The meeting came to order at 7:45pm on February 21st, 2005 at Pitchman's Pub in Halifax.

Present:

#143	Bernier, Susan			Waged
#90	Broughton, Derek			Waged
#244	Casey Of Chezzetcook (Cherry Fleming)			Unwaged
#238	Casey of Chezzetcook (Kevin Fleming)			Unwaged
	Comeau, Frank			friend
#33	Don Roscoe, Solar Designer/Builder (Don Roscoe)			Corporate
	Ford, Helen			friend
#312	Frank, Kable			Unwaged
#232	Furniture Medic (Shaun Kirkpatrick)			Waged
#109	Gibson, Lara			Unwaged
#25	Green, Carolyn			Waged
#225	Green Power Labs Inc. (Alexandre Pavlovski)			Corporate
	Green Power Labs (Marlene Moore)			friend
	Green Power Labs (Pierre Nie)			friend
#237	Island Earth Solar & Permaculture (Corey Bell)			Corporate
#512	Linzey, Doug			Waged
#48	MacKay, Daniel			Waged
#173	Melrose, Simon			Waged
	NovaSol Inc. (Peter Juchli)			friend
#208	O'Brien, Andy & Laurel			Waged
#235	Smith, Aaron			Waged
#75	Sustainable Housing (Terry Watters)			Corporate
#44	Taylor, Iain			Unwaged
	Taylor, Nan			friend
	Weatherbee, Doug			Waged

Regrets: Norval

Presentation Of Reports

Chair's report

It has been a quiet year at Solar Nova Scotia, with most of the efforts focused on continuing projects. Over the last year we have continued to maintain a presence at the fall and spring home shows. We have also offered three successful home tours. The next home show will be the coming weekend and the next home tour will be held on April 17th.

The solar courses have seen dramatic increases in enrollment and in the coming year Don will be offering courses in PEI and New Brunswick. The increase in interest in Solar, has also been reflected in the sale of manuals, which continue to sell out at both Plovers and the Book Room.

The two main project from this year have been the re-vamping of the Solar NS web page, and the building of a new membership base. The new webpage has been online for the past couple of months and the new database is now fully operational, which should allow us to keep better tabs on our members.

We thank everyone for their support and hope to push forward with new project in the coming year.

Treasurer's Report

Excess of receipts over expenditures	-1,084.45
Opening balance, December 1, 2003	5,098.83
Closing balance, November 30, 2004	4,014.38

Assets		Liabilities
Cash on hand	4,014.38	Members' equity	7,078.38
Inventory T-Shirts(4)	40.00	Outstanding liability	00.00
Manuals(216 @$14)	3,024.00
Total	$ 7,078.38	Balancing Total	$ 7,078.38

Approved at A.G.M., Feb 21,2005, Treasurer, Don Roscoe

Current account balance $4,619.

Projected Yearly $ Profile 2005
Income		Expenses
Membership 50 x $20	$1000	Telephone	$450
Corp. Memb. 20 x $75	1500	Postage	100
Manuals 80 x $7	560	Newsletter x 3	300
T-shirts/primers	40	Home Show x 2	950
		Society Registration	25
		Meeting Expenses	125
		Website Fees	150
	$3100		$2100

Membership chair's report

By Susan Bernier

We now have 143 members according to our member report database. Dan (the secretary) and I are working on the system and it is improving all the time. Don (the treasurer) and I have been working out a way for us to each get the info we need. We had Don doing most of the work at one point and that didn't seem fair to me and so I asked to revise it. The sending out of the membership notices went well and we learned a few things along the way.

Election Of Board for 2005

Slate: Chair: Andy O'Brien, Vice-Chair: Derek Broughton, Treasurer: Don Roscoe, Membership: Susan Bernier, News Editor: Norval Collins, Secretary: Daniel MacKay, Directors: Shawna Henderson,Carolyn Green, Lara Gibson, Kable Frank, Corey Bell.

Acceptance of the slate moved by Carolyn, seconded by Susan.

Congratulations, new Board!!

Discussion of Project Ideas

• Bring in provincial and federal people involved with possible rebate program
• Distribution of Primer or Kyoto / emission reduction message to atlantic canadians Would take developing of a package for delivery.
• We are missing the opportunity to do a raffle home or demo home.
• Should we consdier enlarging the scope of the group to include wind or other sources of alternative energy?
• Could we work in the direction of connecting with these groups?
• Discussion of advantages vs disadvantages of effectiveness of organization with a staffmember.
• Have we done outreach to provincial & federal parties?
• 2005 is a particularly important year for alternative energy. With 50$/barrel oil and Kyoto, alternative forms of energy should be practical at this point.