Board Minutes 1.17.07
1.17.07
Board Meeting Minutes of the
Berkshire Community Radio Alliance
Location:
Zenn New Media. Great Barrington, MA
In attendance:
J Seward, P Tierney, D McGrory, C Meyer, B Shalles, A Hardcastle, N Ring
Absent:
P Rapp, C Pizzichemi
Guests in Attendance:
None
-- Convened @ 7:40pm
-Agenda-
Motion: To approve agenda. Seconded. Approved - Unanimous. Agenda as follows.
-Trez Report-
Review of income/expense statement for 12.13.06 through 1.16.07
Motion: To approve. Seconded. Approved - Unanimous
Discussion of event income reporting. Task: Ben and Chris to develop event reporting cover sheet.
-Committee Reports-
Membership Committee- Don reporting. Discussion of general meetings.
Fundraising Committee- Chris reporting. Discussion of March Funddrive.
Tech Committee- Nick reporting.
Programming Committee- Nick & Ben reporting. Discussion of Day Captain rollout. Publicity for February schedule rollout.
Publicity Committee- Jan reporting.נ Discussion of Triplex theater slides being done by K Skelton.
-Tasks from Last Meeting-
nick to get ammended bylaws to C Collins for website. Task begun.
C Meyer to contact S Smith about Cumberland Farms property. Accomplished. Her response was negative.
Nick and Asa to turn in their bankcards. Not Accomplished.
Jan to visit bank to become signator. Not Accomplished.
C Meyer to work up 2007 Budget. Accomplished.
Jan to contact Rita Kasky about station involvement. Task begun.
A Condon to contact Berkshire South about continuing relationship and use of meeting space. Accomplished.
-2007 Budget-
Discussion concerning changes to Tech/equipment allocation. Category to be broken down into a Maintenance budget and an Expansion budget. New allocation not decided at meeting. Tech Committee to provide new request to Treasurer for review, before further board review.
Task: Tech Committee to forward itemized tech expense projections to treasurer. Nick is point.
Discussion of ongoing Publicity budget. Publicity budget and all its facets left undecided.
Motion: That $300/month allocation for publicity be discontinued and that all unspent, unspecified allocations for publicity cannot be spent. 2007 publicity expenditures be decided at the next board meeting. Seconded. Discussed. Approved - 1 opposed.
Motion: To allocate $500 to Programming Committee for production of schedule, with board approval for treasurer to
approve up to $200 more for this project, if necessary. Seconded. Discussed. Approved - Unanimous.
Motion: That $500 be allocated for Board Development in 2007. Seconded. Discussed. Approved - Unanimous.
Further review of 2007 budget tabled to next meeting pending changes discussed.
-FundDrive-
* Dates: March 5th through 11th
* Goal: $14,000 ($2,000 per day)
* Theme: Sustainable Radio for a Sustainable World
* Well begin building volunteers, though we already have several day captains
* We'll be offering premiums (for the first time), consistent with our theme.
* Featuring local people and organizations to shill for us, consistent with our theme.
-Phone Hybrid-
A request to allocate money for our engineer, John Ramsey to help resolve persistent phone hybrid issues in the studio.
Decided that allocation falls under tech budget allocation, and is therefore assumed. Task: Asa to contact Ramsey.
-Acknowledgments-
Discussion of members in need of acknowledgment and thanks.
Task: Jan to compile names and compose letters.
-Board Retreat-
Good idea. Discuss further after Funddrive.
-Other Business-
Discussion of Board Member, C Pizzichemis continued absence at meetings and non-communication. Task: Asa to contact
Christopher to inquire as to his status and intentions.
Discussion of goals for moving and approach to searching and fundraising for same. Further discussion deferred pending
report from the Space Committee.
Adjourned @ 10:10 pm
minutes taken by B Shalles
rock!
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