Meeting called to order at 7:55 pm by Jennifer Ash-Poole
Members attending: Roger MacBride Allen, Jennifer Ash-Poole, Robert Edmonds, Jim Filler, Brad Grant, Chris Ha, Tom Ha, Zach Ha, Thomas Henderson, Chris Kidwell, Roy Lapallainen, John McCoy, Jim Miers, Ed Pearson, John Stalnaker, Patrick Stalnaker, Alan Williams, Mark Wise
Outreach
Oct 7 - MPT (Ch 22) at Goddard launch filming for "Inside Goddard"
Oct 8 - Jennifer building session
Oct 13 - building session at College Park Aviation Museum. 8 kids built Astras. Reporter from PG Sentinel newspaper
Oct 13 - cub scout launch in Bel Air. 29 first time flyers. 35 total launch
Nov 1 - Thomas Bagg launch at West Town Elementary
Minutes from September read. Motion to accept as read (Roy Lapallainen/John McCoy) passed
Minutes from October read. Motion to accept as read (John McCoy/Tom Ha) passed
Old Business
Planning meeting was today. Recap of calendar for 2008
Roy has setup a NARHAMS store on Cafe Press. Need a federal id# for reporting to IRS. Suggestion to contact Randy Boadway since they sold stuff from Cafe Press last year.
OPOSSUM is coming up Nov 17. Roy is CD. Events are STD 50 s, D BG, B PD MR, 1/4A FW
Chris reviewed Dec/Jan attendance in cases where we have opened meetings in Dec vs no meeting. For 2002-4, we failed to get a quorum in January due to Dec meeting attendance. In 2005-7, we had a quorum since there was no meeting the prior December. Motion to hold meeting 5:30 - 6 pm in December (Roger Allen/John McCoy) passed, 1 opposed.
ROMAC report from John: need to do repairs on System 1 Rack 1 to fix stripped threads.
Capitol Cup on Oct 27-28 at Great Meadow, run by Tony Reynolds. Had 18 competitors, including 2 from Canada. Kevin placed 2nd in S8 for NAR awards.
Treasurer Report
In September, we collected $71.30 and spent $564.
Income consisted of $70 in dues and ZOG-43 subscriptions, and $1.30 in interest.
Expenses were $320 for pins, $108 for FROG awards and Baikonur plaque, $86 for equipment storage,
and $50 for junior NAR memberships.
Cash: $273.11
Bank: $1443.72
Total: $1716.83
Motion to accept (Tom Ha/Alan Williams) passed
In October, we spent $103 on Astra kits for building session.
Cash: $169.30
Bank: $1443.72
Total: $1613.02
Motion to accept (John McCoy/Mark Wise) passed
New Business
Discussion about safety concerns at Mt. Airy launches. Weather was windy with soccer games going
on most of the day. The first launch of the day was a lawn dart right in the middle of the soccer
field. Suggestion that we need to have stricter rules on launches when soccer games are in
progress. One thing we can do is move the racks farther away from the soccer fields.
Motion to limit models to under 1 lb, D or lower impulse, single stage, single motor while soccer
games are in progress in adjacent field (Thomas Henderson/Jim Miers). 8 for, 6 against. passes
John Stalnaker knows of a 42 acre site north of Frederick. Will follow up with Jim Filler.
Motion to adjourn (Thomas/John Stalnaker) passed. Meeting closed at 9:32 pm