EVERGREEN SOARING

Minutes of a Meeting of the

Board of Directors

August 3, 2002

Mike Delaney called the meeting to order at about 9:15AM. The meeting was held at the Evergreen Soaring clubhouse at Arlington Airport. Those present were Mark Nyberg, Secretary; Howard Glover, Scheduler; Ron Mehelich, Membership Chairman; Keith McLean, Operations Director, William McDonough, Gary Thayer, Fred Hermanspann, Brooks Johnson and Roy Parzyk.

Old business opened with a discussion of how to deal with members failing to show up for weekend duties. This continues to be a serious problem. A suggestion was made we look at our training program. We are losing students. It was suggested that we limit back-to-back flights to 4 per day. It was also suggested that members seeking BFRs coordinate with someone other than the instructor of the day. We need more towpilots. It would be nice to have two towpilots per day. The suggestion was made that we take up the no show problem at a later date.

Mike Delaney presented the Treasurer Report that shows that we are about even with last year in terms of expenses and revenues. We have $42,770 in the bank. We have $20,000 in the self-insurance fund. Our net worth is about $171,000.

Keith McLean gave the Equipments Director’s Report. We need a new charger and 3 of our batteries are missing. We need a new charger and A20 radio. A vote was taken to authorize the purchase of new batteries for the A20 radio. The vote passed.

Roy Parzyk gave us the current status of the Lark Trailer. The painting is not done, but we have the hunter green Rustoleum Rust Stop paint in the clubhouse. We need an assembly party for the Lark. We also need to have a toolbox attached to the Lark trailer.

The estimate to repair the 1-36 is $4500. There was a motion for the club to get 2 estimates on all repairs. The motion was seconded and passed. Paul Nienhaus repaired the Blanik brake. Trim cables are still crossed on Blanik 029. The lark is still on the trailer. We need to refinish the wings, repaing it all and replace the canopy. A Lark like ours in good shape is estimated to be worth $16,000. Ours is worth less than that.

Moving on to new business, Tom Hilton, Ralph Marriott, Craig Kelley, William Kennedy and William McDonough were accepted as new members. They all received the new member materials. Jerry Painters request for special member status was approved. Dennis Eckert and Debra Roberts request for inactive status was approved.

A question came up about our club’s policy for providing tows for any commercial operation that might ask. The decision was made that we do not want to furnish tows to any commercial operators at this time. Any commercial operator wishing to get tows from Evergreen would need to make prior arrangement with the board.

Christopher, Jon and Michael Hodges have got our garden tractor if great shape except that the battery is leaking. Christopher was granted approval to purchase a new battery and be reimbursed from the club.

The existing tow release mechanism on our towplane is bent and worn. A discussion took place on the merits and mechanics of replacing the existing Schweitzer mechanism with a Tost unit. It was suggested that we put off making a decision pending more information and continue the issue via e-mail.

There was a brief discussion about what kind of changes we might want to make to our glider fleet. The issue was brought up of what to do with our Lark and it’s instrumentation. It was suggested that we defer discussing this issue to the next meeting.

The discussion on Darrington showed significant interest in going there again. It was suggested that we plan to go there for 6 to 8 weeks in 2003.

There was no further business and the meeting was adjourned at 11:40 AM.

Respectfully,

Mark Nyberg

Secretary