To our Members,

Thank you for all the information and changes you provided, the key item removed from the bylaws was Article 14, where examination of the Court records on Closure and Liquidation superceded this. In short, no members may gain from the sale of the club. After any final adjustments this month, I will send it to our attorney for review and then have a membership vote. Please reply to president@sccsfa.org and show the line number.

Derek Strine, Club President


[Link removed. The final draft of the new Bylaws is being prepared.]

Please click on the link below to view our new Draft Bylaws in PDF format.

[Link removed. The final draft of the new Bylaws is being prepared.]


These were first written in 1947, updated in 1988 with changes over the years. The Bylaws Committee has retained the information but updated it to conform to modern practices. We have reviewed them at several meetings and now would like our members' opinion. Once completed they will be issued for a membership vote and approval.

Summary of changes:

Line 58 added Military Duty
Line 94 Stated term of Officers & Directors
Line 227 Treasurer allowed electronic banking
Line 252 Added Information Technologies Committee
Line 300 Changed mailing a newsletter to electronic bulletin

Derek Strine
President SCCSFA
Reply to: president@sccsfa.org

We've added a new chart to the Membership page detailing how membership costs are pro-rated, depending on which month of the year a new member joins SCCSFA.

SCCSFA's IT Committee could use another member or two. The IT Committee supports the operation of the club by maintaining the office PCs, the firewall for our Internet connection, and our website and mailing list. Skills we need include:

• Windows XP
• TCP/IP networking
• PHPList
• Astaro Secure Linux
• PC hardware
• Networked DVRs

Also, we'd like to migrate the website to a content management system such as Drupal or PHP-Nuke (or something else, we're open to suggestions).

If you have some time to volunteer to help out our club please contact the IT Committee Chairman, Dave Markowitz, davemarkowitz@gmail.com.

UPDATE 2/9/12:

Thank you to all who replied. We're now good with respect to people who can help support the equipment at the club but we could still use someone with CMS experience.

As a reminder, SCCSFA will hold its next meeting tomorrow night, Tuesday,November 29, 2011 commencing at 8:00 PM. See the link below for a proposed agenda (PDF reader required).


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As you can see, the SCCSFA.org website is now back online. Sometime last Saturday night/Sunday morning, a tree was blown over and took down both the power and Verizon lines to the clubhouse. PECO restored power yesterday and Verizon should be restoring our phone and Internet service shortly.

At last night's membership meeting, the Board of Directors approved migrating the website from a server hosted at the club to an outside hosting company. We're using Hostgator, down in Texas. The new server is located in a proper data center with better backup power and ten redundant Internet connections. Now that the website and email have become the primary means by which the club communicates with its members, we felt it was time to make this move. Hopefully, server outages will now be a thing of the past for SCCSFA.

To all current members:
 
If you currently possess an orange membership card, your membership expires on September 30.

If you currently possess an orange membership card your membership does not expire June 30.

The previous announcement about membership renewals was for people who had not already renewed by the end of 2010.
 
Renewal notices will be mailed out around the first week of September.
 
Please wait until you receive your renewal form before sending in your payment.
 
Thank You,
Amy Jo Hutchins
Membership Chairperson

We're currently having some technical difficulties with our connection so you may experience some problems with the site being slow.

Edit 4/10/11:

We're fixed and back online with a new, better firewall.

A reminder since 2010 posts have been archive (click on 2010 below left to see them), the October - December 2010 SCCSFA Newsletter is available for download as a PDF from the Newsletter page.

Tags: Administrivia, News, Events

To all SCCSFA Club Members:
 
The 4th quarter 2010 Newsletter for your club, showing the accomplishments and work done by many club members is now available for download from this site.  If you have a question about the club, the list of Officers & Directors is here on the web site.  Take a minute and check it out.
 
--Charlie Fountain, Past President