Cyberspace Communications Board Meeting Minutes - June 28, 1999

Jun 30 18:02 UTC 1999

                         Cyberspace Communications
                  June 28, 1999 - Board of Director's Meeting
                                   Minutes

Presiding:  John Remmers (remmers)
Recording:  John Remmers (remmers) & Jan Wolter (janc)
Board Members:
    John Remmers (remmers)
    Mark Conger (aruba)
    Scott Helmke (scott)
    Misti Tucker (mta)
    Steve Andre (steve) [LATE]
    Jan Wolter (janc) [LATE]
    Dan Gryniewicz (dang) [ABSENT]

Members of the Public:
    Andrew Lanagan (drew)
    Steve Gibbard (scg)
    Andrew Lanagan (drew)
    Arlo Mates (arlo)
    Valerie Mates (valerie)
    Mary Remmers (mary)

John Remmers gaveled the meeting to order at about 7:10. Only four
board members were present, one short of a quorum.

Treasurer's Report (aruba):
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We're in the black for May, but only because we didn't have a phone
bill.  We will be in the black for June, and have been in the black
every month since December.  Our bank balance of approximately $4800
is Grex biggest ever.  There are 93 members, 87 of whom are paid
up. The insurance policy required by our new lease began June 1, but
the insurance company hasn't cashed our check yet.

Auction (aruba):
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We should start thinking about the next auction, and in particular
when it should start.  The last auction ran July to April.  Mark does
not want to be auctioneer; volunteers will be solicited online.
Alternative methods of running the auction, e.g. letting each donor
control their own item, were suggested.

Publicity Committee (mta):
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Misti noticed that we now have publicity in the Michigan Union -- a TV
screen showing the public access cable channel where Grex's logo pops
up frequently.

Misti is willing to produce flyers for the Art Fair and wants
volunteers to help distribute them; she will not do this alone, as she
had to last year. Scott Helmke and John Remmers volunteered to help
out.

At approximately 7:25 Jan and STeve arrived, making quorum.

Technical Committee:
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Scott has got all of Grex running off the UPS now.  Should improve both
reliability and power use.

Scott has Grex wired up to the power meter, but is not sure that it is
giving correct readings yet.  Needs to check some more.

STeve says there have been two bad sectors on the /a disk partition.  He
doesn't think the disk is dieing.  These bad sectors can be mapped out.

We have had some more SCSI disk enclosures donated, and we have figured
out how some of the ones we had can be put to use (we thought they would
only work on 220 volt power, but they are switchable).  So we now have
plenty of enclosures for disks.

Intermission:
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Everyone scatters looking for food and drinks.

Delinquent Board Members:
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Mark moves:

   If a board member is late paying his or her dues, the treasurer will
   inform the entire board by e-mail.  If he or she still has not paid
   by the time the "New Business" item is reached at the end of the next
   board meeting, the board will consider the matter and take
   appropriate action.  This may include declaring the board member's
   seat vacant.

Misti seconds.  Passes 6-0-0.

ACLU Suit:
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Suit has been filed.  All current information is on-line in coop.

There was some discussion of what we should do to prepare for the
possiblity that the suit wouldn't prevent the law from going into force
on August 1.  We didn't think this was likely, and didn't feel we needed
to worry about it yet.

Credit Cards:
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Dan was not present, so this was not discussed.

Inventory of our Stuff:
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Mark has made a list of equipment.  Staff will assign best guesses of
market values at the next staff meeting.

Future Planning:
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John has not yet scheduled a meeting.  He will do so.

New Business:
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No new business.

Meeting was adjorned.

response 2 of 4:

Jul 8 21:04 UTC 1999

"dying", not "dieing" (or whatever it was you typed *grin*)

Re Inventory:  perhaps the staff will assign values BEFORE the next meeting,
and present them then?  :-)

Good policy on delinquent board members.  Firm enuf that we know something
needs to be done, and when, but with a big enuf fudge factor that the level
of action to be taken can be fitted appropriately to the circumstances.

response 4 of 4:

Jul 9 22:26 UTC 1999

Ah-ha...  ambiguity then on "next meeting".  We were both correct.  :-)