Words from the Chair and officers

• Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US))

Our annual meeting: planning for December at Fermilab

• Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US))
• Kaori Maeshima (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
• Steven Goldfarb (University of Melbourne (AU))
• Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas)

o Report from the Local Organizing Committee o Issues and next steps

The P5 Rollout o Report from the August P5 Rollout committee meeting o Draft Letter from Sekhar Chivukula o Planning for community support o Inputs before the P5 report release

AOB Note: We will likely need a second session to discuss the following items. We can include one if there is time left in the first session, but we cannot plan on that. o Committee Reports: Finance and Fund Raising; Government Relations, Web Presence and Social Media; Outreach and Communications. o Meeting at the US Mission August 18; follow up and next steps o Issues Arising: Visas, Taxation, etc.