The Executive Committee of the CRES Amateur Radio Club met on
Thursday, 06 March 2008.  The meeting was held at Donatos
Pizzeria, Morse Road and US 62, Gahanna, and was attended by
President Bill Erwin/N9CX, Secretary/Treasurer Rob Stampfli/
KD8WK, Equipment Manager Stu Steenburgh/KB8DEO, VE Liaison
Art Grandle/KD8ZG, Contest Coordinator Bob Cartwright/W3CRZ,
and members Dave Woolf/K8RSP, Bob Kenyon/K8LJ, and David
Jeffords/K8ON.  The meeting was called to order by Bill at
7:00 PM.

Potential changes involving the Club's constitution:

On the agenda were the following proposed changes to the
Club's constitution:
  + Do we eliminate the Equipment Manager position, as
    unnecessary, or rewrite its responsibilities to make
    it a viable position again?
  + Do we break the Secretary/Treasurer's position into
    two separate offices?

After much discussion, the excomm agreed to the following proposals
and directed the Secretary to incorporate the necessary changes into
the existing constitution and disseminate a copy of the new document
to excomm members for review:  (After approval by the excomm, of
course, the proposed constitution will be submitted to the membership
for approval.)

1. The Secretary/Treasurer's position shall be split into two
   separate elected positions.

2. The position of Equipment Manager shall be eliminated.

3. A new position of Repeater Manager shall be created.  It shall
   be an appointed position with responsibilities for ensuring
   the repeater is maintained in good working order.

4. A provision shall be added to the constitution to require
   the approval of the executive committee for any expense
   that exceeds $300.

The time frame for instituting these changes is still in question,
but Bill indicated he would like to see them  in place in time for
our EOY 2008 elections.

Field Day:

Mike Rauh/W8GT has notified the club he is no longer working in
the Central Ohio area, and cannot host our Field Day event at
his house this year.  Thus, we must find a new location for
Field Day.  The following places were proposed:

	+ David Jeffords suggested that Tricia/K8HIH could ask
	  about using one of the Gahanna parks.
	+ Rob will ask Dave Markley/N8TUZ about using Blacklick
	  park.
	+ Art suggested trying to reserve Infirmary Mound, about
	  three miles south of Granville.

Bob Cartwright noted we will have more of a security problem at
a public park, especially during the nighttime hours.  He also
said we one of the requirements might be that the Club have an
appropriate insurance policy for the event.

Bob Kenyon said we should stress the Homeland Security issue
with potential site owners.

Miscellaneous:

At some point, we will need to find a replacement for Mike Rauh
position as Station Trustee.  Bill indicated he would contact
Mike to determine if Mike wanted to continue as Trustee in the
interim or be replaced as soon as possible.

Bill indicated his desire that we fabricate a list of equipment
owned by the club along with it's location.  He proposed with the
elimination of the Equipment Manager that this be made a
responsibility of the Secretary going forward.

Bob Cartwright floated the possibility of using the spare receiver
to put up a second remote receiver site for W8ZPF/R at his house.

Rob indicated he will soon order new checks for the club.

Art suggested the Treasurer look into setting up a PayPal account
linked to the club's checking account to allow for the payment of
dues and potentially for other future club expenditures.

Art proposed we offer a 10% commission to anyone who produces
a buyer for the tower we removed from Lucent last year, as he
would like to get rid of it as soon as possible.  This met with
the approval of the Excomm.

Rob indicated the club needs to design and purchase some new
QSL cards.  The ones we have are from the 1990s and earlier
and denote us as an AT&T club.  Bill will ask Al Mecozzi/WA8LBZ
if he would design and print some for us.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:13 PM.

Rob Stampfli/KD8WK
CRES-ARC Secretary/Treasurer