Hall A Coordinating Committee Meeting, 
June 23, 8:00 EDT.

Participants:
David Lhuillier (DL, phone), Kees de Jager (CWdJ)
Nilanga Liyanage (NL), Ron Ransome (RR, phone), Bodo Reitz (BR),
Xiaochao Zheng (XZ), Olivier Gayou (OG)

1) Report from the Hall A Leader (CWdJ)

a) After a start with lots of technical problems (RICH detector,
   powersupplies for HRS magnets) the Hypernuclei experiment E94-107
   is now running well. To compensate for the loss in the beginning
   a 4 day extension was granted, and it is very likely that they 
   will get another 3 days. HAPPEx will start later, but will be 
   compensated. Heating of the septa is still noticeable during 
   Hypernuclei.This will be partly be resolved by cooling the septa 
   in parallel for HAPPEx in stead of in series. In addition a 
   sweeper magnet will be installed which is expected to further 
   reduce heating effects.

b) Longer term future is still uncertain, JLab has no budget 
   level yet. It is unlikely that the budget cut will be as severe
   as in the Presidential Budget request, more likely closer to 
   the proposals from the Senate or the House. However the 12 GeV 
   upgrade has highest priority, and therefore the budget for the 
   physics division will be cut, resulting in fewer running days 
   in the next year.

2) CC members:

   Bodo Reitz and David Lhuillier are ending their term in the CC
   Ron Ransome wants to step down as chair of the CC,
   but will be available as at-Large member.
   Xiaochao Zheng and Olivier Gayou are the new Hall A CC members.

   Nilanga Liyanage was elected as chair, Xiaochao Zheng as 
   secretary of the Hall A CC.

3) Annual report:

   Deadline for submissions to the Hall A annual report will be in 
   mid October, so that the report can be finished for the next collaboration
   meeting in December. Formats of figures etc. will be defined more 
   stringent, to make the editing of the report easier.

4) New Collaboration Members:

   The following people were nominated to become members
   of the Hall A collaboration:

   a) Elena Kuchina
   b) Bernard Michel

   [ During the following business meeting of the Hall A Collaboration, 
   they were voted in. ]

   It was noticed, that several thesis students on Hall A experiments 
   are not Hall A collaboration members, because their advisors did 
   not formally inform the CC / Hall A leader.

   XZ will send an email to the collaboration.
   [ NL mentioned it at the following business meeting ]


5) Hall A proposal review, PAC 28 (BR) 

a) Three proposals for 6 GeV experiments have been submitted to the 
   collaboration for review, two new ones (Pb208(e,e'p); delta-D in SIDIS),
   and one jeopardy proposal (He-3(e,e'd)).
b) All three have been recommended by the reviewers to be accepted as 
   Hall A collaboration proposals, the CC agreed.
c) For the next PAC 7-10 proposals asking for beamtime in Hall A are 
   expected, there will be 51 days of beamtime available 
   (20 days + 31 jeopardy days)

6) Next Meeting(s)

a) Collaboration meeting in December, exact dates to be decided on,
   based on the schedule of PAC 29.
b) Format of the next meeting was discussed. It was suggested that 
   besides the standard status reports, it should include 
   a session with invited physics (theory) talks, and 
   a one-day analysis workshop should be organized immediately 
   before the meeting.
c) The CC will have an additional meeting before the next collaboration 
   meeting, tentatively scheduled in the week of September 12.

7) No borrel - due to rules from JLab management concerning 
   social events which might include consumption of alcoholic 
   beverages the borrel could not be hold in its traditional format,
   therefore it was canceled. These rules will also affect future
   end-of-run parties.