Vancouver Community Network
Board Meeting Minutes - June 27, 2000

Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Vancouver Community Network, Board
of Directors, held on Tuesday, June 27, 2000 at 6:30 P.M. in the
Boardroom, 411 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC.

Present: Sujay Nazareth, Jonn Olldym, Suzanne Klinga, Alison Curtis, Lyle Gardiner, Michael Gurnstein, Richard Smith, Sadia Ramirez

Staff: Jason Currell, Peter Royce 

Absent: Richard Songhurst, Steve Forrest, Penny Goldsmith, Tom Hanson, Greg Sturk,

Chair: Alison Curtis               Secretary: Sujay Nazareth

1.    Adoption of the Agenda (M/S/C)

2.	Steven Forrest is to leave the board with immediate effect for personal reasons. Motion to accept Jason as a new Board Member (M/S/C)

3.	Acceptance of the minutes of the May 2000 minutes with changes (M/S/C)

4.    A new budgeting process will be started from next month. 411 and VCN will be signing a new agreement for shared computer lab use. Carolyn has started work in her new position as Volunteer Co-ordinator. Rupinder has started in her position as Office Administrator but has been unable to come to work for a few days as she was in a car accident. The search for Jason's replacement is on. Resumes have been accepted and interviews are to be conducted shortly. Volnet groups are coming in very slowly. The assessment draft for the hotlinks program was received. Langara Student Union has been contacted to arrange for a user campaign this year. A Cap proposal was submitted along with 7 groups. Working on getting gaming application in. Peter to meet with the manager of the Smart Choice project. The new modem pool and the back-up server have arrived.
	Move to rent additional office space at 411 for $500 per month (M/S/C)

5.    As of today VCN has $118,000 in the bank account. Board of Directors insurance quotes are in progress.

6.    There was a discussion of organizing a workshop to work on the development of VCN.
Motion to form a planning committee for the fall strategy planning session (M/S/C)
It was decided that Richard Smith, Jonn Olldym, Michael Gurnstein, Jason Currell and Peter Royce would serve on this committee.

7.    Motion to Endorse the CSNS Society (M/S/C)

8.	IT was decided that Peter Royce should be the point of contact with the Access Foundation.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:10PM.