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remmers
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Agenda for the November 16 1999 Board of Directors Meeting
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Nov 9 14:19 UTC 1999 |
GREX BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, November 16, 7:00-9:00 pm
PLACE: Upstairs at Zingerman's Next Door
422 Detroit Street, Ann Arbor
AGENDA:
1 Gavel Banging - remmers throughout
2 Chairman's Report - remmers 5 minutes
3 Treasurer's Report - aruba 10 minutes
4 Publicity Committee - mta 5 minutes
5 Technical Committee - staff 15 minutes
6 New Business - all ?? minutes
7 Gavel Cessation - remmers 0 minutes
(Note: The meeting has been moved to an earlier date this month to
accomodate the Thanksgiving holiday.)
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remmers
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response 1 of 41:
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Nov 9 14:23 UTC 1999 |
This is a somewhat lean agenda. I've removed the ACLU suit because
there's unlikely to be anything new on it for a number of months. If
there's anything new on credit cards, Mark can make it part of the
treasurer's report. And the planning meeting has been scheduled.
If anyone has any topic they feel the board should take up, please
mention it in this item.
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eeyore
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response 2 of 41:
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Nov 9 15:52 UTC 1999 |
Out of curiosity, do you have an actual real gavel to bang?
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don
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response 3 of 41:
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Nov 9 18:16 UTC 1999 |
If I remember right, the minutes from a meeting a long, long time ago, when
there was a late quorum, depict people helping remmers to bang his gavel with
tape, staplers, and a bunch of other stuff.
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aruba
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response 4 of 41:
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Nov 9 18:18 UTC 1999 |
(Yes, there is a real Grex gavel.)
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mary
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response 5 of 41:
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Nov 9 18:27 UTC 1999 |
December is the month we decide whether someone from Grex will be
notifying our landlord (in January) of our intent to renew our lease for
another year. I suspect this won't take up much time but it should be on
the agenda.
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richard
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response 6 of 41:
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Nov 9 23:40 UTC 1999 |
i thought the gavel was auctioned off in the Auction conf...oh yeah,
that was the grex bat that got auctioned...maybe grex should have kept the
grexbat and sold the gavel
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don
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response 7 of 41:
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Nov 10 00:39 UTC 1999 |
No way! You need a gavel for any orders of buisness. One of the most prominent
rules in parliamentary procedure.
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scg
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response 8 of 41:
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Nov 10 06:54 UTC 1999 |
The gavel is an actual wooden gavel, which has been passed from President to
President for at least as long as I've been going to Grex board meetings.
Selling it in the auction seems like it would be a loss of tradition.
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mdw
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response 9 of 41:
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Nov 10 08:11 UTC 1999 |
n[n] = n[n-1]+1; n[0]=1.
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mary
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response 10 of 41:
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Nov 10 11:19 UTC 1999 |
The gavel was a gift from Mike Smerza, one of Grex's founders.
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don
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response 11 of 41:
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Nov 10 17:17 UTC 1999 |
Marcus, are you trying to signify with your code that we're making something
a lot harder than it has to be? Why not just use something like n++?
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albaugh
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response 12 of 41:
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Nov 10 17:19 UTC 1999 |
BTW, in my recent read of the bylaws, they seemed to mandate a *bi*monthly
board meeting, with special meetings as necessary. A monthyly meeting does
sound like a good idea to me, but just was wondering how it came to be a
monthly meeting instead of bimonthly...
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robh
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response 13 of 41:
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Nov 11 04:02 UTC 1999 |
Have a meeting each month helps make sure that the bimonthly meeting
requirement is met - remember, that's a requirement that a full
quorum of officers be present at the meeting. If we scheduled
the meetings once every two months, and then didn't make quorum,
we'd technically be in violation of the bylaws.
Waaaay back when I was on the Board, I think we skipped one month
in the summer, since we knew folks weren't going to be in town for
it anyway.
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mdw
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response 14 of 41:
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Nov 11 08:40 UTC 1999 |
(You missed the tradition, Don.)
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don
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response 15 of 41:
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Nov 11 16:39 UTC 1999 |
Educate my humble spirit at to your sacred rites, O great one.
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mdw
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response 16 of 41:
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Nov 12 00:49 UTC 1999 |
And spoil your fun? No way!
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don
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response 17 of 41:
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Nov 12 02:39 UTC 1999 |
*My* fun?
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lilmo
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response 18 of 41:
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Nov 15 23:35 UTC 1999 |
re resp:13 - also makes allowance for things like Sep, when there was no
board mtg at all. :-)
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dang
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response 19 of 41:
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Nov 16 20:29 UTC 1999 |
Marcus was elucidating on the numbering scheme for the agenda.
Traditionally, during the previous presidentship, the numbering scheme
was obtuse, and an impromptu contest was held to guess what it was.
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flem
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response 20 of 41:
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Nov 16 21:26 UTC 1999 |
(obscure. :)
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remmers
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response 21 of 41:
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Nov 16 22:39 UTC 1999 |
I'll add lease renewal to the agenda.
Re monthly meetings: The board started out meeting bimonthly as
per the bylaws, but during its first year of operation voted to meet
monthly, as board members felt that there was enough business to
warrant it, and that more frequent meetings would keep the conscious-
ness level higher. At the time, Grex was very much a startup
operation that had not yet achieved financial stability, so we
were continually having to worry about things like raising money
to pay next month's bills.
Meeting monthly still seems like about the right frequency, although
I don't think it would hurt to drop back to bimonthly meetings during
slower seasons (mainly summer).
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remmers
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response 22 of 41:
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Nov 16 22:51 UTC 1999 |
And re the gavel: It's not just any old gavel, but is a Deluxe
Walnut Gavel! It's a pleasure to wield.
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don
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response 23 of 41:
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Nov 17 00:54 UTC 1999 |
You must've been playing too much nethack, remmers. "wield"?
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eeyore
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response 24 of 41:
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Nov 17 03:35 UTC 1999 |
Actually, I was asking 'cause we sell them at work, so if there wasn't an
acutal gavel, I was gonna pick one up. And then when I saw it this evening,
I realized that you *HAD* the one from work. :)
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