Cascadia GeoSciences Business Meeting Meeting July 30, 2010 1:00 PM safety check orders of the day: 17:07 agenda: old biz, new biiz 17:08 review old biz: 17:12: Determine items for next meeting agenda (5 mins): 1. Office rotation for board members: annual meeting in sept we will rotate offices 2. tsunami day (first fundraiser) where not at the leroys beer what will we do? raffle science presentations (agu/GSA style) music posters informative entertainment have a screen showing simple easy to capture bulleted lists and grpahical items that are educational, these would rotate through a powerpoint presentations on a screen near the music show video screen showing leroy's video carnage how many people incorporate other organizations (rctwg) 3. old biz = tl + TBW office rotation TBW + THL MOTION FOR: president, a secretary, and a chief financial officer who shall be designated the treasurer TBW = PRES THL = CFO JRP = SEC passed unanimously new biz = 17:15 PORTS/jose: write letter or meet w harbor district? we need budget info from harbor district reiterate to jose we need these details now liability, what is this? who is responsible? who pays? what is funding structure: who is paying for what? only 3 yrs of funding harbor district cannot apply for federal $ NOAA is mandating this infrastructure for safe passage of larger/more frequent vessels into the port, harbor district has 3 yrs of funding, but will need 2 more yrs of funding NOAA provides training, dist data dangerous, if someone gets killed, what happens. who pays for insurance? do costs include overhead, is overhead itemized? are diver's insured by us? are they private contractors? what happens if PORTS goes down, a ship hits the jetty, are we liable for these damages? no offshore diving should add overhead to meet our mission jrp + tbw : motion: have jose call harbor district and request this information, or set us up to acquire this information motion passes unanimously 1800: II: web site: what are goals right now? tl: keep simple to reduce time and effort member applications tl: look over agu web page for membership tbw: downloads: eq hazards stuff, 2007 poster jrp: project page: please provide me with content for links tl: bottoms map, PORTS, Geodesy, new projects tbw: link to membership apps should go to empty/blank web page (like project pages now) 18:10 III: membership tl + tbw: web form with paypall what is cost of paypall? what is information paypall provides from client (so we can match with membership status database) use shipping address and billing address... should be able to mail form to PO box with check payment still required to apply on web form (so personal data is easily sold to the north koreans) tl + jrp: form: 3 tabs: level of membership how much time to donate how much additional donations jrp + thl : 1st announcement in email, PWA print 100 hard copies of membership form 18:45 BREAK 18:53: IV: geodesy meeting tbw reports: meeting 21st, sent out announcement, not heard back much... (frank shaug is interested) 21st, another meeting occurs at the same time for some other group, so peeps cannot attend our mtg ag bldg reserved, but on 25th susan schlosser had add'l meeting, with similar theme: source: lana Y. mentioned it to don...: tom will contact susan. 19th other mtg agenda marti made agenda, added CO-OPs facility as speaker on agenda, so jeff can do things... marti will get back to tbw about this,,, 3 day weekend state of california marti wants proposed plan reviewed by tbw/marti/etal. at mtg wed night before mtg... tbw will make map for this mtg. tbw: project includes leveling projects, see how to tie in different level surveys, try to save $. tbw: tom sent symposium poster, for ppt. please send drawings, graphics, figures... add current velocity field, eel river valley component possible tbw: tl, will you present some? distribution of paleoseismic sites tl: 5-6 slides, basic problem, what are we doing about it: we propose we need to measure this: .1. couple more tidal BM's/redundant tide gages, .2. repeated long ling leveling from redding, get HSU doing it, .3. list tbw wrote (read agenda) .4. tbw: ppt: intro agenda items in ppt CO-OP's over telephone. tl: jeff should present why he see's the 1992 eq in data, does not have to be confrontation, just description of the observation. how do we address this? what options do we have? RTK stations to home base, make base line, tl: difference between using existing bm's and gps, what is dream network? we want to see earthquake before it happens, we want to watch the sea rise above our heads slowly 19:18 V: business license: tbw: tsunami wireless examples, with address of convenience: $136 tom's address, parcel number in complete grey area to get license for bank acct... but need to tbw: will open acct, then two by two we will go to the bank for signatures. tl: small dues and big donations jp: liquid assets accounts for member fees... etc. 19:30 we do not want to spend any extra time, beyond CG biz modifications, on the PORTS project. PORTS: educational opportunities: have HSU diving class, research diving class; class presentations; 19:35 jp + tbw: passed unanimously