September 26, 2004

AGENDA

PRELIMINARY MATTERS

• Approval of July Minutes
• Set November meeting date – Thanksgiving is 11/25, Anza star party is 11/13, BSC star party is 11/6.  11/14 would probably interfere least with the holidays.
• Financial Summary

CONSENT CALENDAR

• None

MEMBER PRESENTATIONS:

• None

OLD BUSINESS

• Observatory roof – what, when, how, how much?
• Fence for Anza site – what, when, how, how much?
• Anza clean-up – still needed.
• Anza electrical repairs – Bruce Waddington replaced non-functional GFI’s on Football Field in August.  Craig Bobchin was arranging for an electrician to evaluate the site.
• Anza House modifications – back kitchen, front ramp, bathroom.
• Anza site plan/Anza Planning Task Force
• Banquet – Do we want one this year?
• Kuhn – what can we do to move the repair/renovation project to completion?

NEW BUSINESS

• Anza Broadband system – Modifications needed.
• Fundraising.
• Chapman University – we are now formalizing the relationship with Chapman by contract, and will need to add Chapman to our insurance policy as an additional insured.

UPDATES NOT REQUIRING ACTION

• EOA/MOCAT:  With the help of Dave Radosevich, Jim Hannum and John Kerns, the pier was taken to a welder and the bolt slots lengthened to allow the necessary adjustments to polar align it.  The 12-inch LX200 is now mounted on the pier in the Mocat observatory, and controlled by the computers in the observatory and the control room.  A number of technical problems have been worked out, but the RA wormgear appears to be too tight and is throwing the accuracy of the telescope off.