\section{Committee Membership and Business}

The current members of the UC are pleased overall with the functioning and
composition of the committee.  NRAO has demonstrated that it is responsive
to the concerns of UC members.  The creation of the agenda on the basis of
UC suggestions is an important example of the healthy state of this 
interaction.  A few items deserve some consideration.

Committee composition does not reflect the investment and interest of NRAO
in ALMA.  We encourage NRAO to bring in new members from the millimeter 
interferometry community.  We also encourage NRAO to make an effort to draw
in members who are not past employees, students, or postdocs of NRAO.  We
applaud NRAO for its efforts to include members on the committee who are
not self-identified as radio astronomers.  They give the committee an
important breadth and community-wide perspective.

The committee is open to continued interactions with NRAO outside of
the scheduled two-day meeting.  In the past year, the UC responded to NRAO
requests for comments on rapid response to an unusual transient and
formation of a new transient policy, the NRAO GLAST MOU, and GBT
dynamic scheduling.  We discuss in other sections the importance of keeping
the UC engaged in decisions similar to the GLAST MOU.  The committee would
prefer more lead time to permit more substantive contributions, if possible.  
Interactions by telecon and by email sometimes with a subset of the UC 
are productive and efficient uses of time.

The earlier the date of the meeting is set, the more members can contribute.  
We recommend the following dates ... and request that NRAO select the
date for the next UC meeting by 1 January 2008.