Meeting Notes from 9/24/22:
Meeting started at approximately 1:00 pm
Members present: Laurie McFarland, Jared Francis, Earl Beighley, Mike Dethlefs, Bernard Dacey, Dee Spirock, Woodrow (Woody) Webster.
Members Zooming in: Guy Mackey, Christine Pointeau, and RC Bran Stimson.
Guest Present: Troy Stull
- Zoom Members
- MURP from Guy
- Marine Unit Readiness Program – certifies the Marine group with occupational specialties
- 5 individuals need to take one of the five required courses in each specialty
- Guy will do the paperwork
- First two specialties to do: Medical and Aerospace
- Group agreed to participate
- Christine happy to join us from a distance
- MURP from Guy
- Old Business
- Commissioning Ceremony
- Great success! Good job all!
- Two new members as a result – Woody and Elene
- Refreshments – please help Earl and Marsha with reimbursements for refreshments!
- Dee took pictures; Laurie copied them to her drive and will post on Facebook
- STARFLEET Election Season
- All eligible members said they had received emails
- Laurie will post the info to Facebook re: each candidate’s website and the YouTube video with all four discussing their policies.
- New Business
- Possible website
- The SF Core of Engineers is giving away a website design and one-year hosting for one ship
- Laurie entered us into the contest and was notified that we are considered a finalist!
- If we win, we’ll need to think of ways to finance the site after that year, somewhere around $100-150.
- Christine reminded us that we could also develop our own through Wix.com if we need to build one – much less expensive
- Next Business Meeting – reset to October 8th at 1:00pm
- Next Fun Meeting – Same day: Laurie proposed watching some Strange New Worlds episodes
- Aaron’s Status
- Aaron died of a heart attack on Friday, Sept. 9th at his home
- Laurie wanted to promote him before reporting his loss to STARFLEET because rank can’t be changed once he’s pulled out of the system
- Laurie has authority to promote up to CMDR, and wanted to based on Aaron’s love of Trek (He and his wife have been on every Trek Cruise!)
- Bran reminded the group that he can promote Aaron to CAPT.
- Laurie agreed to send Bran Aaron’s SCC number so he could make the promotion to CAPT in recognition of Aaron’s fandom.
- Toys for Tots
- Group planned to have November 25-27 as dates we could collect for Toys for Tots this year
- Still want to meet at a Target (they are usually better with a group collecting for organizations than other stores) – no decision about which one
- Mike and Laurie will make contact and see if the Marines will let us do so
- Removal/Addition of Charities
- Remove Autism Speaks – everyone agreed that their reputation is very bad in the community, so we will remove them from the list of charities we support
- Additional Charities
- Add Joy Junction – local food organization. Much easier for us to support, possibly even in person rather than financially. Unanimously agreed.
- Add American Heart Association – we have survivors and have lost members to heart disease. Proposal by Dee to add them was unanimously agreed.
- Next Activity
- Dee proposed the Walk for Breast Cancer on October 29th at 9:00am
- Unanimously supported
- Dee will post as an event to the FB page
- Handbook Changes
- Laurie reviewed the Handbook for minor changes and discovered the Handbook currently has no points for those who attend an event virtually.
- Laurie proposed that we add the same points for virtual attendance that we do for physical attendance.
- Unanimous approval from the group.
- Possible website
- Commissioning Ceremony
Meeting adjourned at approximately 1:50 pm.