MINUTES OF THE
DATV BOARD OF
TRUSTEES MEETING
MONDAY, FEBRUARY
11, 2002
MEMBERS PRESENT
Roberta Taylor, Chair
Lela Estes
Robert Bradley, Treasurer
Tim
Gardner
Margaret Barlow, Secretary
Robert
Mullins
Tom
Ritchie
Gabrielle
Williamson
ALSO PRESENT
John Rocco, DATV
Executive Director
David Snow, City
of Dayton Cable Administrator
Kara Andrews,
Times Warner
Pat Jessee, DATV
Staff
NOT PRESENT
Mark Madry, Idotha
“Bootsie” Neal, and Aaron Sheaffer -
excused.
MEETING CALLED TO
ORDER
R. Taylor called
the meeting to order at 11:40 am.
ROLL CALL
Roll call read by
P. Jessee.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA
R. Taylor asked
for a motion to approve the agenda as presented. T.
Ritchie made the motion to approve
as presented and
L. Estes seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
BOARD CHAIR
COMMENTS
R. Taylor welcomed
the new board members. She thanked them for their participation and hoped that they would
try to participate in the many activities and if they had any questions, she or J. Rocco,
would be pleased to answer them.
APPROVAL OF
MINUTES
R. Taylor asked if
there were any changes or corrections to the Board minutes of December 10, 2001.
Hearing none she
asked for a motion to accept the minutes as presented.Robert Bradly made the motion
and M. Barlow
seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
OPPORTUNITY FOR
PUBLIC COMMENT
None.
TREASURER'S REPORT
After comments by
R. Bradley, L. Estes made the motion to accept the Treasurer’s Report as reported.
R. Bradley
seconded , motion passed unanimously.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
a. Executive Committee -
b. Personnel Committee - Members are: M. Barlow (Chair), L. Estes, T. Gardner, B.
Mullins,
and T. Ritchie.
c. Nominating Committee -
c. Investment Committee - Members are: R. Bradley (Chair), R. Taylor, and G. Williamson
All board members
were asked to sign up for the committee that they wished to be on. R. Bradley will be the Chair of the Investment
committee since R. Taylor is now the Chair of the Board. M. Barlow will chair the
Personnel Committee
J. Rocco asked the
Board to consider forming a committee for the 25th Anniversity of DATV which will be in
the year 2003.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S
REPORT
J. Rocco reported
that as he spoke there were18 C-J students in the building taking a field workshop. The
Riverside Youth Investment project will start sometime during April. Also, Kiser Middle
School has contacted DATV and they are interested in having some of their students take
the classes.
J. Rocco told the
Board that the DATV’s award ceremony would be Friday, April 5, 2002. Also, the
invitations to the Elected Officials receptions are ready to be mailed out. The date for the reception most likely will be
sometime in March.
Also, the fourth
and final lump sum payment of $250,000 has
been received by DATV from Time Warner.
This is the final
lump sum payment in this fanchise agreement.
CITY OF DAYTON
CABLE ADMINISTRATOR
D. Snow reported
that the City is still working with Time Warner in regards to the audit which is now
complete. The Mayor has requested the City to
work with Time Warner on an ordinance in regards to cable theft.
TIME WARNER
REPRESENTATIVE
Kara Andrews said
there was a conflict of meetings and K. Brown was unable to attend the Board meeting.
She reported that
Time Warner is now finished with the up grade of Dayton and that they are now working on
getting back on track with the whole Miami Valley. Time
Warner is now about two-thirds complete.
OLD BUSINESS
R. Taylor asked
for a motion to approve the December 10 Treasurer’s Report. Tom Ritchie made the motion. L. Estes seconded the
motion and it passed unanimously.
L. Estes asked
that board meeting minutes be mailed in the board packets.
M. Barlow suggested that minutes be e-mailed in a timely manner to all of
the members with a hard copy mailed out in the packets.
NEW BUSINESS
None.
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting adjourned
at 12:10 PM. The next Board meeting will be
April 8, 2002.
Respectfully
submitted,
______________________
______________________
Margaret Barlow
John
A. Rocco
DATV Secretary
DATV
Executive Director
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