Abstract
At its meeting last month in New Orleans, the American Chemical Society Council acted on a number of matters, including setting membership dues for next year, selecting candidates for president-elect, and raising meeting.registration fees for students. However, the absence of petitions to amend society governance documents—a frequent item on the council's agenda—helped hold the length of the meeting to less than three and a half hours. On the matter of membership dues, the council voted to retain 1997 dues at the same $99 level as this year (C&EN, April 1, page 6), even though the bylaw formula for adjusting dues for inflation would have increased dues $3.00 next year to $102. However, in view of a strong budgetary performance in 1995, with an increase of $15.8 million in unrestricted net assets, the Society Committee on Budget & Finance recommended no increase in dues—a motion carried unanimously by the council. The committee cautioned that future years ...
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