Minutes of the business meeting

of July 6, 2010

I. The business meeting was called to order at 6:42 PM by President Ron Hartman.

Members attending: President Ron Hartman, Treasurer Dennis McDermott, Secretary Reed Ostrander, Members Chip Borona, Banks Edwards, Bill Little.

                A. Announcements

1. There will be a work session at the Clubhouse, Saturday July 10 at 9:00 AM. The aim is to clean up the building’s interior, install some lights and assess what needs to be done thereafter.

B. Minutes of the previous meeting of June 1, 2010 were read by Secretary Reed Ostrander.

                                1.Banks moved acceptance and was seconded by Bill.

                                                a. The minutes were accepted as written.

                C. The treasurer’s report was presented by Dennis McDermott

                                1. As of this date there is $1009.75 in the treasury.

2. Members who used the Anderson plugs for their own modules should pay the treasurer for the number of sets of 8 they used ($5.00/set of 8) plus 63¢ for extra plug sets.

                                                a. Bill moved acceptance, seconded by Banks.

                                                b. The report was accepted as presented.

                D. Old Business

1. The Dothan show will be September 18^th and 19^th with set-up at noon on the 17^th. Open hours are 9:00A to 5:00P Sat. and 10:00A to 4:00P Sun. Take-down at 4:00P Sunday.

a. Motel accommodation will be at the new Holiday Inn at $69.00 per night.

b. The following members have agreed to go: Ron, Reed, Steve, B. Murphy, Bill.

                                                c. The following members will attend if they can: Deontae, B. Rusnack.

                                                d. We will use the standard traveling layout of 20x24 ft. as at Hadji.

                                2. Reed asked where the Club would like to have the new speed recorder placed.

                                                a. It was decided to place one at the sawmill corner.

b. Bill moved that the Club purchase an additional speed recorder for the second mainline and place it at the opposite corner of the layout.

1) The motion was seconded by Dennis and the motion passed. The second recorder will be placed on the tank farm corner.

                E. New Business

1. Reed introduced an application he received from The world’s Greatest Hobby Tour announcing various upcoming events they are sponsoring. He noted that there will be train shows in Tampa and Atlanta, etc.

a. Chip moved that we attend the Atlanta show in February 2011. He was seconded by Dennis. After discussion, the motion passed.

b. Reed will send in the application for attending the Atlanta show on February 12 - 13, 2011 with set-up on Friday the 11^th. We will use the traveling layout of 20 x 24 ft. Please keep this date open for this event.

                                                c. Reed will apply to present his freight car weathering Power Point presentation.

                F. The meeting was adjourned at 7:43 PM.

Respectfully Submitted by 

D. Reed Ostrander

                Secretary

                PMRC HO Division