Minutes
November 7, 2005

A regular meeting of your Board of Directors was held at the Resource Center on Monday, November 7, 2005. Present were Messrs. Bovaird, Berger, Cohen, Corzo, Gallichotte, Preston, Scheef, and Setaro. Also present were Larry Buoy and Lisa Leifels. President Jeff Setaro presided and Secretary Lisa Leifels kept the record. Minutes of the last meeting held on October 10, 2005 were approved.

Treasurer Charles Bovaird reported current cash assets of $13,197.61, consisting of total bank and postal accounts in the amount of $13,057.03, plus postage on hand of $140.58. Subtracting a liability of prepaid dues in the amount of $5,170.00 left a net equity of $8,027.61. He also reported that the current membership is 343.

In the absence of Jamie Yates, there was only a brief discussion of upcoming programs. John Patrick will be talking about the future of the internet at the December General Meeting. Jim Scheef said he would plan on speaking at the January meeting on Open Office.

Howie Berger contacted the Danbury News-Times and the Citizen News, and they are both willing to publish a press release for DACS. Howie said he needs someone to send him a press release describing who will be speaking at the next meeting and what they will be talking about. Jeff suggested that Howie ask Jamie Yates to send him the press release for the next meeting. Howie also said that the Citizen News, which is distributed in Sherman and New Fairfield, would like to include a photo with the press release. Jeff suggested that Howie get a photo of John Patrick from John’s website at PatrickWeb.com.

Larry Buoy reviewed the changes that he recommended be made to the DACS Bylaws, so that they comply with the state statutes. Jeff asked for Larry to distribute an updated version of the bylaws to the board members for further review. Jeff thought that it was too late to revise the bylaws at the annual meeting, but he would like to do so at the April General Meeting.
Howie Berger said that Charter Communications would approve of John Gallichotte videotaping the general meeting, since he is an intern at Charter. John Gallichotte said he was willing to videotape one of the upcoming General Meetings.

Jeff Setaro offered the names of Howard Berger, Marc Cohen, Anna Collens, Bruce Preston, Jeff Setaro and Jim Scheef as incumbent directors for re-election at the Annual Meeting to be held in December 2005. Marc Cohen and Anna Collens have made the decision not to run for another term. Anna said that she didn’t have the time to attend the board meetings. Marc, who was one of the original founding members of DACS, said that he will continue to come to the meetings; therefore we may not be losing all of his valuable years of experience after all. Sean Henderson and Lisa Leifels were mentioned as possible replacement candidates.

Howie Berger inquired if anyone thought it was a good idea if once a year at the annual meeting we acknowledged the contributions made by one or two of our members. He thought we should talk about this further at the next meeting.

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