Item 240. Minutes of Grex Board of Directors meeting, 28 February 2001 E R Bassey (other) Thu, Mar 1, 2001 (00:45). 66 lines, 9 responses. Minutes of Grex Board of Directors meeting, 28 February 2001. Attendees: eeyore*, flem*, jiffer, mooncat*, other*, aruba*, janc, valerie, arlo, steve*, drew, scott (* indicates board member) 1. Gavel Banging: 7:07 pm 2. Chair Report: "There's nothin'." "Nobody's allowed to mention my spelling. It sucks. I know it." 3. Treasurer's Report: January report has been posted. $3554.00 balance, end of Jan. Extra expenses: renewing PO box, corporation fees, domain renewal (cyberspace.org). Assessment of phone bills showed we are still paying for the expired ISDN line. Ameritech never followed through on the shutoff order. Shutoff is imminent, and they owe us $450.00. non-profit corp update (minor interruption as arlo knocks cars off table): aruba is the person on record with address to which update forms are sent, and they were not forwarded. Everything now is hunky dorey. aruba has been harassing unpaid members mercilessly. (steve pulls out wallet) 4 new members in January. 3 new members in February. 94 members, all but 5 paid up. $1021.00 in February Current balance $4042.00. Core.com has bought voyager.net. They haven't billed us, and we owe them $1417.54. Auction will begin again soon. (Maybe April.) aruba sent out receipts to all who requested them for donations. The Grex Store is $6.60 from being profitable. Janc's research indicates that three dial-in lines have not been used for three months. Moved by steve: "We will drop two dial-in lines unless during the course of a one week discussion in the co-op conference it is decided otherwise." Seconded by: eeyore Vote: 6 for, 0 against, 0 abstain. Motion passes. 4. Signature Card Stuff: Motion by aruba: "Designated signers on the Grex checking account are to be aruba, eeyore, other and janc." Seconded by: steve Vote: 6 for, 0 against, 0 abstain. Motion passes. 5. Credit Card Update: We've authorized volunteer scott pursue getting our CardService merchant account closed out in advance of the six-month contractually determined period if at all possible. See the co-op conference item 232 for the full story. 6. Publicity Committee Report: As usual, nothing, but jiffer thinks we should create a scandal. The scandal begins in a coup in which jiffer takes over as chair of the publicity committee. Scott thinks we should vitalize the publicity conference, which is suffering from a lack of publicity. 7. Technical Committee Report: The pace of ftp droppings filling up disks is increasing. A co-op item is forthcoming. Sendmail is having some minor issues. Staff will address this with mdw (our resident sendmail-tamer). 8. UPS Discussion: Scott wants to do something with a UPS unit in the pumpkin which is not in use and which needs new batteries. He has offered to buy it for $30. By consensus, the board has authorized the sale to scott of the unit. 9. New Business: None 10. Next Meeting: Wednesday, 21 March. 11. More Gavel Banging: 8:27 pm 9 responses total. ---------- (240) #1 Megan Heberlein (eeyore) Thu, Mar 1, 2001 (01:06). 2 lines. Ya' know, you could have left off the thing about the spelling. Or at the very least, explained the referance. ---------- (240) #2 Carson! (carson) Thu, Mar 1, 2001 (01:21). 1 line. (I think we can figure it out.) ;) ---------- (240) #3 E R Bassey (other) Thu, Mar 1, 2001 (17:41). 1 line. Oh, the irony is killin' me. ;) ---------- (240) #4 Greg Fleming (flem) Fri, Mar 2, 2001 (00:59). 1 line. :) ---------- (240) #5 Megan Heberlein (eeyore) Fri, Mar 2, 2001 (01:18). 3 lines. Look. I never said that I could spell properly....and typing stuff just makes it worse, since my fingers don't always do what I want them to. I normally just correct as I go, but sometimes I just give up. ---------- (240) #6 Carson! (carson) Fri, Mar 2, 2001 (02:29). 1 line. (Megan, we love you.) :) ---------- (240) #7 E R Bassey (other) Fri, Mar 2, 2001 (16:17). 1 line. Yes, we do. Don't mind the nitpicking. ---------- (240) #8 Mary Remmers (mary) Fri, Mar 2, 2001 (17:11). 1 line. Thank you, Scott, for volunteering on those contract calls. ---------- (240) #9 Scott Helmke (scott) Fri, Mar 2, 2001 (17:56). 2 lines. I have a nearly infinite patience level in dealing with such things. Much more effective than yelling, usually.