Board

1) January 8 2008

Meeting Date: Tue Jan 08 2008

Kootenay Co-op Radio
Minutes of the Board Meeting
January 8, 2008

Board Members: Andrew Creighton, Teressa Hodsall (Chair), Fred Rosenburg, Bob Olsen, Gord Andrews, Alon Gelcer, Ceilidh Sutherland, Judy Wapp, Heather Dahlgrin, Della McLeod, Scott Gain

Staff: Bill Metcalfe, Terry Brennan

1.Agenda and Minutes
The agenda was approved, as were the minutes from the November 7 and November 28, 2007 board meetings.

2.Actions from the Strategic Planning Session.

a) SMART goals

Action: the Finance and New Technology committees will smarten and prioritize their draft goals and bring them to the February board meeting.

Action: Andrew will bring to the next meeting a proposed template for minute-taking.

For each of the goals in the goals document given to us by Jocelyn, the board decided whom would be responsible, as follows.

Goal
Who is Responsible
Volunteer
1. Establish templates for appreciation process
Personnel

2. Train seasoned programmers for mentoring
Programming

3. Yearly reviews of programmers
Programming

4. List of non-programmer volunteers for appreciation
Bill and Terry

5. Continue to recruit for Vol Coordinator
Programming Manager

6. Create volunteer database
New Tech Committee
Community Connections

All goals
Community Connections
Programming

1. Training for new programmers
Programming

2. Create checklist of performance criteria
Programming

3. Review training materials, make user friendly and accessible
Programming

4. In-station library of broadcast materials
Programming and Building

5. Contact 3 organizations to contribute to diversity
Community Connections

6. Discuss feasibility of news
Community Connections

7. Listener survey
New Tech

b) The Jocelyn Carver Report
Action: All board members will read Jocelyn's recommendations, for discussion at the February meeting.

c) KCR Annual Calendar

Action: Terry and Andrew will come to the next meeting with a proposal.

d) Formatting of Goals

Action: Andrew will format a goal status sheet, and
Action: each committee chair will use it to send Andrew an update on the status of their goals each month, and Andrew will bring that to the board for discussion at each meeting.

3.Board Member Participation on Committees

Board members have chosen to participate on the following committees:

Goverance Committees
Fundraising: Judy Wapp
Personnel: Teressa Hodsall, Della McLeod, Scott Gain
Programming: Heather Dahlgrin, Andrew Creighton, Ceilidh Sutherland
Finance: Gord Andrews
Policy: Alon Gelcer

Operations Committees
Building: Bob Olsen, Fred Rosenburg
Tech: Bob Olsen Community Connections: Alon Gelcer, Bob Olsen, Andrew Creighton

Decision: A KCR member may be on only one governance committee; but may be on a maximum of two governance committees with the approval of the board.

4. Board Committee Function and Structure

This agenda item was tabled until the February board meeting.

5. Meeting Dates

Meetings will be on the second Tuesday of each month at 6pm. Next meeting: February 12.