Posted: February 26th, 2009 | Author: KSDP Public Affairs | Filed under: Minutes
Sand Point Library Conference Room
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
7:00 P.M.
MEETING MINUTES
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 7:40 p.m. by Chairman Robbe Gilmour.
Roll Call
Board members present: Chairman, Robbe Gilmour, Vice President, Justin Godbehere; Secretary / Treasurer, Marta Varga and Board member, Joanna Karlsen
Board members not present: Chairman Emeritus, Jim Brown
KSDP staff present: General Manager, Kells Hetherington; Music Director, Virgil Porter; Administrative Assistant, Shannon Sommer
Approval of Agenda
Justin Godbehere moved to approve the agenda. Marta Varga seconded the motion.
Approval of Minutes
Justin Godbehere moved to approve the minutes. Marta Varga seconded the motion.
Report from the General Manager
Since the last Board meeting, a great deal has transpired at your radio station.
Looking at our financial statements you can see the station has raised money from several outside sources. In the quarter just ended, we received twenty-five hundred dollars from the National Ad Council through an advertising agency and signed up Wells Fargo National Bank as an underwriter just to highlight two examples. The station also received a payment from the State of Alaska as part of its state operating grant. Let me go into some more details concerning some of our proposed projects.
The station has several outstanding grant applications requesting funds for proposed special projects. The station has a grant application for twenty five thousand dollars in to the Rasmusen Foundation in Anchorage. The funds would allow the radio station to do its proposed studio renovation and add the SIP dish outside the City Building.
The station’s proposed purchase and installation of a wind turbine is the subject of two outstanding grant applications. One is to the Alaska Capitol Grants Program and the other is to the State Energy Authority (AEA). Alaska Public Broadcasting responded to the first stating that they will consider our application based on the response we get from the State Energy Authority. They’re not saying “no” or “yes;” but “We want to hear what the State Energy Authority says, before we committ ourselves to any finacnail assitance.”
Additionally, the radio station has been in communication with the State Representative Bryce Edgmon’s office about a capital grant for the radio station being inserted into the state budget. Edgmon’s office knows we want to improve our weak signal in King Cove and his staff will be back in touch with me about how we need to go about making this request.
At the last Board meeting, accounting was discussed and I said that we had retained Foster & Company to assist the station on a regular basis. This arrangement has not worked out as planned and the Board wanted to further review it. When I say, the situation has not worked out as planned, I mean that having QuickBooks online has been an excellent thing. This enables both Shannon and me to access this information simultaneously.
Robbe: What’s the cost of that?
Kells: The cost of QuickBooks will be no more than twenty dollars per month.
Robbe: What’s Foster & Company get out of that?
Kells: Doing the annual audit will be easier for Foster & Company with the benefit of Quickbooks online and it will make easier doing reporting work for the station.
Robbe: What are they going to do reports on? Also, the sixty eight hundred dollars refers to the annual audit and is not included in general accounting expenses? I don’t understand. Why is that?
Kells: The expense of the annual audit and the cost of our ongoing accounting needs are accounted for separately in the budget. The reports Foster & Co does are for the state and required by the Department of Administration in order for the station to receive its operating grant from the state. Does that explain it?
ROBBE: Okay, so I would still like a breakdown of what your accounting costs are.
Kells: Okay.
Programming is coming along in all sorts of directions, and the website is coming along very nicely. The web address is www.apradio.org. We still hold the others: www.ksdpradio.com, www.alaskapublicbroadcasting.com, www.alaskapublicbroadcasting.org, they all hold to one. Alaska Public Broadcasting.com is an alternative site so we can store available, like meet the People. You can find what’s going on at the station and what’s coming up program wise or you can listen to the station live. I think the most major development is an internet issue that arose, I don’t know, last week Virgil? And we figured out the Cisco router is not, quote UN quote, “not the best” its half the network. It’s this it the big black box in the main area. The Cisco router has a lot of functionalities that are not being utilized right now. It’s worth looking at this further more and taking this into the production area and on air studio and making everything come into one router. That will require a visit from an engineer and significant cost.
Justin: How much?
Kells: I think about five thousand dollars.
Justin: and the reason to do that would be?
Kells: Well, it would allow us to use what is, to fully use the piece of forty-thousand dollar equipment that might make the internet faster. It would simplify the network which would help keep things from crashing and help organize things.
Robbe: There’s a twenty five thousand dollar grant out there, would like to use the money for services, upgrades and King Cove.
Kells: That could be, if they come back and say we will provide you with the money we would probably, not a 100%, probably can we amend this application like this. If we get offered the money, we should take it up with them.
King Cove will join the Sand Point internship program. The students there are working with Dana Rajurio who is a teach in King Cove and we had a satellite phone conversation with them where we could see them on television and they are going to upload to a .pft website that Virgil has created for the station and they are going to follow instructions that he has set up to upload to this site. This will allow students in King Cove to put together a program just like the students in Sand Point do. It will be broadcasted on the radio.
We also have a pizza bake sale idea. We would like to have a pizza bake sale and to use the school ovens and to sell pizzas to the people in the community. Our idea, Virgil and I have talked about this, Jim and I have talked about this, that try to fix fifty pizzas deliver them in the course of a couple hours.
Marta: Do you have material?
Kells: We would like to make the pizzas from scratch.
Virgil: Basically the whole thing, they’ve got the dough mixers, ovens. The sauce we might go canned.
Kells: Jim said it sounded like a lot of work, he thought it should be something discussed by the entire board before we went off on this project, so we are asking for your advice and council to say, “alright we are giving you our stamp of approval on this idea.”
Marta: My input on this is to wait until the students are done with their sale for the Washington D.C. trip.
Joanna: What is the money for?
Kells: General operating expenses.
Joanna: I would wait for the fundraising for the trip to be over.
Robbe: Maybe help the class, KSDP volunteering to help the class. I think it’s a good idea.
Kells: Alright we will put our efforts behind the class.
We broadcasted our first basketball game. If you heard it, it needs some work, it’s not perfect by any means but it’s a start. Virgil and I worked very hard to get it set up so we could actually get a live broadcast.
Virgil: It’s a start. We could switch back and forth with Lauren and our internet feed.
Old Business
Robbe: Old business, update on Capital Grant.
Kells: That was the capital grant that we discussed from Bryce Edgmons office.
Robbe: We reviewed the checks. Justin, do you have any questions, I asked all mine. King Cove student interns, we discussed that.
Kells: We are using Virgil’s computer expertise and we are leveraging that.
Virgil: By the time fishing ends, we can update our live feed. The King cove students will be doing the same as Sand Point students, half hour radio shows.
Kells: That will save roughly four thousand dollars a year. We are still going to have to pay fro streaming at least for a while, it will get better. We also have a lot of local programming going on. Like tomorrow, we have Della Trumble from King Cove. She’s going to be talking about the King Cove / Cold Bay proposed road. (Talking about the guy who you interviewed who didn’t think you were right about the road). We are also co-hosting, Virgil and I afternoon news.
New Business
Public Comments & Discussion
Joanna: I’ve been enjoying what I’ve been hearing on the radio, vast improvement what we were hearing last year.
Robbe: Look for happy news; no one wants to listen to sad news. Try to find the good.
Virgil: Tour of the new water facility, used the wrong mic for the Moranzt box, will do it again.
Kells: like Robbe said, put together a Paul Harvey show. Listening to his idea is an excellent once, and post it on the .pft site. We are going to try to connect state blogs onto our site so we are able to know what’s on out there.
Next Meeting
The next meeting is Thursday, February 12, 2008 at 6:30 p.m.
Adjournment
Justin Godbehere moved to approve the agenda. Marta Varga seconded the motion.
These minutes were typed by Shannon Sommer, Administrative Assistant.
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KSDP Broadcast Center, Sand Point City Hall
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
8:30 P.M.
MEETING MINUTES
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 8:30 p.m. by Chairperson, Jim Brown.
Roll Call
Board members present: Chairperson, Jim Brown, Vice-Chairperson, Robbe Gilmour, Secretary / Treasurer, Kelly O’Keefe – Bjornstad.
Board members absent: Joanna Karlsen and Chris Holmberg
Staff: General Manager, Kells Hetherington, Jeremy Krone
Approval of Agenda
Robbe moved to approve the agenda. Kelly seconded the motion.
Vote=unanimous, yes.
Approval of Minutes
Robbe moved to approve the minutes from the June 5, 2007 meeting with the amendment of $18,000.00 to be listed as legal fees under, Old Business, item a., Fiscal Year 07-08 Budget. Jim seconded the motion.
Station Managers Report
Kells reported that the news director would be out on leave for medical matters and that he and the programming director would be covering the extra duties for the mean time. Kells also reported that proper permits and other things are being worked out before the space lease to Alaska Wireless on the tower is finalized. Also reported, there are receiving problems with the phone line and broadcasting program as well as some dissatisfaction with KDLG programming. Discussion was held of providing BBC World News instead of KSDLG news. It was mentioned that fisherman do listen to the catch reports on KDLG. IT was mentioned that KSDP personnel can provide catch reports.
He also mentioned that a site technical visit to do maintenance on KSDP equipment by Jamie Waiste should be soon.
Old business
1. Fiscal Year 07-08 Budget: Discussion was held regarding Computer hard drive problems an that there isn’t enough memory to allow programming needs. It was requested that the Board approve a budget allowance to upgrade the hardware.
Robbe moved to approve $2,000.00 t be allocated to upgrade the hard drive memory for programming needs. Kelly seconded the motion.
Vote=unanimous, yes.
Discussion was held regarding approving the budgeted amounts for employee wages.
Kelly moved to approve the Station Manager contract with noted amendments in regard to leave time and to approve the Programming Director hourly wage with said leave time already listed in the policy handbook and with holidays as listed in the handbook. Robbe seconds the motion with the amendment to include the pay rate to be retro to July 1, 2007.
Vote=unanimous, yes.
New Business
***All New Business items were discussed under Manager’s Report. No action was taken on the agenda items.
Next Meeting
The next KSDP Board of Directors Meeting will be September 18, 2007 at 8:30 p.m. at the KSDP Station.
Adjournment
Robbe made a motion to adjourn the meeting. Kelly seconded. Vote = Unanimous, yes.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:20 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
Kelly C. O’Keefe-Bjornstad / Secretary-Treasurer
These minutes were re-typed by Shannon Sommer, Administrative Assistant.
Posted: March 2nd, 2009 | Author: KSDP Public Affairs | Filed under: Minutes
KSDP Broadcast Center, Sand Point City Hall
Tuesday, January 29, 2007
7:00 P.M.
MINUTES
Present: Attorney Paul Wilcox via teleconference, Jeremy Krone, Daisy Krone, Shawn Roberts, Shawn Hill, Ina Modde, David Modde, George Kromer, Karen Hill, Edi Hodges, Wayne Hodges, Linda Brown, Amy Eubank, Kathleen (last name unknown), Patricia Curtis and Nora Newman
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order several minutes before 7:00 p.m.
Roll Call
Committee Members Present: Edi Hodges, Wayne Hodges, Patricia Curtis and Nora Newman
Committee Members Absent: Karen Hill
Staff: Kells Hetherington, Linda Brown
Approval of Agenda
Edi Hodges became disruptive upon entering the meeting room and when she found attorney Paul Wilcox was holding on the speaker phone she grabbed it, hung up the phone before forcing it on to the floor. E.Hodges then rejected the agenda and withdrew herself from the meeting and the governance of the corporation. Wayne Hodges (husband of E.Hodges), Nora Newman and Patricia Curtis stormed out of the meeting with E.Hodges.
Approval of Minutes
None
Old business
None
New Business
Anchorage Attorney Paul Wilcox came back on the speaker phone. KSDP members decided to appoint a temporary board of directors. The membership specifically limited the power of this temporary board to those required t operate the station carry out a membership drive and conduct an election for five seats on the board of directors. Karen S. Hill was selected as the chair because she had been on the temporary board of directors that had stormed out of the meeting.
Next Meeting
TBA
*Minutes were originally written by Kells Hetherington, General Manager.
These minutes were re-typed by Shannon Sommer, Administrative Assistant.
Posted: March 2nd, 2009 | Author: KSDP Public Affairs | Filed under: Minutes
KSDP Broadcast Center, Sand Point City Hall Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:00 P.M. MINUTES Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. Roll Call Newly elected board members Jim Brown, Joanna Karlsen, Christopher Holmberg were present. Robbe Gilmour was excused absent. Tied Candidates Joseph Shoemaker and Kelly O-Keefe-Bjornstad were present as well. Others present were Kells, KSDP General Manager, employee Jeremy Krone and later arrive was member George Kromer III. New Business 1. Election Results: Discussion was held regarding election results and the tied between Joe and Kelly. Joseph Shoemaker conceded his position as candidate to solve the tie. Kelly accepted the position of the board member. 2. Swearing in of the Bard Members: The newly elected board members were sworn and in and signed their Oaths of Office documents. 3. Scheduled Meetings: Discussion was held regarding how often regular meetings should be held. IT was suggested to consider monthly meetings for a while. Joanna asked if they could be scheduled after her work at 8:00 p.m. It was mentioned that if a meeting is running late to recess for another date to complete the meeting. No action was taken for meeting schedules. 4. Election of Officers of the Board: Discussion was held regarding electing officers so business could be conducted. The floor was open for nominations. Kelly nominated Jim Brown for the position of Chair person. Joanna seconded the nominations. Vote=Unanimous, yes. There were no other nominations. Jim Brown accepted the position. Robbe Gilmour was unanimously nominated by the Board to fill the position of the Vice-Chair Person. Vote=Unanimous, yes. Jim nominated Kelly for the position of Secretary/Treasurer. Joanna seconded the nomination. Vote = Unanimous, yes. There were no other nominations. Kelly O’Keefe-Bjornstad accepted the position. Officers of the Bard are: Chair Person, James Brown. Vice-Chair Robbe Gilmour and Secretary/Treasurer, Kelly O-Keefe=Bjornstad. 1. Bank Account Authorized Signers: Discussion was held regarding the Board’s position regarding signers for the accounts. The Board expressed that its position is that the Manager of KSDP be authorized to sign on the accounts but that checks required two signatures for transactions and that the other signer must be a Board member. Further discussion was held regarding looking into on-line account access and possible emergency debit/credit cards for travel, etc. The board expressed concern regarding credit cards. Usually employees and board members are issued a set per-diem for business travel. No action taken at this time. Kelly suggested that the Board and Manager work on developing Policies and Procedures Manual for travel, spending, employment and other business procedures. 1. FY 2005-2006 Audit: Discussion was held regarding some past expenses that were excessive for maintenance and engineering. Some other expenses were also discussed that may have been unnecessary for the business as well. Discussion was also held regarding some payroll tax reports that needed to be caught up on but that payments had been made. It was mentioned that Joanna Ludvick aka JoAnna’s Bookkeeping used to take care of bookkeeping fort the station and tax reports. Kells reported that the station would be using her service again. 1. Budget: Kells presented a draft of the budget for the Board’s review. Jim asked where most of the station’s funding came from. Kells explained that most came from Federal and State grants. The Board will review and discuss the budget more at the next meeting. Jim mentioned that it would be better for the full Board to review the budget and that it should be developed to coincide with the grant times and dates of operation and that the Fiscal Year of Calendar Year dates of operation need to be confirmed. 2. Liabilities: A brief review of the line item for the liabilities was given. More discussion is to be held at the next meeting when Robbe is present. Manager’s Report Kells reported that there are some problems with operating systems not working and transmitting problems of KSDP. Much of the systems are old. The computers are old very old. Kells mentioned that the station has a debit account of $4,000.00 with Alaska Public Radio for engineering and other items that are needed. He suggested that the engineer come out and survey the equipment for maintenance and upgrades that might be needed. The Board agreed hat it would be a good idea. It was mentioned bu the Board that the KSDP staff needs to be familiar with all the equipment and would be good training as well. Kells also discussed reviewing employee contracts and that a part-time Secretary to assist with office duties might be needed. The Board suggested that he bring proposals before the Board at the next meeting. It was also requested that an Executive Session be listed on the next Meeting Posting and Agenda for discussion of employee contracts. Public Comments Member of the public, George Kromer III, said that he didn’t have any comments at this time. Next Meeting The next KSDP Board of Directors Meeting will be May 29, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. at the KSDP Station. Adjournment Joanna made a motion to adjourn the meeting. Kelly seconded. Vote = Unanimous, yes. The meeting adjourned at 8:20 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Kelly O’Keefe-Bjornstad, Secretary/Treasurer *These minutes were re-typed by Shannon Sommer, Administrative Assistant.
Posted: March 2nd, 2009 | Author: KSDP Public Affairs | Filed under: Minutes
KSDP Broadcast Center, Sand Point City Hall
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
8:00 P.M.
MINUTES
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 8:00 p.m. by James Brown, Chairperson.
Roll Call
Board members present: Chairperson James brown, Vice-Chair Robbe Gilmour, Secretary/Treasurer Kelly O’Keefe-Bjornstad, Christopher Holmberg. Joanna Karlsen arrived at 8:10 p.m.
Other present were Kells, KSDP General Manager, employees Jeremy Krone and Jesse Pesterkoff.
Approval of Agenda
Robbe made a motion to approve the agenda as present. Kelly seconded the motion.
Vote = Unanimous, yes. Motion passes.
Approval of Minutes
Robbe made a motion to approve the minutes for the May 22, 2007 Board of Directors meeting. Chris seconded the motion.
Vote = Unanimous, yes. Motion passes.
Managers Report
Kells spoke with the Board regarding some technical planning for the station as well as programming and other topics regarding finances and liabilities including a past grievance by a previous employee and working on having a communications satellite dish installed for broadcasting and cut down on the expensive phone bill. Kells mentioned to the board that here was an up coming training seminar with Alaska Public Broadcasting in Anchorage on June 13, 14 & 15. Management and Finances would be covered at the seminar. The Board expressed that it would be a very good idea for Kells to attend the seminar. Alaska Public Broadcasting is paying for him to attend the seminar.
Old Business
1. Check Signers: Robbe was briefed regarding the check signer status regarding the accounts. Kells mentioned that the new signers should be listed by the bank soon and payroll and accounts payables can be taken care of. Payroll will be delayed while waiting. Will also get the paperwork to have Robbe added since he was out of town at the time of the other new board members were listed.
2. Kells Contract: Minimal discussion was held regarding this since executive session was scheduled on the agenda for it and it is also to be discussed with the budgets on the agenda.
3. Audit: Discussion was held regarding the FY June 2006 Independent Audit. Kells mentioned that it was very expensive to have done and wasn’t as descriptive as he’d like but felt that to the best of his knowledge was accurate. Kelly mentioned that usually bids are requested from a few firms to conduct an independent audit so that a reasonable fee is paid. Other businesses in town practice this. Kelly mentioned that bids should be requested for the next annual audit.
Robbe made a motion to approve the FY 2006 Audit. Jim seconded the motion.
Vote = Unanimous, yes. Motion passes.
1. FY 2007-2008 Proposed Budget: Kells presented the Board with a proposed budget explaining the finances from January through December 2007. Then with the proposed line items for calendar year of 2008. It was mentioned that the operating budget should reflect the Fiscal Year of operations. The next Fiscal Year would begin July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008.
Discussion regarding the budget: Kells mentioned some of the extra legal expenses that were incurred during the recent membership drive, elections and problems. Staffing and salary ranges for the positions of News Director, Program Director and the General Manager were also discussed. Concerns were expressed for base wage amounts and how they compared with position in other radio stations as well as weather to pay contract salaries or hourly wages. Kells mentioned that he believed it to be beneficial to pay the three positions as contracted salary positions because regular hours or prorated hours would take a lot of time away from work time. He also mentioned vacation time and sick leave time for contract proposals. In regards to health insurance he mentions that his is through Alaska Public Broadcasting and the send a bill each year to KSDP for the amount of about $4,000.00. The other two contract employees did not need the coverage.
It was expressed that the board would finalize employee contracts at the next meeting once the budges is finalized.
The Board expressed that the budget is looking very good. Kells was asked to provide some more information in the proposed budget for maintenance and technical expenditures and to list some other items in the budget and the Board would address it at the next meeting for final approval.
No action was taken at this time.
1. Financial Liabilities: Kells explained that he did a lot a item in the proposed budget for $10,000.00 of possible unforeseen liabilities that hasn’t been determined at this time.
1. Training Seminar: Kells requested authorization to attend the APB Finance/Management Seminar in Anchorage June 13-15, 2007. APB is paying the costs.
Robbe made a motion to approve Kells to attend the seminar in Anchorage. Joanna seconded the motion.
Vote = Unanimous, yes. Motion passes.
Kells also mentioned that he would be out of the office on May 25 to go to King Cove on the Ferry. He mentioned that he wanted to visit with some people in our neighboring serviced community.
Public Comments
Robbe asked that for the next Board meeting for Kells to provide some visions and goals that he’d like to see done at KSDP in the future. Robbe also thanked Kells.
New Business
1. Executive Session – Contracts: Tabled until the next meeting. No action taken at this time.
Next Meeting
The next KSDP Board of Directors Meeting will be June 5, 2007 at 8:15 p.m. at the KSDP Station.
Adjournment
Kelly made a motion to adjourn the meeting. Robbe seconded. Vote = Unanimous, yes.
The meeting adjourned at 9:51 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Kelly O’Keefe-Bjornstad, Secretary/Treasurer
*These minutes were re-typed by Shannon Sommer, Administrative Assistant.
Posted: April 8th, 2009 | Author: KSDP Public Affairs | Filed under: Minutes
KSDP Broadcast Center, Sand Point City Hall
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
7:00 P.M.
MEETING MINUTES
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 8:30 p.m. by Chair Jim Brown.
Roll Call
Present: James Brown, Robbe Gilmour, Christopher Holmberg and General Manager Kells Hetherington
Absent: Kelly Bjornstad and Joanna Karlsen (both absences were excused.)
Visitors: None
Approval of Agenda
Robbe moves to approve the agenda, Jim seconds. Agenda approved by unanimous consensus.
Approval of Minutes
Tabled until the next meeting.
General Managers Report
Kells Hetherington reported that station was operating well. He referenced the fact that there had been a technical visit which had corrected the problem with the NPR feed at the top of the hour and improved the music rotation. He also reported that the contract with Alaska Wireless Communications, LLC had been signed and said cell phone service could be expected in early 2008. Weather will dictate when AWC can install its equipment on the tower. Hetherington spoke briefly about the AK Public Broadcasting Commissions draft state grant reallocation proposal and described it as being overwhelmingly favorable to the station if adopted in its present form. Hetherington also informed the Board that the stations Denali Commission wind turbine grant request had been submitted.
Financial Report
Hetherington reported that the station has fifty thousand dollars in its checking account and said the station would soon be receiving seventy five thousand from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting.
New Business
a.) King Cove Repeater Station: Hetherington explained Dillingham’s interest in regaining control of the repeater station in King Cove at 88.1 on the FM dial because of the Commissions $2,500.00 annual bonus per repeater station. The Board expressed its feeling that KSDP need to do whatever it could to continue having its signal on in King Cove. Hetherington agreed and asking Jim to contact Mayor Ernie Weise about the situation. Jim agreed and asked Hetherington to call Wise first to explain the situation. Hetherington agreed. The Board agreed to keep a watchful eye on the situation.
b.) Online Services: Hetherington discussed the deal KSDP has been offered by Public Radio Interactive to both stream it’s over the air signal and host its website through the organization. Hetherington requested twenty five hundred for the combined service. Gilmour pointed out that such has already been authorized. Hetherington clarified his request stating that he was requesting to use money allocated to online services in a slightly different way. The Board approved the expenditure.
c.) Denali Commission: Hetherington explained that the stations wind turbine grant proposal to the Denali Commission had been submitted. He explained that the station is requesting one hundred thousand dollars in support to assist with the purchase and installation of a wind turbine. Discussion then followed about where the turbine would be located and about how much power would be produced.
d.) Raffle: Hetherington introduced an amendment to the corporate by-laws and Board of Directors accepted it. He stated that the Board would need to wait until the following meeting to take action on the amendment. The proposed amendment is included in the minutes. The reason for amending the by-laws is to make the radio station conform to the requirements of the Alaska Gaming Department in order for it to apply for a license. The station wishes to raffle off four PenAir tickets that were give to the station by the airline in early summer 2007.
e.) Repairs: Hetherington described the need to heat his office and cool the on-air studio. He recommended a project to connect the two rooms with a ventilation system at a cost of not more than two thousand dollars. The Board agreed.
Old Business
None
Next Meeting
Nest meeting scheduled for January 3rd, 7:00 a.m.
Adjournment
Meeting adjourned at 8:30 p.m.
Meetings submitted by Kells Hetherington.
*These minutes were re-typed by Shannon Sommer, Administrative Assistant.