Minutes ERA Board of Directors Wednesday February 20, 2013. Call to order 6:35pm CST. Attendees: Tom Barrett, John Prinvale, Drew Withrow, Henry Henke, Joe Bradish, Rick King, Mike Schroeder, Mike Dietrich, Ken Plourde, Bill Skillings, Dean Conner, Bob Thomas, Wes Grueninger, Larry Hagemeister, Daren Roggentien. Executive Vice President Ken Plourde chaired the meeting. 1: Treasurers Report: a. Chris Thompson was unable to attend and provided the following report. The ERA has a current balance of $31,324.03 in the ERA checking account with all bills paid in full. 2: Membership Report: a. c. Mike Schroeder reported that of 5 supplier members that had their membership expire 2 renewed, | was out of business | felt they did not receive any benefit of being a ERA member and | was low on funds. Mike reported that they have signed there first ERA Web guest as a new member. Mike informed that Darlene has been sending out a lot of information and making many calls to delinquent members as well as contacting prospective members. Bob Thomas added that he has been in contact with Darlene on any prospective members that had contacted him through the ERA Tech. Line. Mike commented that some guest members had complained about not being able to access the information that they were looking for. Wes Grueninger added that guest members are limited on what they can view on the ERA Web Site. Technical/Training Committee Report: a. b. Bob Thomas reported that the Tech. Line has had normal usage for the month. Bob informed attendees that he has had several calls on the Denso SD starter and would like to acquire a core to use to write an ERA Tech article. Art Glass informed the committee that the “40-42-50 MT” series Delco starters with a wet clutch application use a different oil seal in the lever housing than the standard starter. The wet clutch seal is of the double lip design and is available from Delco with a part # 1891143. Some attendees had never had a problem with the seal failing. Larry Hagemeister commented that he has had more trouble with the “10-27 MT” series starters. Joe Bradish added that he was able to get a double lip design seal for the “10-27” series from a bearing supplier that he uses.