Minutes

CCEI Board of Directors Meeting

September 7, 2008

1. Call to Order – At 7:01PM Members attending: Majeska, Halbern, Brixen, Hoskins, Szumksi, Hanson, Foster, and Guzman.

2. Minutes of General Meeting on June 8, 2008 were approved unanimously.

3. Agenda was approved unanimously.

4. Reports

a. Treasurer's Report. Hanson reports that the current balance is $15,290.70 with an additional $25.00 from the receipt of a membership renewal check.

b. Database Report. Diskin sent an email indicating that the current membership numbers are 2006-11 members, 2007-10 members, 2008-46 members, 2009-5 members, and retirees-35 members. Tom noted the large number of retirees in comparison to other categories is an issue for the board's consideration. Also, the matter of a last chance renewal letter to 2007 members and dropping 2006 members was discussed and approved by the board.

c. Membership Report. Guzman has agreed to send out the letters of renewal notification using the template from Halbern. Halbern will email the template to Guzman.

d. Web Site Report. Brixen reports the successful migration to a new host for the organization's website. Brixen indicated that junk email was a significant problem with the previous website.

e. Workshop Report. None at this time.

f. Maxwell Award. Majeska reports that no nominations have been sent to Lee to date. Lee's email is lee_p@juno.com for those who desire to make a nomination.

5. Old Business

a New Applicants for Schwartz Scholarship. Majeska reports that there have been none to date. Szumski indicated that he may have a potential applicant.

b. Newsletter. Hoskins reports that there has been no progress on this issue and also that this job has many responsibilities.

c. Membership Chairman. Guzman agreed to send letters of renewal notification to the ten 2007 members in arrears.

6. New Business

a. SAMTEC Report. Brixen reported that the conference was very interesting. The 4 day conference was inspiring but also points to the nation-wide dire condition of electronics technical education.

b. Membership/Database PO Box and Address. Discussion about changing the address lead to a unanimous decision to maintain the current PO Box and address at this time.

c. Planning for our 50^th Anniversary. Lengthy and robust discussion regarding the status of a fall conference in Fresno results in a unanimous vote to cancel the fall conference in light of the lack of time to put together a coherent program and the perceived lack of interest of the membership to attend. The previous conference was very lightly attended, with a significant number of attendees being CCEI board members. Discussion of combining CCEI conference in spring 2009 with CITEA, March 19-21 in Fresno with a Saturday March 21 ^st banquet of CCEI members.

d. Spring Conference 2009. See item c above. Further discussion results in consensus that the CCEI banquet should feature complementary food and beverage, paid with the organization's funds.

e. Concerns? What to do in Dec. when terms expire? These concerns and the ultimate survival of CCEI is a matter of discussion that will be the focus at the next board meeting.

f. Next Board Meeting. Agreed to hold the next board meeting on Sunday October 12, 2008.

7. Adjournment

There being no further business to transact, a motion to adjourn was unanimously approved at 8:38PM.

These minutes respectfully submitted.

Michael Halbern

Secretary