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<p>Folks,</p>
<p>Please find the notes <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_January_11,_2021">here</a>
and below.</p>
<p> -- Mark</p>
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dir="auto">Hall D Staff Meeting, January 11, 2021</span></h1>
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<p>Present: Alexander Austregesilo, Fernando Barbosa, Eugene
Chudakov (chair), Mark Dalton, Alexandre Deur, Hovanes
Egiyan, Sergey Furletov, Mark Ito, Igal Jaegle, Keigo
Mizutani, Lubomir Pentchev, Patrizia Rossi, Sascha Somov,
Simon Taylor, Tim Whitlatch, Beni Zihlmann
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcements.2C_Eugene">Announcements,
Eugene</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Budget
<ul>
<li> flat for next 2 years</li>
<li> NP budget will be tight</li>
<li> EIC: request = 45 M$, actual = 30 M$</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> CEBAF: issue with C75 cavities resolved</li>
<li> Electrical training
<ul>
<li> technical staff will take 7 session course plus
practical exam</li>
<li> all the guys will do this</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> foreign connection disclosures: please complete if not
done already</li>
<li> plan developed for paying tariffs on crystals</li>
<li> KLF will get funds in FY22 for design work</li>
<li> GlueX hybrid program review
<ul>
<li> tentatively in Mark</li>
<li> closed review</li>
<li> external reviewers will participate</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> next PAC schedule for middle of July</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Near_Term_Plans.2C_Tim">Near
Term Plans, Tim</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> DIRC items on front burner
<ul>
<li> list posted in counting house</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> downstream platform work for CPP
<ul>
<li> working on getting drawings for mods out</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="CPP_Readiness">CPP Readiness</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Patrizia asked about schedule</li>
<li> Eugene:
<ul>
<li> group needs 3 weeks to prepare</li>
<li> probably February, earlier the better</li>
<li> schedule for next year soon to be released
<ul>
<li> CPP, PrimEx (finish), then GlueX</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Tapes_and_Processing">Tapes
and Processing</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Mark:
<ul>
<li> files have not come back from IBM</li>
<li> a checksum test will be performed on all files
written to LTO-08 media</li>
<li> LTO-M08 appears to be OK</li>
<li> all raw data files will be retrieved from duplicate
tapes without waiting for recovery info from IBM</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Alex A.:
<ul>
<li> Spring 2020 data
<ul>
<li> some REST missing</li>
<li> fully validated</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Summer 2020 data
<ul>
<li> some calibration skims missing</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Conferences">Conferences</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> approval easier with reduced cost to attend virtual
events</li>
<li> Patrizia: TA still needs to be opened to pay for
registration fees</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="New_Hire">New Hire</span></h2>
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<li> under review</li>
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