The Runway Incursion Group will meet next month. Currently, telecons are being held every Thursday and Mr. Simpson continues to work on the 7110 project every day. This rewrite is very important to FSS. . The field has sent in over 600 suggestions. The VNR Workgroup has completed their work and our recommendation to the FAA has not changed in that we do not believe in a standard statement like �VNR is needed. AOPA still advocates the use of a standard statement when weather conditions are hazardous to pilots who are only VFR rated. FAA is adamant that the new VOID statement will only be used during a �standard� briefing when a pilot states they are going �VFR� only. The agency also says they are committed to the training of everyone, sups, staff, managers as well as the journeypersons. NBAA has been rescheduled for December

As it concerns our previous commitment to the Luxor we received a full refund because the office canceled in a timely fashion. Mr. Hoover discussed various transportation options and considerations. Mr. Pike proposes the national office to pay any rebooking costs if a member can show that they have purchased their ticket prior to the postponement of the October �01 Convention and if they can substantiate a cancellation or rebooking fee. The BOD supported this whole- heartedly.

Office Report

The office report opened with a discussion surrounding the office personnel and their compensation. MOTION: Mr. Jaffe, �I move that we increase Ms. DeStefano�s salary up to $35,000.00 a year and increase Ms. Gordon�s hourly rate to $12.50 per hour, both by January 1st. Additionally, include any cost of living increases we receive as federal employees and a $1,00 bonus for each employee at the same time.� SECOND; Mr. Baker. There was an amendment to the motion to give Ms. Gordon a $500.00 bonus and give the bonuses immediately. Unanimously passed.

The NAATS HQ LAN will be decommissioned.

President�s Report

Mr. Pike presented a briefing on our current status vis-�-vis our legislative effort. He will meet with Chairman Don Young a week from Wednesday. He will ask Mr. Young if he intends to introduce language to correct our pay inequity. If Young declines Mr. Pike will ask the question of why can�t someone else introduce legislation and Congressman Young would not stand in the way of letting it pass. Mr. Pike made the point that the membership has come through and written all of the letters that the BOD hoped they would. We are concentrating on Chairman Young since the other congressional members all defer to him.

November 30th is the next time Mr. Pike will meet with the FAA Administrator.

The BOD went through the exercise of each Director and RegCo sharing his or her position on pay. The result was a majority confirming our comparability position.

Mr. Pike wants to stay with comparability and recommended that if we want to continue the comparability strategy, and we�re not successful this year, we should consider exploring other congressional options. The BOD agreed. Action Item: If we are not successful this year on pay comparability, Mr. Pike will work with legal counsel to cost out a class action lawsuit and possible ULP over FAA�s refusal to bargain in good faith.

Chief Negotiator�s Report

Mr. Dolan briefed us on the blanket waiver of negotiation time frames since the 9/11 incident. Mr. Dolan warned about the regions trying to go to a NOTAM system utilized through the Internet. The caution here is to not make any early agreements as this method of NOTAM distribution has not been correctly coordinated nor may it even really work. There is no MOU surrounding this issue.

Voice Switch- Mr. Dolan is trying to get the agency to sign off on an MOU like OASIS. He does not want to do anything else with the voice switch program until they sign off on the MOU.

Mr. Dolan gave an update on the DF system. He requests that no one agree to the shutting down of DFs. Mr. Dolan wants people to call him if they have any questions concerning DF.

Other than the SUA/ISE system Mr. Dolan said we would not sign off on any other system unless it goes through the OASIS Human Factors Team.

Discussion about the use of the Internet. Mr. Dolan said we have no MOU or signed agreement to let us use the internet. He said that the verbal word was given to all 500s and 501s from the �situation room� that they would allow access to the intranet. We are supposed to have 24-hour access to the intranet to view the web site for AOPA, NBAA etc.

2002 NAATS Budget was presented by Treasurer John Wesselhoft.

A lengthy discussion was held concerning the NAATS Administrator. Mr. Wesselhoft presented the prepared draft budget for 2002. There was a lengthy discussion concerning subsistence versus stipend. MOTION: Mr. Comisky, �I move NAATS reimburse those individuals that agree to come to work in the DC area, at the request of the BOD, at the same rate as the FAA pays long term per diem.� Second; Mr. O�Connell. Discussion. Supporting; Holmes, O�Connell and Comisky. Opposed: Jaffe, Stafford, Baker, Hoover, McLennan and Terry. Motion fails.

Motion: Ms. Holmes. I move that the office administrator receive a subsistence of the current $26,400 not a stipend with no tax liability to the union. Seconded by Dave Hoover. Motion passes 8 in favor, 1 absent.

Discussion as to if we need to have a glossy quarterly newsletter. The NAATS glossy Newsletter will remain as a budget item for now but we will take this up at the next meeting to either continue or eliminate the glossy. Mr. McLennan is to write an article in the next newsletter that explains what the BOD would like to do.

MOTION: Mr. Stafford, �Convert regional training expenses back to a national expense.� Second; Mr. Baker. Discussion. Motion was withdrawn. Regional Training fund distribution for Facreps is: NM-10, EA-9, GL-13, SW-10, WP-10, NE-4, AL-10, CE-6, SO-16.


The remainder of the �02 budget was worked and approved by the Board.

PRT News Focals Dibble

Mr. Dibble briefed the BOD on what the PRT is looking to in the future. Hopefully, we could eventually get to the point where we have one �news focal� in each facility. We had a brief discussion on trying to get some sort of administrative time for the head of the PRT to be able to visit air shows without having to use his own time. Mr. McLennan took an IOU to discuss this with the ANM Division Manager. Mr. Dibble has a majority of the e-mail focals he needs. The thought is to have a couple of email focals that he can keep in touch with when news items happen. If a FacRep or a member has news information then they would send it up to Mr. Dibble. Mr. Dibble is working on the flight watch handout.

Mr. Pike let us know that flight service is celebrating its 80th anniversary. He will call attention to this in the appropriate forums.

Arbitration Advocacy Training

The BOD made the decision to hold another basic arbitration class with all new personnel. The BOD agreed to have a class of 15 personnel with the breakdown as follows. SO-3, WP-2, EA-2, SW-2, NE-1, CE-1, AK-1, NW-1, GL-1 National -1. NAATS National HQ will contact AAA and schedule with training.

Liaison Discussion

What is it that they do and what is it we expect them to do? Mr. Pike and Mr. Dolan briefed the new BOD members on the functions performed by the NAATS Liaisons and how their selection takes place (President makes a recommendation after talking with the appropriate Regional Director. BOD then approves or disapproves.)

Motion: Mr. Stafford - I move that all liaisons and tech reps submit job reports every other week, and workgroup and part time reps report out seven days after meeting. Ms. Holmes seconds. Motion passes 9-0.

OASIS

The next site scheduled for implementation will be STL AFSS. Mr. Barnes reports everything moving forward. Testing on the software for AND AFSS to go through and planned to be operational in June. STL to be next followed by BUF and then BDR. The cycle for software updates is about every six months. Mr. Barnes recommends we bring in the original �night note team� Testing to be done at the Tech Center for the Anderson AFSS software. The team will then go to AND AFSS and do testing right at the facility. He explained that OASIS exceeded its budget 50%.

Voice Switch

Mr. Dolan briefed the BOD on how the OASIS training would be done. He recommends that Ms. Holmes do the OASIS training. Board supports Ms. Holmes to assist Mr. Dolan with the training and approves the �night note team� for the testing of the AND system.

Steve Glowacki - Headset replacement is on schedule. Mr. Glowacki says that the headset MOU is supposed to be in the R & I binder. February first is the schedule for headset replacement. Mr. Glowacki says originally there were 8 headsets but now there will only be 7 headsets. There must be a �onsite replacement� for each model headset at the facility and not at the regional depot. Mr. Glowacki will be the focal point for all the RegDirs who are having problems.

Steve Glowacki � Mr. Dibble is handling the web site and Mr. Glowacki is doing the Email function. Every RegDir, RegCo, Liaisons etc. now have a post office box. FacReps will soon have post office boxes also. Mr. Glowacki explains the email functions to the BOD. Mr. Dibble also explains that the system will have a bulletin board and a chat room.

Steve Glowacki � (Voice Switch) Mr. Glowacki will be going to different companies sites and look at their equipment. After that, three will be three companies selected to go to the Tech Center and they will do additionally testing there. Mr. Glowacki said they will need four people (he will be the fifth) for the OCT team.

Policies

From now on Minutes will be distributed the following Monday by the President after the BOD meeting. Directors will have until COB Thursday to make corrections, deletions and amendments and the Minutes will then be distributed on that Friday to the membership. Mr. Pike to verify with our NAATS Newsletter editor that the 15th is an accurate deadline and the Newsletter will be distributed by the 1st of the month.

Constitution mailing to new members. It was verified that the NAATS Constitution is being mailed to new members.

SW Region will look into picking up the OEX representation responsibilities for our students.

Mr. Hoover discussed the NAATS Administrator position and expense reimbursement. The BOD had dialog around how best to staff this position, employees� credentials and terms of employment. Mr. Pike made a presentation on the history leading to the constitutional amendment that brought an Administrator into the NAATS organization. Subgroup formed - Ms. Holmes, Mr. Hoover and Mr. Jaffe to work with Legal Counsel Arthur Fox to come up with a job description.

Ms. Homes wants some members to go through the constitution and look at changes that have to be made. It was agreed that she, Mr. Simpson, Mr. McLennan, Mr. Stafford, Ms. Colquitt, Mr. Terry and Ms. Breen would do this.

Mr. Jaffe wanted to talk about call transferring. The various regions discussed how this is handled in their areas.

Future Meetings �It was agreed to have one general membership meeting. We are looking at the week of April 8th or April 15th.

Board of Directors Meetings for �02� Washington DC the week of the 13th of January. Week of July 15th in DC. Week of October 7th, meeting to be in DC.

For the new BOD Ms. Breen, Ms. Mazziotti and Mr. Malon explained what the ATX, ARW, and ATP liaison jobs entail to the new BOD.

Mr. Dolan has talked to ATX about the intranet access availability at all facilities. ATX is to have a workgroup concerning traffic count the week of October 29th. Names of NAATS attendees are Linda Sterling, Alan Baker, Kate Breen, Al Osborn, and Don McLennan.

Staffing � Mr. Dolan is negotiating numbers with FAA headquarters. Much conversation from directors on how much they need in their regions, and how will the people be distributed. Mr. Dolan will distribute to the BOD Management 1 proposal for input.

Ms. Holmes talks about the Southwest region grievance settlement on the last chance agreement. Mr. Pike to send a letter to Thoman and to some way notify the membership once Ms. Colquitt, who was the one who did all the work on this grievance, forwards all info to NAATS HQ so letter can be sent.

Discussion about Mr. Pike�s updates to the membership. Some talk that they are too detailed. Mr. Pike feels, and most agree, that the more specific is better than to go back to just general explanations. No change in policy.

Mr. Pike will respond to ALR�s letter on pay negotiations and a copy of both will go on our website.

FSDPS � Don McLennan- He goes over the history of the agreement signed concerning what was to happen to our FSDPS members when the FSDPS closes down. He advises the Board that if anyone has any questions to call him. Mr. McLennan said we are down to a little less then a 100 members.

IOU - Mr. Dolan to work with Mr. Dibble to put the MOUs on the Web site. Mr. Stafford also would like MOUs and ULPs on the web site, Action Item, Mr. Glowacki.

IOU - Mr. Dolan to send out addresses of web sites that have travel information and per diem rates.

Facility reimbursement � Mr. Hoover plans on setting up an account for his facilities so that facilities can have parties, union meetings etc. He believes that somehow we should get money back to our members.

Mr. McLennan stated that his region is virtually unanimous in wanting the work rules (TAUs) ratified and that they are tired of waiting on the pay. He feels this is indicative of the membership nationally. Mr. Pike was hesitant since this was discussed at STL and the FacReps voiced they wanted to hold the contract and see what happens in October. Also the same happened at the national meeting last year. Mr. McLennan feels that we should go back out to the members and see if maybe we should try to ratify the work rules without the pay. Board feels that membership should be polled again if pay is further delayed. Mr. Pike takes action item to do so if pay is not completed this year.

Meeting adjourned.