Emily McCutchan

November 14, 2019

Presented the new tiebreaker clause to the board to be voted on in the January officer meeting.

Made the board member aware of the updated member list and inventory counts. Reviewed September and October financial status. Recouped 2/3 of the cost for the t-shirts. Reviewed attendance of the October meetings, which were significantly up. We received $350 dollars for the rest of this semester from SGA. We also discussed the future of the travel fund.

Gave an update on the YouTube channel. We reviewed what remained in terms of events over the next semester and looked going forward. We confirmed the hurricane forecasting workshop jointly with OWL. We discussed our November General Meeting catering as well as the 100 member celebration.

October 3, 2019

Master list of inventory is up to date. Reviewed finances and inventories in preparation for National Weather Festival.

September’s general meeting and social event was reviewed. O’Connell’s was $610 for the event and largely successful. The management showed interest in hosting Groundhog Day. Most well attended social event thus far.

Discussed AMS centennial 100 member movement. This would be record-breaking membership levels. Discussed the breakdown of membership among classes and potential areas for improvement.

Discussed current financial health. Dr. Disaster will be added to the weather friends’ shirts line up for NWF this year. It will cost $556 in total. 15 YS-YL, 15 S-L, 10 XL. Due to the new shirts and general rising cost, we voted to increase t-shirt prices by $5 (11 for, 3 abstain).

YouTube channel has hit a snag that is currently under investigation. The weather friends will be making their first visit to Wilson Elementary on October 17, we are looking into having a live-stream of this event.

Discussed remaining events for the semester and ideas for the October social event, ended up canceling October social event. Discussed recruiting volunteers for NWF. People working the table or a Weather Friend have them fill out the form and they will be pulled later. Volunteer forms are due on October 11.

We changed the topic of the November meeting to be about the SMART Radar team because COCAMS was unable to meet at the new date. We are going to try to coordinate in the spring. Discussed the date of the graduate application workshop and set up for the pie the professor event. We also decided to order from Pizza Shop for the October general meeting, with the order identical to the one for September. Gave an update on the chapter poster.

August 22, 2019

Vote on Co Advisor 

• 7 in favor, 1 abstain 

Constitution Proposals 

• Impeachment Clause, 7 in favor, 1 abstain 
• Finances Clause, 7 in favor, 1 abstain 
• Deputy of Media addition, 7 in favor, 1 abstain 
• Officer Voting Clause, 7 in favor, 1 abstain 
• Conference Travel Fund, 7 in favor, 1 abstain 

A brief discussion of who we are, the differences between AMS and NWA, and the roles of the various officers.  We discussed new content and the reboot of the YouTube channel. We will be adding general meetings, educational content, and weather friends content. Reviewed what the weather friends are and our efforts to get the weather friends to NWA. We hope to bring back the classroom visits this year and will be updating the looks of the weather friends. We reviewed the statistics and activities from last year. Went over the anticipated schedule for this year, subject to change based on exams and the likes.  

Pizza prices for the joint meeting: $5.99 for a one topping, $7.99 for a supreme from Pizza Shop. We will be ordering 20 pizzas, 9 pepperoni, 9 cheese, 1 gluten free, and 1 vegan.  

We discussed our proposals for a shared WxChallenge discussion session during Sunday nights and the creation of intramural sports teams as well as previewed the slides for the joint meeting. A new bank account with OU FCU will be opened. This will eliminate our fees from Bank of America. 

We discussed our speaker lineup for the September meeting and the structure. We could look at Jimmy Johns for food. Still trying to figure out a relatively cheap option since the funds are in flux. We also discussed speaker plans for October… we plan on asking Mike Conglio of NSSL to speak about TORUS. Discussed our overall goals for the semester as well as ideas that we have. Started the chapter poster discussion and our outline for it.