Vancouver Community Network Board Meeting Minutes - March 26, 2001 Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Vancouver Community Network, Board of Directors, held on Monday, March 26, 2001 at 6:30 P.M. in the Boardroom, 411 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC. Present: Alison Curtis, Jonn Olldym, Jim Sayre, Sharlene Smith, Greg Sturk, Lyle Gardiner, Sujay Nazareth Veronica Aimone, Michael Gurstein, Mary Hammond, Amali De Silva Staff: Steven Chan, Peter Royce Absent: Alexandra Samuel, Jason Currell, Richard Songhurst Chair: Alison Curtis Secretary: Sujay Nazareth 1. Adoption of the Agenda, M/S/C 2. Acceptance of minutes of February 26, 2001 Meeting with corrections M/S/C 3. a) Jack Vickery has been hired to implement the CAP Project. Am Johal has been hired as the CLN Co-Ordinator but will not be starting full time employment for another few months. Will be applying for 3 summer student positions. Minimum wage will be topped up by another $1. The round 1 of the CAP project is in progress. THE CLN project main activities will be started in Mid May. Lee-Anne Regan has been chosen to do the third part evaluation of the project. VCN in partnership with the Newton Advocay Group is working on a Surrey Self-Advocacy focused CLN Proposal. Volnet has had 212 Applicants out of which 14 withdrew. The complete package has been delivered to all. Still waiting on a probable extension of the project for another year. An evaluation report of the Volnet Project is being worked on. The gaming application for this fiscal year has been sent it. Volunteers will be at the Student Union Building of Langara again for the first few weeks of the next term promoting the Internet access. Motion that the co-ordinator in consultation with the technical staff be empowered to set prices for extra services to groups in keeping with the goals of VCN as well as providing the board with monthly reports on these services and prices, M/S/C b) A second group dialup line has been installed. An agreement has been reached with United Community Services Co-Op in which VCB will host an IBM/Lotus application and in exchange they will fund the purchase of upgrade materials, including RAM Chips, a SCSI hard Drive and a SCSI Adapter. The new server will replace the old one and the old one will replace the news server. c) Motion that the finance committee take on responsibility for staff to use and obtain Credit Cards M/S/C 4. Finance Committee has been formed. Budget Comparisons is the priority. VCN is in a healthy cash position. Motion that Financial Report be accepted M/S/C 5. Motion to move meeting in Camera 6. a) The issues of the User Agreement have been tabled for the April Meeting b) Discussion of Web Content and Design has been tabled for April Meeting 7. Conference reports on the BCCNA,TC and CLN Conferences have been tabled due to time constraints. 8. The issue of Board List Spam has been tabled 9. It was agreed that the April Board Meeting be rescheduled to May 3rd 2001. Meeting was adjourned at 8:55PM