Board Meeting 55

Meeting 55

22 & 23 May 2024  – Dartmouth College, USA

Travel and Accommodation

BM#55 Notice March 2024 Dartmouth

Attendance Register BM55 – May 2024

ZOOM LINK – 22 May 2024

ZOOM LINK – 23 May 2024

PAPERS

1. AGENDA for BOARD MEETING 55

1.1 Welcome

1.2 Apologies and Proxies
       1.2.1 Proxy – MSh
1.3 Appointment of Directors
       1.3.1 NRF Letter – Board of Directors – SALT – 15 May 2024
       1.3.2 UKSC Director appointment – May 2024
1.4 Draft Minutes Board Meeting 54 – Nov 2023
1.5 Additional Items
2. Telescope and Instrument Operations
2.1 Board Meeting 54 – Action Items
2.2 SAAO Directors Report
2.3 SALT Operations Report
       2.3.1 Astronomy Operations Report
       2.3.2 Technical Operations Report
       2.3.3 Spares Control Report
2.4 SALT Science Output
       2.4.1 RSS Relative Throughput
       2.4.2 Scatter Light New
       2.4.3 SALT Science Output – May 2024
2.5 Safety
3. Development/Maintenance Projects
3.1 Board Meeting 54 – Action Items
3.2 Report of the STC
        3.2.1 SALT Software Efficiency Developer Report
3.3 Projects Status Report
       3.3.1 Slit Mask Integral Field Units (SMI)-SALT Board Report May 2024
       3.3.2 NIRWALS
                  3.3.2.1 NIRWALS_2024_May_ Bd_Rpt_final
                  3.3.2.2 NIRWALS Project Report
       3.3.3 Project Report – Longslits
       3.3.4 Project Report – Calsys
       3.3.5 RSS Upgrade Project Report
3.4 SII Project
3.5 3 Year Resource Plan
       3.5.1 Project and Resource Assessment Report – BEC#83
4. Corporate Governance 
4.1 Board Meeting 54 – Action Items
      4.2.1 Minutes BEC 83 – 2 Feb 24
      4.2.2 Minutes BEC 84 – 3 April 24
      4.2.3 Executive Meeting – BEC 85 – 26 April 2024
4.3 Finance and Audit Committee
4.4 King IV Checklist and Compliance Proposal
        4.1.1 DRAFT TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE BOARD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE – May 2024
        4.1.2 TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE FINANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEE
        4.1.3 TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
        4.1.4 TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR SUGAR
4.5 DRAFT SALT RECRUITMENT AND APPOINTMENT PROCESS
4.6 SAAO-SALT OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT 2025 – Working Draft 23-05-2024
        4.6.1 Draft Framework for SAAO Cost Allocation to SALT for 2025 Agreement – May 2024
        4.6.2 Draft Framework for KPI for 2025 Agreement – May 2024
4.7 Future Vision for SALT
5. Business Management
5.1 Board Meeting 54 – Action Items
5.2 Financial Report – 31 March 2024 – Act 2023-24 and Budget 2024-25
        5.2.1 Funds and Debtors – 31 March 2024
        5.2.3 AR and DF Projects – Updated May 2024
5.3 Draft AFS 2024
5.4 Shareholding Status
        5.4.1 2024-04-21 Letter re Southampton exit
        5.4.2 UW_drawdown_20240509
5.5 Ops Levies and Time Allocation 2024-25
        5.5.1 SALT Time Allocation 2024-1
5.6 NIRWALS Valuation
        5.6.1 NRF Letter SALT NIRWALS Evaluation_13 May 2024
                   5.6.1.1 UW_NIRWALS_support_20240515
        5.6.2 SALT-NIRWALS-EvalComm-Charge_160524
        5.6.3 SALT-NIRWALS-EvalComm-Membership_160524
5.7 SALT Collateral Benefits at Partner Institutions
        5.7.1 https://camk.edu.pl/en/archiwum/2024/05/07/summer-student-program-2024/
6. Corporate/Financial Decisions
6.1 Board Meeting 54 – Action Items
6.2 Financial Requests
6.3 Corporate Decisions
7. Review of Action Items and Decisions
8. Next Meetings
8.1 Board Meeting 54 – Action Items
8.2 Details of 56th meeting
8.3 Venue and Schedule for 57th and 58th meeting
9. Closure