December 8,
1999
Meeting
at the Cat and Fiddle Restaurant. Called
to order at 6:17 PM.
Attendees:
Lee
Carroll - LC
Holly
Galagher - HG
Joe
Duscharme - JD
Rod
Rheaume - RR
John
Alger - JA
Judy
Houston - JH
Dave
Eckman - DE
Craig
Musselman - CM
Paul
Schmidt - PS
Matt
Purcell - MP
Secretary's
report:
HG
motion approval of November Minutes as distributed, MP seconded. Approved.
Current
Balance $14763.98
Mathcounts
reimbursement not in yet.
MP
motion to accept report, HG seconded. Approved.
Update
membership meetings (LC)
·
November
30 at the Durham campus was a well attended and went well.
·
Next
Meeting will be January 2 in Portsmouth.
The topic will be Protection of intellectual property. It will be held at the Sheraton. Cost is $27.67 per person. LC proposed a charge of $28.50 per person. He asked the board whether we need to
consider going to cheaper place? The consensus
was we do not as we would not save much.
We will require prepaid attendance.
We will issue CEUs for those who pre-register. 6 PM social hour, 7 PM supper.
·
Engineer’s
Week Banquet will be February 24.
·
Spring
meeting will be held in April. At that
meeting we will recognize new PEs.
Legislative
(JA)
Kibby
Bill - Will cancel "wetland scientists" as a recognized
classification.
Hollingworth
Bill- Allow "Engineering" in business name with out engineers on
board.
Craig
Musselman indicated that Ed Bergeron is working on two bills:
1
- Remove the PE Boards authority to wave FE requirement to qualify for the PE exam.
2
- Add a fifth PE Board member. Require
one of the members to be university faculty.
Lee
Carroll reported that Texas now has "Software Engineer" Licensing. He contacted their state board. They are rewriting a statement. Currently they have a waiver process since
there is no exam. The waiver process
requires nine references with the application.
They
have licensed twenty-five engineers to date.
Have
not heard on membership grant funding yet.
Judy
drafted recruitment letter. LC will
review & sign. It will be in the mail
in January.
Holly
is creating a database for membership based on the NSPE lists.
QBS-
JD
taking over Dave Gate's position on the board.
CM
will submit the grant request for the administrative position discussed last
month. (now that he has forms)
The
Bell Atlantic check has been received.
40
schools have registered to date.
Governor
Sheheen has accepted an honorary chair title again.
Keene
competition - February 18
Plymouth
competition - February 5
State
competition - March 4
NH
Office of Emergency Management indicated they have funds for educational
programs. (Mathcounts) Lee will solicit them.
Next
issue: First week of February. Articles
will be due to Paul at the January meeting.
Bulk
mailing discussed. JH will give PS an application.
JH
will write article on November meeting in next newsletter.
Nothing
new
Next
meeting in January.
Need
to have someone attend regional meetings.
Engineer's
week: JH for George Fredette.
Topic
Idea: Speakers oldest engineer & 10,000th engineer.
Fundraiser:
Raffle at banquet? Solicit donations
from exhibitors.
Ideas
for raffle gifts: Logo golf balls, Ski passes from MP, Delorme map CD
Web
hosting - DE has info for one hosting service.
Get
WWW.NHSPE.ORG
We
can register name @ domain.com separate from web hosting.
Motion
to register domain name. Approved.
RR
motioned to have DE (with Jeremy’s recommendations) setup web hosting @ not
more than $24/month. HG seconded. Approved.
Dave
Gates and Rock Larochelle arrived for end of meeting. (7:46PM)
Other
Business:
LC
- May 11-14th state board sponsoring NCSS meeting. They requested 100 pieces for gift bag. NH related item from NHSPE.
A few ideas were discussed.
DG
- UNH courses: Land surveyors
sponsoring courses. They have sold out
quick. We need to set up meeting with
UNH & sponsor courses for engineering.
DE
met with Civil Department regarding PE courses. They want specifics like duration (1/2 or 1 day, 3 day?) and topics. UNH wants joint sponsored courses (with
NHSPE). DE will setup a meeting between
UNH and LC.
CM
suggested co-sponsoring courses with CENH?
Give them our mailing list?
Rock
was asked if he would like to become active.
We need someone to run the Engineer’s Week mall display.
Scholarship: JH motion
RR review applications for completeness & forward to National. HG seconded. Approved.
The
next meeting is January 12 and is a general membership meeting. We will conduct any required board business at
that meeting.
The
next full board meeting will be February 9, 2000.
Adjourned
8:35PM