MINUTES
Northeast Section - AIPG
Executive Committee Meeting
Monday, October 17, 2001
Marshall Field House Caumsett State Park
Lloyd Neck, Town of Huntington, New York

I. Call to Order
1315 hours · Attendees: Dennis McGrath, Arnold Schiffman, Thomas West, John Gavras, Russ Slayback, Craig Werle, Dan St. Germain and Tom Wohlford. Minutes by Tom West.

II. Secretary's Report
· Minutes of the September 10, 2001 meeting were reviewed. Dan St. Germain presented a motion to accept the report. The motion was seconded by John Gavras and approved by an Executive Committee vote.

III. Treasurer's Report
· The October 17, 2001 Treasurer's Report was reviewed. Thomas West presented a motion to accept the report. The motion was seconded by Dan St. Germain and approved by an Executive Committee vote.

IV. Correspondence
· The Northeast Section Screening Board Membership Report was received from Charles Rich, the Screening Board Chairman. The report indicated that over the recording period (October 2000-September 2001) the Section received 23 applications for membership and the report concluded that it is extremely encouraging to continue to see constant improvement in our sections' membership.

V. Old Business:
2001 Annual Meeting: Dennis provided an overview and his thoughts on attending the AIPG Annual Meeting in St. Louis in his report that will be published in the next newsletter. He briefed the section on the Executive Committee meeting, the advisory board meeting and indicated that 22 of the 35 Sections were present. A brief discussion occurred concerning attendance expenses. The Secretary reviewed the Executive Board decision concerning NE Section Delegate expense reimbursement that was voted on during the September 11, 2000 Executive Committee meeting. Based on the September 2000 motion, the NE Section has agreed to provide financial support for the section delegate in the amount of $1,500 or reasonable expenses with the expenses approved by the Executive Committee. ·

NE-AIPG Web Site Update: Dan St. Germain provided a brief update on the status of the sections web page and his recent attempts on modifying the web-banner to provide greater marketing visibility to our section's newsletter advertisers.

VI. New Business
· 2002-2003 Ballots: There are three Executive Committee members-at-large whose term is set to expire at the end of December 2001. Dennis provided a copy of the proposed election ballot for the 2002-2003 term. Samuel Gowan, Dean Herrick and John Gavras have all agreed to serve again on the Executive Committee. According to our Section's by-laws, the ballots for committee members were to be mailed no later than August 20 and the ballots were to be received by the Section Secretary no later than the date of the Annual Fall meeting of the Section.

VII. Adjournment
· Meeting was adjourned at 1440 hours.