As Mr. Bill would say:
"OH Noooooooooooooo!!!!!"
IT CAN'T be my last ElPresidente message, I'm just getting warmed up! I guess all things must come to an end, but before I say adios, I must express my sincere appreciation for the support, assistance and friendship I have received during the past 2 years. I especially want to thank Jon, Terry, Marc and A.J. for the time and effort they have putnto their Board positions and everything else that has helped to improve our Chapter. Your diligence and professionalism have made my job a piece of cake. I also want to thank the committee representatives for the outstanding job they have done. Our Chapter is much better off thanks to your contributions.

Finally I want to invite you all to our Installation Dinner Dance on December 18th. Thanks to the planning by our entertainment coinmittee, it promises to be as festive and fun as it was last year when they had to kick us out of the Admiral Kidd Club because we were having such a good time that we didn't want to leave.

Best wishes for a safe and enjoyable holiday season and success in 2000.

John 

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING November 17, 1999

Called to order 7:25 PM
Greeters: John Cominetti and John Nichol

There were 94 members and 8 guests in attendance.

All enjoyed a delicious lasagna dinner. The extra food was donated to the Crisis house in El Cajon. Thank you entertainment committee, good work.

Introduction of Guests

Honorary Members Al Daugherty, John Gharib, and Dick Church were present

Also attending prospective member Spencer Ross, Sandy Smith, Jeff Swanson SCP, Bradon Chase of Sun Chasers, David Courey of PS2000, Michele Howard of Teledyne Laars/Jandy, Bill Moore and John Tryon of Suntreck Solar.

Guest Speakers

Bill Moore and John Tryon of
SUNTREK Thermal-Solar Pool Heaters 
26081 Merit Circle,#103
LagunaHills,CA 92653
(949) 348-9276 fax (949) 348-1626
www.suntrek.net

Speakers Bill and John explained about their type of service. They manufacture, design, install and repair. They service all solar Systems and will be glad to explain any tech support to any IPSSA member.

SUNTREK is our Chapter's most recent supporter. They have a $200 referral system and will supply billing stuffers on request.

See Bill at the WPSS where he will conduct a seminar. They will also have a booth at our Region 7 Table Top on January 15.

Nominations

Several members were nominated and the votes were close. Thanks to those who stepped forward to serve. 

Secretary's Report
Acceptance of November meeting minutes.

Treasurer's Report
Marc Stewart gave the Income and Expense Report for October, it was accepted as printed in the Skimmer.

President's Report
John Silcox expressed his gratitude to the rest ofthe Board and all the Committee members for all their diligent work. They made his job easier to do.

Vice President's Report
Jon Rumble announced that prospective member Spencer Ross was ready to be voted on.

The vote accepted Spencer as our newest member of the San Diego Chapter member.

Sick Leave
Tim Decker is out sick due to a dislocated shoulder. He is receiving route coverage at this time. He is expected to be out for about 6 weeks.

Sick Leave Achievements
Processed several sick leaves coverage's. The Blue and Yellow Cards are being revamped.

Jim Hines will be our next Chairman.

The Duties are: Maintaining rotation of the sick leave plan. Collect Blue cards twice a year. Resolve Disputes, keep an accounting of sick leave pomts. Obtain Doctor notes to stay off and/or retum to work.

Entertainment

Committee members Mike Gregg, Mike Anderson, Tim Splinter and John Baldwin has coordinated several events these last two years: The Armual Dinner Dances, Regional Picnics, Padre Games and four General Meeting Dinners.

Mike requests RSVPs to the Dinner Dance by December 12th.

Blood Drive

Phil Gardiner will have the total number of donations for the year at the next meeting.
The next Blood Drive will be on December 18th (yes the same day as the Dinner Dance. You donors can handle giving blood and partying on the same day, can't you?)

Continuing Education

The committee members are Jim Bradbury and Dee Eakright.

Reimbursement checks were distributed to the following members:

Stephen Heyer $500 PIE
Jim Ferris $153.38 for Contractors licenses
Frank: Bartolo $35 for Laars heater school
John Silcox $74.50 for electrical testing seminar

Jim Bradbury  presented the annual report, some highlights of the things accomplished are:

• Processed 33 applications
• Reimbursed $4379
• Funds available as 11/99 $8505
• Promoted upcoming classes and coordinated quarterly seminars.
• Remember the Region 7 Table Top on January 15th.
• Laars heater/Jandy school February 11-12-13.

Pete Burk reported there is one claim for roof damage from a solar system repair.
 

Manufacturing Rebate

Committee members Marc Curran and Jon McArthur reminds us to keep turning in those invoices. The monies are used for the Chapter's Education Fund.

Sta-rite has a new representative, Marty from SCP.  Last year our Chapter received 10% rebate. This year it will be 5% cash and 5% credit toward
Sta-rite classes.

Public Relations

Committee member Jon McArthur reported this year the IPSSA bumper sticker was developed.

IPSSA provides its members the opportunity to belong to a large organization. In the near future the BIG companies will be taking over and if we don't stick together we will be lost in that big picture.

Grievance

Tom Graham reported all is well.

Product testing

Pat Farrior reported that D.E. substitute and a Pacfab roto style backwash valve are being tested.
 December 1999 The San Diego IPSSA Chapter

Regional Director

A.J. Wilson reported that the next BORD meeting is in Lake Tahoe.

The BORD is reviewing all venders: Roberta for bookkeeping and Ray for insurance.

A.J. Wilson has served on every position on the San Diego Board as well as the Region 7 Director.

B.K. Taylor Award 

Congratulations to Jim Bracibuly for winning the Chapters nomination for this outstanding award. Jim has served on the board as well as several cornrnittees over the years of his membership. A well deserved award!
 

New Meeting Location Starting on Jan.17, 2000 our General Meetings will be held in the MISSION room upstairs of the QUALITY RESORT 875 Hotel Circle South

Business

Perry Mediate was pulled over by the police for an inspection of the chemicals on his truck to see if they were labeled, safely contained and secured.  Perry was asked for the MDS sheets. The officers main concern seemed to be about the buckets of chems.

A mofion was made and carried to begin a new committee regarding HAZMAT requirements for pool service trucks. John Gharib volunteered to Chair the committee.

Michele Howard passed around $500 drawing entry forms to be handed in the Laars booth at the NSPI show in Las Vegas.

Jon McArthur announced that admission to the Jan. 15th Table Top is FREE. So everyone come on down!

Raffle

$50 cash and a $100 Home Depot Gift Card was won for the raffle. Donations from our Chapter supporters were: $10 gift certificates from SCP, T-shirts from P52000 and Jandy check valves from Laars.

Adjourned 9:35PM
 

Called to order at 7:05 PM

Silcox, Rumble, Stewart, Bussard, Grimes, Gregg , Nichol and McArthur were present.

Secretary Report

Acceptance of November meeting minutes as printed in the Skimmer.

Correspondence received: copy of insurance claim, copy of dropped membership of one member, that member is not in good standing for an unpaid fine.

One member will be fined $150 for non-attendance for the fourth quarter 1999.

And one member will be fined $150 for non-attendance of the November meeting.

Treasurer's Report

Marc Stewart made the November financial report.

The only unexpected expense was the cost of the case of IPSSA letter heads, $751.

After paying the Installation Dinner Dance expenses our general funds will be low,
 a transfer of funds from the Education fund may be necessary. 

President's Report

John gave the State of the Chapter Report.

A motion will be made at the January General meeting that every November be a mandatory meeting.
 

Vice Presidents Report

Prospective member Spencer Ross has been voted in at the November General Meeting. Stephen Alix is our next prospective member.

Contractor's License information forms will be handed out to be completed and turned in at the meetings during the first quarter of 2000

A January speaker has not been confirmed.

Mike Gregg suggested that we have a back up plan , like an open forum on tech talk.

Committee Reports

Sick Leave

Tim Decker is out sick, he is anxious to return to work, the committee is concerned he will further injur himself and go out sick again. It is preferred that he completely recovers before attempt working.

Tim lost one account because the sick leave coverage member had not been able to contact the customer to service the pool.

Discussion of sick leave covering members take off Christmas week.

Back of Yellow Cards will have changes. It was approved that $130 be spent to print more information on the existing Yellow Cards.

Entertainment

Mike Gregg reported that 60 people (30 members and their guests) have
RSVP. Please call him by Deceniber 12th to RSVP if you haven't done so
yet.

Discussed some surprises for the Dinner Dance, you'll just have to attend to find out.

Continuing Education

A Big Thumbs up to : Paul Williams, Terry Bussard, Jeff Marshall, Bob Miller, Jon
McArthur, Eric and Terry Bussard, John Silcox and Stephen Heyer for completing
their CPR recertitication.

Thumbs down to all those that signed up for the new CPR class and didn't show up. The class was canceled and cost the Chapter $100. The only person who cared enough to attend was Phil Gardiner we'll try again later Phil.

It was decided that no one will be on the list unless they pay first. They will get reimbursed if they attend the class.

Blood Drive

The next one is on December 18th, yes the same day as the Dinner Dance. Meet at Denny's at 8:00 am and get free breakfast.

Unfinished Business

The January meeting will be held at the:
Quality Resort 875 Hotel Circle South San Diego, CA (858) 298-8282

B.K. Taylor Award

A discussion went on regarding the award itself and... lots of cool ideas on what to present Jim Bradbury with. (Guess you will have to wait and see, Jim)

Chapter enforcement of license requirements

A discussion of who and how to enforce this issue. This issue needs further discussion on the regional level.

Area of Service

It would be nice to have a more defined service area of the whole Region 7, for referral purposes.

New Business

Paul Grimes presented some excellent ideas to automate referrals on the web and make some money from sponsors ads. Subscribers will have a small monthly fee. More information to follow.

Paul Grimes has agreed to do the newsletter. The details will be worked out as we go.

Terry Bussard suggested bringing back the mentor program, any one interested?
Christmas. It was decided that a collection will be taken at the Dinner Dance and the monies collected will be donated to the Children's Polinksy Center.

So everyone bring your cash and/or check books.

Adjourned  11:00PM