| A. | Opening | ||
| 1. | Call to order | ||
| The meeting was called to order by President Middlemiss at 5:10 PM. | |||
| 2. | Attendance | ||
| Board members present: Ash, Blazek, Cole, Greene, Manos, Middlemiss | |||
| Board members absent: Longo | |||
| Visitors: none | |||
| 3. | Approval of minutes | ||
| The minutes of the March meeting posted to the Web site were unanimously approved on a motion by Blazek, seconded by Cole. | |||
| 4. | Treasurer's report | ||
| Treasurer Blazek presented a report for the month of March. The expenses outweighed the income by $425.00. There is currently a little over $40,000 in the bank. | |||
| 5. | Correspondence | ||
| 6. | Announcements | ||
| B. | Committee reports | ||
| 1. | Standing committees | ||
| b. | Operations | ||
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Security Engineering still has yet to schedule a trip to Laurel Mountain
to complete their work on the alarms.
An intermittent problem with channel 49 was reported. Member Ash reported being able to receive KUOR quite well on his car radio all the way to the vicinity of Laurel Mountain while travelling northward on US395. After having passed Laurel Mt., he switched to 88.1 Mhz and was receiving nothing. There was speculation that reported problems with KUOR reception may also be due to construction work being performed on KUOR's antenna structure and the disabling of transmission from there for worker safety reasons. | |||
| c. | Publicity | ||
| Secretary Greene was directed to prepare a press release regarding the imminent termination of channel 69 operations and the recent termination of channel 63 operations. | |||
| 2. | Ad hoc committees | ||
| c. | Web site | ||
| C. | Old business | ||
| 1. | Member Ash presented a report on the survey of the B Mountain VHF channels' quality. This report will be forwarded to Loren Castro in reply to his query of the TVB regarding this matter. | ||
| 2. | Secretary Greene reported on the status of obtaining additional facility keys for those who need them and getting badges for B Mountain access. Members Cole and Greene have already obtained badges and keys will be available as soon as they can be duplicated by China Lake. TVB is to be notified via email whenever the locks on the Laurel Mountain access gates are changed. | ||
| 3. | Treasurer Blazek's action item to transfer surplus funds from a non-interest-bearing account to an interest-bearing account did not get accomplished nor did adding member Cole as a signatory to the TVB bank accounts. | ||
| 4. | Secretary Greene reported on discussions regarding augmenting KCET's microwave link to bring KMZT's signal to Laurel Mountain. KCET's legal people are investigating the issues involved in allowing this. | ||
| D. | New business | ||
| 1. | Property taxes | ||
| Treasurer Blazek reported on the method used by at least Kern County to assess TVB property. Some of the property being taxed was recorded as long as 25 years ago and may no longer be in existence. It was decided that Treasurer Blazek and others will conduct a survey of Laurel Mountain to create at least a crude inventory of TVB property still in existence. If the difference between the survey/inventory and the amount assessed to TVB is signicant, action will be taken to get a revised assessment. | |||
| 2. | NTA convention | ||
| It was moved by Blazek and seconded by Manos that TVB would pay up to $300 for the conference fee of an additional TVB board member to attend the National Translator Association convention, May 14-16, in Salt Lake City. All other expenses are to be paid by the member. This was approved unananimously by voice vote. | |||
| 3. | UHF channel conversion | ||
| A brief discussion regarding for which channels permit applications should be submitted. Channels 65 and 67 were the suggested candidates but action was deferred pending obtaining additional information from the NTA conference attendees upon their return. | |||
| 4. | DTV conversion | ||
| Member Cole proposed experimenting with use of a DTV convertor to feed the channel 5/61 translator. A motion was made by Blazek, seconded by Manos, to authorize spending up to $1000 for equipment for this experiment; the motion was approved unanimously by voice vote. | |||
| F. | Closure | ||
| 1. | Next meeting: 5:00 PM, May 3, 2004, Kern County Library, Ridgecrest | ||
| 2. | Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 5:15 PM. |
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