JAN 

SOCIETY OF BROADCAST ENGINEERS, INC.

Chapter Meeting Report

Date of Meeting-Jan 10, 2006Meeting Place- Park DinnerBinghamton, NY

Chapter No. 1 Location- Binghamton, NYPresiding Chairman- JamesPratt

Total Attendance-8SBE Members-5SBE Certified-0Guests-3

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Meeting started at12:23 pm.

Raffle proceeds of $5.00 to go to Chapter 1 treasury. Tom Siglin was the winner.

Secretary’s Report- Reading of the Dec 10, 2005 minutes was accepted as read.

Treasurers Report- Treasures report- No report, referred to last month’s balance.

Old Business-

1] Discussion for increased attendance- 

A] Suggested a pole, to be submitted by email,for another day of the week

that might prove more provident. Tuesday and Thursday were suggested 

by those present.

B] With the new SBE chapter that has started in Ithaca, this will have a direct affect on our chapter’s membership and relative reduction in our chapter’s attendance.

C] We need to look toward the colleges, for those interested in broadcast engineering.

New Business-

1] Our February’s meeting will a 12:00(noon) luncheon at the Park Diner-

Conklin Ave., Binghamton, NY. Our March meeting will be presented by Ron Shoemaker. Ron will be showing the new production facilites at "The Arena" in Binghamton, NY. The April meeting is scheduled for David Nicosia of the National Weather Service Binghamton, NY and our May & June meetings are TBA. July will again be the “Almost Never Rain Picnic” at Tom Siglins house in Vestal, NY.

Adjournment was at 12:52 pm

PROGRAM: Fellowship

Minutes submitted by Scott Phillips, Sr.