HVFF Meeting Minutes, August 22, 2020

The White Wolf

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New H2 pilots
Kim: started with Greg 5 years ago with Greg, has been to Morningside and Valle de Bravo.
Tim Curran: training with Greg for 4 years, done some aerotow.
Ricardo: learned to fly in Ellenville years ago, but now is back. Been to Valle de Bravo.

Treasurer’s Report: $1576 But….
So there Paul is, doing his morning yoga, when he hears loud knocks on the door. Since Paul’s in his underwear, he hears voices from down the stairwell: It’s a SUBPOENA! For SNYHGPA. Paul’s a bit bleary but by the time he’s semidressed and downstairs he finds the guy in his house. The deal is some PG guy was injured at work, but turns out he was paragliding, so we are on the hook. The pilot was a club member in 2013, but passed away in PG flight in Columbia last year. Then the S. hits the F. and ricochets all the way back to us. So we just have to share whatever information we have on the guy. He was Rafael; often flew Brace. We get $20 to compensate for the work Paul must do. so now we have $1596.

Old Business: read the frickin’ old minutes

New Business

• Club Filing with the State of New York is a done deal and we will open new bank account. Around mid september will do federal filing.

• Soft launch of web site, will keep working on it.
Suggestions
– Some people don’t like searching through categories. Maybe only 2 topics?
– Move forums to top of page
– disable yahoo group
– Try to move people away from facebook
– Get list of NASA members to guide towards forum

• Merchandise – final handoff will occur in about a week. Fred will be Merchandise Czar.

• Windsock update: location may change (again) About 20 feet below right corner of parking spot. Nobody will hit it, but easily visible. Jane comment: west launch can’t see wind sock. The old location you could, would tell you if you could move.

• Cathleen wants to be a content editor. Gossip column?

• Hyner weekend Labor day weekend is coming up as a potential club trip. Brian will post details.