June 12, 2000
MINUTES OF THE
DATV BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING
FOR MONDAY, JUNE 12 2000
MEMBERS PRESENT
Margaret Barlow, Chair Robert Bradley
Roberta Taylor, Vice-Chair Lela Estes
Beverly Jones, Secretary Vickie Souve
Mark Madry Aaron Sheaffer
ALSO PRESENT
John Rocco, DATV Executive Director
Randy Bellinger, City of Dayton
Kelly Kuhlman, Time Warner Government Affairs Manager
Tony Ballman, Merrill Lynch
Pat Jessee, DATV Staff
NOT PRESENT
Tony Capizzi
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.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA
M. Barlow called for approval of the agenda. R. Taylor moved to
approve the agenda as presented with A. Sheaffer seconding the motion. Motion
passed unanimously.
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BOARD CHAIR COMMENTS - None.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
M. Barlow asked for approval of the April 10, 2000, board meeting minutes.
A. Sheaffer moved that the minutes be amended to show that the members not present were excused. L. Estes seconded the motion, Motion passed unanimously.
OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT - None.
APPROVAL OF THE TREASURER'S REPORT
J. Rocco indicated that there was nothing unusual about the financial reports within the packets. He proceeded to introduce Tony Ballman of Merrill Lynch.
T. Ballman passed out handouts and proceeded to give a presentation on the investment strategies of DATV. He indicated that more of the investment would
be allocated to growth instead of the value manager known as Dover Partners. Therefore, DATV will now have four professional money managers to manage approximately $550,000.00. Dover will continue to manage approximately $250,000 of the investment while the other three will manage approximately $100,000 each.
At the end of T. Ballman’s presentation, J. Rocco stated that Merrill Lynch would be at the December board meeting to give an update of DATV’s investments.
M. Barlow asked for a motion to accept the treasurer’s report as presented.
A. Scheaffer made the motion and Roberta 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 benefit concert was still ongoing. A. Crouch had responded and DATV had requested that a
contract be forward to DATV. As of now, nothing has been heard from them.
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REPORT
J. Rocco went over the Executive Director’s report saying that the City of Dayton
had entered into negotiations with TotaLink, a telecommunications company and that R. Bellinger would have more to say about those negotiations.
Also, J. Rocco enlarged upon the interest DATV has in acquiring a low power FM radio license. He told the Board he had been in contact with R. Bellinger about a potential cooperative effort between DATV and the City. After some discussion
R. Bradley made the motion that DATV proceed in acquiring a low power FM radio license. B. Jones seconded the motion and the motion passed unanimously.
This will be an agenda item for the next board meeting in August.
J. Rocco reported about the meeting DATV had with Carlson Magnet School and DATV’s potential participation in Carlson’s curriculum. Concern was expressed as to whether or not the Educational Access should handle this instead of DATV.
J. Rocco will investigate this issue further and report back to the Board at the August meeting.
J. Rocco reiterate information about Americore and the SWEAT program. More discussion will be held at the August board meeting concerning the hiring of an Americore participant.
CITY OF DAYTON REPRESENTATIVE (Randy Bellinger)
R. Bellinger reported on the status of negotiations between the City and TotaLink. Discussion followed in which concern was expressed as to the involvement of DATV in these negotiations.
R. Bellinger said that exact specifics need to be worked out. He said it is the
feelings of the City that whatever is going to Access will continue to go to Access. An example would be that if the City is getting 5% franchise fees 2% will go to DATV. That will probably continue. However, the contract will probably read
"to go to PEG."
R. Bellinger said he has been in touch with J. Rocco about the negotiations but
J. Rocco has not been included in any negotiation meetings.
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M. Barlow suggested the Board meet before the August meeting, that is, if DATV is invited to some negotiation meetings by August, to review the historical background in relation to the franchise contract.
A. Scheaffer asked that DATV’s attorney be contacted. J. Rocco told the Board he had been in contact with lawyers in Washington, D.C.
TIME WARNER REPRESENTATIVE (Kelly Kuhlman)
K. Kuhlman reported that Times Warner upgrade continues to progress and invited the Board to go across the street to see the progress at the next meeting.
She reported that a survey had been sent out to customers throughout the Dayton area and they were asked, "What do you like and what would you change" and overwhelmingly, they said, less access channels.
Discussion followed as to how the survey was conducted, what area of the viewing audience was contacted and what access channels were in question.
OLD BUSINESS - None.
NEW BUSINESS
J. Rocco said M. Barlow had brought to his attention that in the new by-laws the Secretary/Treasurer position had not been split in to two positions. This would represent the first reading and at the August meeting a vote would be taken since this was a by-law change.
ADJOURNMENT
M. Barlow adjourned the meeting at 1:40 p.m.
The next board meeting will be held on Monday, August 14, 2000, at 11:30 AM.
Respectfully submitted,
______________________ ________________________
Beverly Jones John A. Rocco
DATV Board Secretary DATV Executive Director
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