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MAARS Club Meeting – October 11th, 2019
Attending: Ashley Benteman, KE0IQV
21 People in Attendance
Officer Reports:
President
No new report
Vice President
Consider weather when dressing for the fox hunt because it may be cold Treasurer
$2,134.33 o Cash in hand $60.00, Checking Account $708.67, Repeater Fund $1,392.38 o Took in $25 ($20 dues & $5 repeater fund) o $1.72 made in interest o Future Expenses: none
Old Business:
Fox Hunt, October 19th
The next fox hunt will be October 19th at Fairmont Park starting at 9am Vintage Bumper Stickers
MAARS bumper stickers are still available for donations to our repeater fund. Membership Dues
Annual membership is due. For non-student members it is $20 per person or $30 for a family. For student members it is $10. Everyone will also need to fill out a form. Suzanne can take cash or credit cards.
Repeater Placement
Consider RB Outpost (10 miles NE of Manhattan) as a location site for the digital repeater. We will need to purchase feed line and a lightening arrester for around $300. We will use the same antenna, but it will be higher. It will have a tilt over pole for the tower and will be accessible with a man lift.
Motion was made by Craig to buy the feed line and lightening arrester. Motion was seconded and passed.
New Business:
Officer Elections
Club President: Ryan Benteman o declines to continue if there is someone willing to take over, but will continue otherwise
Vice President: Mike Asbury o Willing to continue
Treasurer: Suzanne Asbury o Willing to continue
Secretary: Ashley Benteman o Declines to continue o Nomination: Suzanne Asbury (note: Ashley will continue to run the FB page)
Amendment to bylaws for lifetime membership
We currently do not have any information in our constitution for a lifetime membership for club members. This may be something that we consider the advantages and disadvantages. We would need to have a petition signed by 1/5 of members to institute a club vote. We will table this for another meeting once more research is done.
Field Day
We may want to consider the observation point above the dam this year as a place to operate because Stampede is no longer at Tuttle Creek