Next Meeting: SLRA is having our regular monthly meeting on Tuesday
evening, July 9th, at a changed location: St. Louis County Library – Mid County Branch (located in Clayton)
7821 Maryland Avenue - St. Louis. We will be in the small auditorium (MC) and have the room from 6:30 to 9:00 PM. My first time at this library will be Tuesday night, so I can't give exact instructions to the room until I get there. I'll be sure to update this post on Tuesday once I find out where the room is located.

You may get driving directions to the library using the following link to Google maps. Note there is a garage off of Maryland that has limited capacity and there is also on street parking.  We will need to discuss the meeting location for the August meeting since we only have the library room for July.

Meeting Event Link
The room will be availabe at 6:30 PM and  the business meeting will start at about 7:00PM.

If you're a member of SLRA, the meeting minutes from the July meeting will be available here: Meeting Minutes Forum Post

Topics for discussion at the July 2013 Meeting (partial list - filled as items come up).

1. We need to finalize plans for the July 20th launch event at the St. Louis Science Center Planetarium. John Lakey, Director of the Planetarium, will be attending the meeting and it is crucial that we have good attendance at this meeting in particular. Here is a partial list of issues to be resolved:

a. Questions for John.
b. Purchase and choice of rockets kits. Expenditure required. Finalize the number of kits and motors.
c. Procurement of tools and supplies for the public to use to build the kits with club member help.
d. Location of work space to build kits.
e. Schedule of the event. (build time, launch time)
f. Equipment for the event
g. Paper flyers for the event
h. Set up time the night before?
i. Weather decisions for the event
j. Access to the planetarium.
k. Who can help?

2. I've been contacted by the media department of the Science Center to arrange a possible tape or lived television segment prior to the 20th. We have at least one volunteer to help in front of the camera (Dan Welling) and would be looking for more or backups if someone is interested in helping out. The Science Center has also asked for us to do a small "science lesson" and a launch of a small number of rockets "on air". I emailed an idea of the "science lesson" to the media coordinator and she has pitched the segment to local stations. There was a response from KMOV (who already has a Science Center show on Saturday morning) to the media coordinator, but we have not been formally contacted. I (and my wife) am willing to help with this effort since this could be great exposure for the club, but we'll need more to help if we are asked. Time and place is TBD, but to make this work it would almost have to be at the Science Center archery field just before the Saturday event. I definitely cannot do this segment on my own, and if enough members are not available or willing to help, I will decline the segment to the media coordinator. The board of directors are aware of the request, and I'm letting the rest of the membership know in this post.

3. Next meeting location. We currently do not have the library room for August and need to discuss our future meeting locations. Ken, Rodney, and Mike Fischer had ideas for various locations and Ken did set up our July location. It looks like most restaurants require a minimum food purchase to use a room and this is typically more than $150. Many who attended our Growlers location did not purchase food prior to our meetings, but luckily Growler's never complained.  Any future location will almost certainly require a minimum and we need to discuss what we can commit to (possibly backing a purchase requirement from the club treasury?).

4. Our June Buder Park launch and issues with use of the field that came up with a Park Ranger. This may have a bearing on the use of Buder Park for an August scout launch - particularly if we have a large number of fliers (200) and cars trying to park.

5. The August proposed scout launch.

6. Status of logo shirts/hats etc.

7. GSLMA meeting

8. Members expenses:

Ken Gianino $10 for the use of the library auditorium for the July meeting.

On line and paper membership forms with payments received by mail  to be processed by treasurer and president.

Please comment on this post or email me at heyno@heino.com if you have anything to add, or questions or comments.

Heino Pull
SLRA Secretary