Vancouver Community Network Board Meeting Minutes - April 25, 2000 Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Vancouver Community Network, Board of Directors, held on Tuesday, April 25, 2000 at 6:30 P.M. in the Boardroom, 411 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC. Present: Penny Goldsmith, Greg Sturk, Richard Smith, Sujay Nazareth, Jonn Olldym, Sadia Ramirez, Staff: Jason Currell, Carolyn Nantais Absent: Suzanne Klinga, Alison Curtis, Steve Forrest, Richard Songhurst, Tom Hanson Chair: Greg Sturk Secretary: Sujay Nazareth 1. Adoption of the Agenda, M/S/C. 2. Acceptance of minutes of March 29th, 2000 meeting was tabled for the next meeting 3. It was decided to pay Jason Currell and Carolyn Nantais overtime for the months of January December, January and February in accordance with our staff policy Manual(Part 1,Section 4) 4. Jason looked at the Wireless solutions for Internet access and it is coming up very expensive. Offering ADSL in partnership with Telus is also very expensive. An intern is working on setting up an online voting system, which is hoped to be in place by the end of the year. There is an Ultra 5 server on order. There are problems with the Windows 3.1 setup disks for PPP access. The disks are being field tested to see what can be done. Applications are slowly coming in for the "604 Connect" project. Terri had organized some workshops for Urban CAP. Motion to send a letter in support of the "211 Project" to the CRTC and VCN's willingness to be involved in the same. A new book keeper has started. Everthing seems to be going smoothly. 5. Discussions about the Financial Reports has been tabled to the next meeting. 6. A letter has been sent to Discovery Accounting, thanking them for their services and also apologizing for the abrupt cancellation of our services with them. A letter was also sent to Brian thanking him for his help in this regard. 7. Richard Smith discussed the Evaluation report on the Volnet Project. The said report will be e-mailed to the board for review of the surveys, interviews as well as the recommendations that have been made. 8. The web content and design committee are working on a protocol of updating web files. The committee is working towards getting a database of all the web pages on VCN's system. Work will be beginning fairly soon on the updating of the web pages. 9. There will be a staff & board party on May 4th at 5:30PM at Penny's House as a farewell to Michael. Motion to purchase Michael a CD-Burner as a parting gift (M/S/C) A volunteer party has been tentatively booked for the June 4th at the Wise Hall. 10. It has been decided that with immediate effect we will be going back to the positions of President and Vice-President instead of the Co-Chair position. Greg Sturk will now be the Vice-President and Alison Curtis will be the President. 11. Jason made a few recommendations about the validation of PPP accounts. There will be a discussion followed by an on-line vote on which of these issues should be used. 12. Motion to allocate a maximum of $2,100 , subject to the funds being available, for 3 people to attend the CPSR Conference in Seattle. (M/S/C)