September 2009 Minutes
Attendees:
·    Leslie Hugo, Marilyn Marshall, Nadine Whitfield

Date: Sep 18 2009 Location:Mill Creek Canyon, Salt Lake City
Scribe: Nadine Whitfield

Agenda:
1.    Ballot counts for 2009-2010 Election
2.   Activities for upcoming year
3.   Website Review
4.   ABJ Report (Nadine)
5.   Followup on last meeting's Action Items
6.   Next Month's Action Items
7.   New Action Items

1. Election results:

• President: Leslie Hugo
• Vice President, Secretary:  Nadine Whitfield
• Treasurer: : Chiao-ih Hui
• Program Chair: , Outreach: Marilyn Marshall
• Remaining Positions: No formal nominations were received from members for Section Rep, Alt Section Rep, Area Student Coordinator or Student Section Counselor. Current officers will cover these duties on an ad-hoc basis.
• Webmaster duties (non-elected position) will continue to be covered by Nadine Whitfield

Activities:

• Olympic Park (near Park City)
• Capital Building Retrofit
• ATK Rocket Firings
• Red Butte Gardens
• Utah Natural History Museum
• Ski Resort Tech tour (snowmaking equipment and ski lifts)

Website:

• get active links for collegiate section websites (on students page)
• add more color to liven up site's appearance
• add links to other professional groups (such as UEC)
• update officer's page to reflect election results

ABJ:

• Our section report was due on Sep 8 2009. Leslie Hugo took care of this.
• Next section report will be due by Feb 8 2010
•  May 27 2010 will be the 60th anniversary of SWE. Local sections are encouraged to plan events that coincide with this date

• Region B is preparing a presentation for the National Conference and is asking local sections to submit historical achievements from their archives. Deadline was Sep 15 2009.
• Outreach events held at local or regional level can be advertised on the National SWE website at this address: www.swe.org/aspire. Another site that can be used for publicity is here >> volunteermatch.org. Region B also sponsors an outreach program called "SWEter Futures".
• Next SWE National Conference will be Oct 2009 in Long Beach, CA.
• Next Region B Conference will be Feb 2010 in Phoenix, AZ
• There is a nationally observed event called "EWeek" which happens in Feb (dates were unclear). All professional engineering groups are encouraged to schedule events during that week promoting the profession of engineering

Last month's Action Items:

• Leslie will check our bylaws to verify that we have covered the correct positions to maintain our charter. Once these are verified, Nadine will post this ballot on surveymonkey.com and send a link to listserv members --- this was completed in Aug 2009
• Nadine will complete an expense report to turn in to the treasurer for the ABJ Conference ---completed. Check was disbursed in Sep 2009
• Add website review to next agenda --- completed today
• Leslie is in process of compiling the summary report and will check with Chiao-ih for status of the treasurer's report - - Leslie completed Section summary report. Status of Treasurer's report is unknown at this time.
•  Nadine will investigate the listserv issues and draft preliminary questions for the activity survey -- Not done
•  Leslie and Marilyn will verify that the date and time is clear with their schedules and confirm the date with Chaio-ih --- completed, but Chiao-ih was unable to attend this meeting

Next Meeting:

• Proposed activity is to meet at a coffee house or cafe. Date - Oct 20 (Tue) at 18:45
• Proposed Agenda: national conference report, followup on action items, activities for upcoming year, others to be determined

New Action Items:

• Incomplete action items from today (see section 5)