MINUTES OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS of the

North American Association of
Computational Social and organizational Science

The initial meeting of the Board of Directors of the Corporation was held at the office of the corporation, 1155 E 60th St. #049, Chicago IL, 60637 on January 13, 2003.

The Directors present were, Kathleen Carley, David Sallach, and Victor Lofgreen.

Temporary Chairman was nominated and elected and acted as such until relieved by the President, same being Victor Lofgreen.

The Chairman then presented and read to the meeting a Waiver of Notice of meeting, subscribed by all of the Directors of the Corporation.

Upon a motion duly made, seconded and unanimously carried, it was:

RESOLVED, that the Chairman be requested to cause the same to be spread at length upon the minutes.

The Chairman then stated that nominations for officers of the Corporation were in order. The following persons were nominated and thereupon elected to the position opposite their names to serve until their successors are elected and qualified:

PRESIDENT: Kathleen Carley
VICE PRESIDENT: David Sallach
SECRETARY: Victor Lofgreen
TREASURER: Douglas Samuelson

The President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer thereupon assumed their respective offices.

The following resolution was unanimously adopted:

RESOLVED, that the President and Treasurer be authorized, empowered and directed to open a bank account and to deposit therein all funds of the Corporation, payable on said account to be made in the corporate name and that a copy of the printed form of the bank resolution be appended to the minutes of this meeting.

The President then presented the Bylaws instructed that the bylaws be placed on the Web Site for 30 days for review and comment. A vote will be taken in after the 30 days to adopt the bylaws of the Association.

The President requested a motion to create the office of Association Web master. The motion was made and seconded and unanimously adopted.

Michael North was nominated to serve as web master. His nomination and election was adopted unanimously.

A motion was made and duly seconded and unanimously passed to set the dues of the Association at $100.00 for Regular members, which will include a subscription of the Journal. The dues for Student membership was set at $50.00 which will not include a journal subscription.

A motion to set the Corporate / Institutional membership rate was tabled until a later meeting where a more full discussion of the issues may be held.

On motion duly made, seconded and carried, the President was directed to designate such agents for service of process as the President may deem advisable from time to time, and to file with the Office of the Secretary of State, State of Illinois, immediately and thereafter as required, the appropriate certificates designating the offices and agent or agents for service of process on this Corporation, and further to file copies of the same as a part of these minutes.

There being no further business to come before the meeting, upon motion duly made, seconded and unanimously carried, the same was adjourned.

DATED: January 13, 2003

Respectfully Submitted:


Victor Lofgreen
Secretary

1155 E 60th St. #049
Chicago IL 60637