Item 25. Minutes for the 8/26/98 Grex Board of Directors Meeting Scott Helmke (scott) Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (12:45). 35 lines, 6 responses. Attending: Scott Helmke (scott) (Secretary), Dan Grynie (dang) (board), Valerie Mates (mates), Jan Wolter (janc) (President), KK (roadtrip), Dave Lovelace (davel), Steve Gibbard (scg)(board), Misti Tucker (mta)(board), STeve Andre' (steve), Ken Asher (ken) 604 Initial Gavel Pounding - janc called Meeting to order at 7:45 pm 403 Treasurer's Report - janc for aruba Auction: $545.50 so far (not all collected), 61 items still open. August to date: $547, for July $537 income, expenditures were $658.72 Members 104, 97 paid up phone bill taxes: we don't get exemption from federal taxes. 306 Publicity Committee - mta Valerie has an Arborweb add starting soon, has also been putting little Grex cards around town. 204 Technical Committee - staff Internet connection was down for several days due to Ameritech problems. Nuget database of newuser info being finished by Valerie. Vandal activity continues. FAQs being updated. PPP (scott) work progressing slowly. Grex console died, has been temporarily replaced with janc's Macintosh (roadtrip may supply a permanent replacement). 807 Cost reductions - aruba Phone bill will only be exempt from state taxes, so we are still leaking money. Aruba should be at next month's meeting with some statistics. Much discussion of dialin lines, PPP, local members, etc. Sending mail to 3-month users has not been done yet. Would taking credit cards pay off? More local advertising? Dan Romanchik (danr) will be asked how to do credit cards, etc. Also need to enter a credit card item in Coop. 705 New Business - all (none) 519 Final Gavel Pounding - janc closed the meeting at 8:43 pm. 6 responses total. ---------- (25) #1 Valerie Mates (valerie) Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (09:03). 5 lines. Minor nits: Dan's last name is Gryniewicz, and my login ID is either valerie or popcorn, but not "mates". Also, Mark wasn't at the meeting, so it's vaguely misleading to list his name next to item 807. Also, under new business I announced that the Lovelace family is now fully digital. :) ---------- (25) #2 Rob Henderson (robh) Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (10:25). 2 lines. 8) > ---------- (25) #3 Scott Helmke (scott) Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (13:58). 2 lines. Sorry about the name goofs; those were something I had planned to clean up after I'd dumped the notes off my PalmPilot, but apparently forgot to do. ---------- (25) #4 David Cahill (dpc) Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (10:24). 1 line. Soo - when will we get a refund of our state phone taxes? ---------- (25) #5 Military Insanity (senna) Tue, Sep 1, 1998 (09:19). 3 lines. Hmm. I have to have heard more mispronunciations and seen more mispellings of "Gryniewicz" than I'd care to remember. Because I'm actively blocking them out :) ---------- (25) #6 Daniel Gryniewicz (dang) Sun, Sep 27, 1998 (14:15). 1 line. Metoo. :)