1 UNITED STATES POWER SQUADRONS® 2 3 Sail and Power Boating 4 DISTRICT 23 5 6 Banana River, Central Florida, Cocoa Beach, Daytona Beach, Gainesville, Harris Chain, Jacksonville, 7 Ocala, Ponce De Leon Inlet, Titusville. 8 9Sub: Minutes, D23 Fall Council Meeting 10 2 October 2010 11 12Total attendance was 42; sign in sheets are on file. All ten squadrons were represented. 13Roll call was taken. A quorum was present. 14Meeting was called to order at 0850 by D/C Robert E Becker, SN. 15P/D/C Richard Leatherman, SN introduced V/C Richard Peoples, SN as the Chief Commander’s 16representative. 17The Invocation was made by P/D/C George Ammon, SN while D/Lt/C Lucy Hixenbaugh, P led the Pledge 18of Allegiance. 19D/C Robert Becker asked 20The minutes of the May 2010 Spring Council were approved as previously distributed. 21D/C Robert Becker, SN the deferred the Roll Call for the afternoon Conference. 22 23Old Business: None 24New Business: P/D/C Leatherman recommended (00 05 10) that the D23 treasury should contain some 25gold bullion; he provided justification for doing so. Discussion followed centered in part around the 26$23,000 cash owned by D23 and that the bylaws specify investing in US insured instruments. MM/ by 27Stf/C Donald Clark, JN (00 09 10) that the topic be tabled; S/ by Cdr John Mulkey, AP. Discussion 28followed. D/C Becker appointed an ad hoc committee consisting of P/C Jeffrey Wise, JN, Cdr John 29Mulkey, AP and Cdr Tim Henke, AP to review the proposal with P/D/C Leatherman evaluate it and report 30back to him in 30 days. D/C Becker will then pass on the recommendations of the committee to the 31Bridge and Council. Discussions followed. (00 15 00). Peoples stated that this topic did not come at the 32HQ’s Finance Committee. (00 16 40). 33 34D/C Becker stated that currently National Bylaws require us to have two Council meetings and two 35Conferences per year. Because of improved communications, reduced attendance and increasing cost he 36recommended that we request a change to one Council meeting, a May picnic, one Conference in 37September and a dry dock buffet in a central location allowing us to get together four times per year (00 3817 07).Discussion followed. V/C Peoples reported that HQ is also considering a reduction of the number 39of meetings (00 22 55) Discussion ensued about the planning of upcoming meetings and how they would 40be affected by the timing of the new proposal. D/C Becker indicated that 2012 would be the earliest year 41with only one Conference. D/Lt/C Ernst Hofmann was asked by D/C Becker to poll the squadrons to 42determine if they favor a single conference per year. All ten squadrons voted in favor of one conference 43per year. D/C Becker then instructed the Planning Committee to evaluate this proposal and report back 44to the Bridge no later than 60 days (00 34 50), keeping in mind that this change would require a D23 45bylaw change and probably also a National bylaw change. 46D/C Becker stated that the next meeting will be the Winter Council Meeting on 22 January 2011 in 47Daytona Beach (00 36 00). 48The Fall Conference will start promptly at 1330. The Education Department will breakout for a separate 49meeting under the direction of P/D/C Abe Cahill, SN. The rest of the attendees remained in the room to 50hear reports about the Governing Board, etc. 51 52Meeting was adjourned at 0926. 53 54Submitted by D/Lt/C Ernst Hofmann 55Secretary 564 Oct 2010