ACEC of Delaware EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

La Piazza – Middletown, DE

Meeting called to order: 11:49 am

Attendees:

Tim Anderson President Karins and Associates

Ted Januszka Vice-President /Membership Pennoni Associates

Mario Gangemi Secretary/Programs Duffield Associates

Shane Minner Education/Public Relations Landmark Engineering

Bruce Jones Environmental Greenstone Engineering

Not Present:

Mike Riemann Kent County Becker Morgan

Mike Angelo Transportation McCormick Taylor

Jessica Nichols Sussex County Meridian

Tom DeLorimier Environmental URS

Ted Williams National VP Landmark Engineering

Steve Johns National Director/New Castle County VanDemark & Lynch

Mike Karia Executive Director MK Consulting

Scott Rathfon Treasurer Century Engineering

Brian Carbaugh Affiliate Members Artesian Water Co

Minutes

The meeting minutes and associated attachments and reports from the October 22, 2008 meeting were distributed at the meeting and were approved.

The meeting minutes and committee reports are posted on the members only page of the ACEC-DE web site, which can be accessed through the members only page with the password: *Engineers1956 (case sensitive).

Treasurer’s Report – Mike Karia / Scott Rathfon

A treasurer’s report consisting of an account balances report, budget report and accounts receivable (A/R) report (through 10/31/08) was provided by Mike Karia and approved. Endecon indicated that they would be paying their outstanding balance within 2 weeks of 11.19.08.

Action: Mike Karia to follow-up with an email to summarize agreement with Endecon. Bruce Jones to follow-up with River Basin on payment plan. Mario to follow-up with Macintosh on their outstanding balance and to get them active in ACEC-DE.

Legislative Committee – Ted Williams

Executive Board met on November 11^th to discuss select State cabinet positions. Group to get back to Mario with their chosen assignments. Ted J. and Mario to work together to compile the legislative brief.

Membership - Ted Januszka

Davis Bowen & Friedel has resigned. Group to discuss face-to-face meetings with former members at the December meeting. Adeptevo, Inc. approved as a new member of ACEC-DE (Mike Karia to invite Mr. Ericksen to our December meeting). Mike Karia to follow-up with Whitman Requardt Associates and Meridian Engineering on their pending membership applications.

Program Committee – Mario Gangemi

EEA judging is complete and the award winners have been notified. Mike Karia to follow-up with Grand Conceptor winner to persuade them to enter into the National Competition. Mike Karia to also send email out to all entrants to inform them of ability to also enter their projects in the National Competition.

November program on giving presentations was well received. 28 participants.

January membership meeting is Dave Raymond and Steve Hall from ACEC-National. Mike Karia to firm this up with National (Post meeting this was set for January 28^th around lunchtime).

Ted J. to discuss March meeting with Dr. Chajes.

Annual meeting suggestions: New DelDOT and/or DNREC Secretaries

Other potential speakers: Dan Wolfensberger of Central Delaware Chamber of Commerce, Wilmington Trust CEO

Transportation Committee – Scott Rathon/Mike Angelo

Report from meeting of October 28^th is attached. Report for subcommittee meeting related to salary escalation of November 14^th is attached.

Group requested that Mike Angelo follow-up on the status of our review of plans related to the new Subdivision rules.

Group also discussed the county partnering committees meeting with the DelDOT district offices.

Environmental Committee –Bruce Jones/Tom DeLorimier

Report provided. Meetings to reconvene upon seating of new DNREC Secretary.

New Castle County Committee – Steve Johns

Reports on the October 30^th meeting with NCCDSS and the November 6^th meeting with NCCDLU provided.

City of Wilmington report to be provided at December meeting.

Kent County Committee – Mike Riemann

Report provided for committee meeting of November 5, 2008.

Sussex County Committee – Jessica Nichols

No report provided. Mario to reach out to Charlie O’Donnell of GMB to discuss his possible interest in steering this committee or providing ideas on others.

Mario to show Sussex County commercial construction plan requirements with Guy Marcozzi of DAPE.

Education/Public Relations Committee – Shane Minner

Scholarship deadline to be temporarily modified as needed to enable award in time for the ACEC-DE annual meeting. Future deadline will be in time for Engineers Week Banquet.

Shane working on mission statement and sponsor levels (using engineering terms).

Bruce Jones agreed to spearhead a golf tournament fundraiser for the scholarship endowment.

$1000 scholarship each given to DelTech Terry Campus and Georgetown Campus.

Affiliate Membership – Brian Carbaugh

No report provided.

Executive Director’s Report – Mike Karia

Report attached.

Group to discuss QBS Award at December meeting.

Group to review website and its integration with committee reports at February 09 meeting.

National Directors Report – Steve Johns

No written report. Steve attended the Fall meeting.

The next Executive Committee meeting will be held December 17th at 11:45 am at the University & Whist Club in Wilmington, Delaware.

It was requested that all reports be provided to the group in electronic format on the Friday prior to the ExCom meeting.

Executive Committee Meeting adjourned at 1:27 pm.