IEEE Seattle section Excom March 2017 Agenda: Summary of Action Items (before March meeting): Discuss requirements for Chapters financial reporting duties Propose a schedule of regular actions and reporting events for the Section to serve as a reminder to the officers   Meeting Minutes Call to order    -   Check for quorum: Alon Newton, Titus Lo, Approval of the agenda with additional items. Moved:                        Seconded:                   Approval of past minutes Moved:            Second:                       . Section correspondence / reports  Chair – Alon Newton Vice chair – Dong Yu Treasurer – Titus Lo Secretary – Aunica Steele (Excused) Past Chair – Xiaodong He Auditor – Stephen Allen         Chapters, Affinity Groups, Student Chapters & Committees Items -   Chapter Chair reports – PEL :– Alon,   My only agenda item is to ask whether September 12th would be available for a PELS meeting before Excom.   Dr. Nicholas Nagel said he could be available then. http://www.ee.washington.edu/people/nicholas-nagel/   I don’t have a topic from him yet, but I’m sure he will come up with something good.   Thanks,   Bryce Hesterman   -   Student Branches reports -   Committee Chairs reports -   PSEC call for volunteers   Conferences: We have approved a Conference Registration Application for 2017 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS) occurring within your section. The conference is scheduled to be held in Seattle, US on 2017-07-09 to 2017-07-12 with IEEE Communications Society participating as a sponsor of this event. Sections Congress 2017 – 11-13 August, Sydney, AU – budget for travel expenses gap    Region 6 joint Central and Northwest area meetings at the Courtyard Portland Airport. April 29, 2017   1. Seattle PES requests the EXCOM approve a PES conference to be held at the University of Washington in April  2018, called the Northwest Energy System Symposium, NWESS 2018.   New business Appoint Dr. Jacob Murray as IEEE Seattle Education Society Chair Appoint Elaine Reeves as the new Award Chair New Chapter Chairs – Split Joint Chapter and appoint a new Chair for MTT Consultant Network status update? - https://ieee-seattle.org/cnt/   Appoint Section/Chapter presentation coordinator Website update – Create placeholders for Excom meetings and ask for input from Chapters so the calendar will be up to date Listserv update – Need to address rejected Emails New election schedule – Need to report new officers on December Social – AI PSEC membership and budget request $1200 – David Butcher Washington State Future City Competition $500 - Steven Cresse Washington State Science and Engineering Fair $200 – Dennis Heiner Request for travel funding from WWU $60 EWB asking for maximum of $1000 as support from Seattle Section - motion tabled Summer schedule and summer social event (?) Faculty Advisors appreciation initiative – IEEE Seattle Section Logo shirts -AI Shirts with Seattle Section Logo for officers (alternative R6 shirts?) – AI to collect more information for quotes Location: Room: 1919 Bldg: 99 14820 Northeast 36th Street Redmond, Washington 98052