MINUTES OF THE
DATV BOARD OF
TRUSTEES MEETING
MONDAY APRIL 8,
2002
MEMBERS PRESENT
Roberta Taylor, Chair
Mark Madry
Aaron Sheaffer, Vice Chair
Lela Estes
Robert Bradley, Treasurer
Tim Gardner
Margaret Barlow,
Secretary
ALSO PRESENT
John Rocco, DATV
Executive Director
David Snow, City
of Dayton Cable Administrator
Kara Andrews,
Times Warner
Pat Jessee, DATV
Staff
NOT PRESENT
Robert Mullins,
Idotha “Bootsie” Neal, Tom Ritchie, Gabrielle Williamson - excused.
MEETING CALLED TO
ORDER
R. Taylor called
the meeting to order at 11:45 am.
ROLL CALL
Roll call read by
P. Jessee.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA
R. Taylor asked
for a motion to approve the agenda as presented. M.
Barlow made the
motion to approve
as presented and M. Madry seconded. Motion
passed unanimously.
BOARD CHAIR
COMMENTS
R. Taylor thanked
the board members who attended the volunteer recognition ceremony. She
encouraged all
board members to attend as many events as possible.
APPROVAL OF
MINUTES
R. Taylor asked if
there were any changes or corrections to the Board minutes of February 11, 2002.
Hearing none she
asked for a motion to accept the minutes as presented.
L. Estes made the motion
and R. Bradley
seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
OPPORTUNITY FOR
PUBLIC COMMENT
None.
TREASURER'S REPORT
After comments by
R. Bradley, M. Barlow made the motion to accept the Treasurer’s Report as reported.
M. Madry seconded,
motion passed unanimously.
J. Rocco commented
he had no idea why the accountants had not shown up for the meeting. However, the audit report as presented was pretty
much straightforward. Since there were no
comments R. Taylor asked for a motion to accept the report as presented. M. Barlow made the motion with A. Sheaffer
seconded, motion passed unanimously.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
a. Executive Committee - Did not meet.
b. Nominating Committee - Did not meet.
c. Investment Committee - R. Bradley passed out a memo
indicating that the committee had met on March 19, 2002. At that time the committee
decided not to change investment strategy due to current
bond
market conditions. At the next meeting, the committee will again review the portfolio and
determine
if changes are needed.
d. Personnel Committee -Did not meet. M. Barlow passed out a schedule of meeting dates.
She said
the main objective
of the committee would be the evaluation of the Executive Director. Also, since
there
was not a Nominating Committee, she proposed that the Personnel Committee handle the board
recruitment.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S
REPORT
J. Rocco asked the
Board to start thinking about the celebration of the 25th Anniversary which will be
in 2003. He also told the Board that 41 students from CJ
had taken the workshops, 12 students from
Colonel White and
6 students from Riverside.
J. Rocco also told
the Board that he had been elected Chair of the National Alliance until November, 2002.
He reminded the
Board that the national meeting of the Alliance will be from July 10-13, 2002, in Houston,
Texas. So, the members that wish to go should
let John know as soon as possible.
He mentioned the
building has been painted and new furniture for the volunteer lounge has been purchased. A brand new van also has been purchased along with
some new equipment.
CITY OF DAYTON
CABLE ADMINISTRATOR
D. Snow said there
was three things he wanted to mention, the first one being that they had finished the
Right of Way ordinance and the first meeting would be April 25. The second thing was that the FCC
made a ruling that
Road Runner was an information service and not a cable service. The City has received a letter from Time Warner
saying they were going to stop collecting franchise fees on the Road Runner service and
that they were not going to remit to the City. The
third thing is that discussions are still going on concerning the audit.
TIME WARNER
REPRESENTATIVE
K. Andrews said
that Time Warner had added more channels to their lineup, one being, a Spanish channel.
She said K. Brown
had mentioned that the 2001 DATV Annual Report did not mention the support received by
DATV from Time Warner.
OLD BUSINESS
None
NEW BUSINESS
A. Proposed Rule and Regulations Change - The Board asked that J. Rocco run this pass the
lawyer and that it would be discussed at the next board meeting in June.
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting adjourned
at 12:35 PM. The next Board meeting will be
June 10 , 2002.
Respectfully
submitted,
______________________
______________________
Margaret Barlow
John
A. Rocco
DATV Secretary
DATV
Executive Director
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