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George Galloway gave a demonstration on the<br />
Internet connection. He advised that in l2-13<br />
months over 300,000 visits had been made to the<br />
web site.<br />
He demonstrated the 12 PIA Specifications that had<br />
been put on the web site.<br />
E-mail Distribution List. You can subscribe to the<br />
list. There are over 200 subscribers.<br />
It is very easy to sign up and easy to use.<br />
After the demonstration, the plenary session was<br />
adjoumed to committee meetings.<br />
The Plenary Session re-convened Sunday,<br />
September l5 at 9: l0 A.M. with a quorum present.<br />
SPECIAL MUSEUM - Sandy Reid reported.<br />
There was a great deal of interest in establishing a<br />
Museum by T. Taylor Brained out of Phoenix.<br />
Larry Hill of Eloy has offered to donate land to<br />
build a facility and the climate in the Southwest is<br />
good.<br />
We need a business plan setup and a trigger<br />
mechanism so when it reaches a certain point Larry<br />
will donate the land and a consortium can be setup<br />
to handle the establishment of the Museum.<br />
Possibly USPA and PIA could combine efforts. A<br />
meeting needs to be set in Eloy soon on exactly<br />
how to go about doing it.<br />
The aim would be for a "Parachuting Museum", not<br />
skydiving only but all types of parachutes. One of<br />
the biggest sources of future funding maybe<br />
Corporate Sponsors.<br />
Additional budget requests were then presented.<br />
The only additional request came from the<br />
Specifications Committee. Bill Gerrow requested<br />
$5,000.00 in additional funding to continue work on<br />
the PIA Specs.<br />
Motion to approve the request was made by Al<br />
Gramando, seconded by Allen Silver.<br />
Motion carried.<br />
NEW BUSINESS<br />
Discussion ensued for the establishment of a new<br />
Membership category to be added to the Bylaws...it<br />
would be SUSTAINING MEMBER WITH<br />
DUES OF $5OO.OO PER YEAR.<br />
George Galloway made the following motion:<br />
MOTION: THAT PIA BEGIN THE PROCESS TO<br />
ESTABLISH A NEW MEMBERSHIP<br />
CATEGORY CALLED A SUSTAINING<br />
MEMBERSHIP, WITH DUES TO BE $5OO.OO<br />
PER YEAR.<br />
MIKE BECK SECONDED.<br />
MOTION CARRIED<br />
Cliff announced that the next meeting of the<br />
<strong>Parachute</strong> <strong>Industry</strong> <strong>Association</strong> would be held at the<br />
Sheraton Astrodome Hotel in Houston, Texas on<br />
February 6,7 and 8, 1997, prior to the Symposium.<br />
The PIA Intemational Symposium will follow at the<br />
same location Februarv 9-13. 1997.<br />
The location for the September,1997 meeting was<br />
discussed. Meeting dates would be either<br />
September l2-14 or September 19-21,1997, and the<br />
following possible locations were then selected:<br />
San Diego, California<br />
Chattanooga, Tennessee<br />
St. Louis, Missouri<br />
Atlanta, Georgia<br />
Al Gramando then moved that the Executive<br />
Committee investigate the above sites and dates and<br />
make the determination for site and date within 60<br />
days and get the contract signed. Seconded by<br />
Allen Silver.<br />
Motion carried.<br />
There being no further business to come before the<br />
meeting, Bill Genow made a motion to adjourn,<br />
seconded by Sandy Reid. Motion carried. The<br />
meeting adjourned at I l:00 A. M.<br />
Para NewsBrief - December 1996<br />
PNBNEW96