Public Education Enrichment Fund (PEEF)
Board Meeting
Thursday, January 17, 2008
1. Meeting called to order by Chair Kyle at 6:10 pm.
Members in attendance: Jack Meeks, Chuck Scimeca, David Kyle, Elisa Parker, Susan Rogers, Chip Carman, Holly Hermansen.
Members absent: Judy Nielsen.
Also attending: Gail Martin, Children's Festival; Lew Sitzer, NCTV Executive Director.
2. Addition and corrections, Adoption of the minutes of Dec. 20, 2007
Motion by Scimeca/Rogers to adopt the minutes. Vote taken, passed unanimously.
3 Addition and corrections, Adoption of the Agenda;
Motion by Rogers/Parker to adopt the agenda. Vote taken, passed unanimously.
Reports
4. NCTV report by Lew Sitzer:
· A trial run was made today (Jan. 17) of a live feed from the County Board of Supervisor's meeting room to Channel 17, NCTVG.
· The government agencies have agreed in concept to pay higher fees to pay the videographers. The respective councils/board now must vote on it. David asked Lew to track the hours spent on managing the new government Channel 17 (and the contractor turnover in videographers, if any) so that we can have a record of the time and costs involved.
· The budget is in good shape (no printed handout available). Chuck asked about the checking accounts. Lew stated they are each named as PEEF accounts with the addition of the project name (NCTV, Imaginarium and Children's Festival).
5. CALFED report - no report
6. Imaginarium Report - no report
7. Children's Festival report by Gail Martin
· They will probably raise the gate fee from $2 to $3 to increase funding for festival staffing.
· There was discussion of how to evolve the festival from being person-dependent to becoming sustainable over time with its own organizational infrastructure.
8. Mission/Vision exercise with Chip Carman
· Chip led a series of exercises to help the board get to know each other and work toward developing a mission and vision. Board members were provided copies of proposed Mission and Vision statements written by individual board members, and asked to provide comments and feedback, or alternative statements, to Lew before the next meeting.
Discussion/Action Items
9. Public Forum; Invitation to the public to address the board. No members of the public were present.
10. Action; Go through adoption of by laws changes (Lew), not to exceed 30 min.
The board continued to review proposed by-laws for PEEF. It was moved and seconded
(Parker/Scimeca) to approve changes to Section 4.10 through Section 5.05.
Vote taken and passed unanimously.
The group agreed that directors should expect future board meetings to last two hours.
11. Next meeting to be Feb. 21, 2008, 6pm at NCTV classroom
12. Meeting adjourned at 8:03 p.m. (Scimeca/Parker)
