Directors' Notes

September 9, 2002

A Regular Meeting of the Directors was held at the Resource Center (RC) on Monday, September 9, 2002. Present were Messrs. Bovaird, Buoy, Neary, Ostergren, Pearson, Preston, Scheef and Preston and Mrs. Gaberel. President Jim Scheef presided and Secretary Larry Buoy kept the record. The minutes of the meeting held July 8, 2002 were approved. Treasurer Charlie Bovaird reported total bank and postal accounts of $17,449.78, plus postage on hand of $82.38, a total of $17,538.16, less prepaid dues of $7,208.00, for a net of $10,324.16. He also reported current membership of 458. The formal resignation of Matthew Greger as a Director was presented and expressions of regret thereof were made. Included in Matt's notice of resignation was his expression of willingness to continue preparation of the monthly ad for the General Meeting, at least temporarily, and Mrs. Gaberel was asked to forward copy for such ad to Matt. As its first item of business, Bruce Preston presented a draft of proposed revisions of the corporation's Bylaws to bring them into conformity with current practices, specifically the removal of phrases restricting the terms of directors and officers to no more than two terms, and to provide for the election of officers by the newly elected (or re-elected) directors in April rather than the currently specified January, as has been customary for several years. Such revisions were approved and are to be recommended to the membership for adoption at the next Annual Meeting in December. A discussion followed, regarding programs for General Meetings, including a possible joint program with the hospital, and firming up the scheduled presentation by Microsoft for November. Jim Scheef also asked for and received permission to insert a discount coupon for subscriptions to "Smart Computing" magazine on the membership benefits section of the Web page. He also commented on obtaining extension cords for the RC and reported that DACS had chosen not to pay a fee to advertise its meetings with TechVenue, but that this service would allow us to update our listings without charge. Jeff Setaro informed the meeting that he had altered the calendar format of the Web page to a "rolling" calendar that would cover the previous, current and two succeeding months and explained links to the archival presentation previews supplementing the immediately upcoming presentation preview. Charlie Bovaird explained the corporation's insurance coverage for the benefit of the directors. Jim Scheef and Don Neary discussed the results of their participation in the organizational meeting of the Meadow Ridge senior group and its interest in a genealogy SIG. Also discussed was the implementation of a consistent form of email addresses for the memberships' use in communicating with the Board and their officers. Allan Ostergren informed the meeting that the PageMaker program installed at the RC would require an upgrade to v.7.0 at a cost of approximately $50.00 to facilitate preparation of the dacs.doc newsletter. That sum being well within the discretionary amount of expenditure, Charlie was advised to obtain the upgrade. —Larry Buoy

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