[sac-forum] Last Nights' Meeting.....

Hey All, 
Well, while the Nominations seemed to keep people from coming to the meeting 
:-), we still had a respectable meeting.  The board meeting had a loose 
gathering of both Board and Non Board members, and we discussed several topics, 
including SAC's main purpose and goals, some ideas regarding the Novice Group, 
the income expected from next month's T-Shirt sales, and others.  The start off 
of the meeting revealed that we had 5 (count 'em, FIVE)  new members who found 
us either through flyers at Mr. Telescope, Thunderbird Star Party, or off the 
Web Page.  We always seem to get at least 3 new ones, but 5 is a pretty good 
month as far as I remember.  Rick Rotramel (sp?)  showed a short video of 5 
mile meadow, and Steve Dodder gave a sneak preview of sorts of the 16" 
telescope for the upcoming StoneHaven addition.  Tom Polakis gave a very 
interesting presentation on uses of Astronomy software that you wouldn't 
normally think of.  Thumbs up for the great Ideas Tom, and Thumbs down from my 
wife for my now wanting Voyager III software!

But we also had some concerns pop up at the meeting.  Apparently, some 
government entity has declared the Cherry Road site an "erosion control zone".  
It's not clear exactly if this impacts our using the site, but a member 
(forgive me, I'm terrible with names.....:-(   ) volunteered to find out what 
is up with this.  The suspicion is that the wash on the West side of the site 
is the specific target of this.  Either way, until we find out, the fines can 
be $25,000.  I'll refrain from saying anything bad about certain Politico types 
here, but if you're interested in my opinion of said Politicos, ask me how I 
feel about them out of earshot of children!

Anyhow, everyone can attend next month's meeting without fear of being ambushed 
into office, all the postions have been filled.  However, if you sincerely 
wanted to run for an office, there's still time to nominate yourself, and an 
election will be held as necessary.

Thad

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