May 2008 Meeting Minutes

EAA Chapter 704 held its regular monthly meeting on Monday, May 12th at the Sparta Paul C. Miller pilot’s lounge.
President John Smith called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. with 20 members and guests present.
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved as printed in the newsletter. The Treasurer reported $1362.67 in the check book with all the bills paid.
President Smith again brought up the subject of extending the term of offices for the elected positions to two years as suggested in the EAA Chapter manual. Our current By-Laws limit the terms to one year and states that no one may succeed himself. A discussion was held to amend the by-laws in order to adopt the new term limit provision. The general consensus was in favor of this proposal but no action was taken at this meeting.
President Smith had appointed a committee to seek out programs for the coming year. They held a short meeting just prior to our regular meeting and discussed several ideas. A program for June was all ready planned with a future meeting to host the M-Dot/FAA team to conduct another safty seminar in the summer.
The question of our participation in the Sparta Town and Country Days celebration was held. We have held a Pancake Breakfast / Fly-In along with cooperation with the Lion’s Club and Scout Troop 704 in the past years. We decided to do this again since this is one of our main sources of funding for the programs that we sponsor. The Date of the event will be Sunday July 20th and plans will need to be made to “bring it all together”.
There was a general discussion of the flying activities of the pilots in attendance. It was suggested that anyone desiring to have a ride to a fly-in on any given weekend should be at the airport early that day and most likely would find a willing pilot with an empty seat to share.
Meeting adjourned
Jay T Dean
Sec/Treas EAA Chapter 704