Directors' Notes
Directors' Notes
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A Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors was held at the Resource Center on September 13. Present were Messrs. Bovaird, Buoy, Cohen, David, Gingras, Ostergren and Setaro and Mrs. Gaberel. Also present was Mr. Paul Avery of the Housatonic Resource Recovery Authority. The minutes of the August meeting were read and approved Finance and membershipTreasurer Charles Bovaird reported combined checking and postal account balances of $17,164.60 and postage on hand of $60.56 for a total of $17,225.16. He also reported current membership of 558. News Times columnDiscussion ensued regarding the latest DACS contributions to the High Tech pages of The News-Times, specifically feature articles by Robert Preston and Mike Kaltschnee, an omission of DACS acknowledgment and the claim by the News-Times that the electronic photograph files submitted with those articles were unusable by them. Mr. Paul Avery of the Housatonic Resource Recovery Authority reported
on the responses to his plea for volunteers at the September
General Meeting and reviewed the more salient points of the HRRA's
planned participation in a recycling day program to be held on
the Danbury Green on October 17 as presented by the HRRA's Robert
Palmer at the Board's last meeting. Mr. Avery agreed to approach
Computers 4 Kids
regarding licensing of DOS to be installed on and the warehousing
of salvageable computers collected. He also advised of the cooperation
of the Western Connecticut Regional Adult Continuing Education
program, availability of non-DACS volunteers to handle the heavy
lifting involved, and of questionnaires to be available for those It was agreed that Jeff Setaro attempt
to set up a Newdeal presentation for the January General Meeting
and that he obtain a spare bulb for the current projector used
at General Meetings. He also advised that Microsoft's
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