MINUTES OF Business Meeting

4 April 2022

 

A. The business meeting was called to order at 6:30 PM by President Charles Tucker.
     1. Members attending: President Charles Tucker, Vice-president Steve Grenot, Treasurer Bill Little, Secretary Gerald Russo.

     2. Members attending: Jerry Dupont, Banks Edwards, Ben Kelmer, Dustin Kelmer, Chuck Mudford, Reed Ostrander, Richard Simmons, & Bob Tribble

B. Announcements:
     1. Next Meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. May 2, 2022
     2. Next run session(s) April 11, 18, 25
     3. Thank you to Bill for his hospitality!
     4. New curved turnout has arrived.
     5. The club decided NOT to attend the Tallahassee Show in June.

C. Minutes of the previous meeting of March 7th were read by Secretary Gerald Russo.
     1. Corrections to minutes: None
          a. The minutes were moved and accepted.
     2. The treasurer’s report was presented by Treasurer Bill Little.
          a. As of this date there is $2,885.39 in the treasury.

D. Old Business
     1. Work on finishing the new yard and powering the sidings on Green. Turnout into the yard on the north end needs some attention. Also the yard needs some more drops on the north end to fix some dead spots in the track.
     2. Make new Stanchions and repair some others.
          a.We will need PVC, glue, blue paint and concrete.
     3. Finish the Farm module. (need 1” blue foam)
     4. The trailer needs some maintenance: left fender lights and bearings greased.

 

E. New Business
     1. We need to schedule times to accomplish our present work list.
     2. We need to begin work on planning for Operating Sessions. This will entail much careful work; figuring the location of industries, what kind of cars needed, which cars, and making cards for each car used. We’ll need some expert advice as we go!
     3. Need to identify dead tracks and add power drops.
     4. Reed volunteered to extend the E & W yard leads.
     5. Need to isolate the Main 1 yard from the rest of the system.

     6. Comments by President, Vice President, and other members:
          a. Chuck has added a toggle switch on the yard command station for track programming.
          b. Suggestion that the club may need to purchase some more flex track.

F. Club Welfare:
     Our prayers are with Chip and Susan. We continue to lift up Steve, Donna, Rick & Reed.


Submitted by Gerald Russo, Secretary.


Meeting adjourned at 7:05pm

 

 

 

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