> October Minutes for the Executive Committee Meeting of Richland
> Section of the ACS.
>
> Meeting: 5:30 PM on Monday, October 11^th^ at the Richland Library,
> Richland, WA.
>
> Present: Sam Bryan (Chair)
>
> Jeff Woodford (Treasurer)
>
> Tom Jones (Chair Elect)
>
> Tim Hubler (Alt. Councilor/NORM)
>
> Dick Hermens (Councilor)
>
> Steve Kosgrud
>
> Bruce McNamara (Secretary)

-   The Minutes from the September Meeting were approved.

-   Miscellaneous budget items were discussed and the Section's updated
    expenses are attached as a PDF file below. The updated budget is
    attached below.

    -   The 500\$ that had been allocated for project seed was put back
        into general funds

    -   Ken Kolb's wife has pancreatic cancer. the Section sent him 6
        bottles of wine

> National Chemistry Week and the Family Affair activities will occur in
> November. Richard Lucke, Sam Bryan, Karen Grant, Bruce McNamara, Janet
> Bryan, Megan Lerchen, CBC students, EOU students, and several others
> are supporting the Family Affair at the TRAC in Pasco, Washington. EOU
> in particular will be doing the Magic show.

-   Sam ordered supplies for the Family Affair from the ACS website.

> Also for National Chemistry Week, the Girls in Science activity is
> being run by Anna Cavinato on November 6^th^. The Boy Scout Merit
> Badge in Chemistry activity will be held at CBC October 30^th^ and
> November 6^th^.

-   Ballots for election of Section officers are also needed for the
    last Tuesday of November. The Past Chair (Janet) is responsible for
    getting the list of candidates together. Some mention was made of
    having electronic elections and how that could be set up.

-   The ballots need to be in the next Newsletter

-   ACS national has approved electronic balloting for the elections
    this year.

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-   Sam suggested that this years annual pizza social for be a wine and
    cheese social. At this event, the new officers would be introduced,
    and Royce Aiken, Jon Karchesey and John Cox would be given awards
    for their individual contributions. The time was set as the 1^st^
    week in December 7:00-930.

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-   Action items were to put this event in the next Newsletter and to
    recruit Heather Anastos to help with the catering of the event.

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-   On October 19^th^, 2004, John Fortman will give a talk:
    Demonstrations of Everyday Applications of Chemistry, The talk will
    be held at 7:30 at Eastern Oregon University in the new Science
    auditorium in La Grand, OR. Dinner arrangements were made at Foley
    Station in LaGrand

-   Janet suggested that Royce Aiken should receive some recognition for
    the 10 years he has run the Chemistry Olympiad. Sam suggested a wine
    and cheese award ceremony would be appropriate and maybe should
    include Jon Karchesey and John Cox.

-   The Actinide Separations Conference will be held on September 6^th^
    2006 in Richland, in FY07 in Los Alamos, and FY08 in Idaho. There
    was some discussion on switching dates between Idaho with Los Alamos
    so that this would coincide with NORM 2007 in Idaho

-   Tim said a that a student competition was being held to develop a
    logo for NORM 2007. Websites for the Conference are
    northwestchemistry.org and northwestchemistry.com.

-   Dick Hermens brought up that ACS National grants were available for
    Section activities and that guidelines for these were only that they
    connected to the ACS mission.

-   Anna Cavinato asked Jeff Woodford to announce that the Chemistry
    Club had received an award and will be given the award at the next
    National Meeting in San Diego.

-   Also, Anna had found some guideline materials on how to run a
    Project SEED. There is a February deadline for submission and a new
    announcement due in November.

-   The meeting adjourned at 6:49 PM.