PRESENT:
Dennis Cavanaugh, Chair
Larry Porn, Vice Chair
Solomon Johnson, Secretary

Jerry Preston, FACVB
Les LeMieux, Board
Garry Viele, Board
Charles Wright, Board

ABSENT:
Chad Cramer, Board
Scott Gifford, Board
Georgia Kitchen, Board
Kay Schwartz, Board
Harvey S Sherman, Treasurer
Kenny Thomas, Systems

Call to order at 5:16pm. Chair Dennis Cavanaugh presiding.

Jerry Preston spoke to the Board about his work on municipal broadband for Genesee and a few surrounding counties. Nothing is definite yet and Genesee Free-Net is known as an interested party. Jerry will keep the Board informed of broadband prospects for the area.

Officers Comments:
Chair:
Dennis Cavanaugh will stay in contact with Jerry Preston about municipal broadband prospects.

Vice Chair:
Larry Porn has continued work with the Portmasters. He and Kenny Thomas are working to put software on the servers to monitor and reset the modems.

Larry also has been in contact with Teresa Raymond at Merit about GFN's current Montrose dialin setup in contrast to the setup prior to the number change. Larry found that GFN has four (4) no priority tokens in the SSE-Michigan Hunt Group competing for twenty-three (23) lines for all users in that group. Some statistics obtained for the SSE-Michigan Hunt Group showed that over 850 times in the month of October ?No Line Available? was the condition. That means that if all 23 lines were in use by someone else no GFN member in Montrose could connect (this is the 988-2586 number.) In Merit's SE-Michigan Hunt Group, twenty-one (21) lines are dedicated to GFN (this is the 249-0300 number.)

Larry Porn moved and Garry Viele supported that Marilyn Sage be presented, as soon as possible, with an engraved clock for her many years of service to the Genesee Free-Net. The motion carried.

Kenny Thomas has completed development of a software procedure to automatically generate e-mail reminders to members with accounts about to expire, a service Marilyn Sage had provided. The software will run automatically every month on the 15^th before the expire date. The office will receive a copy of the recipients. All recipients are blind copied.

With respect to elections to the Board, there were only two (2) respondents, who are already incumbent Board members. Since no members showed any interest in becoming a Board member, it was determined that no electronic vote would be held and to continue with the present Board members who are willing and see if others could be found to fill the vacancies on the Board. Dennis Cavanaugh has asked Dave Curran, formerly of GenTech, to consider becoming a Board member.

Secretary:
No report.

Treasurer:
No report.

Adjournment: 6:05pm.

Next Meeting:
Thursday, January 26, 2006, at 5:15pm at the Flint Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Respectfully Submitted,

Solomon T Johnson, Secretary