Meeting called to order by Jim Peterson at 3:00 P.M.

Board Members Present:  Jim Peterson, Bob Mugge, Dick Schmeling, Jan Schneck, Vince Alline, Karen Brown, Joyce Knouse, Dean Miller and Warren Sanders

Also in attendance:  Bob Foster, Bob Kutschera, Dennis Malcolm, Don Stieghan and Dale Noll

Warren Sanders motioned to approve the minutes of the April 8, 2008 Board Meeting and the May 6, 2008 General Meeting.  Dean Miller seconded.  Board approved. 

OFFICER REPORTS

President, Jim Peterson

·         This room is almost completed for classes.  (Meeting was held in the room being renovated for computer classes.)
 

Vice President, Bob Mugge

·         The cabinet room is locked with a key.  There is a combination keypad beside the door, but it is not yet connected.  The laptops and projector are in the cabinet which also is locked.  The printer will sit on the counter and will be hooked up to operate inside the room.

·         Someone requested use of these chairs for a large meeting Thursday evening, June 12.  That’s fine.

·         The card players are disappointed with the 6 tables here, but apparently did not make their preference known before the renovation.  If they want to trade out these tables for smaller square ones, it would be okay.  This is not dedicated to this Club.

·         The projector will sit on the second (middle) table at least for the time being.

Secretary, Jan Schneck – No report.

Treasurer, Dick Schmeling

·         Distributed the financial accounting for the month of April.  The Club received $195 in dues and $0.28 of bank interest.  The only expense during the month was the reimbursement to Victor deGroote for website expense. These resulted in a net inflow of $60.28.  The Pass-Through account received $190 and expended $273.09 for a net outflow of $83.09.  We started the month with $3,260.45 and ended with $3,237.64.  Dick noted that $1,108.82 is locked up in the designated Pass-Through account for Technology Access Program, so the net operating balance is just over $2,128.82.

·         Dick has completed the Club’s equipment inventory and has given a copy to the Secretary.  The inventory includes all of the Club’s new equipment with serial numbers, etc. 

·         Regarding the Club’s scanner, Dick learned that the little computer that was to be used with the scanner is no longer being used.  They’re back to using the suitcase full of desktop equipment.  Apparently the equipment got plugged into a higher volt supply than is appropriate; the computer is okay, but the scanner seems to have a technical problem.  It seems Victor has the scanner back, hopefully temporarily, to work on it.

·         Some equipment moves around, so the inventory is some times hard to accomplish.  Someone needs to keep Dick informed as to where certain equipment is located.

·         Checked with Bruce Martin of State Farm regarding insurance on the nearly $15,000 worth of Club equipment.  He quoted $375/year.  Kutschera said he will have his agent check with several carriers for competitive bids.
 

Past President, Warren Sanders

·         We’re nearing mid-year and the election is in November.  All of us need to send Warren an e-mail regarding our own intention for next year.  Each should write, in your own terms what you do in your position.  Committee Chairs also should comment on your major activities.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Membership Committee

·         Bob Kutschera reported that there were 70 attendees, including 5 guests at the General Meeting.   

·         The Club has 222 paid memberships and 135 additional members, bringing our total member count to 357.  That number will be revised slightly since we seem to have received double payments from a couple of members and even a third payment from one member.  When those monies are returned, the membership numbers will be adjusted accordingly. 

·         The 2008 budgeted amount for membership is $3,525.  If the Club has membership revenue of around $200 between now and October 1, and if we collect the same amount of dues in October through December that we did last year, we should meet, and hopefully exceed, the budgeted amount.

·         Peggy Mills, our new Membership Committee member, was introduced to the reception/sign-in table at the May General Meeting.
 

Communications Committee

·         Jim Peterson advised that we still have no chairman for this Committee.  He is open to suggestions as to what to do about it.

·         Karen Brown offered to take care of the Channel 3 and Connection announcements for the Club.  Bob Foster will let Karen know about planned Programs.
 

Program Committee

·         Bob Foster commented that he felt the General Meeting went pretty well.  Some people, of course, are at a higher level than others.  He tries to aim presentations at the general population, but some of it still went over some people’s heads.

·         Kutschera suggested the explanation of www.belarc.com be published in the Newsletter.

·         The June Program will be presented by Smart Computing.  He has asked the presenter for a dozen mouse pads.  She promised to check her inventory.

·         Kutschera suggested a presentation sometime regarding computers yesterday versus today.

·         Stieghan thanked Foster for taking over his Genealogy Program presentation last month on such short notice when he was called away for a funeral.

·         Foster returned the secretary-recorder speaker to Radio Shack because the one contained within the recorder works as well as it needs to.  He could not get money, but was allowed to trade for equal value, so he traded for a $30 flash drive which will be used as a door prize.

·         We need to advertise our Programs as they are coming up, so Kutschera suggested putting a blurb in the Tell-E-Gram which goes out to about 1,200 households in the Village.

·         Foster said his wife suggested a program on developing your own website.  Dale Noll suggested a program on Data Recovery.  Sanders recommended something on home networking and wireless.  This might be better in the classroom, though.  
 

Technical Access Committee

·         Sanders reported that the Club has given away one more system.  We have 28 or 29 ready to go.

We’re not getting names of people to give them to now, partly because the school year is winding down.

·         In June Sanders is going to a home health agency in Knoxville to discuss the program with staff there.  He also wants to go back the Loudon County Interagency Council.  Over a year ago we got a lot of interest there.  Sunday he met with a teacher at Lenoir City High School who teaches computer programming and maintenance.  We agreed to support his class in any way we can.  The real point is we need to locate families to give these computers to, so we will welcome suggested sources of names.
 

First Level Support Committee

·         Malcolm reported that his group had about 3 house calls and 3 telephone problems, but people want to know how to sign up for classes.  Some don’t join the Cub because they don’t know enough about computers.  We need to get the word out that we’re not Geeks.  People don’t realize that we try to teach them to get more out of their computers and they don’t know about First Level Support.  Brown suggested an article in a month-end issue of the Connection when it goes to everybody.  Alline told the Lenoir City High teacher that the Club is open; his students could join and/or come to a meeting.
 

Education Committee

·         Mugge said he will try to get classes laid out to present to the June Meeting.  Brown suggested a handout at registration listing the classes that are planned and asking for checkmarks with preferences and also asking for other suggestions of interest.  

Special Interest Groups Committee

·         Don Stieghan had no report.

OLD BUSINESS

·         Mugge said we still haven’t solved the issue of how to save student files in the XP environment.  Mugge plans to schedule the first classes with subjects not requiring students to save.

·         Foster suggested somebody check with Victor on the status of the scanner.  Peterson agreed to do that.

MEETING ADJOURNED 4:25 P.M.

NEXT GENERAL MEETING JUNE 3, 2008 @ 7:00 P.M. AT YACHT CLUB