Per the Standing Orders: 11-2.18) Effective with the minutes of the 2016 Second Meeting of the Board of Directors the procedure for the approval of Board meeting minutes will be as follows: 1. The Secretary will circulate draft minutes to Board members as soon as possible after the meeting. 2. Once Board members have had the opportunity to review the draft and offer comment, a final draft will be circulated. 3. Three business days after distribution of the final draft, the Secretary will call for a vote by electronic mail to approve the minutes. 4. The minutes will be declared as approved upon the receipt of affirmative votes of eight or more directors within three business days of the call for the vote. 5. The final minutes will be made available to members following formal approval. As of this morning I have received nine replies: For Approval: (8) Lisenco, Pace, Williams, Norris, Holden, Allen, Boehner and Carlson. For Not-Approval: Frenaye. No response: Tiemstra, Williams, Abernethy, Norton, Sarratt, Woolweaver. The conditions of the standing order being met, the minutes are approved. They will be posted and circulated to the reflector later this morning. Thanks and 73 Dan Henderson, N1ND Assistant Secretary - American Radio Relay League, Inc. Regulatory Information Manager ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio 860-594-0236 dhenderson@arrl.org<mailto:dhenderson@arrl.org>