SOCIETY OF BROADCAST ENGINEERS, INC.

Chapter Meeting Report
Date of Meeting-April 8, 2003   Meeting Place-WICZ TV40- Vestal, NY
Chapter No.- 1    Location- Binghamton, NY
Presiding Chairman- James Pratt
Total Attendance- 11   SBE Members- 9    SBE Certified- 1    Guests- 2
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BUSINESS:
Meeting started at 8:41 PM.

Secretary's Report-
Reading of the March 11th minutes was accepted as read.  

Treasurers Report-
Accepted as stated( $XXX.XX ) Service charges to our account were looked into by Tom Siglin. 6 months service charges have been returned to our account. We are again a non fee account with Charter One.

Old Business-
1] Andrew Eggers (SMPTE) will be presenting a program at our next meeting to be held at WSKGTV46 May 13th at 7:30 PM. Dinner will be at the Old Country Buffet Vestal, NY at 6:00PM.
2] The June 10th meeting will be dinner 6PM at Old Country Buffet and talk on EAS & tour of the National Weather Service Building 32 Dawes Dr. Johnson City.
June 30th SBE will be our Special Program The Mini NAB show. This will be held 6PM at the Spot Restaurant. As we get closer to the date, additional information will be stated. SBE 2 & 22 to be contacted by Jim Pratt.
3] The "Almost never rain SBE Chapter 1 picnic" will be in July at Tom Siglin's house. We will be planning to invite our member chapters SBE 2 & SBE 22 to this picnic.

New Business
1] Scott Phillips to bring in information on New York State sales tax exemptions for those in the broadcasting and production sector.
2] Nominations will be done by email and paper this year. The railroad committee will be appointed at our next meeting to come up with a slate of officers.
3] A planned fall tour of the new Syracuse, NY area tower facility is in the planning stage.
4] Albany area digital presentation by Gary Talkiewicz has been postponed at this time.

Adjournment at 9:27 PM                        

PROGRAM: Presentation of the Inscriber VMP Studio was given by Bill Powers and Gabe Plaine of Video Sound of Ithaca.