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"AMA purchased the John Pond plans service. This consisted of 15,000 plans at a cost of $25,000. It also includes 1,600 engine drawings. The major purpose of purchasing the collection was for archiving in the Museum. However, there is an opportunity to generate income from this acquisition. As Pond ran his service, he generated about $40,000/year in sales since 1995. Two individuals have made proposals to duplicate and fulfill the plans orders. There is also the possibility of setting up the operation in-house at AMA. The President appointed a committee comprised of Charlie Bauer, Rob Kurek, Bob Hunt and himself to recommend the best way to serve the members. The following should be included in the committee’s discussions: the focus should not be only the Pond plans, it should include AMA’s and others which may become available to AMA in the future; the ED indicated she is not completely satisfied with the engineer currently doing the transfers and the goal was to eventually bring it back in-house; look at pricing structure; determine the cost (including equipment, materials, employee). The committee will present it’s finding to the Executive Council prior to anything being done."