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November 15th Board Meeting Minutes

Board Meeting
Location: Zenn New Media
Date: November 15, 2006

Board Members Present: Paul Rapp, Don McGrory, Phil Tierney, Ben Shalles, Nick Ring, Asa Hardcastle (minutes), Jan Seward, Chris Meyer

Board Member Absent: Christopher Pizzichemi

Members Present: Ann Condon, John Breasted

1. Public Comments 15 minutes

Ann Condon
- did the board decommission the diversity & inclusion committee (if so should be removed from the site)
- website: discussions about the front page of the website
-    * priority of website published items
- current studio: do some improvements (shelving, fall cleanup day)
- business cards: Ann got quotes (should we personalize?)

John Breasted
- BCC Space Loss Feedback:  John predicted that this would fall through.  Disappointed but not surprised, unwilling to put that effort in again until the org and board has a better face to present. Concerned about volunteers burning out on the effort to search for space.
- September 17 Meeting: The whole process by which the bylaws were enacted was not legitimate.  Process were there was supposed to be discussion, no appropriate opportunity to discuss beforehand.  Not enough time for discussion, most people left and turned in their ballots before discussion was finished.

MOTION: Public comments to be accepted in written form for the minutes, each item to be no more than a 50 word summary.
motion carries unanimously

2. Treasurer’s Report
Ben has been very helpful and patient in the transition of the role of treasurer from Ben to Chris
Chris presented a Financial Summary 2003 - 2006 and the transaction detail

MOTION: Accept the treasurers report
motion carries unanimously

MOTION: that the Annual report be on the agenda of next meeting.
motion carries unanimously

3. Summary From Committees
Fundraising Committee
- contact lapsed members to get them rejoined
- Jan & Serene cocktail party ~$800 raised

Tech Committee
- met once.  major activities are maintenance & improvements (like studio 2)
- would like to do educational workshops
- remote recording is a hot topic
- another physical meeting will be called soon

Membership Committee
- Asa & Don have not peopled the committee yet
- Don is looking into advertising WBCR in the local print media on a weekly basis

Volunteer Committee
- jan requested we recruit a volunteer for training

4. Phil’s Fundraising Workshop
Phil to provide a report for the board and the fundraising committee

5. Capital Campaign
Chris has put together a capital campaign proposal

MOTION: To establish ad-hoc Capital Campaign Committee chaired by two board members
motion carried unanimously
Chris & Paul volunteered to be co-chairs

6. Studio Initiative
discussed. moment of silence.

7. Merchandising
MOTION: allocating money ($500-$600) for t-shirt production
5 for, 1 opposed - motion carried

TASK: Asa will work with Karen to get the details to the board.  Locally Organically.

8. Bulletin Board
MOTION: Not go live until a proposal can be approved by the board.
motion carried unanimous

TASK: Ben tasked with asking Jeanne and Will to put together this proposal.

9. Grievance Policy
MOTION: Move to the next meeting agenda.
carried unanimously

Meeting Adjourned

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