1. Approval of minutes of May 1, 1999, Executive Committee meeting
2. Consideration of the report on the petition to create a West Central Florida Section
3. Recognition of new Life Members
4. Affiliation of clubs
5. Approval of conventions
6. Other business
Pursuant to due notice, the Executive Committee of the American Radio Relay League, Inc., met at 8:30 PM Thursday, July 15, 1999, at the Hartford Marriott Hotel, Rocky Hill, Connecticut. Present were the following committee members: President Rodney Stafford, W6ROD, in the Chair; First Vice President Stephen A. Mendelsohn, W2ML; Executive Vice President David Sumner, K1ZZ; and Directors Kay Craigie, WT3P, Frank Fallon, N2FF, Fried Heyn, WA6WZO, and Tod Olson, K0TO. Also present were General Counsel Christopher D. Imlay, W3KD, Director Frank M. Butler, W4RH, International Affairs Vice President Larry E. Price, W4RA, Field Services Manager Richard Palm, K1CE, and other ARRL officers, directors, vice directors, and staff.
1. On motion of Mrs. Craigie, the minutes of the May 1, 1999, Executive Committee meeting were approved in the form in which they had been distributed.
2. A report had been received from the Secretary on a petition by amateurs in the Southern Florida Section who seek the creation of a new West Central Florida Section. The petition was found to be in order. Mr. Butler was invited to address the committee; he spoke in support of letting the process go to the next level, and to recommend to the Board that the wishes of the members who would be directly affected be determined. After discussion, on motion of Mr. Heyn, it was voted that the Executive Committee recommend to the Board that it order ballots sent to the full members in the Florida counties of Charlotte, DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pinellas, Polk, and Sarasota in order to determine their opinion on the creation of a new West Florida Section, with the results to be reported to the Board on a county by county basis.
3. On motion of Mr. Mendelsohn, 38 newly elected life members were recognized and the Secretary was instructed to list their names in QST.
4. On motion of Mr. Fallon, the following clubs were declared affiliated or their earlier affiliation by mail vote was ratified:
Category 2
Ozark Contest Club, Fayetteville, AR
Category 3
Amateur Radio Scouting K0BSA, Maple Grove, MN
Florida Atlantic University Amateur Radio Club, Boca Raton, FL
Ham Radio Society of Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
Morgan School Radio Club, Morgan, UT
Parkway Central High School Amateur Radio Club, Chesterfield, MO
University of Chicago Amateur Radio Society, Chicago, IL
The ARRL now has the following numbers of active affiliated clubs: Category 1, 1,759; Category 2, 16; Category 3, 126; Category 4, 15; Total, 1,916.
5. On motion of Mrs. Craigie, the holding of the following ARRL conventions was approved or their earlier approval by mail vote was ratified:
6. Other business
6.1. On motion of Mr. Olson, it was voted that LouAnn Campanello is authorized as signatory on ARRL checking accounts at Fleet Bank.
6.2. On motion of Mr. Heyn, it was voted that it is the policy of the Executive Committee that written reports of the General Counsel shall be shared with officers and directors who are not members of the Executive Committee at the time they are distributed to committee members.
There being no further business, on motion of Mr. Mendelsohn, the meeting was adjourned at 9:17 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
David Sumner, K1ZZ
Secretary