Board of Directors Minutes
March 13, 2006

A regular meeting of your Board of Directors was held at the Resource Center on Monday, March 13, 2006. Present were Messrs. Bovaird, Berger, Corzo, Henderson, Leifels, Setaro and Yates. President Jeff Setaro presided and Secretary Lisa Leifels kept the record. Minutes of the last meeting held on February 13, 2006 were approved.

Treasurer Charles Bovaird reported current cash assets of $12,797.40, consisting of total bank and postal accounts in the amount of $12,724.38, plus postage on hand of $73.02. Subtracting a liability of prepaid dues in the amount of $5,523.00 left a net equity of $7,274.40. He also reported that there are 333 members.

On April 4th, Jamie Yates will present the topic of PC Maintenance. He will explain the steps he does to keep his computer running smoothly. On May 2nd, there will be a Home Automation presentation. Jamie is going to find out if the Home Automation presenter can also talk about HDTV. Jamie also contacted the FBI, and was added to their list of future presentations.

Howie Berger said that he spoke to the manager of Best Buy and they are interested in doing a presentation. Jamie said he would contact her to talk in more detail about this. Howie thought we could also go to their competitor Circuit City, and ask if they’d like to do a presentation.

Jamie asked for two board members to review the DACS website at least once a month to verify that the information is up to date and that all the links work properly. Sean and Lisa volunteered for this job.

Jamie requested that everyone on the board place the poster announcing the next general meeting in two different locations. Charlie reported that placing the posters at the local libraries has drawn in new members in the past.

Jamie will be attending the next Website Design SIG on March 21st to go over the changes he would like made to the DACS website. He thought that the website should say “Upcoming Meeting” instead of “This Month’s Meeting.” He would like the Meeting Preview and “What’s News” to be updated immediately following the general meeting. Sean asked if we could add a join DACS area to the website.

The board voted and approved the officers that will take office as of April 1st, 2006. All current officers agreed to serve, in addition to Sean Henderson, who will be the new Vice President of Marketing & Public Relations.

Richard Corzo asked if there was a PC running Windows XP and USB ports that could be used at the Macintosh SIG. Jeff thought we should investigate buying a laptop for the club that could be available to the SIGS and also used for the general meetings. Jeff suggested that we check the prices of laptops.

Jim Scheef reported that a new Netgear router has been purchased for the resource center. He will install it at the next Server SIG meeting.

—Lisa Leifels