Vancouver Community Network
Board Meeting Minutes - July 25, 2000

Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Vancouver Community Network, Board
of Directors, held on Tuesday, July 25, 2000 at 6:30 P.M. in the
Boardroom, 411 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC.

Present: Lyle Gardiner, Suzanne Klinga, Michael Gurstein, Sujay Nazareth, Alison Curtis, Richard Smith, Greg Sturk, Tom Hanson, Penny Goldsmith, Jason Currell 

Staff: Peter Royce 

Absent: Sadia Ramirez, Jonn Olldym

Chair: Alison Curtis               Secretary: Sujay Nazareth

1.    Adoption of the Agenda with some additions M/S/C.

2.    Acceptance of minutes of June 27th, 2000 meeting with changes. M/S/C

3.    The bookkeeping system is coming together slowly, the budgeting process will be starting soon. VCN has rented the North East corner space of the second floor at 411 Dunsmuir. The office network needs to be setup before the space can be used. The basement of 411 Dunsmuir is being cleaned up and a new workshop area is being developed there. Carolyn has been working on new help pages, procedures and processes. 
        Groups for the Volnet project are coming in slowly. At last count 100 groups had signed up and another 19 are anticipated. 22 groups have been trained and 2 installs. The hotlinks assessment has been submitted.
        The Langara Sudent Union plans to get 1,000 users signed up by October 31st. There will be a big membership drive with prizes. There will be some costs involved.
        Motion to spend a maximum of $2,000 on the Langara Student Union membership drive.
        VCN is working with Surrey and the North Shore on a CAP proposal. Proposal to be submitted to Industry Canada for assistance to develop 60 sites.
        Our application for gaming funds should be in shortly.
        Peter met with the project manager for the smart choices project to consolidate VCN's role in the project.
        
4.    VCN has $96,717 in the bank. There is about $57,000 monies overdue from our projects. 
        Motion to see a list of monthly expenses & the reasons for which the money was spent. M/S/C
        Motion to accept Treasurer's report M/S/C

5.    A review of the Staff Policy Manual and it's changes will be brought to the board for consideration in September. 
        A couple of the web pages on VCN's website have been revised and redone.
        
6.    The Planning Session Committee met twice. They are working on organizing various fall sessions and are looking at the possibility of setting up some focus groups.

7.    Motion to Endorse the CSNS M/S/C