Minutes of Genesee Free-Net Board of Directors Meeting
May 24, 2001

Mary Ann Chick Whiteside President
Scott Swedorski Board
Pat Peterson Board
Chad Cramer Board and Staff
Garry Viele Board
Vahid Lotfi Board
Kenny Thomas Staff
Jerry Preston Board
Les LeMieux Board

ABSENT:
Darrell Allen Board
Kay Schwartz Treasurer
Johanna Brown Board
Ann Chow Board

CALL TO ORDER Call to order 5:30 pm. Meeting conducted by M. Whiteside. Minutes of the last meeting approved electronically.

ELECTION P. Peterson was elected Secretary unanimously.

PUBLIC COMMENTS Clarence Knight of Davison, a GFN subscriber, discussed his problems connecting and staying connected.

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

OFFICERS REPORTS

Chair. No Report
Vice President. No Report
Secretary's Report No Report
Treasurer's Report was distributed by M. Whiteside. Motion to accept the Reviewed Financial Statements for March and April as presented made by J. Preston. Motion supported by L. LeMieux. Motion carried unanimously.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Web Site Committe Discussion of GFN becoming a domain reseller. J. Preston moved that the Genesee Free-Net provide domain accounts for $30.00 per year to organization accounts using Tucows as the subsidiary. Application for a domain name will be made using a web page form provided by GFN. The owner of the domain name will be entered as the contact in all instances. The entry will be automatically assigned. Payment will be by credit card. Only .com, .net, and .org extensions will be allowed. V. Lotfi supported the motion. Motion passed unanimously.

Office Committee L. LeMieux discussed moving the office to The Resource Center from Tucows as of July 1. The rent would be $100.00 per month at the Resource Center. Other locations were discussed that would most likely be rent-free. If the office would be in the Visitors and Convention Center's telephone service area, there would be no telephone charges. The server will stay at FALCON. Members will investigate these options.

Nancy Darby will be leaving the office staff.

System Administration C. Cramer installed the message board but will take it off because it is unsatisfactory. The Board will continue using the e-mail GFN Board mail list.

OLD BUSINESS

New Account Types Proposal

User Accounts S. Swedorski moved that the User Accounts A, B, and C be passed as modified and that all but $10.00 of User Accounts A and B would be tax deductible and all but $15.00 of the Type C User Accounts would be tax deductible. G. Viele supported the motion. Motion passed unanimously.

S. Swedorski moved that User Account C could have 10 mb upgrades increments of at $10 per 10 mb with a maximum of 100 mb. G. Viele supported the motion with change that this would be for Non-Profit Organization Accounts only. The motion passed unanimously.

Non-Profit Organization Account S. Swedorski made a motion to accept the Non-Profit Organization Account as modified. G. Viele supported. The motion passed unanimously.

Special Accounts J. Preston made a motion the Volunteer Account type be accepted as modified. Motion supported by S. Swedorski. Motion passed unanimously.

Motion made by G. Viele that the Charter Member Account type be accepted as modified. S. Swedorski supported the motion. Motion passed unanimously.

The new user accounts system will go into effect August 1, 2001. The new organizational accounts will go into effect in November.

Internet Training Proposal G. Viele moved that the Internet Training Proposal be tabled until the next meeting. J. Preston supported the motion. The motion passed unanimously.

Resource Center Grant. G. Viele and C. Cramer agreed to be members of the Resource Center Board's Technology Committee. G. Viele agree to having his name submitted for the Resource Center Board.

Hard Drive. The new hard drive is not compatible with the web server's motherboard. Motion made by G. Viele that a new motherboard be purchased at a cost of no more than $350.00. S. Swedorski supported the motion. Motion passed unanimously.

Next meeting: June 28 at Tucows, 5:30 pm.