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In researching something, I went looking for the board meeting minutes. On GroupsIO files, the board has minutes from 2024 January, Feb, March, April, May, July, and then an additional folder for November & December. June, August, September, October are missing. I then cross referenced Ham Club Online. Which does not have a folder for minutes. But in Newsletters and Communications, I found February 3, 2025 Board meeting Minutes. Nothing form 2024. Files was last updated in 2019. The website has newsletters uploaded every month. No minutes. The last content, other than newsletters, that was uploaded on the website was photos of Sam, Dick, and Tim for updating the Officers page, in January of 2024. It still hasn't been updated with the 50 Years and Counting updated logo. The Anniversary dinner was July 2023. Thus concludes my observations. -- Anthony Burokas General Class Ham (KB3DVS) VP: Plano Amateur Radio Klub – http://k5prk.net 25-year video producer — IEBA.com

I still need everyone’s input to the meeting slide deck, please. Only one (readable by the audience) page would be good, but if you need more than one page of important stuff, so be it. Thanks, Tim

With the discussion of newsletters, and of marketing the club - possibly mailing something to new hams... Is it possible to put together a generic 4-page newsletter that we can have available at the meeting, and also use as possible mailer, per Tim's idea, for new hams as part of a "welcome to hamming" kit? The reason I say 4-page is because that is a single 11x17 sheet folded in half. Much like my interim newsletter for January. https://k5prk.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/K5PRK-January-2025-Newsletter.pdf It can talk about regular meetings in general, and highlight some regulars - Field Day planning, Annual club auction, Plano balloon festival, annual holiday party, as well as programs on antennas, new radio releases, and other areas of interest to anyone with curiosity about the world around them. It can also include more information about our regular activities, the 2- meter net, Skywarn net, foxhunting, hospital net, involvement with Meals on Wheels, Dallas Marathon, Turkey Trot, and a few more. A general introduction letter from the president, a generalized meeting minutes not really too time specific, A few photos from meetings, as well as regular meeting information, General amateur radio info, and a list of some monthly contests ad operating events. Ham class info, if any is available, and a note about pre-meeting testing before our meetings. to be licensed. Basically an activity sheet that one would be interested in holding on to for the nets schedule, and a years' worth of contests. Basically it's an Ad for ham radio, the club, and our meetings. With a little bit of date-specific information: future contests for 2025, and PARK meeting dates. These could also be sent to local high school science teachers, libraries, etc. Anthony Burokas General Class Ham (KB3DVS) VP: Plano Amateur Radio Klub – http://k5prk.net 25-year video producer — IEBA.com

Minutes uploaded to Secretary Files and link below.

Hello BJ, David Smith (K5MGB) renewed for 2025. No other renewals by mail in January. Mike

Below is the proposed agenda for our next PARK Board of Directors meeting on Monday 02/03/2025 at 7:00 PM. We have a lot of items on this agenda involving all board positions and having all board members present will be appreciated. Here is a link we use for this meeting. https://meet.jit.si/K5PRK Thanks, Tim K5TCJ Officer Reports President – Tim Johnson – K5TCJ Welcome new board member Newsletter Editor – Lonnie Webb KG5WHQ Old Business Membership vote on proposed Constitution revision Membership vote on filling Newsletter Editor position Discuss our guest speakers sitting through the business meeting before giving their program. Vice-President – Anthony Burokas - KB5DVS Programs February Ham Radio in Ireland - Sean Kelly W5SPK March DFW Nation Weather Service April 3-D Printing - Tony Campbell W5ADC May NVIS Antennas - Larry Randell WA5BEN June PARK Field Day – Michael Tharp KG5TJF July PARK Annual Auction August TBD Secretary – BJ Watkins K5BJW Report Treasurer – Michael Tharp – KG5TJF Financial Report Reallocate / denote set-asides / budgeted items to better record those items? Publishing our financial records to members only Communications Director – Miranda Schwarck KE5YZP Report Newsletter Ed. – Lonnie Webb – KG5WHQ All Board members are encouraged to submit something for each newsletter. A report on your board positions activities An article related to your board position An article of general interest Webmaster – James McCormick - KG5KBP Website updates Reestablish a member only section of the webpage Facebook – Reassign Admins Activities Director – Richard Seitz – KG5HCJ Report Public Relations – Rob Forson K5WFR PARK Table at next year’s Hamfest in Lewisville? Outreach to gain new members Periodic mailer to new licensees? Meeting notification email to ‘other’ local groups.io lists? Field Day Coordinator - Michael Tharp – KG5TJF Planning for 2025 License Testing Coordinator – Daryl Morgeson – AF5GQJ _._,_._,_

Does the club have business cards? I'm just sorting through a drawer full of cards I've collected through the years and found that I have a few from Lake Area. They'd be handy to give to new members, slip into windshield wipers of cars we see, hand out during a conversation. -- Anthony Burokas General Class Ham (KB3DVS) VP: Plano Amateur Radio Klub – http://k5prk.net 25-year video producer — IEBA.com

The recent thread with the ARRL membership, and discussing the club's much more precipitous membership dip makes me want to revisit the local outreach we did recently. Personally I find it hard to believe that 600+ things were mailed out to local hams and we got 1 person to come? That's more dismal than the typical marketing return of around 5%-10% which should have netted us 30 to 60 responses. Where did that address list come from? Can a fresh list be acquired again? What was sent out? I think it was a postcard, but I don't think I have a copy of it to look it over and see what the call to action was. And the cost was? My first thoughts would be, if we were paying for first class, then did we send a letter? Because picking up on Tim's thought, a personal invitation is going be more effective than a "marketing postcard" Given the status of the club membership, and the outlook vs. our other membership outreach programs (none at the moment) I'd like to revisit the idea of a mailer, but I need to know what didn't work, to have an idea of what not to do. Anthony Burokas General Class Ham (KB3DVS) VP: Plano Amateur Radio Klub – http://k5prk.net 25-year video producer — IEBA.com

Here are my slides for Monday

cool. cool Thank you. Anthony Burokas General Class Ham (KB3DVS) VP: Plano Amateur Radio Klub – http://k5prk.net 25-year video producer — IEBA.com On 1/17/25 3:18 PM, Tim Johnson K5TCJ via groups.io wrote: > We’re good for MLK day. Randy will be there to open the building a > little before 6:or pm > > Tim

Tim, Activities slides for January. Thank you. Richard Seitz

Attached is a template page for director reports input, for the general meeting slide deck. Please balance the amount of information on a page versus font size, leaning toward a font size that can be easily read by the audience. Use as many pages as you need. I’ll take your input and add them to the slide deck. If you have any questions, please let me know. Tim

Have been uploaded to Secretary's Files under "2025 Board of Directors Minutes"

Neil has provided me with the template from last month that I'll be using to put together the newsletters till we have a new newsletter editor. So if you have some submissions, send them to me. -- Anthony Burokas General Class Ham (KB3DVS) VP: Plano Amateur Radio Klub – http://k5prk.net 25-year video producer — IEBA.com

Below is the proposed agenda for our next PARK Board of Directors meeting on Monday 1/6/2025 at 7:00 PM. Here is a link we use for this meeting. https://meet.jit.si/K5PRK Thanks, Tim K5TCJ Officer Reports President – Tim Johnson Vice-President – Anthony Burokas - KB5DVS Future Programs Secretary – BJ Watkins K5BJW Membership Renewals Treasurer – Michael Tharp – KG5TJF Financial Report Storage Unit Communications Director – Miranda Schwarck KE5YZP Newsletter Ed. – Neil Gould – NE5IL Replacement Webmaster – James McCormick - KG5KBP Website updates Facebook – Reassign Admins Activities Director – Richard Seitz – KG5HCJ Public Relations – Rob Forson K5WFR PARK Table at this year’s Hamfest in Lewisville? Field Day Coordinator - Michael Tharp – KG5TJF Planning for 2025 License Testing Coordinator – Daryl Morgeson – AF5GQJ _._,_._,_

It is with much regret that I must resign as Newsletter Editor. Between my father's health issues and my own new issues, I must concentrate on us. I can help someone with the current template or a new template can be created or just a plain email with all important stuff could be used. Thanks to everyone for their help and support over the years. I will keep you informed as I can. 73 to all Neil NE5IL