Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2011

ATTENDEES: Carolyn Arote, Nancy Roman, Brian Simkins, Andrew Manos, Richard Rosner, Don Kane, Charles Lesniak, Richard Halley. President Carolyn Arote called the meeting into session at 5:10 PM and the meeting was ended at 5:50 PM.  year.

GENERAL: Carolyn Arote - The Board of Governors voted to donate 500 to the Lynn Bellenger Memorial Fund. We need to send out chapter assessment. And our tax extension. Everyone should sent out their articles ASAP. We should look into adding the ASHRAE Promotional Products on our website and newsletter. For people to know work ads in our newsletter are free for our members. Members can get job searches, and time to for students to start looking for internships. The Board of Governors will be looking for two new members to join us next year; know anyone?

PROGRAMS: Brian Simkins - We still need to fill one more program for the year. Steve Freidman PE will do the refrigeration Presentation in May. The presentation will be title “Refrigeration The Now & Future”. Next Month is the second in Back to Basics Seminar with Evans Lizardos. February is the Joint USGBC meeting. AIA/CEU/ LEED Points will be available. We are still looking for DL for the March meeting. The field trip may be held at the super conducting transmis-sion cable in Holbrook. Rich Gerby would like to do a vendor product showcase for Tower Enterprises.

RESOURCE PROMOTION:: Andy Manos - Has raised approximately $4820 and has met his goal of 30% for 2011-2012 Resource Promotion. The total goal is $13,882. And is making progress on the product directory book. He is coming along with the student chapter in Stony brook. The resource promotion nights are February, and May.

HISTORY: Rich Rosner - Wants to know how to display chapter history and photographs on our webpage. Alec Weiss is looking for regional chapters to have a complete history. Charlie is to finish scanning the chapter’s documents and give them to Rich.

TREASURER: Tom Fields – Absent.

WEBMASTER: Thomas Fields - Absent. The Board of Governors would like to know how to get better access to the website. Charlie asked if we could all get email addresses through the website, and have those addresses chained to the title/position. The board of governors voted to renew our website domain for another 10 years.

MEMBERSHIP: Charlie Lesniak – is reviewing the membership reports. And will update his PAOE points this month.

STUDENT ACTIVITIES: Andrew Dubel –  Absent. The student chapter at Stony Brook received their charter from ASHRAE and is now recognized. There are currently 8 members with 4 on the board. They are not getting funding from the school, and would like to know how to attract new members. The Board of Governors for the Long Island Chapter voted and will donate pies for their meetings. We will look for PAOE Points for starting the Stony Brook Chapter.

CTTC: Don Kane - Our refrigeration presentation is in May with Steve Freidman PE. ASHRAE is looking for us to in-clude their products promotional page in our newsletter and our web page, we will investigate this. Based on member-ship numbers our refrigeration committee should be 4 members. Charlie, Rich H, and Andy were voted onto the committee.

YEA: Charlie Lesniak - will look into attending the next YEA Leadership weekend. There are two back to the basics sessions left. And Charlie will look into doing a YEA night with the NYC chapter.

GOLF OUTING:  Steve Friedman, Peter Gerazounis - The date is May 7th 2012.

Having discussed all open issues, the meeting was adjourned at 5:02pm.