Monday February 25, 2002
MINUTES of the BOARD MEETING:

The meeting was called to order by our President, Lynn McLeland at 6:35 PM.  The following members were in attendance: Mike Flanagan, Linda Genaw, Alex Dumestre, Betty Hesketh, Ed Hesketh, Bill Wright, Donna Dome, Bob Argo, Hugh McLeland, and Mimi Smith.

Treasury Report

Treasurer, Bob Argo reported that the bank statement for last month has been reconciled.  The current checking bank balance is $6,880.19.  The deficit for February is currently within $1 of the plan for this month.  The overall balance has decreased by $743 since the end of last year, but only $141 more than that planned for.

We received payment for 8 renewals and 5 new members this month.  This is a good trend-let’s keep it up.

The advertiser receipts have been $220 so far.  Billings for this month were $315.  After looking at the PC News for March we still have $315 worth of advertisement.

The $245 bounced check, from the computer fair, is still uncollected and it doesn’t appear we will ever collect it, Bob keeps trying to make contact.

Expenses have been normal for this month.  They include a $50 payment to APCUG for 2002 dues and a $125 payment for the annual bulk-mailing permit for the PC News.

Approve Minutes

A motion was made by Linda Genaw to approve the January 28, 2002 Board of Directors meeting’s minutes, as posted on the 1960 PCUG website, with one change.  That the Proposed 2002 Budget was accepted as reported.  (A motion to accept the proposed 2002 Budget was made by Bill Wright and seconded by Donna Dommel and passed with an all voice vote.)  The amended minutes were seconded by Betty Hesketh and passed with an all voice vote.  The change made to the minutes will be amended on the website.

President’s Report

President, Lynn McLeland reported that Linda Genaw had a small amount of tri-fold flyers for the club and wanted Bill Wright to check in the club’s cabinet at CCCC to see if we need to have more folders printed.  Donna Dommel, which heads the Membership Retention and Recruiting Committee and Mike Kelly, Vice President of Communications will need the tri-folders to hand out on different occasions.  Other ways to advertise our club were discussed such as, decals, bumper stickers, and license plate covers which could reach the masses.  Lynn would like to write two different kinds of articles for the local newspapers.  One article would tell the public about the club and another article would notify the public about different events the club is having.  These articles would be given to Marj Krisman to have published in local papers.  Lynn checked with Linda Genaw, publisher of the magazine to see if we had enough business office addresses to mail our extra copies of PC News.  Linda felt we had enough at the moment, 15 to 20 addresses, but would accept additional addresses if you would email them to her.

This year we will not participate in the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, there is no time to prepare.

Program Report

Vice President of Programs, Mike Flanagan reported that a Toshiba representative will be talking about their new laptops.  Mike is currently looking for a new April speaker because the booked speaker has canceled.  He has tried to make contact with a couple of companies.  Like ev1.net taking about the anti-virus and spam programs or a few companies that have hardware or software for home security and camera surveillance.  The Board members offered other ideas that interested them.  One was PC2PC a migration software program that transfers old computer data to your new computer. Another program that does the same thing is called PC Relocation by Aloha Bob. Others were interested in the wireless networking technology.  We hadn’t had Gateway in awhile and maybe they would like to come back.

SIG Report

Vice President of SIGs, Bill Wright reported an increase in attendance to all the SIGs for the month. Members have shown a renewed interest in SIGs this year.  We are still looking for a permanent meeting place for the Roundtable.  After some discussion we agreed we should try meeting again at Starbucks, since it had a large attendance there.  Another place was Barnes & Nobles and perhaps Comp USA

Communications Report

Vice President of Communications, Mike Kelly was out-of-town and there was not report.

Membership Report

Chairperson, Linda Genaw reported the Membership changes for February, 2002.  The Total Members-155; Renewals Due-14; Actual Renewals-5; New Members-6; and $475 added to the Treasury.  Our membership numbers are going up and that’s great.

Directors-at-Large

No report given.

Old Business

The agenda for the meeting covered four items.  The need for printing additional folders, PC News sender addresses and inquiries about our club was covered in the President’s report.  The $245 bounced check was covered in the Treasury report.  There was nothing to report about a new club location.   The club NEC laser printer is in Linda Genaw's garage and has been used very little.  Linda is going to check the serial number and value of the printer and what the cost of the cartridge toner is.  We could sell it to a club member or at the computer fair.  Bill Wright in charge of SIGs was looking for our Windows 98 SE CD, because we have been playing with the register and may have to rebuild the computer some day.  He couldn’t find it and will check in the computer club’s cabinet and report back to Lynn McLeland.  Bill Wright said he would take the time to clean up the club’s computer.

New Business

The two topics on the meeting’s agenda were cover in other reports.  APCUG dues were paid and covered in the Treasury report.  PC2PC Migration offer was covered in the Programs report.

The meeting adjourned at 8:00 PM .  The motion to adjourn was made by Betty Hesketh and seconded by Linda Genaw and passed with an all voice vote.

Sincerely submitted by

Mimi Smith
Secretary