AMOAA BOARD MEETING
16 SEPTEMBER 2013

The AMOAA BOARD MEETING was called to order by President Cecil Martin at 13:30 hrs.

The invocation was given by Assistant Chaplain Leon Holland.

The minutes were distributed to all present. Corrections are as follows: 501 (c) (19). Laura Fowler name was corrected. Motion was made by Lou to accept the minutes with the noted corrections. Seconded by Jack Knox and unanimously approved.

PRESENT: Lou Annacone, Chuck Gaede, Bev Kelsey, J R Howard, Leon Holland, Gerry Walters, Jack Knox, Bill DelVecchio, Roger Longenbach, Cecil Martin, Martha Pyle, Bill Connors was representing Rylen Rudy.

OFFICER REPORTS:

1st VP Programs: Lou: Guest speaker LTC. Scott Cerone, his wife, Robin, and the UT ROTC color guard will be at the next meeting. The October meeting will feature a salute to the Navy.
The November meeting will be a luncheon at the Ben Hur Shrine, Cost will be $28.00. We will celebrate the Marines Birthday. The speaker will be from the Personal Affairs Dept. of National MOAA at a luncheon at the Ben Hur Shrine.

2nd VP Membership: Bill: We now have 183 members. 58 are Army, 99 are Air Force, 6 are Navy, 9 are Marines, and 1 is USPHS. E-Mails were sent to 830 people through MOAA National. 3150 non Chapter members live in the Greater Austin area. We now have 8 new members (1 was a re-join). The Roster for 2014 will be ready in January 2014. Letters and e-Mails were sent to the 32 Jr. ROTC instructors. Bill is striving for a 10% increase in membership for this year. Copy of the sheet discussed is attached.

3RD VP Support: J R: Pictures and floor plans of the Ben Hurl Shrine were e-mailed to all members. The caterer will use the back door and all others are encouraged to use the front door to sign in for the evening. We have 74 registered (4 are guests). We will have 6 or 8 members of the color guard. We expect to have about 84 people present. (HOORAY)

SECRETARY: Stated she would be out in October, November and December, but Pat Egan would take the minutes for me.

TREASURER: Roger: Money in the bank is $6731.68 and $1256.50 in the Scholarship Fund. Treasurer: Roger presented ideas for a "BUDGET". We have never had a budget to work with before. No one has any idea of how much money one might be able to spend on any certain item.

US ARMY: Jack: He will check in the Army and Air Force people on the 18th. He said that 34 Army reservations have been made for the 18th.i

USAF: no rep. JR and Cecil reported 35 reservations for the 18th dinner.

NAVY: Capt. Bill Connors represented Maj Rudy. We will have 12 at the Sept meeting and 3 of them are new members.

NEWSLETTER: Bev: Deadline for October newsletter will be 28 September. She reported that she will be moving back to her ranch in Llano next year so we should begin looking for a new editor.

PERSONAL AFFAIRS: Leon: He will have a table set up at the next meeting with brochures and handouts for Personal Affairs. The national MOAA representative will be present for the November luncheon.

CHAPLAIN: Leon: Dale Peterson's wife died recently, also Capt. Jackson Bossley died. Cards have been sent to the families.

AUSTIN MILITARY SERVICE COALITION: Gerry: The last 2 meetings have been held at the new VA facility. It is fantastic. It is on Metropolis. Fantastic place!!!

LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS: Carlos:

ROTC Awards Coordinator: Cecil: 25 MOAA Medals were presented last year to 7 ROTC and 18 JROTC units. We gave 5 $500 scholarships to graduating HS seniors and National gave 5 additional scholarships to 5 different Austin area HS seniors for a total of 10 scholarships seniors stating to college this fall semester. Lou and Cecil met with the UT ROTC unites to discuss how we might help the ROTC cadets that are not on ROTC scholarship. It was a very fruitful discussion.

WEBMASTER: J R nothing to add

LEGAL ADVISOR: Not present.

OLD BUSINESS: none.

PAST PRESIDENT: Chuck: none.

NEW BUSINESS: PRESENTATION: Chuck Gaede, past president presented a Certificate of Appreciation to Maj. John L. (Les) Miles for all the help and support that he has given the AMOAA in the past few years.
 Advertising: Cecil raised idea of advertising to get additional income. The discussion then turned to brainstorming ideas for raising income. No decision was determined.
Record's Repository: A new idea was presented about having a repository for all correspondence. Secretary will work with the President on this project.
Next dinner meeting will be October 16, 2013
Next Board meeting will be October 21, 2013. It was decided to have the Board meeting on the Monday before the General Meeting, BUT the next 3 months makes that on a Federal holiday and would have to be change anyway. So, we will stick with the Monday after the general meeting.

BENEDICTION: was given by Leon Holland and the President closed the meeting.

Signed:

MARTHA O. PYLE,
SECRETARY