August 14, 2000
MINUTES OF THE
DATV BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING
FOR MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2000
MEMBERS PRESENT
Margaret Barlow, Chair Vickie Souve
Roberta Taylor, Vice-Chair Aaron Sheaffer Tony Capizzi, Treasurer
Beverly Jones, Secretary
ALSO PRESENT
John Rocco, DATV Executive Director
Randy Bellinger, City of Dayton
Pat Jessee, DATV Staff
NOT PRESENT
Robert Bradley
Lela Estes
Mark Madry
Mary Wiseman
MEETING CALLED TO ORDER
M. Barlow called the meeting to order at 11:40 a.m.
ROLL CALL
P. Jessee read the roll call. M. Barlow moved to excuse the absences of R. Bradley, L. Estes, M. Madry and M. Wiseman. V. Souve seconded the motion and it passed unanimously.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA
M. Barlow called for approval of the agenda. T. Capizzi moved to
approve the agenda as prepared with B. Jones seconding the motion. Motion
passed unanimously.
BOARD CHAIR COMMENTS - M. Barlow comments concerned the national meeting of the Alliance in Tucson in June and how great it was. She commented that there were "tons" of good sessions for all participants concerning the stronger effort to move toward regional, national, and even possibly, global as far as franchises, and
overbuild. They urged everybody to really work together with their regulators to make sure that the control stay local. She reminded the Board that the Central States Alliance conference would be here in Dayton in October. Also, DATV had a Hometown Video winner.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
M. Barlow asked for approval of the June 12, 2000, board minutes. A. Sheaffer moved that the minutes be approve as presented and V. Souve seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously.
OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT - None. J. Rocco commented that there was a volunteer who had requested to record the Board meeting. After some discussion,
M. Barlow said there seem to be no objection to the meeting being taped. T. Capizzi did state that there should be a time limit of three minutes per speaker and discussion and public comment be limited to public discussion. M. Barlow remarked that the volunteer would be welcome to the board meetings.
APPROVAL OF THE TREASURER'S REPORT
M. Barlow asked for a motion to accept the treasurer’s report as presented.
T. Capizzi asked if there were any questions. J. Rocco commented that DATV was looking into buying a new bookkeeping application. The company is called Peach Tree. T. Capizzi made the motion to accept the report as prepared and R. Taylor seconded with the motion passing unanimously.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Executive Committee - None.
Personnel Committee - None
Development Committee Report - J. Rocco told the Board that the respond from
A. Crouch was negative after waiting months for a reply. He suggested that the concert be tabled until next Spring.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REPORT
J. Rocco went over the Executive Director’s report saying he had received the information needed from Dayton Power and Light and the other information and in view of the added expense, he suggested that the building of the second studio be put on hold until some later date.
He briefly commented he was still working with DGTV and the Dayton public schools in securing an LPFM radio license.
The only other thing he wanted to mention and which was not in his written report was that DATV has agreed to do some production classes for kids going through a program at Dayton Art Institute. This fits with the goal of getting more young people involved with DATV.
CITY OF DAYTON REPRESENTATIVE (Randy Bellinger)
R. Bellinger informed the Board that his office had been moved and negotiations with TotaLink was still ongoing. J. Rocco will be kept informed as to negotiations.
TIME WARNER REPRESENTATIVE (Kelly Kuhlman)
Not present.
OLD BUSINESS
M. Barlow asked for a motion to approve the splitting of the Secretary/Treasurer position into individual positions. T. Capizzi made the motion with A. Sheaffer seconding and the motion to amend the By-laws was unanimously approved.
NEW BUSINESS
None.
ADJOURNMENT
M. Barlow adjourned the meeting at 1:40 p.m.
The next board meeting will be held on Monday, October 9, 2000, at 11:30 AM.
Respectfully submitted,
______________________ ________________________
Beverly Jones John A. Rocco
DATV Board Secretary DATV Executive Director
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