Board of Directors Minutes
October, 2009

A regular meeting of your Board of Directors was held at the Resource Center on Monday, October 12, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.
Present were Charles Bovaird,  Richard Corzo, Drew Kwashnak, John Lansdale, Patrick Libert, Rob Limbaugh, Jeff Setaro, Jim Scheef,  and Joseph Tobin.
President Rob Limbaugh presided and Secretary Mary Tobin kept the record.
Minutes of the last meeting held September 14, 2009, were presented and approved.

Treasurer Charles Bovaird reported current cash assets of $6120.61, consisting of total bank and postal accounts in the amount of $6086.61 plus postage on hand of $34.
Subtracting a liability of prepaid dues in the amount of $250.00 left a net equity of $5871.61. He also reported that the current membership is at 189, 80 of which receive newsletter.

General Meetings

• Reviews – Patrick wrote the review for the October meeting; Rob will write it for the November meeting.
• Previews – Allan will write the November preview and Sean the one for December.
• Meeting topics:  November – Allan confirmed that he has a speaker on Medical Technology. He had also suggested that a panel format with a physician and a spokesperson for Danbury Hospital might be useful who could share what they are doing with electronic medical records. The discussion would also address digital imaging records, and patients’ records.
• December – John Patrick is confirmed for December.
• January 2010 –  Windows 7 is a possible topic which would be presented by Jay Ferron.
• February – Hosting and web publishing to be presented by Jeff Setaro.
• March possible topic - Backing up data.
• General Meeting date considerations for 2010: The calendar will be set soon for either the first Monday or the first Tuesday of each month as soon as Danbury Hospital sets their schedule.

Future topics: There have been requests for a presentation on Social Networking, Portable Devices, Twitter, Face book, Word Press, etc.
Richard will advise his contact about this presentation request and schedule it for early 2010. Richard will also contact Apple to schedule a presentation on their latest releases.

Operations

•    Richard bought a new projector and inquired about the possibility of DACS reimbursing the cost and taking possession.
•      After discussion, the request was deferred to next month’s meeting.

Announcements

• Bruce Preston has offered to be a Director but meetings would need to move towards utilizing conferencing technologies to accommodate Bruce’s limitations. Bruce would finish out Sean’s term.
• Drew Kwashnak was unanimously appointed to the board to finish out Howard Berger’s term.
• Jim Ritterbusch is taking over the Linux SIG as its primary leader.
• Jim Scheef is taking over the membership duties from Charles Bovaird.

Old Business

• Need to find replacements and backup for:  Program chair/VP, PR, and President (this is REL’s final term), and an incoming Treasurer to handle the transition from Charlie.
• Since 2010 will be the twentieth anniversary of DACS, -a committee should be formed to plan special events.

New Business

• We will have to decide next month about whether or not to continue with a printed newsletter since we are reaching the critical point of 100 issues with only 80 being mailed to members and another 20 sent to Libraries.
• A suggestion was made to think of a Membership drive outside of stores handing out DACS printed reusable bags for gorceries.
• We should also explore the possibility of six General Meetings per year with additional specialized meetings for members only.

Rob motioned to Adjourn, all seconded. - Mary Tobin