EAA Chapter 430 General Meeting Minutes

Date: October 27, 2018 The meeting was called to order at 10:06 a.m. by President Mike Radford at W28 #10 with the Pledge of Allegiance.

• Introduction of Guests: Mike welcomed guests Cam and Linda Torrens with their children Elizabeth, Mathew, and Joshua who are looking for a retirement place. Both Cam and Linda are retired military pilots flying C130s, KC10, and C9s. Tom Klein also attended as a guest.
• Approve Minutes:
• There were no revisions/corrections to the minutes published in the newsletter and were approved.
• Correspondence:

The board contacted EAA HQ about the Ray Foundation scholarship program. There will be a November 13 webinar to explain the application process.

DART contacted the chapter asking about receiving handheld radios as donations and providing them to DART. The board recommended the individual make the donation directly to DART.

• Reports:
• Treasurer: Treasurer: Harry Cook was not present but provided this report Scholarship $2796.94 Checking $1269.68 Savings $1183.71 Total $5250.33
• Membership: Bob Hicks said we have 99 members today (we had 100, but Don Pridham recently went west).
• Programs: Lee Runion announced the Christmas Party will be December 1, 2018 with social hour at 5:00 pm and dinner at 6:00 pm. There will be aToys for Tots drive again. Lee will put out an Evite for everyone to RSVP and select their meal.
• Scholarship: Dave Miller said Seth Mulhousen is scheduled to graduate this year, and he is looking for recommendations for either a pilot or aviation maintenance candidate.
• Young Eagle: John Meyer was not present.
• Tech Advisor and Newsletter: Dan Masys was not present.
• Project Reports: (members open forum)
• Barry Halsted said he flew his Harmon Rocket today to show his project which was a major rebuild and painting of the Rocket.
• Bill Benedict with Dave Miller reported their RV-14 project is nearing completion, and could be done as soon as Thanksgiving.
• Ken Brown with the help of Barry Halsted has almost completed installation of a new JPI engine monitor on his RV-9.
• Ernie Hansen said his experimental Super Cub fuselage is completely covered and is ready for painting and engine start. He also said he has an IO-360 engine available for sale.

Old Business:

• EAA430 sign is in the process of having a vinyl wrap applied, and should be available soon.
• The VMC club had its second meeting on October 10 with 14 people attending. There was discussion of a video showing a situation at a towered airport and there was also discussion about non-tower airport operations. The next meeting is Wednesday, November 14 (2nd Wed of the month) at 7:00 pm at the Mariner’s café.

New Business:

• The nominating committee report (Jim Bettcher, Barry Halsted, Ray Ballantyne) provided the following recommendations: President – Ken Brown Vice President – Ernie Hansen Secretary – Ray Ballantyne Treasurer – Harry Cook Membership – Bob Hicks Programs – Deb Cox Scholarship – Dave Miller Young Eagles – Lee Runion Newsletter – Mary Brown Tech Advisors- Harry Cook, Ernie Hansen, and Barry Halsted Web Wrangler – need volunteer All chapter officers and Board of Directors serve a 1 year term. If there is anyone else who would like to volunteer for any of these positions, please contact a member of the nominating committee.
• The board is recommending an increase in the 2019 EAA430 dues by $5.00 which will increase individual membership to $20 and family membership to $25. The recommendation to increase dues will be presented to the members for vote at the annual meeting on November 17.
• There was board discussion but no actions concerning the EAA430 memorial rock and how we could record individual names of those gone west. Plaques, bricks, and marble are all possibilities.
• The board is exploring the possibility of using Bud Davie’s hangar 15 for the March 2019 meeting and thereafter with the expectation that the monthly meeting place will have to move in early 2019.

Comments from the Membership: None Raffle: A 50/50 raffle was held for the scholarship fund. The big winner was Tracy Boulton, and she returned her half of the $38.00 for the fund.

The next Chapter meeting will be November 17th, 2018 at 10:00am at W28 hanger at 10am. Next Board meeting will be at the Mariner’s Café November 9, 2018 at 9am Meeting was adjourned at 10:38 am.

Respectfully Submitted, Ray Ballantyne, Secretary General Membership meeting minutes are now included in the monthly Newsletter. Minutes of the monthly Board meeting are also available to chapter members via login at the Members only page of the chapter website: http://www.eaa430.org If you are a chapter member and do not yet have a login to the Members page, you can register with your email address to create a login at the website.