Item 393. Minutes from Grex BOD Meeting, January 23, 2007 S. Lynne Fremont (slynne) Fri, Feb 9, 2007 (15:27). 81 lines, 2 responses. Grex Board of Directors Meeting: January 23, 2007 Attending: Mark Conger*, Dan Cross*, Lynne Fremont*, Joe Gelinas, Bruce Howard*, Larry Kestenbaum*, Jan Wolter* * = board member 8:45p opening gavel tap TREASURER S REPORT We took in $516.14 in December and spent $150. We had two returning members. At the end of December there were 60 members. 52 paid up and the others in a grace period. So far in January, we have taken in $90. Grex had a good year in 2006. This is mostly because we have cut expenses. We took in around $4600 and spent around $1900. We had around $2700 surplus. We also had two times as many new members as last year. We had 24 new members for a net gain of five members. The board wonders why are people coming back to grex? We don t know. It was suggested that we ask users. The list of members is public so any board member who wishes to do this can write to the members if they want to. STAFF REPORT Grex is up. bhoward was asked if he still wishes to be involved in Grex staff issues and he said that he does. gelinas opened up newuser. He created a new group that doesn t have outbound access and set up new user to use that group. cross says that he can help fix some vulnerabilities with new user. He will make changes and will email them to janc The current staff is janc, bhoward, steve, srw, mdw, i, gelinas, and kip Users are getting frustrated waiting for things to happen. There is currently a pretty high first bar to get onto staff. We are not good at getting new staff members. It was suggested that having staff meetings could help orient and support newer staff members. It would also help staff come to a consensus A staff meeting was planned for February at Janc s house. Surplus It was suggested that it could be spent on something like hardware. Perhaps a RAID setup or a hardware email proxy? Those things would need to be looked into because they are not things that can be done with minimal effort and might increase our cost at provide.net. Mail is something that Grex needs to work on however. Grex also might want to look into doing new things. OLD BUSINESS Schedule election to replace Remmers: Mark Conger moves that we hold a special election to fill current vacancy on the board. The nomination period will be from 1/24 to 2/5 midnight and the voting period will be from 2/7/2007 midnight to 2/21/2007 midnight. Lynne Fremont seconds. Motion carries unanimously. NEXT MEETING: Tuesday 2/27/2007 8:30p at Mark Conger s house NEW BUSINESS: Election of Officers: President Lynne Fremont Secretary Jan Wolter Treasurer Mark Conger Mark Conger moves that we thank John Remmers for his many years of service on the Grex Board of Directors and Staff. Dan Cross seconds. Motion carries unanimously. 9:50 Closing gavel tap. 2 responses total. !cross ---------- (393) #1 Dan Cross (cross) Fri, Feb 9, 2007 (17:16). 1 line. I can do staff work if required. !gelinas ---------- (393) #2 Joe (gelinas) Fri, Feb 9, 2007 (20:59). 2 lines. I keep forgetting that we added glenda to staff some time back. She should have been included in the list above.