DATV BOARD OF TRUSTEES
MEETING
MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2003
MEMBERS PRESENT
Roberta
Taylor, Chair Tim
Gardner
Aaron
Sheaffer, Vice Chair Mark
Madry
Robert
Bradley, Treasurer Robert
Mullins
Margaret
Barlow, Secretary Tom
Ritchie
Lela
Estes Comm.
Richard Zimmer
ALSO PRESENT
John
Rocco, DATV Executive Director
David
Snow, City of Dayton Cable Administrator
Kara
Andrews, Time Warner Cable
Pat
Jessee, DATV Staff
Representatives
from Battelle and Battelle
NOT PRESENT
Gabrielle
Williamson - excused.
MEETING CALLED TO ORDER
R.
Taylor called the meeting to order at 11:35 a.m.
ROLL CALL
Roll
call read by P. Jessee.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA
R.
Taylor asked for a motion to approve the agenda. A. Sheaffer made the motion and
T.
Ritchie seconded. Agenda approved as presented.
BOARD CHAIR COMMENTS
R.
Taylor thanked everyone for showing up at the 25th anniversary and
kudos to J. Rocco and staff for a job well done. Her other comments were left
for the Executive Session at the end of this meeting.
APPROVAL OF BOARD MINUTES -
FEBRUARY 10, 2003
R.
Taylor asked for a motion for approval of the minutes as presented. T. Ritchie made the motion and M. Barlow
seconded the motion. Motion passed
unanimously.
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OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC
COMMENT
None
TREASURER’S REPORT
R.
Taylor asked for approval of Treasurer’s report. T. Ritchie made the motion
that the two written reports be approved as presented. L. Estes seconded and
the motion passed unanimously.
At
this time J. Rocco introduced C. Foley and C. McCaskey from Battelle and
Battelle.
J.
Rocco said that the audit for 2002 was on March 24, 2003. The audit report was included in the board
packets.
C.
McCaskey told the Board that it was a pleasure to have served as independent
auditors and that there had been no disagreement with management and no serious
difficulties during the audit. He then
proceeded to turn the presentation over to C. Foley who explained the final
report of the audit and answered questions from the Board.
R.
Taylor asked for a motion to accept the audit report as presented. R. Zimmer made the motion to approve and T.
Ritchie seconded. The motion passed unanimously.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
A.
Executive
Committee - R. Taylor said that the committee had an impromptu meeting after
the investment committee meeting. She
request that at the end of this meeting that the Board go into Executive
Session where she will present her report.
B.
Nominating
Committee - none.
C.
Investment
Committee - R. Bradley answered R. Taylor' question as to which was the correct
meeting day for the Investment Committee.
He said it was the 2nd Tuesday, not Monday, and the starting
time was 9 am. He proceeded to say that
the committee had met on March 18 and that all the money had been pulled out of
the bond market and the committee was considering increasing our stock to 40%
at the next meeting. It had been
decided to review the Money Managers reports and their performances at the next
meeting in May.
R. Taylor asked for a motion to approve the
Investment Committee report.
A. Sheaffer made the motion with M. Barlow
seconded. Motion passed
unanimously.
D.
Personnel
Committee - none.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT
J.
Rocco reported that DATV's 25th Gala held on Friday, April 11 at the
Convention Center had been attended by one of the largest crowd ever attending
the Tally Awards.
He
also said DATV was running a 25th anniversary ad campaign on the RTA
buses and shortly they will be seeing some billboard ads around town, too.
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J.
Rocco said a college intern from Antioch would be starting May 12 and would be
with DATV all summer. He reported that
our high school intern is working out pretty well and that we hope to have her
till the end of the school year.
J.
Rocco told the Board DATV had purchased a computer and some editing software
for Kiser Middle School and it had been delivered. Hopefully, we will begin to see some programs from the students
soon. If not, then, the computer will
be removed and we will find some other school who is interested in having the
scholarship.
J.
Rocco announced that the Alliance Conference is coming up July 10-12 and would
be held in Tacoma, Washington. Any
board member interested in going should let him know as soon as possible.
CITY OF DAYTON CABLE
ADMINISTRATOR
D.
Snow told the Board he has been working with John and Time Warner in getting
the TV Channels properly labeled. Also, franchise negotiations would begin in
August.
M.
Barlow asked if there was any more discussion about doing a Community Need
Assessment.
D.
Snow replied that he was going to recommend that the City do one.
TIME WARNER REPRESENTATIVE
K.
Andrews said she had found out that there was an engineering error in reference
to the TV Channels being properly labeled.
Also, the State plan to tax cable television has gone through the House
and it did not include a tax on cable and it is now in the Ohio State
Senate.
OLD BUSINESS - R. Taylor put a hold on
this item until the Executive session at the end of this meeting.
NEW BUSINESS -
At
this time A. Sheaffer passed out a memo addressed to the Board and Staff of
DATV. The memo was about the history of
public access in Dayton prior to 1978.
ADJOURNMENT - R. Taylor asked for a motion
to adjourn into Executive Session.
J.
Rocco requested that the motion include an invitation to D. Snow to attend the
Executive Session, too. T. Ritchie made the motion and L. Estes seconded and
the motion passed unanimously.
The
Board went into Executive Session at 12:40 PM.
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The
Executive Session ended at 12:55 and the Board requested the following be made
part of the minutes of April 14, 2003: A motion was made by T. Ritchie and
seconded by
A.
Sheaffer that DATV contribute an additional $73,000 to the City of Dayton to be
used as they see fit. The vote was: 8
yes - 1 Abstain - 1 No.
The
next board meeting will be June 9, 2003.
Respectfully
submitted,
____________________________ ______________________________
Margaret
Barlow, DATV Secretary John
A. Rocco, Executive Director