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Meeting Minutes

February 24, 2001

The following members were present in the Baen's Bar Chat Room:

• Eric Flint, Board Advisor, tie-breaking voting only
• Pogo Poggiani
• Luis Cedeno (w/o vote), representing Walt Boyes, Technical
• Janet Dailey, Commo

Because only two voting members were present, all participants felt that there weren't enough members to continue.

Pogo had asked if there had been any discussion of her earlier layout for the ReadAssist website. Dailey had not recalled one.

All relevant documentation will be kept by the Communications Officer/Recorder. Minutes of the February 10, 2001 Meeting were posted to Baen's Bar on February 14, 2001.

The Reports were distributed on February 9, 2001 before the meeting to all board members.

1. Dailey suggests the following items be added to the agenda for next week, or a future meeting:
   • Need to include, officially in our minutes, discussion on what constitutes a quorum. I recall discussion after the Nov 5, 2000 meeting where we only had 5 board members and then one had power problems and left the meeting early. Review of subsequent minutes does not show that this was ever brought up as an official item until now
   • Would like to see a recap of what we can/want to do with the website.
2. We stuck around for about 30 minutes or so chatting about what the future might hold for us and wondering if anyone else was going to show up. I knew Judith, Mike P, Virginia and maybe Jody would not be there. They saw the message from the Chair, but didn't know about Evan and sorry we missed Walt.

Submitted by Janet Dailey, Commo/Recorder, February 26, 2001

Reports for February 26, 2001 Board Minutes, consolidated.

Treasurer's Report, submitted by Mike Preston, February 23, 2001

No change from last report.

Last (interim) report, submitted by Mike Preston, February 3, 2001

Treasurer's Report, submitted by Mike Preston, January 21, 2001

1. Financial Position

   Source	Pledged	Received	Spent	Total
   Public	$750.25	$705.00
   Credit Card		$500.00
   Private	$950.00	$565.00
   Unpledged		$940.00
   Interest Income
   Total Received		$2,200.25		$2,221.86
   Total spent			–$1,643.90
   Net Cash				$578.01
   Credit Available		$500.00
   Resources Available				$1,078.01
   Allocated: Balance of computer project			–$350.00
   Unallocated Resources				$728.01

   
   
   Unallocated includes $478.01 cash and approximately $150.00 credit.
   
   
   • Pledges not given up on: $460.00
   • Possible Available: $1,088.01
     
2. Received the first non-Barfly donation. The donator was directed here by the Baen Free Library and wishes me to "pass on his thanks to Eric Flint, Jim Baen and their colleagues for their generosity and daring in helping to pioneer the electronic book."

/s/ Mike Preston

Technical Report

None.

Requirement Report

Expected an update from Jody Dorsett, Chair that Jimmy would have everything and the hookup would take place this next week.

Commo Report, submitted by Janet Dailey, Chair February 23, 2001

Recap since last report (Feb 16):

	Previous	New	Total
Contacts	88	31	119
Returns	16	1	17
Replies	6	3	9

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