GCN Meeting Minutes 3-27-2008

GCN Committee Minutes

Thursday March 27, 2008

Committee members present: Paul Berry, James Martell, Fritz Koschmann

Committee members absent: Bruce Paige, Rachel Parks, Dan Zobrist

Others Present: Nate Borson

Meeting started: 7:03 PM

Meeting Agenda:

● Committee Work Plan

● Committee Budget

Paul Berry chaired the meeting. He asked the committee to adopt the previous meeting minutes as written.

Jim moved to adopt the November 12, 2007 minutes as written.

Fritz seconded the motion.

The motion passed unanimously.

Agenda Item: Committee Work Plan

Nate read the FY 2006 work plan to determine if work plan goals were achieve. There was no work plan for FY 2007.

After discussion, the committee proposed one goal for FY 2009

Goal I – Deliver community-wide, fast, affordable, reliable broadband Internet access.

Project I A – Provide broadband infrastructure.

Project I B – Develop a business plan.

Project I C – Develop Policy and Procedures for GCN.

Action Items –

Analyze Borealis Broadband Report – Nate & Jim

Locate Tower Site – Fritz

Note: need small building for tower site to house some equipment and provide power.

Project Scoping – Nate

Grant Application – Jim

He will attempt to complete task within 2 weeks.

There was further discussion regarding the work plan.

Jim made a motion to adopt work plan as presented.

Fritz seconded the motion.

The motion passed unanimously.

Agenda Item: Committee Budget

The committee discussed ways to determine income and expenses base on data provided by Nate and a current fiscal year P&L from Kapryce that was annualized. The issue of library usage was discussed and the best ways to deal with the problem resulting from losing GCN subscribers and greater library consumption of GCN bandwidth.

Jim motioned to approve the GCN FY 2009 budget and submit it to the council for adoption.

Fritz seconded the motion.

The motion passed unanimously.

Meeting Adjourned at 9:30 PM

[Minutes not yet approved]