred Granville Consultants Network
- Chris Zugelder – GOLD Affinity Group Chair

The following Section Members attended by teleconference:
- Debbie Dilks – UMKC Student Branch Counselor
- Cale Yates – State Gov. Activities Chair
- Randy Winzer – PSU Student Branch Counselor

1. The Minutes from the Feb. 7, 2006 EXCOM teleconference meeting filed with no comments.

2. Old Business:

A. Status on May 06 Banquet speaker – Ms. Laura Kleekamp will be the speaker. Ms. Kleecamp is involved with the recent Sprint spin-off. A couple topic ideas are “Women in Business” and “Taking a Company Private”. Mark is to prepare the eNL announcement and David should post to JEC. Discussion was held on whether to hold the banquet at the Embassy Suites for a change of venue. Discussion held on the Section subsidizing some cost to upgrade the menu or increase the cost to the members. Students are most effected by higher costs. The Section passed a motion to stay at the Wyndham, keep the attendee cost the same, and the Section subsidize the upgraded meal cost. Bill will work on a meal selection for the banquet.

B. Computer Society
From responses to email to Computer Society members, I have asked Himanshu Gupta to serve as CS chair. Himanshu’s background: “I have served as secretary UMKC IEEE Chapter when I was a graduate student at UMKC. I have also served as Vice-Chair UMKC ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) chapter. We received the award for student branch with highest growth rate when I was secretary at the UMKC IEEE chapter. UMKC IEEE chapter was pretty much dormant when I joined but I with my team mates was instrumental in bringing life to the chapter and now the student chapter is doing really well at UMKC.”

Himanshu is employed by Holland 1916 Inc.
816-210-2710 (c) * 816.421.4553 (w) * 816.471.6263 (f)
hgupta@holland1916.com
www.holland1916.com

Action: Himanshu and Ken contact other interested CS members
Action: Plan CS mtg. and Aug. 2006 section mtg.
Action date: TBD (ASAP)

C. Kansas City Section and April 2008 R5 Technical Conference.

1. Request approval for support for KC section members to attend the 2006 R5 conference. B.Ritter reported that the Region will pay for the Section Chair or alternate to attend. The Region is also paying part of Bill’s attendance since he is on Region 5 committee. The Section passed a motion to pay one nights stay and meals for Bill to attend the conference.
Action: attending 2006 conf: Ken Vollmar, who else?
Action date: Mar. 7

2. Need to form a conference committee. Activities: prepare a budget, an MOU with the section and university (?),dates and site selection. Committee members attend a one-day meeting at the Ozark Section (Fayetteville, AR) with R5 conference Chair Donald Dunn. Topic of meeting: “lessons learned,” conference seminar and tour.
Ken recommends we encourage a Professor from UMKC to chair the meeting committee. D.Dilks, B.Ritter, and C.Yates volunteered to be on the committee. Ken and the volunteers need to set a meeting in 2-3 weeks between the Section on UMKC Professors. The committee needs to check into using UMKC labs for some of the student contests. Kirk will check into availability, price, etc of Plaza area hotels to see if holding the conference close to UMKC is feasible. Typical attendance is 300 to 400 people.
Action: need a committee! Early decisions only at this point.
Action date: Selection of site and date by Apr. 1

D. Teleconference service for EXCOM mtgs. – no longer available from Sprint in present form. Dick Hodgman’s excellent proposal was denied. Missouri State Univ. is sponsoring the Mar. 2006 call. Typical costs for the teleconference is $.09/min./line, ie. About $50 each month.
Action: TBD
Action date: TBD

3. New Business:

A. B.Ritter reported that the financial reports were filed on time. We need to develop our budget for 2006. The Section Officers must have a monthly accounting to comply with IEEE rules.

B. Discussion was held on the tardy posting of upcoming events to the web and for eNL issue.
A reminder to the Chairs: The Section would like a 6 month notice of meeting topics. Send author and topic info to M.Lamendola.

C. Ken inquired of Chris and Kirk whether anything was arranged to meet with IEEE-KU students. Chris had not received a response. Ken will call (or call on) each of the student branches. Kirk recommended a delegate from the Section adopt a school to foster coorespondence.

The next Section EXCOM Teleconference Meeting will be on 11 Apr 2006. The time of the EXCOM Teleconference Meeting will be 12 noon through 1 PM.

Kirk J. Duncan
Kansas City Section Secretary
IEEE Region 5
kirk.duncan @ ieee. org

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