Final AGENDA & MINUTES

SAN FRANCISCO SECTION COUNCIL MEETING

MONDAY April 5, 2004 at 5:30PM at

NASA Ames Research Center

Building 210 Conference Room 115

Moffett Field, CA. 94035-1000

Dial in Phone 1-888-791-6044 with Passcode 519**

In attendance:

Old Business

• Approve minutes from previous meeting.

• Comments on possible areas for Section and/or Council improvement provided last month

• Improving Press relations. May need some kind of Public Affairs person to cover this area.

• More involvement by Student Branches (See Evolution of Flight activity)

• Fundraising

• Membership

• Galileo Memorial Scholarship database.

New Business

On-line Committee

• Updated main page for April dinner meeting

• May’s dinner page, calendar and past calendar to follow soon, FFMF page. Eric will notify Corky about the date by email.

• Jedi Padawan selection –None yet.

Chairman’s Report as reported by Vice chair- Prasad

• We will need to do a membership drive shortly.

• Determination of amount of funds available in Galileo Scholarships and the number of scholarships we can give this year. Finalize the applicants. Srini to coordinate with Fanny.

• Todd to settle the accounts with NASA Ames for the Nov 03 dinner meeting at the Hiller Aviation Museum. Need to do this by 4/16/04. If there are any snags, Fanny will be available and must close this by 4/23/04. There is a danger of funds expiring and we may never be paid.

Vice-Chairman’s Report

• Hiller Museum deposit for June Meeting due 5/23/03

• Elections for new Officers need to be held.

The current Vice Chair moves into the Chairman’s slot. I have sent e-mail to the council members to express their choices. I have not heard from them voluntarily. I have started calling people and will be able to assemble a slate of candidates in 2 weeks. The ballot format we used last year was good. We will use the same. Prasad to present a slate of candidates.

Treasurer’s Report as reported by Rick

• None available.

• Rick reported that he retrieved from our Mail Box, a cheque from AGI for $1500, dated Nov 22, 2003 for sponsoring the dinner meeting in Nov, 2003.

Programs Committee

• (Confirmed) 15 April (Ramada Inn) – David Levinson, Men in Space.

• (Confirmed) 27 May (Ramada Inn) – “Moon Habitation,” Susmita Mohanty, Moon Habitat Inc. This is the month when we have the Galileo Memorial Scholarships for the High School essay contest winners

• 24 June (Hiller Museum) – Honors and Awards Dinner Meeting. AIAA Distinguished Speaker being procured by the Western Regions Office Museum has been reserved. Prasad to follow up with Western Regions office for the DL.

• 22 July (Ramada Inn) – Michael Green, NASA Ames, Space Transportation systems.

• Aug – No meeting

• 23 Sep (Ramada Inn) – Jeff Colvin, Secret of Successful Networking. Kay to follow up with the speaker.

• we want to do a dinner meeting on Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly SIRTF) . Who has contacts to get a speaker on this subject?

Evolution of Flight Committee as reported by Rick

• Gano has one DVD which he showed at the Nov 03 dinner meeting at the Hiller Museum.

He is working with other living legends.

• NASA Ames Summer Lecture Series Section involvement. Seth and Fanny in discussions with Education Office Art Fluter for speakers. Seth has identified Alex Jefferson and Juanita as possible speakers. Venue may be the MTCC but due to the increased security, Ames Education Office may look for other locations.

What is the status of this? Fanny to report next time the status of NASA Ames Summer Lecture Series?

Pre-College Committee as reported by Rick

• Essay context in progress. Rick to put the Essay context details on the website.

Technical Activities Committee

• Rick is arranging technical presentations from the AIAA technical committee on May 26-28 at the NASA Ames Conference Center.

Newsletter Committee

• None available

Public Policy Committee

None available

Rick expressed concern that Todd being a civil servant will have Conflict of Interest issues for him to take active roll in the PPC. We need to have him train somebody else. Kay Sundaram is going to the Congressional Visit Day, Apr 19-21. Would Kay Sundaram want to be the Chair of our PPC?

Membership Committee

• Membership Recruitment

• The membership numbers are as follows: as of Apr 2003
  
  

Young Professional Committee

• Eric is preparing the next FFMF meeting. The date still needs to be set.

Honors and Awards Committee

• Srini ordered the Gifts (24 Coffee Mugs) for the dinner speakers. Will be delivered to Todd.

• Also got the certificate and pin for the outgoing chair.

Career Enhancement Committee

• None available

Education Committee

• Eric is preparing an email for distribution to the local universities soliciting names of professors to be included into the DVD.

ACTION ITEMS

Please read the action items above in RED.

OTHER BUSINESS

Need Volunteer/s to participate in the Space Day parade/activities of Tech Museum/San Jose around May 1^st week.

Close of Business

Meeting adjourned at 6:20 PM

NEXT MEETING TO BE on

TBD

Prasada Rao Gogineni

Vice-Chair