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| March 9, 2010 Meeting Location FIRST ENERGY REGIONAL HDQTRS. 6896 MILLER RD. BRECKSVILLE, OHIO 44141 TIME: 600 PM HONARY MEMBERS Edward Loesch December 1978 John J O’Connell April 1981 William J Crowley, George J Foster and Jerry M Gerber January1996 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM Dr. Allen Morinec His topic will be Technology And he promises it will be a good one!! Minutes from the February Meeting President Jeff Grassi. Called the Meeting to Order at 6:05 PM. Motion to accept the minutes as E-mailed 1st Ted Athanas 2nd Jerry Gerber New guests or members none February 2010 Treasurers Report For the period starting December 5, 2009 and ending January 30, 2010 Total assets $15,402.54 Checking account $7,359.64 Savings account $8007.32 Debits for this period totaled $1239.42 $668.23 Sterlies January Luncheon $112.05 Tony Bontempo Flowers $102.31 Fred Englemans Flowers $44.00 Allen Morinec OCILB $32.33 Brindza pop $53.00 IAEI Past Pres. Pins $158.00 PJ Pizza Dec. Meeting $69.50 Jerry Gerber Mailings of forms Credits for this period totaled $1345.00 $595.00 17 renewals $225.00 Membership contribution for Sterlies $455 Bi-annual distribution Motion to accept the Treasurers report 1st Jerry Gerber 2nd Tom Jarus February 2010 Secretaries Report We lost two members this last two Months, Fred Engleman, and Tony Bontempo. Fred has always been right up here at every meeting with a smile and always adding his support. Rich Vittardi summed it up when it came to Fred. His quote: If there was guy who you would want to call a sweet heart it was Fred. Rich said he only met Fred a few times and they were here at our meetings. Tony was usually sitting in the back corner always ready to offer his support. Both of these Gentlemen will be greatly missed. Our January Luncheon went off well and our slate of officers are in place. You can read both Keith Foulkes outgoing and Jeff Grassi’s incoming speeches in the February Enlightner. Jeff laid out a challenging goal, for our board this year. If we pull together like we did last year I have no doubt we will accomplish Jeffs goals. I have been given a key for the Parmatown Classroom Capable of seating 36 at this time as funds increase they will purchase more seats and tables. A projector, screen Computer system and sound system is being installed with in the next few weeks. It has been offered to the Western Reserve free of charge on evenings and weekends. It is time for the IAEI 2011 prepublication program. In orders of 10 Soft Bound NEC $55.70 includes shipping In Orders of 10 Handbook $97.62 includes shipping Soft bounds are available $62.20 in orders of 10 Order forms are on the sign in table. Minimum orders of 10 are only allowed. Members must prepay prior to May 1st to take advantage of this discount. We will place all orders prior to the June 4th deadline. Ohio Chapter IAEI Annual Meeting and Professional Development Seminar May 3, 4, & 5 2010 at Kings Island Resort 5691 Kings Island Drive Mason, Ohio 45040 There will be three and possibly a fourth $1000 Steve Tomblin scholarship awards being offered this year. Due date is no later than March 13, 2010. Email the applications to Tim Mcclintock at timmcclintock@gmail.com. Or USPS them to Tim McClintock 11813 TWP Rd. 516 Shreve, Ohio or go to the Ohio Chapter website for more info. You can download the applications on our site just go to the events section and the instructions and application downloads are already posted. Code questions for the Seminars code panels are being asked to be sent to Tom More. Please send all questions to Tom by Email or you can forward them to me and I’ll see he gets them. We are in the running to reclaim the Membership flag this year with the most new members at 17 this year but are overall is at -4% as of January 3, 2010. Since then Mark Rom has received quite a few more so our overall standing should improve. Overall we are in the top 3 but those divisions have very few members 26, and 76. The division with 26 got 2 new members. (Ohio Eastern) (West Virginia) We have a lot to cover tonight so lets please keep our Posted Good of the order topic 240.24. (A)(1) to a reasonable time frame. We have presenters that came for our educational program; let’s show consideration for their effort. This is an important topic and there is no reason we cannot resolve this issue in about 20 – 30 minutes. GOOD OF THE ORDER There has been a fair amount of confusion on Article 240.24 (A) (1) This topic came up at our code panel a few months ago. One of our members got tagged for terminating a grounding electrode in a meter base by a local jurisdiction. The contractor stood his ground and refused to relocate it. They were able to resolve it by having the AHJ rule on it and the AHJ found in favor of the contractor. This picture is from the 2005 NEC Handbook. This is not new! After a discussion with the attending membership it was found by a unanimous vote that the AHJ made the correct call. Grounding Electrodes can be installed at the Weather head, the meter can, or the service disconnecting means for above ground services. For an underground service then you have two choices the meter can or the service disconnecting means. For those who feel that a seal on the meter can makes it non accessible, you are wrong. A seal can be cut faster than taking out the screws of a panel. As for the argument that the utility does not want you in the metering equipment, here is their policy from their latest service installation manual. READ NOTE #2 NEW BUSINESS A Motion to take out a full page add for $150 in the Ohio Chapter Seminar program. 1st Keith Foulkes 2nd Jerry Gerber OLD BUSINESS No Old Business A special thanks to Jack Bene’ and Erika M. Weliczko For two great presentations. . Meeting adjourned at 9:00PM |
