DATV BOARD OF TRUSTEES
MEETING
MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2003
MEMBERS PRESENT
Roberta
Taylor, Chair Tom
Ritchie
Aaron
Sheaffer, Vice Chair Gabrielle
Williamson
Robert
Bradley, Treasurer Comm.
Richard Zimmer
Margaret
Barlow, Secretary Mark
Madry
R.
Mullins
ALSO PRESENT
John
Rocco, DATV Executive Director
Randy
Bellinger, City of Dayton
Kara
Andrews, Time Warner Cable
Pat
Jessee, DATV Staff
NOT PRESENT
L.
Estes, and T. Gardner - excused.
MEETING CALLED TO ORDER
R.
Taylor called the meeting to order at 11:40 a.m.
ROLL CALL
Roll
call read by P. Jessee.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA
R.
Taylor asked for a motion to approve the agenda. T. Ritchie made the motion and
R.
Zimmer seconded. Agenda approved as presented.
BOARD CHAIR COMMENTS - none
APPROVAL OF BOARD MINUTES -
JUNE 9, 2003
R.
Taylor asked for a motion for approval of the minutes as presented. M. Madry made the motion and M. Barlow
seconded the motion. Motion passed
unanimously.
OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC
COMMENT
None
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TREASURER’S REPORT
R.
Bradley asked for any questions concerning the Treasurer's Report.
R.
Zimmer asked if there wasn't any way to combine the different insurance
premiums so there were only one or two premiums to be paid instead of five or
so.
J.
Rocco replied that this coming week he had a meeting with the insurance agent
to discuss just this question. At the
next board meeting J. Rocco should have more answers to this question.
T.
Ritchie made the motion to accept the Treasurer's Report as presented. M. Madry
seconded and motion passed unanimously.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
A.
Executive
Committee - none
B.
Nominating
Committee - none. However, this
committee will start meeting since there are board members whose term will be
up as of December 31, 2003. The members of this committee are: A. Sheaffer, Chair; Mark Madry and Bob
Mullins.
C.
Investment
Committee - This committee did meet last month. R. Bradley said the committee had decided to tweak the allocation
mix once again so that now it was 44% cash and 56% stocks. The committee expects the stock market to
improve within the next three-five years.
D.
Personnel
Committee - none
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT
J.
Rocco told the Board that the past month has been very busy for DATV what with
Inventing Flight. He did not have an
exact amount but DATV has at least 10-12 programs out of the three week long
celebration starting off with the Opening Ceremonies. The Opening Ceremonies were done in conjunction with Ch. 7. He said it was exhausting for the staff but
they did a spectacular job over the three weeks. Basically, DATV is now the
archives for this historical event. At the same time we were going live on Ch.
7, we were also going live on what was going on Riverscape for six straight
hours. We finished the day with the fireworks, which, of course, DATV put up a
lot of the money to do. Afterwards, at the commission meeting, the City Manager
and Commissioner Zimmer, thanked DATV for their contribution toward the cost of
the fireworks.
In
relation to DATV's 25th Anniversary, J. Rocco told the Board that D.
Suffoletto is working on the idea of having a video festival. This festival
would show the "very best videos" of DATV for the past 25 years. Most probably, it would be held at the Neon
Movies, sometime in October.
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Also,
in keeping with our trying to get more young people involved with DATV,
a
group from the Dayton Early College Academy will becoming in next month to take
our workshops. We also got our first
program from Kiser Middle School. We
are looking forward to more shows once school begins J. Rocco also reported
that DATV has so many people attending orientation in order to become members
that now there is a two-month waiting list.
So, if you sign up in August, you probably won't get into a class until
October.
At
the last national Alliance conference, Wanda Baer, who is a 20-year plus
volunteer received the George Stoney award from the Alliance. This award is one of three highest awards
that the Alliance gives.
Also,
DATV is giving or donating to DGTV some equipment. DATV has an Avid non-linear digital editing system on a MAC that
DATV purchased a few years back. At
that time, it cost about $28,000. Since then, we have purchased new digital
editing equipment, that is used on PCs, not MACs. Since, we can't instruct some
producers on Macs and others on something else, there isn't any need for the
MAC equipment. DGTV, however, does use
MACs and could use this equipment.
CITY OF DAYTON
R.
Bellinger said the City greatly appreciates the donation of the equipment.
Also, the City and DATV are looking into ways where they can collaborate in
more programming.
He
reminded the Board that in the Fall the franchise renewal process would be
starting between the City, DATV and Time Warner. As of now, the City is waiting for the letter from Time Warner
which will kick off the renewal process.
T.
Ritchie, and A. Sheaffer, commented on the importance of DATV having a seat
"at the table" when negotiations do start.
TIME WARNER REPRESENTATIVE
K.
Andrews passed out Time Warner's community report, FYI, to all the board
members.
This
report is an overview of the different things that Time Warner is involved in.
OLD BUSINESS - none
NEW BUSINESS - none
ADJOURNMENT
At
12:10 R. Taylor made the request for a motion that the Board adjourn for an
executive session. M. Madry made the motion with M. Barlow seconded.
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At
this time, R. Mullins stated that as a point of order it is needed to tell what
the executive session regards.
J.
Rocco replied it was a legal matter.
The
next board meeting will be October 13, 2003.
Respectfully
submitted,
____________________________ ______________________________
Margaret
Barlow, DATV Secretary John
A. Rocco, Executive Director