Minutes of WIAI Washington State Chapter

Saturday January 8, 2005 11:00am

Snohomish County Airport (Paine Field) Conference room

ATTENDEES:

Officers:

PRESIDENT: James Smithhart

VICE PRESIDENT: Linda Russell

TREASURER: Laina Reeves

Members:

Patty Steffen, David Hyland, Stephanie Allen

Guests:

None

Abbreviated introduction and Happy Bucks. It was a snow day, so meeting attendance is low.

Minutes from the November 2004 meeting were read and approved as amended. James will post the past minutes on the website soon. Since we had a holiday party in December, there were no minutes, only photo’s!

Treasurer’s report was given by Laina Reeves.  Her current report states that we have $3609.41 in our account.  There was no transactions since the last meeting, so the only changes are from interest accrued. It is in our bylaws that we have 2 signatories on our accounts. Laina was tasked to contact our bank and make sure she and Linda Russell are on our account as discussed during the last meeting.

OLD BUSINESS:

Bylaw changes

Jana Young is still working on getting us the bylaw changes.

James will send out a notice requesting volunteers to fill our vacant Recording Secretary position. If we have more than one volunteer we will hold elections. James will continue to act as Recording Secretary until we fill this seat.

We need to get our members listed in our YahooGroups email account. This will greatly simply our communications. We currently use 3 services from Yahoo for free: Geocities web site, Yahoo email account, Yahoo Groups account. These all use: WIAIWASHINGTON as their primary address: ie. wiaiwashington@yahoo.com for our email address, wiaiwashington@yahoogroups.com as our mass mailing account and www.oocities.org/wiaiwashington as our chapter website.

Education - Laina will do a corrosion presentation at EVCC on February 5th, contact her for information.

Outreach

Saturday & Sunday February 26th & 27th in Puyallup: NW Aviation Conference & Trade Show

This will be one of our key events this year, so we need to make sure we support it well. This will primarily be an outreach, membership and fundraising event. The theme of this year’s conference is education, which we will try and support.

Trade show ASAP items:

- Linda will contact Rachael to get booth number, dimensions & schedule (setup time, etc) some of these might be found on the website for the trade show under exhibitor information.

- Linda will find out about costs for extras – chairs, skirts, tables – can international supply an of these?

- Linda has WIAI tape for display in the booth, Laina will try and borrow a TV/VCR from work to play the tape.

- Linda will have Peggy send table top display & magazines to Puyallup

- We will display the chapter banner & display in the back of the booth.

- James will contact Jana for inventory of items needed (chocolate planes, jewelry, banner…)

- James will contact Jayne about chapter name tags, business cards

- James will coordinate with Linda about a calling list for volunteers

- Laina will set up our schedule for the trade show.

- Stephanie will provide an easel for display purposes

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS for the NW Aviation trade show! We have members in the south sound that need to be contacted and ask to help out. Linda volunteered to call our members around Puyallup to see if we can get support for the booth and greeters. Laina will setup a schedule for all our activities.

Sissi, James & Patti will be there for Friday’s setup and all day Saturday and Sunday to help support. Patti will maintain control of the valuables and cash box during the event. Laina will hand off those items during the next meeting to her.

WE NEED DONATIONS for our raffle at the NW Aviation trade show!

Mentoring

David Hyland made contact with the two high school students that signed up for information from Jayne’s career day. One 17 year old returned his call and spent an hour on the phone with David getting information about becoming both a pilot and a mechanic!

Scholarship 2005

We have not received any information on scholarship applicants yet. James will email international and find what when we should expect them.

Fundraising

Jayne made a mailer that asks for cash donations, more on this later…

NEW BUSINESS:

Saturday, March 19, 2005 is the GEMS Conference at the Bremerton campus of Olympic College. They are requesting we provide a few pilots for three 40 minute workshops for 200+ 5th thru 8th grade girls. The goal is to encourage these young girls to start thinking about non-traditional careers that relate to math and science. There will be a catered lunch afterwards for the workshop leaders.

Stephanie has resources regarding flight planning from Big World which may help support the GEMS conference. James will contact Linda Golden for more details so we can put together some support for this important event.

Pampered Chef – Jayne received word from Rochelle that she is willing to host another Pampered Chef party, and we are working on putting it together for April – thanks Rochelle!

Stephanie talked about GA Day at Paine Field on May 21st. It is a community event, and our chapter may want to support it. There will be static displays, a possible breakfast and the Young Eagles program. We may want to setup a booth and take donations for candy and such. If we setup a booth, we would need to give the organizers a contact and an alternate contact.

Stephanie also brought up the open house for the Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour which is in July. She is going to send us an invite! – thanks Stephanie.

FUN BUSINESS:

We passed around photos from Linda’s photo album from the Christmas party. Laina will be putting her photo’s on a CD to give to James for posting on the website and print her photo’s out for our album.

Meeting adjourned 1:20PM

Next meeting: Aviation Training Center on Boeing Field in Seattle on Saturday, February 19th, 2005 at 11:00am

Minutes submitted by James Smithhart.