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March 19, 2007
Board of Directors
3-19-07
In attendance: Jen Herard (GM), Alex Sergay (Chief Engineer), Kristin Summrall (Board), Mike Clancy (Board), Evan Eustace (Board), Chaz Berret (Board), Steve Schuster (Sports Director)
Call to order
Last meeting’s minutes approved
Next month’s meeting set for April 30
o At next month’s meeting, the General Manager election will be held. The newest board members will be elected by that time, so they will be able to vote for the new GM.
o The sports department is here to ask for funds. The Michigan hockey team is going to Denver for a tournament and they need money.
o Kristin moves to approve an expenditure of up to $1500 for the Sports Department so that they may cover the hockey team tournament in Denver. Chaz seconds the motion. Unanimous approval.
o Lenny’s seat will be filled by Mike Perini. Mike Clancy spoke to the VP of Communications, Julie Peterson, and they decided that Mike Perini would be a good candidate. Everyone on the board agrees that he is a good choice.
o Since Tom Bray is interested in giving up his seat, there has been some talk of inviting Mars to take Tom’s seat rather than Lenny’s, as we originally planned. Mike believes that it would be good to keep Tom around as long as possible, especially since it will be important to have his help as the renovations approach.
o Renovation update: a lot of stuff has been moved from the wood shop recently; demolitions will begin soon. The timeline is still very uncertain, but we know that we aren’t among the first steps (possibly as late as stage 3), so there is no imminent concern. Alex says that we still do not know whether the sports office will be finished by the time we need to move the studio there. We also do not know whether we will be able to coordinate our re-carpeting with their re-carpeting. Mike does not think that it will be difficult to schedule the two at the same time. The sound quality standards for the new studio can be met by installing extra vents, so this is not as immediate or threatening a concern as we originally thought. The station offices need to have their IT networking structure updated; Alex needs special approval for this since it will almost certainly exceed $1000, but this will need to be an e-mail vote when the issue arises.
o The balance in the gift account after fundraiser is $7,284.89; that only accounts for credit card donations, since mail-outs were only sent last week. The total was well over $27,000, so only ¼ of the money has ben received.
o Premia CDs – the Down Home Show and Radio Rama Lama assembled CDs that were all public domain; Brian Tomsic got permission from the labels. The Pan-African Heartbeat CD has been edited down to only ‘creative commons’ tracks. Mike has gone to the UM lawyers, who believe that in all likelihood the distribution of premia CDs is a violation of copyright law. They have been given our policy, but have not yet gotten back to us about any specific problems.
o Soundexchange, the company who manages our streaming service, does not regularly send us bills, but rather insists that we remember to send the $500 annual fee. Mike believes that we owe them for both this year and last year. It is also possible that we owe them extra money for rate increases and underpayment of recent bills. Mike is going to investigate.
Brendt moves to end the meeting, Evan seconds, unanimous approval.
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