Board Meeting
July 30, 2005
All officers were in attendance plus two members.
1. Chuck reported that the current balance is $1815.64. The question was then brought up about possible uses for the money. It was discussed that following are usual costs: insurance, web hosting and domain registration, plus an annual donation to the council on aging. Bill reviewed the current status of the S.T.E.P. foundation and the possibility of build the observatory. He suggested that perhaps once the observatory was built, we could build a small facility for the club scope. Bill updated the board on the progress of the observatory project explaining that S.T.E.P. has received a grant for $20,000 to be used exclusively for this project. Currently, the project needs school committee approval. Bill also explained that S.T.E.P. has helped with certain operational costs for the Blake Planetarium, send a student to the National Science Fair and also purchased computers of the schools.
2. Andy
talked about setting up a trip to
3. Andy questioned if the club should make a donation to the clear sky clock. The board decided at this time to decline.
4. An additional view night on Friday August 12th through Saturday August 13th was established to view the Persied Meteor shower. This will take place at centennial field.
5. A discussion was brought up to see if the club should meet exclusively in Norwell. This action would eliminate meetings at other locations such as the annual meeting at the Blake Planetarium. A motion was presents by Paul “To continue going to PCIS once a year, a possibly other sites as long as it was advertised in advance”. Seconded by Louis and Tenney. The motion was adopted.
6. Andy discussed the idea of Life Time Membership. After a brief discussion it was agreed not to pursue this matter.
7. It was agreed in lieu of giving out hand-outs at public viewing, the documents would be made available on the web site.
8. Andy brought forth the idea of changing meeting nights, hoping to increase participation and membership. After discussion this idea was not adopted.
9. A lengthy discussion regarding the web site was the last item on the agenda. Paul stated that contrary to last months meeting minutes, he had never stated that the web site was too much work for him. The board discussed the purpose of the web site. It was agreed that the web site was to get out information about the club for both the public and the membership. Andy brought up certain pages on the site; including “Astronomy Appreciation Day”, “Black Hole”, “Mal’s Downloads”, “Meeting Minutes”, and “Members Scopes”. In the end the Board decided to leave all the links on the site at their current location.