Council Meeting, 5:53pm, Tue, Oct. 6

Conference room at Analytic Graphics on Old Ironsides, Santa Clara

Attendees: G. Carl, R. Martinez, J Ryan, C. Lakin, S. Jaeger, M.Jardin

Financial Report $2225 checking, $1407 Savings, $10,196 CD, $430 Bulk Mail

Glen Carl reported attending RAC meeting. Hal Bennett of China Lake Section is reported to be good speaker. In the coming year there will be one only Regional Leadership Conference, July 16-17, 1999, Dallas, TX. Ken Sanger, Regional Director, will be running for another office, making a vacancy at his position. Category rebate will be $8446, down somewhat because of increased insurance and decreased membership. Orange County Section is having a Technical Session event. Sacramento Section will be disbanded by March if they cannot get organized. Glen will write a call-to-action item for our newsletter, which goes to their mailing list. Public Policy Colloquium occurs February 13. Next RAC meeting may be in Las Vegas sometime in Jan.

Roger Martinez reported Dinner Program speakers have been obtained for all months except April around the 15th and May. November will be on GlobalStar use for aviation. March and June are Distinguished Speakers but not yet committed. July speaker, Bachello, is not appropriate for children contest winners. But they could be invited to a special Apollo 11 commemorative event around the 20th.

Student Paper / Student exchange / Travel to Italy needs to be defined.

M. Jardin reported Young Members Forum will switch to Stanford location.

Stephen Jaeger referred to his email message which calls for input to the Newsletter. The publication should have a feature writer to liven it. Deadline is the tenth.

Mars Society Chapter meeting was attended. Bob Zubrin runs this organization which has simulation site in arctic Canada and has a goal of getting to Mars in 10 years.

Corwin Lakin recommended using Council Web Page for Roster data. M. Jardin will contact appropriate Stanford person for their email list.

Juanita Ryan announced Pre-College events include four teacher workshops, some co-hosted. An expensive brochure has been published using foundation funds. Public Policy award may be granted based on our outstanding public outreach activities, instead of the traditional contacting of political persons.

Next Council meeting will be Nov. 4 at this location. Meeting adjourned at 6:50.

Respectfully submitted,

C. Lakin