PRESENT

Mary Ann Whiteside President

Garry Viele Board
Kay Schwartz Board

Darrell Allen Board

Les LeMieux Board

Jerry Preston Board

Johanna Brown Board

Kenny Thomas Staff

ABSENT:

Scott Swedorski Board
Pat Peterson Board
Vahid Lotfi Board

Ann Chow Board

Chad Cramer Board and Staff

Call to Order

Call to order 5:41 PM. Meeting conducted by M. Whiteside.

Minutes of the last meeting approved electronically.

PUBLIC COMMENTS

None.

CHANGES TO AGENDA

There were no changes to the agenda as published and distributed.

OFFICERS REPORTS

Chair.

Scott Swidorski resigned from the GFN Board effective today. Montrose-Merit problems: No word from Merit as of yet. The chair will follow-up with a postcard to Montrose individuals AND try to contact Mike Moser at Merit.

Complaint via Merit has been handled.

Vice President.

No Report

Secretary's Report

No Report

Treasurer's Report

The Treasurer reports that we are approximate to last year's budget. The expenses are as expected. We are waiting for the large Merit invoice which is due in August.

As of July 31, 2001 there is $28,992.05 dollars in the checking account.

J. Preston moved and L. LeMieux seconded the report. Motion passed.

The Gateway payment mechanism for the changes in plans was discussed. K. Schwartz indicated that Citizens gave her three companie s:

Cybercash

Surepay

Authorized.net

Motion made by D. Allen supported by J. Preston to authorize K. Schwartz to choose a vendor and arrange the necessary mechanism f or electronic payment. Passed.

Discussion on the Tall Pine Council domain names. K. Thomas will email Les and Mary Ann and then these will be setup.

Committee Reports

Web Site Committee

No report.

Office Committee

New working copy of the individual account brochure was distributed. L. LeMieux indicated that "Plan A, B, C" was changed to "BASIC", "STANDARD", and "CUSTOM accounts

Much discussion about content. It was determined that L. LeMieux will email the Board a copy of the proposed brochure for content changes.

M. Whiteside indicated that marketing firms are very busy now.

J. Preston indicated that he could print portions of the brochure in color.

Ingrid and Dale of the Resource Center talked with Les regarding the move of GFN to Resource Center. Several move dates were disc ussed. The actual move date aimed for now is 9/8/2001. Les and Mary Ann will meet with Resource Staff to finalize a written agreemen t about the GFN presence in the Resource Center Building.

System Administration

K. Thomas reported about the power outage on 8/22/2001. The system was brought down softly. Les indicated that he sent a message notifying users. Kenny indicated that the system came up again around 11:30 PM.

K. Thomas indicated a problem with Merit shutting down port 80 last week because of the Code Red virus. Chad and Kenny have made progress on the GFN software. The system is now setup for virtual host for other domain. The email accounts are almost finalized for organizational accounts.

Open SRS has been tested.

OLD BUSINESS

NEW BUSINESS

The annual meeting will be held in October on the 18 or 25 depending on room availability at 5:30 PM. We hope to use the International Institute.

Pirello and Paxton need to be dropped when there are ten members of the Board present.

M. Whiteside reviewed which terms are ending; she indicated that a committee needs to be formed to recruit for these Board positi ons.

Next meeting: September 20, 2001 at Tucows or the Resource Center at 5:30 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Garry Viele, Secretary pro tem