July 23, 2007
16 July 2007
In attendance: Brendt Rioux (General Manager), Mike Clancy (Board), Alex Sergay (Chief Engineer), Joy (Board), Chaz Berret (Board), Kristin Sumrall (Board), Mike Perini (Board)
Agenda approved unanimously
Last meeting’s minutes approved unanimously
Next meeting set for August 13th
- The renovation swing space in the student wood shop has room for roughly 40 cubicles; we have requested six. These will be used primarily for Exec Staff but could also be used for the fundraiser. The storage space will be 7.5 feet tall- unfortunately our library shelves are eight feet tall. We have recently been notified that they expect the station's wiring to run through the IT closet near the Thompson St. stairs rather than the closet in Prod B that we currently use. Since we have already done the wiring for the station, it seems unnecessary for us to use the other closet.
- The Programming, Music, and GM offices will lose a few feet when the new conference room is constructed (in place of Annex A). There will also be new motion sensing light switches.
- It seems that the best way to move stuff out of Annex A will be to get everything into boxes so that the rest of the job merely involves picking up and moving. The boxes and moving labor will be provided for moving everything out, but not for moving it back in. We get to keep a certain amount of swing space and storage area even after the renovation. It is likely that we will need new shelving and furniture, but we will receive no help in buying or moving it.
- The air conditioning has been fixed, much to the relief of the station.
- The new budget has been prepared by Brendt and Chaz and distributed for overview by the board. The budget from 2005-06 was used as a guide since the 2006-07 budget was lost in a Quicken crash.
- A few departments and expenses no longer exist on this budget (e.g. News Department and “Remote Expenses”), so those expenses have been eliminated. A new category, “Shelving and Furniture,” has ben added with a budget of $2500 in order to cover the expenses of rebuilding livable station areas after renovations.
- The budget for web costs has not been set at this point because we have so many uncertain charges to account for. The exact amount owed to Sound Exchange is unclear. Likewise, royalty charges appear to be rising.
- The exact amount raised during fundraiser, as well as the amount that we will need to spend on it next year, are both unclear. That figure will stay budgeted at the previous level.
- Since the total budget amount is not listed and a few expenses have yet to be determined, the budget will be finalized at the next meeting.
- The Fall Concert, scheduled for Welcome Week in late August, will take place on Sept. 1st or 2nd. The headlining act is Sunburned Hand of the Man. Additional opening acts will include Graveyards, a free jazz project featuring Wolf Eyes’ John Olsen, and Odd Cloud. Sunburned’s booking agent is hesitant to commit right now, but the deal appears quite likely to go through. The Neutral Zone is willing to offer us an operating budget of $1000. UMMA is also likely to help us fund the concert, since they have been extremely generous in the past.
- Jandek has demanded a 200-400 person venue with inclined seating. Perhaps the Rackham Auditorium, Arthur Miller Theater, or the RC Theater would be appropriate. This will likely be the Winter concert, tentatively scheduled for February or March.
- The transmitter went off recently without the proper procedures being taken. The DJ responsible has been corrected about the necessary measures.
- A campus library is selling off CDs, but we need to buy them in blocks of 100 without searching them first. Brendt is willing to filter through them, so it seems like a good bet that we will find some good additions to the library.
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