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Minutes of Genesee Free-Net Board of Directors Meeting April 26, 2001Flint Public Library Flint, MI
Mary Ann Chick-Whiteside President ABSENT:
Sara Lajavic Call to Order Chairperson M. A Chick-Whiteside called the meeting to order at 5:25 PM. PUBLIC COMMENTS There were no comments from the public CHANGES TO AGENDA There were no changes to the agenda as published and distributed OFFICERS REPORTS Chair. No Report Vice President. L. LeMieux announced that the GFN office was temporarily being housed in TUCOWS building. He indicated the quarters were very good. Secretary's Report The current Secretary has resigned. G. Viele agreed to take minutes. He had no report. Treasurer's Report The Treasurer reported that there is $28,000 in checking and $66,000.00 in CD's. She reported that some of the MERIT modem fee was paid in the amount of $9800.00 in April. She reported that financially, the GFN is more comfortable at this time of year than it was a year ago. There was nothing unusual to report except that she had received a notice of cancellation for Directors and Operations insurance policy. She will investigate this more fully on Friday. COMMITTEE REPORTS Finance Committee No Report Web Site Committee Two changes were made. There were some reported directory access problems that were repaired. Office Committee Report given previously via email. System Administration K. Thomas reported that investigation of the MERIT system revealed that it is possible to restrict the session by session and/or by length of time per day. It is possible to set up mail server and domain software. It is possible to set up per day limits to sign-ons. However there will be some lead-time required to accomplish this. C. Cramer reported that he has rewritten the system administration program to make scripts easier to use. He also reported that he has rewritten the script to count the number of hits per web page more accurately. L. LeMieux reported that the City of Linden representative has been active in setting up a domain via GFN. The primary address should be GFN and the secondary should be Falcon. Currently the reverse of the above arrangement is in effect. The Linden account will have to notify the site where he (they) bought the domain name. OLD BUSINESS L. LeMieux reported that all the information he has on the Naples freenet has been reported and forwarded. NEW BUSINESS Resignation Sara Lajavic has resigned because she no longer meets the requirements for a Board member per M.A. Chick-Whiteside. Volunteers M. A. Chick-Whiteside has or will send a card of thanks to the GFN volunteers. Account Proposal Discussion was held concerning S. Swedorski's proposed document dealing with the revised account proposal. Agreed to but not voted on were the following items after extended deliberation and discussion: Setup fees to be deleted "A" of the proposal was accepted after changing the time period to 2 hours. "B" accepted. "C" add "as long as available" after name. Add "Subject to approval" after name. FTP into the old news server to be added. "D" was determined to be an internal procedure and is not a part of the new plan. Charter Members Discussion concerned charter members. It was decided to notify the charter members in July that there is one year left under current plan and then one of the Plan A or B or C will have to be made and charter accounts phased out. Training Tabled. L. LeMieux explained Provider and Organizational accounts. L. LeMieux advocated folding these into the proposal as outlined by S. Swedorski and changing the name to NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION accounts. Board Bulletin Board C. Cramer agreed that he would setup a discussion bulletin board for board members. There was no vote taken on the proposal. They were tabled until the next meeting. Next Meeting The next meeting will be May 24, 2001 at the Genesee District Library Grand Blanc Branch on Perry Road. At 5:00 pm - Note change from 5:15 pm. ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned 6:45 PM. Respectfully submitted Garry Viele, Secretary pro tem |
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