Juneau County Amateur Radio Club Ares/Races Inc.

      January 13, 2010 

Present: Bruce L. Larry, Joe, John N, Nancy N, Jim R, Carol F, Howard F, Jeff, Bud W, Dan. 

     Jim called this meeting to order at 7:08PM.

Secretary’s report was given out before the meeting started and was also posted on the website for members to read.

Treasurers Report: John N gave the treasurer’s report and reported the club has nothing outstanding.

New Business:1.     The first order of business is the election of new officers for 2010. All positions are up for election. There was a motion called for any nominations for president in which Jim R and Larry were nominated. With the nominations closed there will be a vote for President. Paper ballots were handed out and collected by John N., who also counted the votes. With the votes counted, Larry will be the new president. Vice President is Bruce L, Secretary Nancy N and Treasurer John N. A motion was made by Howard F to add 2 positions to the board of the Juneau County Amateur Radio Club. These positions are for technical support personnel and will be held by Jim R and Bud W.  The motion was second by Bruce L. All approved

2.     Raising Dues:  After much discussion, which took place at the Monday night Zilch that was held at Kwik Trip on Jan 11, 2010, it was decided the club has to raise its dues. The monies that are generated from this increase help support the maintenance on all of the clubs repeaters, antennas, any other radio equipment and supplies in which we may need. A motion was made by Bruce to raise dues for a single member to $20.00 and family membership to $30.00. This motion was second by John N. All approved. During this discussion a suggestion was made to possibly give members a break on their dues for next year if they are willing to help out with some fundraisers to also raise monies for maintenance and projects for the members. This idea will be looked into further.

3.     Carol F gave the group an update on the possibility of obtaining some grants and a group who may be willing to help us out with fundraisers.

4.     Repeater updates: The repeater is getting closer to being back in operation soon. It needs some fine- tuning to be all finished and then it will need to be moved back to the North Tower site.

5.     Comm. Trailer updates: The new batteries are working just fine and the roof problem is no longer and issue. The furnace is in need of some minor repair.

6.     A suggestion was made to start a membership drive to draw in new members and their ideas for the future. More work will be done on this idea in for the Feb. meeting.

7.     Larry has donated a labeling machine for the Comm Trailer and there was a suggestion made to move some of the signage around on the trailer itself from the rear to the side of the trailer. Another idea was to have a banner made for the back. These ideas will be looked into in the future.

With nothing further at this time, a motion was made by John N to adjourn this portion of the meeting and was second by Bruce L. All approved.

Larry adjourned the meeting and turned it over to Howard F for the Ares/Races portion of the meeting. 

Ares/Races1.     Howard F and Carol F have now received all of the final papers and monies that rightfully belonged to the Ares /Races group from Craig. And a new bank account was set up for the Ares/Races group again.

2.     All taxes have been filed and are current for 2009.

3.     LaCrosse Weather, (Todd Shea) has been notified by Howard F of the EC changes for the county.

4.     A current Ares/Races membership needs to be compiled and sent to Skip Sharpe.

5.     Larry will be working on current ID badges for the Ares/Races members.

6.     Gary W9ULK will be conducting table top exercises in possibly in Feb or March. Details to follow.

7.     The weather spotting needs improving and some changing. More details to follow.

8.     The Ares/Races group will be in need of the lime green vests to bring them up to standards of safety. This will be an on going project with details to follow.

9.     Policy booklet is in the process of being developed by Howard F. This is an on going project.

10.  Agreement with county is a works in progress at this time.

11. SET 2009 has been sent in to Gary W9ULK and to the proper personnel in Connecticut. We will be doing other new ideas for the 2010 SET.

12.  Membership topic was also addressed as in the JCARC meeting.

13.  Using a simplex net was discussed as an option for message handling.

14.  VE testing – an excellent program and we need to advertise our own program more in the different medias we have available to us.

With nothing further a motion was made by Dan to adjourn and was second by Jim R. Larry adjourned the meeting at 8:38 PM. 

Respectfully submitted by Nancy Noga KC9KCC