| A. | Opening | ||
| 1. | Call to order | ||
| The meeting was called to order by President Middlemiss at 5:05 PM. | |||
| 2. | Attendance | ||
| Board members present: Ash, Blazek, Cole, Greene, Manos, Middlemiss | |||
| Board members absent: Longo | |||
| Visitors: David Foster (briefly) | |||
| 3. | Approval of minutes | ||
| The minutes of the April meeting posted to the Web site were unanimously approved. | |||
| 4. | Treasurer's report | ||
| Treasurer Blazek presented a report for the month of April. The expenses outweighed the income by about $1200.00 for the month primarily due to a $1400 (liability) insurance payment. There is currently a little under $40,000 in the bank. | |||
| 5. | Correspondence | ||
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The formal license for K45GQ was received from the FCC.
Member Cole has the file folder for the station in his possession
and will add the letter to the folder.
An invitation to have a booth at Santa's Art Shop, December 4-5, 2004 was received. Sam Miller of China Lake was informally contacted regarding ownership and responsibility for repairs to the B Mountain equipment building. He said he'd research the question and get back to us but he was out of town for a goodly portion of the time prior to the TVB board meeting. | |||
| 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.
A trip was made to B Mountain April 9 by members Cole and Greene. One purpose of the trip was turn off channel 7 due the termination of channel 63 service from Laurel Mountain. An examination of the B Mountain facilities found both air conditioning units to be dead and a hole in the roof covering. China Lake facilities personnel have been contacted regarding repairs (see item under A5, "Correspondence" above). It was incidentally found that removing power to the dead air conditioning units seemingly corrected the channel 14 interference problem that has existed for a long time. In a later discussion with former member Rogers, he recommends that the coaxial cable between the antennas and translators be replaced due to the age of the cable. Dr. Rogers was of the opinion that replacement cable had been ordered and received several years ago, but no trace of it has been found. During the month, former member Dr. Robert Rogers turned over the keys he had to all the facilities (including KCET's facility south of Mojave) and electronically transferred the files for the facility information drawings he produced. Member Cole made a trip to Laurel Mountain April 29 to turn off channel 69 due to receipt of the license for channel 45 and replaced the blown fuse in the channel 11 preamp. While there, he tried to isolate the intermittent channel 49 problem and had some success but did not totally isolate and/or correct the problem. Also, while there, he noted that the channel 59 interference is quite possibly due to interaction with channel 57; exactly how this interaction occurs is unknown at this time. He also noted that KNBC-DT is the only DTV station that can be received with a strong signal using the big dish antenna at the peak of Laurel, possibly due to its being tuned for channels other than those of current interest for DTV station reception. | |||
| c. | Publicity | ||
| Secretary Greene prepared and issued a press release regarding the termination of channel 63 and 69 operations. The release was sent to the News Review, Daily Independent, and (possibly) member Longo for her newspaper. The item was published April 26 by the News Review. It is unknown if it appeared in the other publications. | |||
| 2. | Ad hoc committees | ||
| c. | Web site | ||
| Member Cole reported that the web site had been updated with the channel changes and some photos taken of all the antennas and translators. The FAQ was updated with information about B Mountain channels 7 and 13. | |||
| C. | Old business | ||
| 1. | Keys | ||
| Secretary Greene reported having received five sets of keys to the Laurel and B Mountain buildings. | |||
| 2. | Funds management | ||
| 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. However, he did bring forms that were completed at the meeting to update the signatories to the accounts. (See item D1, "Financial Accounts" below). | |||
| 3. | Kern County property taxes | ||
| No action has been taken regarding a property inventory for the Laurel Mountain site for possibly reducing the tax assessment. | |||
| 4. | NTA convention | ||
| Secretary Greene is prepared to attend the National Translator Association convention, May 14-16, in Salt Lake City. Member Cole's attendance is problematic at the time of the meeting due to other business travel which may get scheduled for about the same dates (and the other business provides income for him). | |||
| D. | New business | ||
| 1. | Financial accounts | ||
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It was moved by Secretary Greene that board members Ash, Blazek, Cole, Greene,
Manos, and Middlemiss be signatories to the TVB checking and savings accounts.
The motion was seconded by member Ash and approved by a 6-0-0 voice vote.
The necessary forms were presented by Treasurer Blazek and signed by all
the parties.
It was moved by Treasurer Blazek that the names of former board members Mike Cash, Robert Rogers, and Williams K. Webster be removed from the TVB savings account. This was approved by a 6-0-0 voice vote. Treasurer Blazek will prepare the necessary paperwork to present to the financial institution to accomplish this. [The names of the financial institutions involved in this meeting item have been deliberately omitted from this report.] | |||
| 2. | B Mountain air conditioning | ||
| It was moved by member Ash that an amount not to exceed $3500 be authorized for the repair, retrofit, or replacement of the air conditioning units at the B Mountain facility. The motion was seconded by member Blazek and approved by a 6-0-0 voice vote. Member Greene was charged with the task of further refining the details of the work to be required and authorized to spend the amount specified in the motion. | |||
| 3. | Replacement channel amps | ||
| It was moved by member Cole that an amount not to exceed $500 be authorized for the procurement of replacement/spare channel amplifiers. The motion was seconded by member Manos and approved by a 6-0-0 voice vote. Member Cole was charged with the task of obtaining the amplifiers. | |||
| F. | Closure | ||
| 1. | Next meeting: 5:00 PM, June 1, 2004, Kern County Library, Ridgecrest | ||
| 2. | Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 6:25 PM. |
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