Agenda for the January 30, 2011 Grex Board Meeting
6:30-8:30 p.m. EST, Big Boy, Plymouth Rd, Ann Arbor
1. Call to Order/Roll Call/Determination of Quorum
2. Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes
3. Schedule Next Meeting
4. Business
a. Election of Officers for 2011
b. Ides of March Meeting
c. Potential New Validation Methods (E-mail, paypal, friends)
d. Web New User Program (Status/Future)
e. Staff Departures/Absences/Additions
g. Town Hall Cf Item & Planning, continued
Location, Hardware, Services, Publicity, Membership, Implementation
h. Discussed But Not Decided (Our tabled discussions)
5. Status Reports (Staff, Treasurer)
6. Adjourn
We'll try the Big Boy again and hopefully that will work.
23 responses total.
We'll be missing this one, unfortunately. Sun and warmth calls. I'll give the manager a call tomorrow and give them a heads-up for 6-8 people.
Thanks, Mary!
I'd suggest reports come before business, as business might depend upon reports.
Reports? If we do reports before business, the entire meeting is about reports and no business gets done. Is that what you want?
Is doing reports after business shorter? The business will certainly be less informed, which might shorten it. Set a time limit on reports.
Yes the reports after business are shorter. I like to allow them about 10 minutes. They are status reports, after all, not staff meetings.
Kent does a fine job at keeping the meetings on track and moving along. The best I've seen, actually.
That is a good talent to have in someone running a meeting. I certainly don't have it. In fact, I am the opposite and tend to take meetings off track completely.
Note that if staff want the Board to address any issues, they can let me know directly or enter them in this item. I'll try to add them to the agenda (at the very least I'll bring them along as walk-in items). It's the deviations from the agenda at the very beginning of the meeting that usually derail everything. So that's why we've been moving the status reports to the end. It has actually worked pretty well that way and we've been getting through most of the agenda.
This meeting is canceled for Sunday night. Please suggest alternate meeting dates that will work better for you.
Would someone please call Big Boy and let them know? Thanks.
Big Boy has been notified.
Any Sunday will work for me. With advance notice, most other nights will work, as well: I pretty much set my own schedule.
Some weeknights would work, some wouldn't. Sunday evenings are usually fine.
Well, how about we push it out two weeks from last Sunday? Would that work for everyone?
It should be fine for me. Same time/same place, I assume.
Yes, same time/place. I'm hoping we can give people a chance to dig out from whatever they are doing right now (like shoveling).
resp:15 We should probably send out an email, too, about this proposed date--in case some of the board members don't check in here right away. I will send something out in a little bit...
Some people don't read this conference, some people don't read their e-mail. We should try smoke signals next time.
It's not that I (at least) don't read e-mail, or this conference; I just don't do so as often as I would like. :( I'll put the meeting for the 13th inst. on my calendar. Unless I say otherwise, expect me to be there. :)
Okay, Joe, I'll count that as an "attending" response.
Just a reminder: the rescheduled board meeting is this Sunday, 2/13. Still at 6:30 at Big Boy's on Plymouth Rd and US23.
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