Item 53. January 18 BoD Meeting Minutes (finally!)
Misti Tucker (mta) Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (00:26).
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 Here are the long awaited minutes for the January 18, 1997 board meeting.
 
 Those in attendance: robh aruba scott scg valerie janc mdw laotzu mta kaplan
 chanu steve srw
 
 The meeting was called to order at 7:30 with scott weilding the gavel.
 The first order of business was the election of new officers.
         aruba consented to continue as treasurer
         scott and valerie both ran for President.  Valerie won in a 5/2
         contest.
         mta was herded in the office of secretary because no one else wanted
         it either.  ;)
 
 Mark Conger (aruba) gave the December treasurers report, (details are
 available in another item in this conference).
 
 Among the points of interest:
         GREX collected $282 in dues for the month of Dec.
         Ameritech sent us a mysterious check for $100 which may be a refund
         on unused service at the dungeon.
         GREX paid both November and December phone bills in December,
 including
         part of the installation charges to have the centrex lines installed
         at the pumpkin.
 
         In January (through the 18th)
         Mark has renewed GREXes P.O.Box rental and D.B.A.
         The phone bill controversy still rages, but service hasn't been cut
         off yet.  (A good sign)
 
         A lot of local calls (640) have been billed to GREX lines that have
         no phones on them.  It seems that cetrex may be charging itself for
         calls up the trunk when modems are down.
 
 The Computer Rehabilitation Committee report:   dang has been accumulating
 things, but hasn't yet picked up the computer scg has for him.
 
 The Technical Committee Report: The technical committee has bought a 4370 from
 Property Disposition.  It works!  Rob (Argy?) has bought the parts needed to
 turn it into a new SUN 4/6xx.
 
 GREX has been offered an almost free SUN3 4260.  
 
 The Internet link had croaked but Jan Wolter's broher was able to fix it. 
 It's now kind of kludged together, but it's "probably as good as ever".
 
 The tape drive 9or something thereabouts) has begun to make wierd noises. 
 It may or may not turn out to be a real problem.
 
 Does Micropolis owe GREX a new (thingy)?  The one we bought from them never
 worked.  (I missed the details on this.  Can anyone fill them in for me?)
 
 The setup to disable outgoing calls is "going nowhere fast".
 
 The Question of WEB ACCESS:  GREX is working toward a compromise on the
 question of unregistered users having read access to GREX, but no one really
 likes the compromise.  
 
 The Question of an ISDN line:	Paul Southworth met with Rob Henderson, Marcus
 Watts, and Valerie Mates.  He offered an ISDN line from his home.  He says
 that less than 10 percent of his line is now being used.  The Conditions of
 Use would include: Paul and or CICnet would be welcome to test things on us.
 GREX wouold provide a modest amount of publicity to CICnet.  We have a lot
 of router options, which we will have to look into to find the best fit.  All
 phone and other related expenses will be on GREX.  GREX would be limited to
 ISDN bandwidth.  Further dscussion will be help in the Garage Conference (j
 garage) The offer Mike O'Leary was discussing with GREX has fallen through,
 at least for the time being.
 
 The Question of CFADM Trainees:	Many well qualified candidates have
 volunteered.  The staff will continue to take volunteers until the next saff
 meeting, at which time they will discuss the merits of the volunteers and
 decide on recommenendations to make to the Board.
 
 The JCC Sale:	The Board voted on whether GREX should be represented at the
 next JCC sale.  Scott motioned and Mark seconded the following proposal:
 	The Board authorizes up to $80 to spend on the March JCC sale for
 tables to Rob Argy if Rob feels it's worthwhile for GREX to attend."
 
 The maotion passed 7-0-0
 
 New Business:	Valerie Mates welcomes all old and new Board members.

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