SUMMIT PUBLIC RADIO MINUTES
County Commons, Mt. Royal Room, 5:45 PM, 26 March 2007
In Attendance: Sue Greene (presiding), Gary Peterson, John Roberts, Don Dettmering, Steve Smith, Renee Stoller, Rob Waterman, Pat Spitzmiller, Sally Liu, John Mirro, Marsha Cooper, Ellis Simon, George Kornreich, Anne Stonington, Roger Paluska, Sue Paluska, and Terese Keil.
Minutes for the last (January 22, 2007) meeting had been e-mailed to the board and no corrections were offered.
I. OLD BUSINESS
A. NEW VP: Judy Noble, our Vice President until now, is quite ill and cannot presently fulfill the duties of the office and Steve Smith was nominated and unanimously elected as our new Vice President.
B. MEMBERSHIP: Don Dettmering had sent out membership details in an e-mail to the Board. Membership numbers are ahead of last year.
C. PICNIC: This is scheduled for August 4th this year at the same site as last year. We will again have Mary Ellen Gilliland and a wildflower hike.
D. WEB PAGE: The links to credit-card payment via Pay Pal are almost included. It was decided that Marsha Cooper will get the notices of credit received via this method.
E. WEB SUPPORT FOR NON-PROFITS: Sue Greene and Rob Waterman urged Board members to take a look at the web site "blacktie.com" or "blacktie-colorado.com/non-profit/". This site provides numerous services for non-profits (for a fee) and we are urged to look at the benefits available.
F. SITE LEASES: The lease for KTUN is complete. Two more are nearing completion. We have increased the lease rate from $250 to $350.
G. ENGINEERING: John Mirro and Gary Peterson presented the plans and costs of the work to be done, this summer if time, weather, and funding approval allow. This work was summarized in a three-page, nine-section handout which should be considered an integral part of these minutes. The nine sections and action taken by the Board are:
Section 1 and 2 - Planning and site preparation required before any new work is done including structural work on the main shack and surveying. The Board voted $3000 toward these sections.
Section 3 - Improving the AC power lines, transformers, etc at the site. The Board voted $1000 toward this section.
Section 4 - Installation of a permanent tower to replace a presently-existing temporary tower, guy wire work and antenna relocation. The Board voted $600 toward this section.
Section 5 - Old head-end conduit renovation. The Board voted $3800 toward this work.
Section 6 - Part 6.1 involves swapping KVOD and KUNC receive antenna positions. $500 was voted for this part. Part 6.2 involves relocating the whole new head-end antenna structure off of USFS land onto our leased site land as requested by USFS. Since there are possible diplomatic moves (e.g. the County can declare the whole area a "designated electronics site" which would potentially enable the head-end to remain where it is) the Board declined to fund this part (estimated to be about $1,100) for the moment.
Section 7 - Up to $10,000 had been approved by the Board several months ago for the uninterruptible power supply described in this section. Thus, most of the work in this section was approved and no further action was taken.
Section 8 - Concerns a communication, monitoring, and control system to allow control of the site power allocation in case of prolonged power outage, and audio announcements from Breckenridge in case of national or local emergency. The Board felt it was worth investigating the possibility of grants from local or US emergency agencies interested in this sort of capability before allocating funds for this section. Steve Smith volunteered to research this area and advise the Board on further action.
Section 9 - Consists of many tests, fixes, improvements, and modifications to most of the translators, filters and other site equipment. Funding of $2090 for this section was approved by acclamation as the meeting closed.
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NEXT BOARD MEETING: Monday 23 April 2007 at the County Commons 5:45 PM. No further meetings are scheduled at this time.
John Roberts
4 / 20 / 2007