SOCIETY OF BROADCAST ENGINEERS, INC.

Chapter Meeting Report

Date of Meeting: Feb 12, 2002 Meeting Place- Denny’s Diner- Vestal, NY

Chapter No.- 1 Location- Binghamton, NY

Presiding Chairman- James Pratt

Total Attendance-16 SBE Members- 11 SBE Certified- 2 Guests- 5

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BUSINESS:

Meeting started at 12:16 PM.

50/50 Raffle Gino Riccardelli won and donated the $10.00 to Chapter 1.

Secretary’s Report- Reading of January 8th minutes was accepted as read.

Treasurers Report- Balance reported.

Certification disks have been paid for, but not received. Stephen Miller called the SBE headquarters several times to leave messages inquiring the where a bouts of the disks.

The Ennes Foundation received our $100.00 check that was ear marked for the families of the Sept 11th loss of the engineers at the World Trade centers.

Our Charter One Bank checking account is set up as a freebee; but must have personal names and not an organization’s name listed on the checks. A "business" account in the name of "SBE Chapter 1" would run $12.00 per month. Leave the account set up as is and change the signature cards as needed.

 

Old Business-

The March supper location will be at Denny’s Diner, at 6:00 pm with a TBA program in WSKG’s conference room at 8:00 pm. April’s supper location will be at The Country Buffet in Vestal, NY

New Business-

The June’s meeting will be a luncheon at Denny’s Diner, at 12 noon.

Tom Ichikawa suggested the railroad committee meet in April with the president being part of the 3 person committee. Nominations could be presented in March and/or May and voted on in June. All SBE members present agreed we should try this approach to nominating our officers for the up coming year.

WIVT/WBGH has a new web site http://www.wivt.com/

Meeting adjourned at 12:45 PM.

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PROGRAM: Fellowship