MINUTES OF THE

DATV BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2002

 

 

 

MEMBERS PRESENT

 

Roberta Taylor, Chair                                                               

Aaron Sheaffer, Vice Chair                                                        Lela Estes

Robert Bradley, Treasurer                                                          Tom Ritchie 

Margaret Barlow                                                             Robert Mullins                                                                        

ALSO PRESENT

 

John Rocco, DATV Executive Director

David Snow, City of Dayton Cable Administrator

Kara Andrews, Time Warner Cable

Pat Jessee, DATV Staff

 

NOT PRESENT

 

Tim Gardner, Mark Madry, Gabrielle Williamson, Idotha Neal,  - 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. Tom Ritchie made the motion and A. Sheaffer seconded. Agenda approved as presented.

 

BOARD CHAIR COMMENTS

 

R. Taylor said the Board needed to go into Executive Session at the conclusion of the meeting for the Executive Director's evaluation. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Board Minutes for October 7, 2002                                                                Page 2

 

APPROVAL OF BOARD MINUTES - AUGUST 12, 2002

 

R. Taylor asked if there were any additions or corrections to the minutes.   T. Ritchie made the motion to approve the minutes as presented and M. Barlow seconded.  Motion passed unanimously.

 

OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT

 

None.

 

TREASURER’S REPORT

 

R. Taylor asked for a motion to accept the Treasurer's report as presented.  L. Estes made the motion and A. Sheaffer seconded.  Motion passed unanimously.

 

COMMITTEE REPORTS

 

A.    Executive Committee - did not meet.

 

B.    Nominating Committee - M. Barlow reported that at the last meeting the Committee sent out publicity about the Board Recruitment.  The deadline for applications is October 31. Any Board member whose term is up should have their letter of intent into J. Rocco by that time also.  The next scheduled meeting will be November 4 at 8 am.

The slate of nominations will be presented at the December meeting and the Board will vote on the new members.  New board officers for 2003 will be voted on at this meeting also.  

 

C.    Investment Committee - R. Bradly reported that the Committee met on September 10.  He said the market is still fluctuating and that the Committee would meet again on November 19.

 

J. Rocco commented that at the next meeting the Investment Committee would investigate whether or not DATV should stay with the four Money Managers or change them.  Merrill Lynch will be attending the meeting with some recommendations.

 

D.     Personnel Committee - report to be given in the Executive Session.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Board Minutes for August 12, 2002                                                                Page 3

 

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT

 

J. Rocco told the Board that DATV had been contacted by Kiser Middle School about providing some training for some of the students in their video class.

 

Also, he said that M. Mills, Program Director, had been elected to an at-large seat on the national Alliance board. 

 

He continued by saying D. Suffoletto had been asked to attend the board meeting to give an overview of the events and activities planned for 2003 which will be DATV's 25th anniversary.

 

At this time, D. Suffoletto passed out a marketing plan of some potential ideas the staff has come up with and would like to share with the Board for their feed back and ideas.

  

CITY OF DAYTON CABLE ADMINISTRATOR

 

D. Snow reported that Total Link requested an extension of another year and it was granted by the city.  He continued by saying there had been more meetings and more delays in regard to ROW and it looked like it would be mid to late November before it went in front of the Commission. 

 

TIME WARNER REPRESENTATIVE

 

K. Andrews passed out Time Warner's newsletter and explain about the new

Video on Demand program.  She also said that Time Warner was having Customer Service Day on October 19 from 11 AM until 6 PM at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery.   

 

OLD BUSINESS - None.

 

NEW BUSINESS - none.

 

ADJOURNMENT

 

At 12:20 PM, R. Taylor asked for a motion to adjourn into Executive Session. T. Ritchie made the motion with A. Sheaffer seconded.  Motion approved.

 

After coming out of Executive Session, R. Taylor asked for a motion to adjourn the meeting.  R. Mullins so moved and A. Sheaffer seconded.  Adjournment was at 12:50 PM.  The next meeting will be December 9 at 11:30 AM in the DATV conference room.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

____________________________                            ______________________________

Margaret Barlow, DATV Secretary                                  John A. Rocco, Executive Director