SUMMIT PUBLIC RADIO MINUTES   

County Commons, Mt. Royal Room, 5:45 PM, 22 January 2007    

   In Attendance: Sue Greene (presiding),  Gary Peterson, John Roberts, Don Dettmering,  Sharon Koblinsky,  Steve Smith, Renee Stoller, Rob Waterman, Pat Spitzmiller, Sally Liu, John Mirro, Marsha Cooper, Ellis Simon, Marilyn Simon (guest), George Kornreich, Peggy Kornreich, Jay Cohen, and Paul Finkel.

   Minutes for the last (November 27, 2006) meeting had been e-mailed to the board and were approved as written.

I. OLD BUSINESS 

  A. FINANCIAL: Paul Finkel had e-mailed the Balance Sheet, a bank account summary, donation history to the present, and budget history. The draft FY07 budget did not include Baldy expenses since the summer projects have not been finalized (see below). We have about $107,000 in the bank at present and are in good financial health.

  B. ENGINEERING: Gary handed out the latest engineering report. This report, plus engineering plans for the coming summer (nine pages total) were the main topic of the meeting. Gary summarized the costs as roughly $30,000, a third of which (for the uninterruptible power supply)  had already been approved by the Board. He also offered that roughly half of the total cost is for non-recurring items, and half is general maintenance. A considerable amount of time was devoted to questions and explanations of this varied and complex plan. Several members felt that it is difficult to approve the plan out of context of long-range technical and financial planning. There was a discussion on the advisability and/or usefulness of hiring a consultant to help with technical planning. Paul Finkel noted that of the $30,000, only $5000 would be needed from our reserves.

       The Board generally felt that dealing with US Forrest Service "requests" (to move two antennas off USFS   land) should be high priority as well as fixing the steady deterioration of KVOD. John Mirro suggested that the Engineering Committee meet before the next Board meeting to review and prioritize the plan.

        C. MEMBERSHIP: Don Dettmering had e-mailed membership lists and payment dates for this and the previous year to the Board members. John Mirro asked if it would be useful and appropriate to let members sign up and make donations via our web site using PayPal (e-bay's credit card branch which will charge a 3% processing fee). The Board unanimously passed a motion to do this and John will make this payment method part of our web site.

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     NEXT BOARD MEETING: Monday 26 March 2007  at the County Commons 5:45 PM.

                                    ( The February meeting was canceled)

     Meeting Schedule:                                 March 26

                                  April 23

                                  June 4

John E. Roberts

12 March 2007