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Members Present: Members Absent:
Jeff Watkins, Chair ASHRAE Linda Bachmeier, Vice-Chair SWE
Carl Cook, 1st Past Chair ASCE Wendy Grosvenor, Treasurer ASHRAE
Bob Davis ACEC-Utah Kiran Bhayani AAEE
Paul C. Oestreich IEEE Rick Campagna ASCE
Carl Eriksson SEAU Chad Walker IES
Ken Randle AIAA Jay Nelson ITE
David Merrill ASME Mike Norrie SAME
Dale Bennett UCLS an Church USPE
Susan Merrill Executive Secretary
1. WELCOME
Jeff Watkins, UEC Chair, called the meeting to order at 12:09 p.m.
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES - March 3, 2004
Motion: Ken Randle moved to approve the minutes. David Merrill seconded the motion. The
minutes were unanimously approved.
3. FINANCIAL REPORT - Wendy Grosvenor
There was no financial report due to Wendy’s absence. Wendy said she would e-mail one out within
the next week. We’ll have to follow-up with that. Linda has the checkbook. She needs to pay the
Utah Food Services bill as well as Carl’s bill for the awards.
4. UTOPIA PRESENTATION
There was no Utopia presentation. There was a little bit of discussion about Utopia. They want to
use taxpayer dollars to guarantee the project of getting fiber optics into Utah homes. Jeff said an
engineering firm out of American Fork contacted UEC and seemed to be doing the master planning
on that.
5. COMMITTEE REPORTS
A. Publication Committee - Jim Belshe: Jim was not in attendance. He has been talking and
negotiating with McGraw-Hill. He has some concerns that he will discuss with us at our May
meeting. We talked about having a directory of companies, but there is some concern that there may
be a conflict with ACEC on that. Bob Davis from ACEC said that they have tried to not be in
conflict with the UEC Journal. This year, for the first time, ACEC published a directory of their
consulting engineer firms and they went through McGraw-Hill. They were concerned about the
advertising and how that would come out, but it worked out pretty well for them. Bob said he could
comment on it further at the May meeting. There are more Journals from this year available if anyone
would like them. Jeff asked if there has been any feedback from the high schools on the Journals that
were delivered.
B. E-Week - Linda Bachmeier: Jeff spoke with Linda on the phone. She suggested that we
stay with the Union Pacific facility at the Gateway. 400 is the maximum the facility would handle.
We served 311 meals, so we still have some room to grow. We need to reserve that venue for next
year. Paul Oestreich will need to make the reservation. The banquet next year will be on February
24, 2005 (Thursday).
C. Membership Committee - Jay Nelson: Jay was not in attendance. He sent an e-mail to
Susan and said he did not have anything to report.
D. Nominating Committee - Sarah Winkler: The nominations are as follows:
Chair: Linda Bachmeier
Vice-Chair: Paul Oestreich
Treasurer: Dale Bennett
Motion: Ken Randle moved to close the nominations. Carl Cook seconded the motion. The
motion was unanimously approved.
The vote was unanimously in favor of the slate of nominees, so the new officers will be as
listed above.
6. DOPL NOMINATIONS
The positions currently available for nominations are:
UBCC Electrical Advisory Committee
UBCC Mechanical Advisory Committee
Professional Engineers/Professional Land Surveyors Licensing Board - currently Barry
Anderson, but he is not eligible for reappointment to the board
Professional Engineers/Professional Land Surveyors Licensing Board - currently Charles
Henry Richardson, PE, but he is also not eligible for reappointment
If anyone has any suggestions for nominations, they are due April 16, so they need to be turned in
right away.
7. OTHER BUSINESS
We will need a new fund-raising chair. Ken Randle passed out the final fund-raising report. We had
a very successful year. Ken said we need to establish a separate scholarship fund. It should have
$4,000 in it. Dale will need to work with Wendy to get his name on the accounts and will need to
open a separate scholarship account.
8. ADJOURNMENT
Motion: Carl Cook moved to adjourn the meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 12:30 p.m.
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