scott
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Minutes for the October 1998 Grex Board Meeting 10/28/98
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Oct 30 20:30 UTC 1998 |
The meeting was held at Zingerman's Next Door, as usual.
In attendance were:
Scott Helmke (scott, Secretary), Jan Wolter (janc, President), Valerie
Mates (valerie), Mark Conger (aruba, Treasurer), Dan Gryniewicz (dang,
Board), Charles Mitchell (arthurp), Eric Bassey (other), Steve Gibbard
(scg), Misti Tucker (mta, Board)
94 Initial Gavel Pounding - janc
The meeting was called to order at 7:41 pm by Jan.
69 Treasurer's Report - aruba
Last month about $30 in the hole, will likely break even this month.
September finances:
Beginning balance $3,424.90. Credits totalled $509.00, debits totalled
$542.15, for an ending balance of $3,391.75.
No activity in Grex Store. One new member. Currently at 101 members,
90 of which are paid up.
70 Publicity Committee - mta
Mista's husband has made some color versions of card flyer, no other
action.
57 Technical Committee - staff
ssh has been installed on Gryps for staff use. Backtalk default color
has been changed. Remmers is doing vote program. Valerie wrote cgi
script to list members. IC-Net link is in process of being cut. A
web-based passwd changer is being planned for the far future. There may
be a problem w/ backups, need to try again w/ different tapes.
"aucharch" (auction archive) account got mysteriously nuked.
55 Phone Line Reduction - aruba
janc had a sheet of statistics about logins via modem, basically showing
that the 13th line gets 1 or less per month. Aruba suggests cutting one
line this month, develop criteria for deciding more cuts in future (he's
writing a program to help predict usage). Possible criteria: amount of
time in use vs. longest busy signals.
(the board mulls over stats for a few minutes) General consensus on
cutting 2 lines, and using "lines full" time as a future criteria. Mta
moves that Grex cut 2 dialin modem lines. Seconded by scg. 7-0-0, the
motion passes.
40 New Cfadm - valerie
Walter Cramer (i) has been suggested as cfadm. Staff and current cfadm
approve, board approval is sought. Valerie moves that Walter Cramer
(login i) be approved for cfadm with all rights and responsibilities
appertaining thereto, seconded by mta. 7-0-0, the motion passes.
30 Communications Decency Act - valerie
Yes, the CDA is back in a slightly different form. It has been
suggested that Grex again display the "Blue Ribbon" protesting
censorship, but that Board ought to discuss/decide this, or to have
users decide. The new version doesn't seem to affect Grex as much as
previous version, so we may not have a direct reason to protest. Some
discussion about having a link to our conf item(s) discussing issue
instead of blue ribbon.
Board will defer to Coop (janc will enter an item).
20 New Business - all
valerie suggests rescheduling next to meetings to avoid holiday
conflict, to general approval.
Aruba advises changing bank account to Great Lakes bank to avoid fees.
This is Treasurer's prerogative, so Mark can go ahead and to it.
Aruba: should Grex consider investing as has been suggested? Nobody is
really interested right now (too much hassle).
10 Final Gavel Pounding - jan
Meeting closed at 9:02 pm
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keesan
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response 5 of 7:
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Nov 3 20:40 UTC 1998 |
You can write a check for $500 or for the full amount in the money market fund
to yourself, and deposit in the local bank. Presumably the three or so days
it took to clear would be adequate to cover rainy days. Money Market Funds
do not 'tie up' money, share prices are fixed so you cannot lose money, all
you can do is make more interest than at a bank. I suggest grex reserve
whatever it takes to cover monthly expenses in a checking account and if there
is $2500 left open a money market account, which can drop to $2000 or probably
a bit lower (at Fidelity they said lower was okay in practice).
How long does a check take to clear at Great Lakes? I will ask.
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