TAMPA BAY CHAPTER - FSMS

FLORIDA SURVEYING AND MAPPING SOCIETY
TAMPA BAY CHAPTER
P.O. Box 22611
TAMPA, FLORIDA 33622-2611
President President-Elect Vice President Secretary Treasurer
Catherine Bosco Boyd Allen Judith Garcia Martin Friedrich Bill Cox
(727) 822-4317 (813) 234-0103 (813) 281-7628 (727) 822-4317 (813) 426-2483
Call Meeting to Order:
Time 6:32 p.m.
Number in Attendance 23
June 25, 2009 Tampa Bay Chapter of FSMS Meeting
Tucson’s Southwest Grill, 13563 Icot Blvd. Clearwater, Fl.
Judith Garcia read the anti Trust Statement.
Anti-Trust Statement
This meeting shall be conducted in strict compliance with all Federal and State Anti-Trust rules
and regulations. Members of this Chapter and all others present are not here to violate any
Anti-Trust laws.
Invocation – Judith Garcia led us in the Invocation.
• Secretary’s Minutes A motion was made to accept the Secretary’s minutes of the May meeting as
published in the newsletter by Joseph Boyle, Seconded Bill Newkirk and passed unanimously
• Treasurer’s Report - A motion was made to accept the Treasurer’s report as published in the
newsletter by Boyd Allen, Seconded Bill Newkirk and passed unanimously
Committees
• Advertising Committee – David mentioned the ad in this month’s newsletter
• Community Involvement/Civic Activities and Events – Will get a list of needed toys/gifts from
the Spring representative in time for the November meeting and maybe as early as the
October meeting. We have monies donated so far that equal 5 turkeys, and we need only 48
more to reach our goal of 53 turkeys this year. The date for the 2010 Paint Your Heart Out,
Clearwater! event is Saturday, March 20th with a rain date of Sunday, March 21st.
• Education – Judith – Steve Levine offered his services for teaching evening classes – he
believes his teaching certificate is still in effect. Any course suggestions? Please fill out this list
with order of preference, with 5 being the most important and 1 being totally against it. CST
testing will be on Saturday August 22 nd , at the Annual conference in Orlando. Any interested
persons must have their paperwork and fees into NSPS by August 1 st . The website address
link for the application will be in the newsletter.
• Historian – Cathy – no report
• Membership – David – no report
• Nominations – I have award nomination forms (due June 26 th ) and extra ballots.
• Recruitment – Boyd – no report
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• Scholarship – No report
Director’s Report was given by David Puigdomenech
Old Business
• Amount of donation to scholarship fund – motion was made to table the donation to the
Scholarship Fund until next year by Dan Ferrans, Seconded Charlie Norwood and passed
unanimously
• Joe Boyle will write to Amr. H. Abd-Elrahman about “Survey Open House” with high school
seniors. Mr. Amr attended the meeting and he discussed educational opportunities at the Plant
City Campus.
• Amount of donation to Pac Fund – Motion by David Puigdomenech To make $500 donation for
the PAC fund, Seconded Boyd Allen and passed unanimously
• Transfer Bill 1744 – a copy of the email that was sent around is available for anyone to review.
No one wanted to assign a group to do our own chapter review.
• Hometown Democracy – Judith passed out from their website a list of FAQs. She said these
are the answers they are giving and David will give us a thorough and up to date report at the
end of tonight’s meeting. There is also a copy of the constitutional amendment form that they
are using. Copies of news articles of FHD are printed for you to view also.
• PTA Conference is Friday, July 17 th in Palm Harbor. Boyd and I have volunteered to attend a
booth. A couple of people expressed an interest in helping, but needed more information. It
was suggested that Cathy could send out an email with information about Who What and
Where.
• Guest speaker next month will be David Gibson. Joe Boyle will contact him to make
arrangements, and to see if he needs accommodations.
New Business
• Next month’s meeting will be at Crazy Buffet on Dale Mabry.
• Any suggestions for meeting locations? Email Judith Garcia
• President’s new name is Catherine Bosco. Her email will be cbosco@georgefyoung.com
• Normally with Saturday only registration at the conference you cannot purchase a ticket for the
Welcome BBQ, but this year they will make an exception. The number of registrants for the
conference are at normal levels considering how early it is.
• Lynn Gibson of Gibson Travel made a donation to the turkey fund of $30.
• Motion to request FSMS to email membership a flyer advertising the TBC Scholarship Fund
Raising Cruise by Boyd Allen, Seconded Jim Godfrey and passed unanimously
• Motion to donate $500 to purchase turkeys for Metropolitan Ministries at Thanksgiving. Motion
Dan Ferrans, Seconded Charlie Norwood and passed unanimously.
• David Puigdomenech gave an informative presentation on Hometown Democracy and a
question and answer period followed. David invited anyone to email him with questions also.
Adjourn Meeting – Motion made to adjourn the meeting at 8:45 pm by David Puigdomenech and
Seconded by John Waby and passed unanimously
Tom Kaney Raffle winner was Charlie Dye. Mr. Dye won $25 which he donated to the turkey fund.
Marble Raffle collected $12.00 with no winner this month.
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