[WIham] Fwd: ARRL July 2018 Board Meeting Minutes to be Posted

[Mark Thompson]

From: ARRL Members Only Web site <memberlist at www.arrl.org>
Date: Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Subject: ARRL July 2018 Board Meeting minutes to be posted
To: 
Dear ARRL Member -

The Minutes from the July 2018 ARRL Board meeting will be approved and
posted in the next few days.

The full minutes of the July 2018 Board Meeting will then be found at;
http://www.arrl.org/board-meetings 
by following link to the July 2018 Meeting Minutes that will be located
on that page. 

Reported in the Minutes will be details of several points of League
business that were adopted at this July Board meeting including;

The ARRL Board Adopted the new Volunteer Monitoring Program and decided
that the Official Observer Program will be Retired for more information
please see;
http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-board-adopts-volunteer-monitoring-program-official-observer-program-to-be-retired
 
 The Board unanimously adopted recommendations of the ARRL Executive
Committee to update ARRL’s Articles of Association and Bylaws 
(those changes are posted to the ARRL Central Division Website. Please
see http://Central.ARRL.ORG ), 
or the July 2018 issue of QST, p. 74, (When the Board’s July 20 –
21, 2018 Meeting MInutes are published please refer to Minutes 22 – 25
of the , meeting, when they are posted at ).

The Board established a 3-month general comment period for the ARES
Strategic Plan with comments, due no later than October 31, after which
the Public Service Enhancement Working Group (PSEWG) will present the
final plan to the ARRL Annual Board of Directors meeting in January 2019
for consideration for adoption.

 The ARRL Board received the preliminary final report of the PSEWG
(Public Service Enhancement Working Group) regarding the rollout of the
ARES-Connect program, which will be announced in the September issue of
QST. The Board agreed to obtain additional field input this fall.
 
The Board received an update from the CEO Search Committee. 

The Board was informed, as part of the CEO’s report, of current work
under way in preparation for World Radiocommunication Conference 2019
(WRC 2019). The issue of wireless power transmission (WPT) continues to
be a concern leading up to the international conference.

 The Board heard the report of the ARRL Foundation from its president,
New England Division Director Tom Frenaye, K1KI, who reported that the
Foundation recently approved the award of approximately 80 scholarships
totaling some $130,000.

The Board also accepted and discussed reports from standing committees
as well as ad hoc and advisory committees of the Board. 

I will post a copy of the Minutes file to the http://Central.ARRL.ORG
site when they are available.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments. 

73, Kermit Carlson W9XA

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