NASAA BOARD OF DIRECTOR'S MEETING
2100 HRS, EST, 24FEB2005
Meeting Site - "ASA/ INSCOM Chat" from Home Page
I. Meeting Call to Order (Chairman) at 2104 EST. Meeting agenda was sent
to BOD members prior to start of meeting.
II. Roll Call (Secretary)
Luker Present
Lon Present
Duke Present
Wayne Absent (Tried, but couldn't stay connected to the chat site)
Jake Present
Charlie Absent
Larry Present
III. A. Reading of the Minutes (Secretary) October, 2004 minutes approved, and posted to website. No additions or amendments resulted from this meeting.
B. Treasurer’s Report (Treasurer) No update; Treasurer was absent due to commo problems. Reports through Jan 2005 approved and posted to the site.
IV. Assorted Reports
A. PX Status (S-1): Jake reported that “LFCF” stickers were back ordered.
The stickers will be delivered in about a week. Jake made a motion to
proceed with the purchase of the new NASAA stickers. All present voted
aye to the motion at the Chairman’s call. A quantity of 150 stickers,
sized "3-1/2 x 3-1/2”, will be bought from Military-Graphics.com. Jake
e-mailed a picture of the new sticker to the BOD. The design look good.
The Chairman announced he will depart for Kuwait on 4April 2005.
He plans to send the BOD e-mail with his ideas on use/distribution of the
new sticker. Objective is maximum exposure of the new sticker to the
active duty ASA and INSCOM folks serving in theatre. The Chairman
stated we must do something new to attract new membership. The
Chairman’s snail mail address will be sent to Jake. Jake will send a
quantity of the new stickers to the Chairman in theater, as requested.
B. Website (Webmaster): The Chairman and Lon commended Larry for
successfully ridding the website of pornographic ads. Larry said he was
not receiving input to the website’s 2005 Calender and Reunion News
pages. Jake said he will send info on the 372nd RRC reunion.
The Chairman asked for suggestions on how we can catch up on the other
organizations and their reunions. Lon agreed to initiate action to contact
other Military organizations, find information on their planned reunions,
and feed the information to Larry. Lon promised that he would use all his
“diplomatic” skills to get the job done. The NASAA Log site will be re-
named the “ Log & Blog” site. The Chairman asked for a “ hot” button to
allow members to go directly to it (as opposed to finding the site via the
home page drop down window). The name “Log & Blog” helps everyone
remember the new blog site is also our logbook. Larry said he will work on
the site this weekend. Larry commented that he wished he could do better.
He was assured by all that he is doing a great job as our Webmaster under
sometimes difficult circumstances. Someone reminded Larry to
always remember, "no one can please everyone---not even Jesus.” Upon
motion, the Webmaster’s report was approved and accepted. Larry left the
meeting at this point to handle pressing personal business. It was agreed
Larry’s absence would still leave the BOD a quorum to finish the meeting.
C. Membership (Wayne): Wayne tried to attend the meeting, but failed to
connect to our ASA/INSCOM Chat site. Knowing he might have computer
connection problems, he sent an e-mail to the BOD in advance of the
meeting which said, “ Membership keeps dropping, I estimate it’s
somewhere near 420…” The Chairman declared no membership report
due to Wayne’s absence.
V Old Business
The scheduled agenda topic was Annual Election Results. Lon’s check of the by- laws confirmed we did not have to elect officers in this meeting. It was agreed to wait for full BOD attendance before discussing the election results.
VI New Business
a. Wounded Warrior Project
After discussion, it was agreed to spend $1000 in two $ 500 blocks to buy phone cards for wounded and hospitalized warriors. Jake’s motion to spend the money in March and April, 2005 was approved. Duke noted that Wayne’s e-mail in advance of the meeting indicated the expenditure of $ 1000 for the veterans was an appropriate amount.
b. NASAA Stickers
This topic was resolved in the PX report discussion. See above.
VII Adjournment-
The meeting was adjourned at 22:00 EST.