Triangle – Pitt Chapter
Alumni Meeting – November 5, 1999

Attendance:	Alumni:	Pat Azouri – Alumni President
				Jeff Graeber – Alumni VP of Physical Plant
Eugene Hendricks (Spock) – Alumni Secretary
Bob Petrick – Alumni Treasurer
				Adam Jewel
Kurt Over – National Councilman
				Brain Snyder (Opie)
				
Actives:	Jason Vining (Nugget) – Active President

Meeting called to Order: 6:07 PM

Meetings with Guido (Education and Leadership Councilor)
Azouri:	
•	Par 3 Meeting (not productive except for working on Handicaps)
•	Met on Sunday night
o	Greek Advisor Meeting
o	Physical Plant
•	Alumni taking over repairs so Actives can concentrate on brotherhood and rush
o	Alumni Challenges
•	Involvement
•	Active Cultivation
•	Sorority Baby-sitting at events
o	IFC Participation
•	Benefits
•	Minimal for the Chapter at the moment

Petrick:
•	Meeting on Tuesday for Lunch
o	Comparison between Pitt and UWM
o	Bear minimum participation in IFC
o	Housing Issue
o	Meeting on Thursday with someone from Pitt’s business office
o	Alumni Events
o	Officer Transitions
o	Treasurer Stuff
o	BLF (about new house with Jim Marshall)

Hendricks:
•	Met on Sunday, after Active meeting
o	Alumni Involvement
•	Specialized events
•	Family
•	Non Alcoholic
o	Officer Manuals
•	Active
•	Alumni
o	Tutoring
•	Spock’s job at Pitt
•	During Study Hours

Graeber:
•	Split between Local and National Topics
o	National (0.1%)
•	Programs for the Fraternity
•	Preventive maintenance
•	BLF 
o	Local (99.9%)
•	Letter to Actives about what exactly the Alumni are doing
•	Actives don’t do repairs
•	Related to house
•	Independent consultant for physical construction
o	Two people contacted

“Guido did a very good job of rattling cages.” – Vining

Pledge Education (Vining):
•	Received New Member Manual from National
•	Received New Pledge Education Manual
•	Both items newly printed for this Fall

Housing and Risk-management Conference (Petrick):
•	To be held January 7th and 8th in Atlanta
•	Cost
o	Room: $69
o	Registration: $185
•	BLF deferring travel and registration for one Alumni Board member from each Chapter

Active President’s Report (Vining):
•	Brotherhood Discussion (on-going)
•	Housing Issue
•	Tutoring
o	Free to all Pitt Engineers
o	Held during Study Hours
•	Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
•	7 PM to 10 PM
•	420 Benedum

Triangle Review Articles (Spring Issue):
•	Graeber: Real Estate
•	Hendricks: Tutoring

Treasurer’s Report (Petrick):
•	Actives to pay some moneys in advance in order to build up the Chapter accounts
•	Active debt to Nation at $520
o	To be taken care of over the weekend
•	Active debt to Alumni at almost $4,000
o	To be taken care of after the meeting

Digression by Azouri, Petrick and Snyder about various checking account options.

“Enough ****ing bank talk, let’s move on.” – Graeber
(Ed. Note: As opposed to normal bank talk, Jeff?)

Housing Issue:
•	Howard Hanna’s current offer stands at around $225,000
•	HH to send a contract for the Chapter to look over
•	Answer is still a tentative “no”

Graeber:
•	Should we have a debate?
•	Graeber volunteered to make a general summary
•	Inform general membership of:
o	Current status of Pitt’s offer
o	Current status of Howard Hanna offer
o	Consultant’s report
o	Voting Dates

Motion:  “Spend money from the Alumni account to pay for independent investigation.”
-	Petrick / Over
-	Passed (Unanimous)

Motion:  “Spend no more than $800, at this point, to secure legal representation for the deal between the chapter, Pitt, Howard Hanna and possible contractor(s).”
-	Petrick / Graeber
-	Passed (Unanimous)

To Do Additions:
	Graeber:	Deal with the building contract(s)
			Legal Representation
	
Petrick:	Legal Representation
		Pitt Contacts

Information Packet (Housing);
•	To be mailed by December 15th to all Alumni

Information Sessions (Housing):
•	Saturday, the 15th of January at 6:00 PM at the Chapter House
•	Tuesday, the 18th of January at 6:00 PM at the Chapter House
•	Each to be limited to two hours (maximum)

Voting Sessions (Housing):
•	Saturday, the 29th of January from 4 PM to 6 PM at the Chapter House (Social to follow)

A Formal Corporation Meeting will be held in order to vote on the issue.

“I was going to have a speech balloon coming out of Glatisant.” – Petrick, on info session in the newsletter.

To Do Additions:
Over and Hendricks:	Decide on the procedures and mechanisms for allowing proxy votes.

Motion:	“Expend no more than $250 for a smoke detector in every room and one Carbon Dioxide detector for the downstairs, to be installed by Br. Petrick or Br. Petrick and the Actives after the detectors are purchased.”
-	Petrick / Graeber
-	Passed (Unanimous)

Motion:	“Expend no more than $100 to inspect and clean the furnace.”
-	Petrick / Graeber
-	Passed (Unanimous)

To Do Addition:
	Graeber:	Investigate cost for repair of front door.

Next Alumni Meeting to be held on Friday, December 10th at 6 PM at the Chapter House

Alumni Board Meeting to be held on Thursday, November 18th in Benedum Hall.
(Ed. Note: This was canceled due to the board getting everything accomplished at Charlie’s after the meeting.)
“Jeff, what do you want to do with the asbestos, or as we’ve affectionately termed it the “Black Death”, downstairs?” – Vining
(Ed. Note: Graeber responded with various Physical Plant gibberish.)

Motion:	“That Dr. Cugini be accepted as the new Faculty Advisor.”
-	Graeber / Petrick
-	Passed (Unanimous)

Meeting Adjourned 8:10 PM