Minutes of Genesee Free-Net Board of Directors Meeting
January 04, 2002
PRESENT
Ann Chow, Chad Cramer, Lynette Griffin, Max Groulx, Georgia Kitchen, Les
LeMieux, Vahid Lotfi, Jerry Preston, Kay Schwartz, Garry Viele
Also in Attendance: K. Thomas
ABSENT
Pat Peterson, Jon McCarron
The meeting was called to order at 5:27 p.m. by Chair, L. LeMieux.
Review of Agenda
There was one addition to the Agenda.
J. Preston moved to add the appointment of Scott Gifford to the Board of
GFN. Consensus was reached.
Election of
Officers
Nominated was V. Lotfi. Lotfi indicated he would accept the nomination
but that he could not be very active as he had recently been assigned new
responsibilities at his place of employment. Further discussion ensued
about the fundamental changes that are currently being planned and soon
implemented by GFN during the next year.
Another motion to nominate G. Viele as Chair, V. Lotfi as Vice Chair, L.
Schwartz as Treasurer and P. Paterson as Secretary. Nominations were
accepted. The vote was held and the above slate was elected.
OFFICERS' REPORTS
Board Chair:
No report.
Secretary:
No report.
Treasurer:
The treasurer distributed the financial documents for year-end 2001. They
are available for review. Discussion concerning the $250.00 for credit
for domain names. J. Preston will and C. Cramer will email K. Schwartz with
the information regarding the Tall Pine Council domain name.
The treasurer then distributed a proposed 2002 budget. Questions and
discussion concerned amount of money budgeted for equipment, changing
"annual fees" to annual contributions etc. J. Preston moved and the motion
was supported to accept the Treasurer's proposed budget. Motion carried.
The treasurer moved and it was supported that Dupuis and Ryden be engaged
for a review of the accounts of the GFN in the amount not to exceed $900.00.
Motion carried.
Discussion continued about how many accounts we have. What types are
they? L. LeMieux will email the information he has to K. Schwartz with C.
Cramer reviewing the information in his database and emailing Schwartz. as
well.
The Treasurer requested the ability to move CD funds as they mature to
Money Market accounts. The group consented to this request.
L. LeMieux moved that GFN refund two accounts at 50% of the annual fee.
K. Swartz indicated she would cut a check for each as well as enclose a
letter.
L. LeMieux requested that the GFN continue to belong to the Association
of Computer Networks organization. The group concurred.
Office Operations Committee:
The Office Operations Committee reported that they received one
application for volunteers from a direct solicitation from our members and 5
applications from a posting in the Flint Journal. Marilyn Sage has agreed to
train these new volunteers. The report of the Committee was accepted by
consensus.
System Administration Committee:
Systems Administrations reported that they have successfully upgraded to
Red Hat version 7.2. The database is ready to accept new accounts but we
need to finish the interface (front-end) which is expected to be complete by
March 10th.
There was a discussion about the meeting space for the Board Meetings. It
was felt that the unavailability of the board room at the Resource Center
was unfortunate and that the meeting space available to us there was just
unworkable as it was too noisy. Mat indicated that he could make the Tall
Pine Council meeting space available to us and Jerry Preston offered the
Convention Bureau board room as well. It was requested that the Chairman
select one of these or some other space for our Board meetings.
Old Business:
There was no Old Business.
New Business:
Under new Business, Scott Gifford was nominated and unanimously elected to
fill a vacancy on our board of Directors.
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 6:42pm.
