February Meeting  Minutes

 

Dennis counted the ballots before calling the meeting to order. There was a returned ballot count of 43 ballots 41 of which were voted slate, 42 and 43

voted Dave Bradley for RSO.

 

Dennis annouced the installation of the new officers.

 

The meeting was called to order at 7:50 pm. Alex McLoughlin was asked to give the treasurer's report. Alex said that there was a discrepancy in the

accounting of it , and asked to step down from the position, as he was "tired of doing it."

 

There was a quick vote by the board to replace Alex with Yvonne Moscoe, so the board voted unanimously to appoint Yvonne Moscoe as the new

treasurer. Bob Moscoe abstained from the vote.

 

I gave a brief overview of the Quad Pod modifications as Jane Fossen pointed out the improvments made to the Quad Pod itself, as it was brought to

the meeting and on display. I closed the overview by saying that I still had some pending improvement to be made.

 

Paul SanSoucie discussed launch dates, to be coordinated with the fighter wing. He touched on the trailer party too. He also discussed altitude waivers for

standard and high altitudes. He also talked about the joint Idaho-OROC Alvord tenative launch date as of August 28th and 29th. Paul finished his

discussion by saying he would turn over the launch schedual to Nick Anderson for uploading to the OROC site and would file the waivers soon.

 

Bruce Carey talked about the NAR competitions.

 

Yvonne Moscoe talked a little about the raffle, I'm sure she didn't have a real handle on it yet, that's to be expected when your taking on a new

job, but I'm sure she'll get it rolling along well.

 

Paul discussed every weekend waivers for Brothers stating they were to 10K, and said he'd try to push for 24,500 feet.

 

Dennis called for any more old business, there was none.

 

New business was brought up. OROC dues are due this month. Paul went over launch fee collecting, pointed out that the money from this goes to

the upkeep of equipment owned by the club and for supplies used by the club etc. He also mentioned the need for filling out flight cards, and why it is

important to do so.

 

Doug Daman announced that Boy Scout Troop #479 wanted to attend an OROC launch and to camp out at said launch. It was asked by Dennis if

he was going to control the Scouts, and were they aware of basic safety issues at a launch. Doug said he definitely would control them and would

make sure they knew all the safety rules.

 

Acme Rocketry's Chris Beekman annouced that Acme would pledge a match to OROC's contribution to a "kit" fund for the Scouts. OROC pledged

$32.50 for kits for the scouts.

 

Dennis introduced Chris and Jane from Acme Rocketry to speak on their plans for the site and the upcoming season. Jane showed everyone an

outstanding photo essay she had complied on the "before" and "after" improvements made upon the land at the site. She ran a running narrative

of all the problems they came acrossed cleaning up the place and the unseen expenses involved in removing dead cars, tires, batteries, junk, scrap

metal, you name it from a mess like that. She said that there was 6,300 lbs of scrap metal removed from the site!

          She also discussed the installation of some rock jacks that your's truely will build to anchor the gates with out there. Also there was some

discussion Jane put forth about the logistics of ignitor wiring underground and the installation of permanent cement launch platforms under the suface

of the ground. She also commented on launching on the hill and the benifits of that. A very nice overview of the future plans for Brothers.

 

Paul discussed the advertising of an EX launch and put it to a membership discussion. As I recall there was no discussion from the membership.

Alex said that he was in favor of advertising EX launches.

 

Paul asked if there was any objection to advertising EX. There were no objections.

 

Paul brought up the subject of lease fees as to the upcoming season at Brothers. It was felt that $700.00 would handle all the upcoming launches

planned for the season.

 

Dennis once again thanked Chris and Jane from Acme Rocketry for attending the meeting.

 

The meeting was adjourned.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Dave Proffitt

OROC Secretary