Grex Board of Directors Meeting: January 23, 2007

Attending:  Mark Conger*, Dan Cross*, Lynne Fremont*, Joe Gelinas, 
Bruce Howard*, Larry Kestenbaum*, Jan Wolter*     * = board member

8:45p   opening gavel tap

TREASURER S REPORT

We took in $516.14 in December and spent $150. We had two returning 
members. At the end of December there were 60 members. 52 paid up and 
the others in a grace period. 

So far in January, we have taken in $90. 

Grex had a good year in 2006. This is mostly because we have cut 
expenses. We took in around $4600 and spent around $1900. We had around 
$2700 surplus. We also had two times as many new members as last year. 
We had 24 new members for a net gain of five members. 

The board wonders why are people coming back to grex? We don t know. It 
was suggested that we ask users. The list of members is public so any 
board member who wishes to do this can write to the members if they 
want to. 



STAFF REPORT

Grex is up. bhoward was asked if he still wishes to be involved in Grex 
staff issues and he said that he does. 

gelinas opened up newuser. He created a new group that doesn t have 
outbound access and set up new user to use that group. 

cross says that he can help fix some vulnerabilities with new user. He 
will make changes and will email them to janc

The current staff is janc, bhoward, steve, srw, mdw, i, gelinas, and kip

Users are getting frustrated waiting for things to happen. There is 
currently a pretty high first bar to get onto staff. We are not good at 
getting new staff members.  It was suggested that having staff meetings 
could help orient and support newer staff members. It would also help 
staff come to a consensus  

A staff meeting was planned for February at Janc s house.

Surplus   It was suggested that it could be spent on something like 
hardware. Perhaps a RAID setup or a hardware email proxy? Those things 
would need to be looked into because they are not things that can be 
done with minimal  effort and might increase our cost at provide.net. 

Mail is something that Grex needs to work on however. Grex also might 
want to look into doing new things. 


OLD BUSINESS

Schedule election to replace Remmers: 

Mark Conger moves that we hold a special election to fill current 
vacancy on the board. The nomination period will be from 1/24 to 2/5 
midnight and the voting period will be from 2/7/2007 midnight to 
2/21/2007 midnight. Lynne Fremont seconds. Motion carries unanimously. 

NEXT MEETING: Tuesday 2/27/2007 8:30p at Mark Conger s house


NEW BUSINESS:

Election of Officers: 
President   Lynne Fremont
Secretary   Jan Wolter
Treasurer   Mark Conger

Mark Conger moves that we thank John Remmers for his many years of 
service on the Grex Board of Directors and Staff. Dan Cross seconds. 
Motion carries unanimously. 

9:50 Closing gavel tap. 

2 responses total.

I can do staff work if required.

I keep forgetting that we added glenda to staff some time back.  She should
have been included in the list above.

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