Vancouver Community Network Board Meeting Minutes - October 24, 2000

Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Vancouver Community Network, Board
of Directors, held on Tuesday, October 24, 2000 at 6:30 P.M. in the
Boardroom, 411 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC.

Present: Greg Sturk, Sujay Nazareth, Sadia Ramirez, Alison Curtis, Richard
Songhurst, Tom Hanson, Lyle Gardiner


Staff: Peter Royce, Steven Chan 

Absent: Penny Goldsmith, Jonn Olldym, Richard Smith, Michael Gurstein,
Suzanne Klinga, Jason Currell

Guests: Sharlene Smith.

Chair: Alison Curtis               Secretary: Sujay Nazareth

1. Sharlene introduced herself to the board as a new prospective board
   member.

2. Adoption of the Agenda, M/S/C.

3. Acceptance of minutes of September 25th, 2000 meeting M/S/C

4. Having the books onsite has been working out very well. A financial
   audit will be done in November. Move that Draft Financial Statements be
   Accepted M/S/C The GST refund due to VCN is currently in process. The
   Auditor has requested copies of all board minutes from June 1999 -
   August 2000. A summarized copy of VCN's budget will be provided to
   members at the AGM for their information.

5. Board liability insurance has been purchased Move to authorize $150.00
   for a Volunteer party to be held on 14th November M/S/C Move to extend
   Morgan's employment contract with VCN for another month, while Peter
   comes back to the board with suggestions on how to best organize the
   staff for maximum efficiency M/S/C.  The Volnet project is slowly
   getting towards it's target.There are 126 applications in with another
   41 anticipated. A total of 63 organizations have been trained to date
   and 26 installs completed. The first round of the CAP project is over
   and we have been approved for 7 sites. Langara was not as successful as
   was first thought. Only 62 memberships were taken out.

6. Motion for VCN to Endorse CAP Champions M/S/C

8. The VCN AGM will be held on November 21, 2000 at 411 Dunsmuir starting
   at 7:00 PM. It will be preceded by a board meeting at 5:30 PM. Motion
   to Approve Board Slate M/S/C

9. Motion to send Flowers to Penny M/S/C
   Meeting was Adjourned at 8:15PM