Advisory Board Meeting Minutes, November 16, 2006

Minutes: NCTV Advisory Board Meeting,
Thursday, November 16, 2006, NCTV Classroom

1. Meeting called to order by Gary at 6:01 PM.

Members in attendance: Chuck Scimeca, Gary Schlosser, Susan Rogers, Christina McClung, Jack Meeks, Neal Allbee, Dave Bloch, David Kyle, Barbara Coffman, Lisa Swarthout. Also present: Lew Sitzer and two guests (see item #5).

Discussion Items
2. Adoption of the Agenda: (Scimeca/Coffman, 8/0)
3. Adoption of the minutes of Oct. 19, 2006: (Kyle/Coffman, 8/0)
4. Public Forum: No comments.

NCTV Report
5. Report from Chair: Gary announced that he and Dave Bloch will be leaving the Board near the end of 2006. Introduced Bob Whitney and Craig Burgess, both present and interested in serving; each introduced themselves. Discussion followed on our Board Member replacement process. Lew will do further outreach; the Board will choose from among interested candidates at the December meeting.

6. Executive Director's report:
Nov. 4 Telethon raised $68,000 for nonprofit organizations. Each has been asked (not required) to either become an NCTV member or donate 10% of their receipts; that would be “a couple thousand dollars” if all come through.
We lost our volunteer bookkeeper; have contracted one 3-5 hours/week.We're doing better tracking of memberships and are now getting renewals.

7. Report on 501c3 committee: will meet in December.

8. Report(s) from other committees: Strategic Planning Committee will meet in January.

9. Comment from Dave B. regarding use of "producer:" The Board requested last month that Dave rewrite sections of the NCTV Policies because terms “producer,” “community producer,” and “submitter” are not used uniformly. Dave reported that this proved more difficult than just simple wordsmithing; some changes would actually change the meaning of a particular policy. (This item segued to Item 10.)
Action Items:

10. Policy Review: Barbara continued the discussion of Item 9. A committee of Dave, Barbara and Lew will meet in December to work on this. MOVED: Postpone action on the Policies until the January 2007 Board meeting (Rogers/Kyle, 10/0).

11. Next meeting to be December 14, 2006, 6pm. NOTE: This is NOT the usual fourth Thursday.

12. Meeting adjourned at 7:36 p.m.(Rogers/Scimeca, 10/0).

Respectfully Submitted,
Dave Bloch, Secretary