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SOCIETY OF BROADCAST ENGINEERS, INC.

Chapter Meeting Report                                                                  Date of Meeting- May 13, 2014

Chapter Meeting Place- McIntosh Labs- Binghamton, NY

Chapter No. 1 Location- Binghamton, NY                                     Presiding Chairman- Eric Adler

 

Total Attendance- 8      SBE Members- 8         SBE Certified- 2         Guests- 0

                                   

2013 -2014 Directors                                                             Webmaster –JimPratt

Chairman - Eric Adler                                                         Vice-Chairman - Jim Pratt

Secretary - Scott Phillips, Sr                                     Treasurer - Tom Siglin

Program Coordinator - Ferdinand Montalvo                    Frequency Coordinator - Bill Sitzman

Certification Chairman – David Preister                            E-Mail Coordinator - Abiodun Sadik

 

Meeting started 7.06 PM

 

Secretary’s Report- Last month minutes were read and approved

 

Treasurers’ Report- $XXX.92

Tom Siglin reported that Horizon Credit Union will be our new bank and not Visions Credit Union.

Horizon will have free checking and the stipulations do not involve at least 2 members having current accounts to open our account.

 

Old Business-

SBE National to celebrate the 50th SBE anniversary in 2014. The National meeting will be held in conjunction with Chapter 22’s Technology Expo at the Turning Stone Resort/Casino in Verona,

NY on October 7th-8th. Eric Adler has been in touch with Vinnie Lopez for the National SBE set up of events. Mailing list preparation for SBE members and expo vendors, speakers and volunteers needed.

 

New Business-

July 8th will be the Chapter Picnic at Eric Adler’s house, 11 Ester Ave., Binghamton. Eric will need tables 3-4 and help setting up. Everyone bring his or her own chairs along with a dish to pass.  Directions to Eric’s house will be in our next months’ minutes

 

Congratulations were in order to celebrate Paul Kaminski’s passing the CBT exam and now is SBE certified. Jim Pratt took pictures, for our website, with Paul and Eric with the CBT sheepskin.

 

Fred Montalvo will check with Tamera again for the possible July meeting’s presentation. September remains open as well as November. Gino Riccardelli has a short presentation on his wife Shirley and the role she played in the broadcast field. Scott Phillips suggested that Gino Riccardelli give a refresher TV basic “how it works” refresher course for the radio and cable guys.

 

As a way of gaining some extra money, a gift basket could be raffled off at the National SBE convention.

Further discussion is needed on this. Paul Kaminsky will check with Whirlwind for the possibility of a $10.00 ad on our web site.

 

Business meeting adjournment- 7.58 PM

 

Minutes submitted by Secretary Scott M. Phillips, Sr