BAPG Board Meeting Minutes - February 2003

February 19^th, 2003

President: Lea Cervi

Executive Vice President: Francine Cohen

Associate Vice President: Peter Welsby

Secretary: Stephanie Reynolds Smith

Treasurer: Gene Florentino

Directors: Mark Domagala, Jonathan Rizzo, Dino Zack, Brad Gill

Symposium Committee Chair: Jim Richert

Webmaster: Pat Concannon

Member: Dennis Sutton

Student Vice President: Heather Hornung

Immediate Past President: Daniel Riker

Geogram Editor: Rick Watt

January meeting minutes accepted.

· Gene announced that there was $5,169.26 in the checking account and $2,726.80 in the CD

· Seven new members were accepted:

Active:

Jeff Machamer, Independent Consultant

Randy Klosko, C&W Environmental

Elizabeth Wood, GZA GeoEnvironemental

Associate:

Dominic Pino, Zebra Environmental

Matthew Ednie, Zebra Environmental

Patrick Filey, Severn Trent Laboratories

Student:

Todd Witmer, master's student at UB and works at U.S. Energy Development Corp

· There were 100 members renewed or new for 2003 (85 active, 11 associate, and 4 student).

· The 2002 Directory had been mailed.

· There were 55 people reserved for the February meeting. Martin Derby will speak on "DNAPL Remediation at Three Fractured Rock Sites in Niagara Falls, NY".

· The April and May meetings are currently scheduled for Eddie Ryan's Restaurant. Steve Taylor from E & E will speak in April on EPA's Storm Water Phase II Final Rule. Tom Grasso will speak in May on the Geologic History of the Erie Canal.

· The March meeting will be joint with Technical Societies Council (TSC). It will be on March 27, 2003 at Harry's Harbour Place Grille. Each dinner will be $25. Reservations will be strictly due by March 20th. Dinner choices will be sirloin, chicken, and salmon.

· Lea explained the results of the special treasurer election. Mike Fellenz was elected in a close race, but declined the position very shortly after the election. The other candidate, Gene Florentino will be the 2003 treasurer.

· Lea passed out an e-mail from Rick Watt. Rick outlined an interesting talk by Wilson Greatbach that he had been to recently on future energy supply and weekend trips to Mars. Part of the talk was a tour of the speaker's lab. Lea suggested this as a possible BAPG Nite Out activity.

· Lea mentioned that Jerry Bastedo was very happy with and grateful for BAPG's support of Earth Science Day 2002. He's happy that we will participate in 2003 and wants to meet with the ESD committee (Rick and Dino) soon.

· The board voted to renew their annual HNHS membership ($100).

· Lea passed out some cost estimate sheets that project profits for 50 ($1537.64) or 75 ($2571.08) attendees.

· There were 11 sponsors/exhibitors including 4 sponsors. There was room for about one more exhibitor.

· Malcolm Pirnie will let BAPG use a laptop and their Proxima computer projector free of charge.

· A couple of speakers had to cancel due to scheduling conflicts. Jim passed out a new schedule. There will be one session/room and each speaker will have 40 minutes (including set-up and Q&A).

· There were about 18 people registered. {Update: as of Monday, February 24, there are 39 people registered, not counting exhibitors and sponsors.}

· Due to personal reasons, Carol Yamarino will no longer be able to take care of preparing signs or compiling the abstract volume. Jim volunteered to do the volume and Lea said she would ask Rick to take care of the signs.

· Lea mailed the award letters and checks to Brock, Geneseo, and the University of Rochester. They have been invited to attend the April meeting and give a poster or oral presentation. So far, Francine has only heard from Professor Amy Sheldon from Geneseo.

· Dino has been working on talking to clubs at UB.

· Dino attended the TSC Presidents' Luncheon on 2/15/03. Topics of discussion included: National Engineer's Week (2/16-2/22/03), TSC joint meeting (3/27/03), Mall Day Event (postponed to 2/22/03 due to water main break at the Walden Galleria), TSC encouraged all member societies to submit brochure with objectives, etc (Discussed possibly updating and submitting trifold brochure that Rick had produced in past few years), TSC looking for nominations for 2003-2004 officers, and BAPG is encouraged to send a second delegate to TSC.

Lea gave the report based on a information she got from Rick earlier

· Deadline for submissions for March Geogram is March 7. Submissions should be made to Jonathan, who in turn will e-mail them to Rick's home e-mail address.

· Rick suggested that Jonathan prepare a checklist of items to be included in the Geogram, so he can easily identify what is missing and who he should contact.

· Forty or fifty people went to the site on the meeting day.

· Included in the report is that there were 2,051 user sessions in January 2003.

· Pat said that bufnet, the current web services provider, is rather expensive and that he will look for a new one at the time of renewal of services.

· To boost attendance and as an incentive to RSVP early Pat suggested that we raffle BAPG hats at each meeting to the attendees that RSVPed. Pat volunteered to help with the raffle.

· Dan Riker submitted a draft of a letter for Corporate Membership via e-mail. The board voted to accept $100 as the fee for membership. Timing to send the letters asking for corporate members was discussed, but no firm conclusions were reached Ideas discussed included: waiting till after the symposium, a calendar year corporate sponsorship, and coordinating the corporate sponsorships solicitations with the advertisors solicitations.

· The March business meeting will be directly before the joint TSC meeting at Harry's Harbour Place Grill.

· Brad Gill spoke to our September 2002 field trip leader. He is looking for funding for a project involving TOC and faulting. Lea requested to see a written proposal, which Brad will send to the board via e-mail. There is general agreement to consider this issue once the symposium is completed and we see what our financial situation is like.