Item 76. Minutes of Grex Board meeting 2002-01-17 The Accidental Purist (other) Thu, Jan 17, 2002 (20:54). 73 lines, 8 responses. Minutes of Grex Board of Directors meeting, 17 January 2002. Attendees: bhelliom, mooncat*, eeyore, mary*, other*, aruba*, mdw* (7:45pm), jlis, flem* (7:48pm) (* indicates board member) 1. Bang Gavel - 7:27 pm (unofficial - no quorum) 2. Election of officers (postponed until 7:51pm) Chair: Nominations: other, flem. other wins. Secretary: Nominations: mooncat. mooncat wins by acclamation. Treasurer: Nominations: aruba. aruba wins by acclamation. 3. Chair Report "I wanna go home now." The group thanks Meg for her two years of service to Grex. 4. Treasurer Report Very slow month in December. in: $136 out: $430 January so far in: $294 3 new members in January 97 members, 91 paid up. See report for details. We need to submit our personal property tax by 27 January, which requires STeve (or other staff) to assign values to our inventory. Coercion will be applied as necessary. 5. Sign papers to open a savings account Meg will be submitting a letter to have herself removed as a signer on our checking account, and Mary will replace her. aruba moves that Eric Bassey (other), Jan Wolter (janc), Mary Remmers (mary), and Mark Conger (aruba) be named as signers on Grex's checking account. Vote: 6 yea, 0 nay. Motion carries. 6. Publicity Report "There isn't one." (A GREX ad will appear in the program for this Sunday's performance by the UM Life Sciences Orchestra at the Michigan Theatre at 2pm.) 7. Staff Report The usual stupid problems (a broken mail forward which caused a crash), but nothing of significance to report. Staff has no progress to report on the transition to the next Grex, due to holidays. 8. New Business Mary reports the letter to the landlord indicating our desire to renew our lease has been sent. 9. Schedule next meeting Thursday 21 February 2002, 7:00 pm. In the case that less than a quorum is present for any meeting, the meeting will be cancelled one half hour after the posted starting time of the meeting unless a quorum is achieved by that time. 10. Bang Gavel - 8:24 pm 8 responses total. ---------- (76) #1 Mark A. Conger (aruba) Fri, Jan 18, 2002 (00:35). 4 lines. Thanks for posting the minutes so quickly, Eric. The motion in item 5 was to name those people as signers of both our checking account and our forthcoming savings account. ---------- (76) #2 The Accidental Purist (other) Fri, Jan 18, 2002 (01:15). 1 line. Oh. I missed that at the time. ---------- (76) #3 John H. Remmers (remmers) Fri, Jan 18, 2002 (08:17). 2 lines. What was the gist of the discussion on the issue I raised in the agenda item (the fact that Grex is rejecting all Comcast mail)? ---------- (76) #4 The Accidental Purist (other) Fri, Jan 18, 2002 (10:10). 1 line. Marcus will be confronting that issue promptly. ---------- (76) #5 Mark A. Conger (aruba) Fri, Jan 18, 2002 (10:11). 2 lines. John - Mary discussed the Comcast issue with Marcus while we were signing the signature cards, but I didn't hear what was said. ---------- (76) #6 Mary Remmers (mary) Fri, Jan 18, 2002 (12:23). 7 lines. Marcus said Comcast had something set not quite right and that the fix on Grex's end was too kludgy to contemplate. He'd rather Comcast fixed their end. I didn't understand enough about it to ask appropriate questions but instead ask if he could send John some mail explaining why this probably won't be fixed soon. ---------- (76) #7 The Accidental Purist (other) Sat, Jan 19, 2002 (09:52). 1 line. Could I get a copy of that? ---------- (76) #8 Mary Remmers (mary) Sat, Jan 19, 2002 (11:40). 4 lines. I'll send mail to Marcus asking him to respond here. I bet there are others, besides John, who are having problems with Comcast mail being blocked. If that's indeed what's happening.