President, Chuck opened our meeting January 08, 2019: Call to Order: 7:30 PM.

Roll Call of Officers: All officers present: 6 Members, 1 guest.

Treasurer’s Report:

Chuck stated we have $1,134.91 currently in our Treasury, plus member dues collected as of 1/08/19.

Old Business:

We all thanked Chuck for his and his wife’s hospitality hosting our Xmas party at their home in December. As the December “meeting” was our party, no minutes were read into the January meeting.

New Business:

It was unanimously agreed that more model flying, boating and social events should be scheduled this year. This would include:

1.Hilcrest Park gas Control Line, and park flyer aircraft. Proposed dates would be scheduled in May and October (1/2 day events, to include a picnic.)

2. Court Lane R/C flying with Chuck on Sundays around 4:00 PM. Flying conditions during he summer may be limited due to high winds and gusts. However it is an excellent venue for catapult rubber, free flight, and electric air craft in calm conditions. No gas propulsion systems are allowed.

3. Joining the Aeronuts control line flying events in Alameda at their air strip.

4. Chuck’s wife wants to schedule a party at their home for us sometime this coming summer (tentative date: 7/13/19/ alternate date 08/17/19.

5. Fall Picnic: 09/14/19; alternate date 10/12/19 at Hillcrest Park in Concord.

6. George will provide dates for July and or August swap meets.

7. Potential group trip to a flight museum. More details to follow.

8. Maurice and Jerry will be hosting a boating event at Newall Park lake off Basset Lane March 16th. They will have several R/C sailboats available for members to enjoy sailing on the lake. Also they will bring other boats as well (steam and tug boats.) Bring your lunch, and a folding chair, and plan to spend the afternoon. They will start setting up around 11:30 AM. They will be there until late afternoon (or whenever all their servo batteries die, which ever comes first.) It should be a really fun day so please come join them and try out your sailing skills on the lake!

9. Giant scale R/C Flying event on Memorial Day Weekend in Atwater, at the B-52 air base. It is sponsored by the Modesto flying club. Several flying activities are planned to include jets, WW 1 and 2 war birds. There will be a swap meet and opportunities to buy and sell planes, boats, etc. Putting together some car pools were discussed. More details will follow soon.

Jammers from airports will be an increasing problem. It was discussed that caution should be used when flying and to keep our planes altitude below 400 feet when flying near airports.

It’s time to pay your club dues! If you have not already none so, please remit $20.00 for CME 2019 dues to Chuck Hill, 1382 Deerfield Court, Concord, Ca. 94521 at your earliest convenience.

New section: “Sources.” In this section of the minutes new sources will be posted on where to obtain just about anything model related. If you have a good source please share it with Chuck and we’ll make sure your information is shared with the membership. This month includes:

RC Microworld Magazine (thank you Dennis Romano.)
CME Website: Publications and video library. Check it out! (Thanks Chuck.)

After the parade of planes and raffle Chuck officially adjourned the meeting at 8:30 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Maurice Lieberman
CME Club Secretary