NPRHA Board Minutes - Telephonic

Uploaded to NPRHA site:<= /p>	3/10/2003
Date Created:	12/15/2002
Keywords:	NPRHA, Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association, Minutes, Board Meeting, Telephonic
Contributor:	Robert B. Horne
Author:	Philip Beach

Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association=

Board of Directors, Telephone Conference Meetin= g, December 15= , 2002

Minutes

Present: Beach, Bratt, Carlson, Dick, Horne, Leach, McCoy, Russell, = Taylor

Invited: Fujii, O’Neil, Tarbox

Called to Order by President Horne, 1155 EST.

Suspension of rules to consider with invited guests t= he reports and proposal of the Website Task Force.

MSC to restrict substantive content of web site to NPRHA members. Nonmembers able to access si= te index, company store, membership and convention material, view discus= sion boards, but not post.
MSC to approve web site content detailed in proposal (attached), authorize to spend $1,775 to set up site, pay monthly fees, and commitment to assi= st in recruiting NPRHA members to assist in site content development.

Russell asked to prepare proposal for placing web site committee in By-Laws.

MSC to approve minutes of 7/10/02 and 7/14/02. = &n= bsp;

McCoy to prepare by April 1, 2003, a proposal on dues increase.

Dick to talk to Larry Schrenk about the preparation o= f an article for the Mainstreeter announcing the readiness of the Jackson St. Roundhouse Archive to accept donations.

McCoy to prepare by July meeting a proposal on direct= or and officer insurance.

Convention Reports:

Portland, 2= 002, Russell: A very success= ful convention with 156 registrants and a positive financial result.
Billings, 2= 003, Bratt: Planning progres= sing and registration forms ready to go out with next Mainstreeter.
Pasco, 2004, Beach: Hotel has been s= ecured. Preliminary work has been started.
Fargo, 2005, consensus to ask Duane Durr to chair.

Model Car proposal (atta= ched):

MSC to establish a modeling committee.
MSC to authorize the expenditure of $1050 as 50%= down payment for a HO freight car for the Billings Convention.

[Beach lost connection w= ith the meeting at approx. 1312 EST. Following from the notes of Horne.]

Leach has been working o= n a history of NPRHA. Will have = draft prior to Billings meeting.

Schrenk report on the Ja= ckson Street Roundhouse Archives was noted.

Discussion of the offer = of Leila B. Kravitz to initiate funding for a museum pi= ece on the Steward-Nurses. Board be= lieved it needed more information before committing Association resources to the project.

Discussion of Kuebler message on maintaining Mainst= reeter schedule as agreed to in 1994. Consensus of Board to adhere to schedule (3/1, 6/1, 9/1, 12/1) prop= osed by Phillips for 2003.

Discussion of the revisi= on of the convention guide.

Adjourned 1338 EST.