Present (online): Grand President Paul Lindner, Grand Vice President Keith Hileman, Executive Secretary Derek Troy, Treasurer Ed Hurst, Editor of The Castle Burt Wagner Central Province Councilor Chris Perez, Eastern Province Coucilor Mike Votaw, Jeremy Vandenhouten

1. CALL TO ORDER: Grand President Lindner called the Supreme Council to order at 6:05 PM PST on Tuesday March 6, 2000 on the Internet, in the #SigmaPhiDelta chat-room of the CastleNet Internet Relay Chat network. Six members of the Supreme Council were present, and thus a virtual quorum was present.
2. CASTLE: All pre-press work is done. The final proof will be sent out this week. Please get all comments back to Burt by next Sunday night so that the Castle can go to the printers on Tuesday of next week. We will be printing 5000 copies of the Castle.
3. JPC 2000: To be held at Eta Chapter. Planning looks good so far. We need to finalize plans for meeting and training topics. We will discuss things like rush, finance, and membership. Other ideas include fundraising, risk reduction, expansion and maintaining the chapter house.Webpage for convention will be up shortly at http://www.sigphi.org/jpc2000. We will be taking tours of Harley Davidson and Miller. Chapters will need to present their travel plans to the Central Province Councilor for approval to be reimbursed, all travel plans must be submitted by Mid May
4. SALARY COMMITTEE PROPOSAL: The salary review committee presented a proposal to create a National Director position that would be a full time paid position within the national organization. It would take over Expansion, Executive Secretary, and Circulation manager. The position would require 50,000 per year in budget for salary, and expenses. Motion to Table discussion so that everybody can review the proposal made by Derek Troy, Seconded by Burt Wagner. Motion Passed
5. STAR/SOLICITATION LETTER: The Star will be sent out 45 days after the Castle is mailed and will include a letter to solicit funds from the alumni members of the fraternity.
6. INTERNSHIP: Discussion about tasks for the interns. Pledge manual update, convert the Constitution and Statutory Code to html for the webpage, Update the history of the fraternity, update the rituals, chapter map, online form submission.
7. EXPANSION: Rutgers is a go for Colony status, they are working on their petition with help from Keith. Keith asks everybody to email the members there to show support. Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto has about 20 to 25 interested members and Keith is going ahead with them. They are hoping to be a colony by late April. We are also working with Rose-Hulman. The lettering scheme for colonies after omega is still being decided.
8. CHAPTER VISITATIONS: Chris will be visiting Phi in March. Burt will be visiting Delta in March. Paul will visit epsilon. Keith and Mike will go to Chi, Psi, and Rutgers in April. Paul will visit Alpha in March, Delta this week.
9. ISSUES AT ALPHA: Membership will be down to 7 next fall. The Alpha alumni are working with the Active Chapter developing a plan for recruitment and is working on helping the chapter out.
10. OTHER BUSINESS: Next meeting is Monday, April 3, 2000 at 6:00 PM PST

Meeting ended at 7:56 PM PST March 6, 2000.

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