MEETING MINUTES

 

ITE NY Upstate Section

Executive Board Meeting

Latham, NY

 

November 4, 2003

 

 

Meeting Attendees:

Joe Tocke, President

Lorenzo Rotoli, Vice President

Tim Faulkner, Secretary

Don Adams, Treasurer

Cindy McCormick, District Delegate

Rick Zabinski, District 1 International Director

Paula Benway, District 1 Vice-Chair

Steve Gayle, Past International President

Mike Schauer, Immediate Past Section President

Mike Wieczchowski, Newsletter Editor

Mike O’Rourke, District 1 Past Chair

 

 

I.                   Call to Order

Joe Tocke called the meeting to order at 7:30 AM

 

II.                Reading and Approval of the Previous Minutes

A minor change was made to the minutes of the July 11, 2003 meeting noting that the next section meeting will be in Syracuse.  A motion was made by Lorenzo and seconded by Don to accept the minutes from the July 11, 2003 Executive Board Meeting as amended.

 

III.             Reports of Officers

 

President – Joe Tocke

·        Great Section meeting with excellent topics and Joe expressed appreciation to everyone who has put it together. 

·        Approximately 1/3 of the section voted in the Treasurer election.  Sheila Ransbottom will be the new treasurer. 

·        Joe expressed his appreciation to Lorenzo for putting together an excellent awards ceremony.

·        General membership meeting at 4:30.

 

 

Vice President – Lorenzo Rotoli

·        Lorenzo made a motion to add money to next year’s budget for leadership appreciation award.  There was discussion on the type of the award (either plaque or gavel).  Mike Schauer seconded motion and it past unanimously. 

·        There was a general discussion on the awards and how to make the process easier.  Suggestions were made to develop a standard form for nominations, and that each board member submit an initial list of projects and names for awards.  There was also a suggestion to put a call out for student paper award in the spring to coincide with the school year.

·         Joe made a suggestion to have a board meeting in conjunction with RPI and Engineer’s Week.

 

Secretary – Tim Faulkner

 

Treasurer – Don Adams

·        We have switched the type of bank account that we use so we do not have bank charges.  Still will be staying with Key Bank.

·        Don presented the updated budget. 

·        A motion was made by Cindy, and seconded by Joe to accept Treasurer’s report and motion carried unanimously

 

IV.              Reports of Other Executive Committee Members

 

International Director – Rick Zabinski

·        Just had international meeting.  Expect international to end up in the black for the year.  There will be three constitutional amendments in 2004.  The strategic plan will also be coming out in 2004.

·        ITE now has a Spanish web page.

·        There is only one nomination for international vice-president.  Therefore ITE has extended nomination period to try and get an additional candidate.

·        ITE will have an educational development fund to develop educational products.  Rick suggested that the Section consider making a contribution.  He will fax a list of contributors to Don with the amounts donated.

 

District Delgates – Cindy McCormick

·        2004 Annual Meeting will be in Burlington, VT from 5/19 – 5/21, 2004

·        The District has its own website hosted on the national website.

·        Annual meeting guidelines have been posted.

·        2005 District meeting tentatively scheduled for New York City

·        Encourage Presidents of section to visit other sections.

 

District Chairman – Mark Kulewicz

·        Nothing to Report

 

V.                 Reports of Committees on Programs

 

a.      Local Activities

Rochester

·        Nothing to report due to district meeting.

·        Joe recommended that at a future ITE meeting in Rochester, that Neal Jascik be presented with his life membership award.

 

Buffalo

·        Setting up a session on the operations center in Buffalo.

 

Syracuse

·        Nothing to report

 

Albany

·        Nothing to Report

 

Southern Tier

·        Nothing to Report

 

b.      Meetings

 

1.      The 2003 Annual Section meeting came together well and was well received.  The Southern Tier offered to host a future section meeting.

 

c.       Membership – Carl Ast

·        Nothing new to report

 

d.      Newsletter – Mike Wieszchowski

·        Sent out three newsletters this past year.

·        The schedule for 2004 is January, April, July, and November.

·        Mike needs a submission for the member spotlight for the next newsletter.

·        The Met section would like a critique of their newsletter.

·        Would like to know what HQ has said about our newsletter.

 

e.      Student Membership – Mike Croce

·        Nothing new to report

 

f.        Webpage – Cory Greene

·        Nothing new to report.

 

 

 

 

 

 

g.      Technical

 

1.                  Parking Study – Paula Benway

·        Having a meeting in December where they will review all the land uses.  Trying to get the information out before ITE publishes new Parking Generation Manual.

 

h.      Awards – Lorenzo Rotoli

·        Already convered

 

 

VI.              Old Business

 

·        Nothing to report

 

VII.           New Business

 

·        Next meeting will be January 9, 2004 at Sear-Brown offices.

·        First board meeting will be used to discuss Professional Development Hours.

 

VIII.        Adjournment

·                    The meeting was adjourned at 8:45

 

 

This represents the writer’s interpretation of issues that were discussed.  Any revisions should be submitted within one week of receipt of meeting minutes.

 

Respectively submitted,

Timothy R. Faulkner, P.E., PTOE

 

 

 

 

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