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Minutes of the October 1999 Grex Board Meeting
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Oct 31 20:02 UTC 1999 |
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October 1999 - Board of Director's Meeting
Minutes
Presiding: John Remmers (remmers)
Recording: Jan Wolter (janc)
Other Board Members Present:
Steve Andre (steve)
Mark Conger (aruba)
Scott Helmke (scott)
Misti Tucker (mta)
Members of the Public:
Steve Gibbard (scg)
Christopher Goosman (goose)
Mary Remmers (mary)
Board Members Absent:
Dan Gryniewicz (dang)
AGENDA ITEM 1: Gavel Banging
- John Remmers began the meeting at 7:34pm.
AGENDA ITEM 2: Chairman's Report
- Board did not meet in September. Oops.
AGENDA ITEM 3: Treasurer's Report
- Mark Conger presented the treasrurer's report for August. The full report
is available on-line in coop item 124.
* After eight consecutive months in the black, August was not a very
good month, income being rather low. We are once again paying the
full phone bill, the tax rebate being complete.
Total Income: $238.00
Total Expenses: $471.18
New Members: 2
* We ended the month with 93 members, 83 of which are fully paid up.
The number seems to have been slowly declining for a while now.
* Our bank balance ended at $5,344.24.
- Mark Conger presented the treasrurer's report for September. The full
report is available on-line in coop item 127.
* September was better than August, but not great.
Total Income: $326.20
Total Expenses: $474.43
New Members: 2
* We ended the month with 90 members, 79 of which are fully paid up.
The number seems to have been slowly declining for a while now.
* Our bank balance ended at $5,196.43.
- Mark Conger presented a preliminary report for October. The month looks
good so far, and should end well in the black.
Income to Date: $569.20
New Members to Date: 2
- There is some concern about the drop in the number of members. Looking
at Mark's graph of the number of members over time, it is evident that
there has been a slight drop, but nothing of really dramatic proportions.
- Mark also presented a series of graphs showing the longer run status of
Grex's finances. Generally things look very good.
* Monthly expenses have decreased significantly overall. We dropped
a couple dial-in lines and the IC-net link, we've reduced electric
usage, and we got rid of the bank service charges. This more than
covers our increased expenses for insurance premiums.
* The historical graph of income is extremely erratic - lots of boom
months and bust months. This is why we don't necessarily get
concerned over a few bad months like August and September above.
Generally, our income seems to be improving a bit. We had a couple
one-time windfalls recently - the phone tax rebate and the conversion
of the spare parts fund to general fund, but even setting these aside,
we seem to be maintaining a steady small surplus.
* Currently we spend about half of our money on phone lines.
* Income comes mostly from dues, but auctions play a big part too.
We'll look for ways to get some of these graphs on line.
AGENDA ITEM 4: Publicity Committee Report
- Misti Tucker, the Publicity Czar, reported no new publicity.
AGENDA ITEM 5: Technical Committee Report
- Steve Gibbard reported that Grex's ISDN line was down for a couple days.
Apparently one of Ameritech's cable's failed and had to be replaced.
The board thanked Steve for notifying Ameritech, and Ameritech for
repairing things substantially more quickly than we're used to seeing
Ameritech repair things.
- Steve Andre reports that the /c drive may be approaching the end of its
life. It will be replaced soon. He feels Grex generally goes through
drives fast.
- Steve Gibbard reports that the ventilating fan in the pumpkin is dead,
and it is getting hot in there.
- We've had a number of complaints of disconnects on the dial-in lines,
but haven't been able to discern any sense or pattern to this. Some
users are getting very reliable connections, some not so good.
- The staff actually had a full-scale staff meeting this month.
- Staff recommended that Michelangelo Giansiracusa be appointed to staff.
Jan Wolter moved:
I move that Michelangelo Giansiracusa be appointed to Grex root staff
with all the privileges and responsibilities appertaining thereto.
Scott Helmke seconded.
Passed, 6-0-0.
AGENDA ITEM 6: ACLU Suit
- It will likely be at least next summer, possible next fall before the
6th court hears our case. In the meantime, the law is on hold and
everything is peachy.
AGENDA ITEM 7: Credit Card Info
- We will be sending in our application now.
AGENDA ITEM 8: Future Planning Meeting.
- Tentatively scheduled: 5pm, Sunday Sept 21, at the home of Mark Conger.
AGENDA ITEM 9: Auction
- There will be another auction real soon now.
- Sara Arthurs (swa) and Jeffery Carey (coyote) have agreed to be
auctioneers.
- We will probably try setting a minimum bid of $5 on all items. This
should massively reduce the amount of work in tracking the bids, and
ensuring that all purchased items get delivered, without taking too
much out of the profits. Possibly smaller items can be sold as groups.
AGENDA ITEM 10: Schedule for Future Meetings:
- Tentative dates for the next board meetings:
7:00pm Tue, Nov 16
7:30pm Wed, Dec 15
AGENDA ITEM 11: New Business
- No new business.
AGENDA ITEM 10: Gavel Cessation
- John Remmers ended the meeting at 9:07pm
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response 4 of 18:
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Nov 1 00:03 UTC 1999 |
Thanks for posting these.
Incidentally, Zingerman's closes at 10pm, contrary to the 9pm I
was told on the phone when I reserved the room. But it may be
just as well that we thought we had to be out by 9, since it
motivated us to conduct business efficiently. We covered
everything on the agenda adequately, I think.
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