MEETING MINUTES

 

ITE NY Upstate Section

Executive Board Meeting

Syracuse, NY

 

April 2, 2004

 

 

Meeting Attendees:

Joe Tocke, Immediate Past President

Lorenzo Rotoli, President

Tim Faulkner, Vice President

Shelia Ransbottom – Treasurer

Mike Wieszchowski - Editor

 

 

I.                   Call to Order

Lorenzo Rotoli called the meeting to order at 10:15 AM

 

 

II.                Reading and Approval of the Previous Minutes

A motion was made by Lorenzo and seconded by Tim to accept the minutes from the January 9, 2004 Executive Board Meeting

 

III.             Reports of Officers

 

President – Lorenzo Rotoli

·        Mary Rowlands (Director SMTC) will be chairing the Upstate Annual Meeting

·        Will send Mary all electronic information

·        Had discussion with chairman of Pan Am conference.  They are not really concerned with financial support and wants to include all organizations.  ITE will not be doing any technical sessions, but there was discussion about staffing a table.

·        Cindy McCormick and Don Adams leading charge on professional development.  Have joined PIE as a section.

·        Working on doing local events in Upstate cities.  Gordon Stansbury would like someone else to take over local Syracuse coordinator.

·        Lifetime Achievement Award to be given to Tom Werner.  Mike W. to take care of newsletter application form for annual awards.

·        Will try to find treasurer candidates from Rochester.

·        Frank Dolan to be teller for upcoming election.

·        Looking for someone to audit books.

 

Vice President – Tim Faulkner

·        Has received all the awards info and will start pulling everything together after the shortly and send out nomination forms.

·        Mike W. to provide his database to determine who to send out awards forms to.

 

Secretary – Don Adams

 

Treasurer – Sheila Ransbottom

·        Nothing to Report

 

IV.              Reports of Other Executive Committee Members

 

International Director – Rick Zabinski

·        Nothing to Report

 

District Delgates – Mike Schauer

·        Taking part in future cities competition

·        Going to District meeting

 

District Chairman – Paula Benway

·        Nothing to report.

 

V.                 Reports of Committees on Programs

 

a.      Local Activities

Rochester

·        Doing summer riverboat cruise, but will be more social than technical.

·        Doing a both for E3.

 

Buffalo

·        Had a table at ACEC luncheon.

 

Syracuse

·        Nothing to report.  Looking for another candidate for local coordinator.

 

Albany

·        Transportation Symposium and Pan Am conference

 

Southern Tier

·        Nothing to Report

 

 

 

 

b.      Meetings

 

1.      The 2003 Annual Section meeting will be held on Oct. 7th  in Syracuse.  Looking into one day event with technical sessions.  Mary Rowlands to Chair with Jim Billings to assist her.  Looking into locations around Syracuse

 

c.       Membership – Carl Ast

·        Need to make sure that everyone has paid their dues and to include new members in newsletter.

 

d.      Newsletter – Mike Wieszchowski

·        Quarterly newsletter not working out to well because have not received any material to print.

·        Will be submitting award form

 

e.      Student Membership – Mike Croce

·        Will be contacting schools this summer notifying them of paper competition.  Presented some ideas for paper competition.

 

f.        Webpage – Cory Greene

·        Nothing new to report.

 

g.      Technical

·        Nothing to report

 

h.      Awards – Tim Faulkner

·        Nothing to Report

 

 

VI.              Old Business

 

Nothing to Report

 

VII.           New Business

 

Next meeting will be on July 16, 2004 at 10:00 at the offices of Sear-Brown.

 

 

VIII.        Adjournment

·                    The meeting was adjourned at 12:00.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This represents the writer’s interpretation of issues that were discussed.  Any revisions should be submitted within one week of receipt of meeting minutes.

 

Respectively submitted,

Timothy R. Faulkner, P.E., PTOE

   

Clough, Harbour & Associates LLP

441 South Salina Street

Syracuse, NY 13202

 

Phone: (315) 471-3920

Fax: (315) 417-3569)

tfaulkner@cha-llp.com