PRESENT:
Larry Porn, Vice Chair
Solomon Johnson, Secretary
Georgia Kitchen, Board
Les LeMieux, Board
Charles Wright, Board
Chad Cramer, Website

ABSENT:
Dennis Cavanaugh, Chair
Scott Gifford, Board
Kenny Thomas, Systems

Call to order at 5:20pm. Vice Chair Larry Porn presiding. Chair Dennis Cavanaugh was in hospital. A heart pacemaker was installed and he is recovering at home. GFN Chair and office activities will be limited for the near future.

Wireless Update.
As Jerry Preston was leaving the building, he stopped by the meeting and gave a brief update of happenings with Wireless Genesee. There have been a number or responses to the Request for Proposal to setup Wireless for the county. There have been about 140 downloads from the Website and 30 interested entities attended the Tuesday Wireless Genesee meeting. Responses to the Proposal are due by the end of July.

Merit /OTC Switching Tree Problem.
Online Technology technician Nathan Poulos and GFN Chair Dennis Cavanaugh swapped out a cross-over cable on the GFN side of equipment responsibility, according to Nathan. Dave Curran (OTC) wants to discuss with Denny and Larry what equipment is covered in the lease agreement. A Cisco switch is not mentioned in the lease agreement. That and all other "kinks" need to be resolved for the next lease agreement.

Kenny Thomas and Larry Porn found a faulty cross-over cable when they attempted to access the Portmasters to get information to send to Lucent to get codes for resetting the Portmasters. Question is what was done wrong in the original GenTech/OTC equipment setup? Another "kink" to be resolved.

Treasurer Replacement.
Chair Dennis Cavanaugh has acquired GFN financial records from former Treasurer Harvey Sherman. Larry and Dennis will write checks to cover GFN expenses for the time being. When Dennis is released by his doctor to resume activity, he will consult accountant Brian Ross of Plante & Moran about finding a Treasurer candidate. All funds passing through the GFN office is being tracked through the office interface to the GFN database.

The automated script to generate e-mail reminders for expiring accounts did not work in March and April. Office manager Janet Craig has worked to contact members with accounts that expired in March and April to get them to renew with no late fee assessment.

Montrose Service Improvement.
Merit has granted GFN eight (8) tokens, four (4) of which service Montrose in the SSE-Michigan pool. Merit plans to combine all GFN lines in the SE-Michigan pool. Office staff member Ron Crang reported Montrose access is still a problem. Frequently, all lines in Montrose are busy.

Committee Reports.
Website.
Chad Cramer reported on considerable work done on the Web server. He has modified the GFN icon which appears on Web browsers. Links on the site have been re-categorized. The script reporting how many times a link is clicked is now functional and the most popular GFN page is Community Resources. The Apache server software will be upgraded to version 2.2 with support for PHP configuring and potential of offering enhanced Web creation tools for GFN members.

Chad is working with former Board member Ann Chow on an interactive Website she has requested. The details are being worked out and when done Chad will suggest the Board restructure its Web Hosting and Organizational Accounts Contribution Plans to better coincide with what GFN can offer and support in comparison to what is being offered elsewhere.

Future work under consideration is a script to automatically add new Web links and remove inactive links and expired Web accounts. After the Apache upgrade is done, MySql database will be upgraded to version 5.

Office.
Larry Porn reported that office work is going decently, however, additional volunteers are needed. Enhanced Website construction tools for personal Websites may be of interest to some members. We need to begin work on the cost structure for Wireless Accounts. Even though access may be free GFN will have support expenses.

Adjournment: 6:23pm.

Next Regular Meeting:
Thursday, June 22, 2006, at 5:15pm at the Flint Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Respectfully Submitted,

Solomon T Johnson, Secretary