April 11, 2006
Board of Directors
4/3/06
In attendance: Sean Schuster-Craig (GM), Chaz Berret (not on board), Jason Voss (board), Sarah Stedman (board), Julia Holter (board), Mike Clancy (board), Max Sussman (board), Brent Rioux (not), John Notarianni (board)
Call to Order.
• Sean: call for the approval of minutes. GM election will be the next order of business.
• Sarah calls for the approval of the agenda. Jason seconds. Unanimous approval.
• Mike moves that the previous month’s minutes be approved. Unanimous approval, though because there was no quorum, it was not an official meeting.
Public Comments
• Mike: Alex has drawn up a plan for the room from which we will broadcast once the renovations begin. We are waiting for approval from the architects. We probably won’t see any activity in our area of the SAB until next Summer.
GM Election
• Sean: Sarah had planned that Sam Turner would be GM for the Summer, so the election at this meeting will determine the GM for the coming school year. The two candidates are Jen Herard and Sarah Stedman. Jen is not in the country right now, so she is not available for interview by the BOD. Furthermore, because there must be a two week election period, it is impossible for there to be a new GM by May 1st. One option is to hold another BOD meeting at the end of the month; the other is to postpone the election until the Fall.
• Brendt has left the meeting.
• Sean: If Sam is appointed, he will certainly leave in the Fall. Even if Sarah is elected, she may be unavailable for the Summer, leaving Sam in the position, regardless.
• If a BOD meeting is scheduled for late April, then someone can be elected, then appoint someone else later. The BOD will meet on April 24th; petitions will go up on April 10th.
Jason: motion to hold the Gm election April 24th. Petitions will be due April 10th. Sarah seconds. Motion passes unanimously.
• Mike: election should be added to agenda for next meeting.
• Sean: we will be voting for a year-long GM with the assumption that someone else will be appointed by the acting GM for the Fall
Department reports
Development
• Sean: Mali’s concerns about mix CDs as premia revolve around potential charges for our endorsement and distribution of bootlegs. Either major label tracks should be removed or the practice discontinued. Exec staff has already decided to stop the process entirely. Since it was never an official policy to make them, it seems reasonable that an unofficial policy will suffice
• Max: since they are such a good fundraising premium, if we simply remove the major label tracks, then we might be able to continue doing this.
• Sarah: the enforcement of bootlegging laws is only getting more strict, so it is probably a good idea to stop the process entirely.
• Max: what if we get approval from artists and labels beforehand.
• Mike: exec staff should make this into an official policy. Sean agrees.
Jason motions to end the meeting. Unanimous approval.
Posted by cberret at April 11, 2006 10:40 AM