February 8, 2006
The meeting was called to order by President Feiszli at 5:57:39 A.M. PST
All members of the Board recorded their
attendance:
Frank Albinder - CA rep
FSAlbinder@pobox.com
Brigid Coult - Patron
Brigid@uniserve.com
Dean Ekberg - Donor
dekberg@frontiernet.net
James Feiszli - IFCM rep
james.feiszli@sdsmt.edu (and)
jfeiszli@rushmore.com
Charles Fuller - ACDA rep
fullerc@obu.edu
Carol Hague - Patron
chague@sympatico.ca
Christine Hoffman - At large
ch.hoffman@verizon.net
Michael Shasberger - At large
Shasberger@westmont.edu and
Shasberger@cox.net
and Martin Knowles' address : manager@choralnet.org
President Feiszli had submitted a charge to the Board outlining his agenda in advance of the meeting.
Treasurer Hoffman had submitted the 2005 year end financial report prior to the meeting
Charles Fuller moved the approval of the minutes as posted in advance of the meeting from the February 2-3, 2006. 4 minutes and 35 seconds later, Frank Albinder seconded the approval of the minutes. The minutes were approved by simple majority without dissent at 10:02:06 A.M. PST.
President Feiszli initiated simultaneous
discussion on two financial topics:
1.
The Treasurer’s report
2.
Grant support
The following Public Relations Initiatives were engaged over the course of the meeting:
Discussion of the development of an advertising brochure for ChoralNet resulted in an offer from President Feiszli to produce a draft of such a document for review by Shasberger and Fuller by March 5.
Secretary Shasberger advised all board members to send appropriate e-mail contact information for any professional or media outlets for the dissemination of Choralnet press releases.
Shasberger made the following motion at 9:42 A.M.PST on February 14
The Board of ChoralNet authorizes the formation of a task force to contact to publishers and associations about recordings, emphasizing the development of a broadcast devoted solely to choral music. This task force will communicate that ChoralNet will do the legwork and nothing without ensuring copyright legitimacy and that it will cost no one anything other than allowing us access to the recordings. The task force is authorized to make requests on our lists and forums for interested persons to work on podcasts . The target for the implementation of the project is September 2006. Upon approval of this motion a member of the Board will be appointed to either chair the task force, or find an appropriate chair for the task force and and appoint a Board member to serve as liaison to the Board for the task force.
The motion was seconded by Brigid Coult. The motion was announced passed by unanimous decision at 5:51:49 A.M. PST
Carol Hague made the following motions at 10:46:37 A.M. PST
1. I move that the Board accept the Moderation policy changes found at http://choralnet.org/board/policy.html (please see below)
2. I move that the name of the new international list be InterChoral-L.
Both motions were seconded by Brigid Coult. The motion on the creation of the new international list was announced passed by unanimous decision at 5:49:40 A.M. PST. The motion on adopting the moderation policies was announced passed by simple majority without dissent at 9:54:27 A.M. PST
Brigid Coult finally got her message to move a motion in first and successfully moved the approval of the proposed budget for 2006. The motion was seconded by Charles Fuller. The motion announced passed by unanimous decision at 5:47:29 A.M. PST
President Feiszli announced an action task list and dates for the following future meetings of the Board:
Next meeting: On-line, commencing March 21, 2006
Next in-person meeting: June 7, 2006, Capitol Hotel in Washington D.C.
The meeting was adjourned on February 15, 2006 at 8:43:50 A.M. PST
Minutes submitted by Secretary Shasberger