Special Meeting of SFSFC Board of Directors Executive Session

Special Meeting of Board of Directors
Executive Session
Minutes

Saturday, September 17, 2005, Centerville Train Station, Fremont, California

These minutes are associated with the special Board of Directors meeting of this same date. Proceedings held in Executive Session are private and not published. Members of the Board of Directors are cautioned that they are on word of honor not to divulge the proceedings held in Executive Session. The minutes of this Executive Session are in a separate document distributed only to members of the Board of Directors or their proxies.¹

2. Special Committee Reports

2.2. SMOFCon Scholarship Committee

The committee reported that they received six applications. To facilitate the Board discussing the individual applications, the committee moved to go into Executive Session. The motion passed and the meeting went into Executive Session at 12:11 PM.

At the request of several Board members, the Committee listed the applicants: Jason Ebner, Michael Higashi, Milton Le, Zain Memon, Allan Michael "Sparks" Rennie, and William Warriner. The Committee recommended Mr. Higashi and Mr. Warriner.

The committee moved the adoption of the committee's recommendation in the form of the following motion:

Motion 2005-07:

Moved, To award, based on the advice of the SMOFCon Scholarship Committee, $300 scholarships for the purpose of attending SMOFCon 23 to Michael Higashi and William Warriner, subject to their acceptance, and

Moved, That should a recipient decline their award, the SMOFCon Scholarship Committee is authorized to designate an alternate recipient from among the remaining applicants.

There was informal discussion of the various applicants’ qualifications, after which Motion 2005-07 was adopted by unanimous consent.

The results of the session (the motion adopted above) were temporarily held under embargo pending the acceptance of the award recipients, but the Committee was directed to publicize the results once the recipients accepted their awards.

By unanimous consent, the Executive Session ended at 12:20 PM.

Kevin Standlee
Secretary

[Approved and Unsealed: November 12, 2005]

Notes:

1.These minutes were unsealed by action of the Board of Directors on November 12, 2005.