mooncat
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Board Meeting Minutes May 6, 2003
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May 13 18:19 UTC 2003 |
Attending Board Members: Aruba, Mooncat, Mary, Gelinas, Other (arrived
7:52 pm)
Attending Non-Board Members: Steve, Bhelliom, Remmers, Kip
1. No Gavel, No quorum, Informal Meeting
Discussion item on what procedure should be if a board member has
missed three meetings. According to the bylaws the board may take
action, but no action steps are detailed. Decision made to e-mail the
board member in question as well as start an item in coop to gather the
opinions of Grex users.
2. Treasurer s Report: In the red this month. Took in $`44 in dues,
$143 in donations. Spent $1969, $1504.95 of that amount was for the new
hardware. The fundraiser so far has collected $877; the fund previously
had $1024 donated.
Currently we have 80 members, 78 are paid up. There were no new members
in April.
Aruba moved $1,000 from the savings account to checking to pay for the
hardware.
Had a paying member account locked due to sending spam mail. A refund
of his dues for the duration he was paid up was sent to him.
3. Staff: Definitely need UPS batteries. Steve called the maker, UPS
may be ill or the batteries need to be replaced (due to certain lights
that have gone on). Steve called Interstate Batteries; they have a
location in Ann Arbor. As soon as Steve gets the data he needs he will
contact Mark and replace the batteries- states that we want them very
soon.
Steve met Denny Helm- who is connected to the landlords) and gave him a
key to the Pumpkin (so they could get the door open when they replaced
the hall carpeting). Steve will get more copies of the key made and
give them to Aruba.
One of the modems may have been flaky, Steve killed it and then revived
it- he will keep an eye on it.
4. New Computer Update: $1,504, everything paid for. At the time of the
meeting everything had arrived except for the disks and OS. Delay on
disks caused by problems with NewEgg's address policy will not send
to a PO Box and wouldn t accept any other address than the one listed
for the credit card (which for us is a PO Box)- so Aruba had to send a
check and delivery waited for the monies to clear.
The OS version was only released as of May and the supplier got
backlogged. If we are lucky they sent it out to us by the end of last
week- and it should arrive in 7-10 days or so.
Conversation turned briefly to the portioning of the disks and Steve
added that he would like to see us purchase a fourth SCSI disk. At this
point we have only ordered 1 SCSI and 1 IDE. Determination made to
order two more SCSI disks, likely from Leeron.
5. Fundraiser update: $887 raised, Aruba expects another $50 to be sent
in by a donor.
6. Auction Update: at the time of the meeting 11 items had been
donated, 3 more items were added after an e-mail was sent to prior
donors. The Auction will start very soon.
7. New Staff Positions: Steve will send e-mail to staff about new
people so that a list of names can be assembled before the next board
meeting for the board s approval. Comments added by Kip regarding coop-
it is stated to be the place for the guidance of Grex, and yet it comes
across as being led by a very insular group. More discussion to follow
in an item created for this purpose.
For staff- we would like them to come up with a breakdown of what they
do in tiers- so that you can see what dangers there are based on the
tier- correlating to what access will be given to new staff members.
9. New Business: None
10: Next Meeting: Monday June 2nd, 7:30 pm.
11: Gavel at 9:21 pm.
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flem
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response 2 of 10:
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May 13 19:16 UTC 2003 |
Sorry I wasn't able to attend. I had intended to, but discovered that I had
a prior commitment that I could not break. If the absentee board referred
to above is me (possible, I know I missed the March meeting, though I thought
I'd been to the one before that), rest assured that I'm still paying
attention, at least. :)
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mary
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response 3 of 10:
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May 13 20:35 UTC 2003 |
When Eric (other) arrived we then had quorum. I don't think we
were very far into the agenda at that point, but I don't remember
exactly what was being discussed. But this meeting counted as
an official meeting.
Too, the next meeting will need to start at 7:45, on May 2nd, not
7:30 as per usual. Another group has the kid's room until 7:30.
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gelinas
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response 5 of 10:
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May 14 00:29 UTC 2003 |
That's 7:45, JUNE 2, at Zingerman's, right? A Monday, according to my
calendar.
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