NOBLE, INC.
Executive Board Meeting
Wednesday, November 5, 2003
2:30 PM
Danvers, MA
Present: Marjorie
Hill-Devine, Linda Hummel-Shea, Ron
Gagnon, Mary Rose Quinn, Anne Tullson, Thomas Scully, Douglas Rendell
Mary Rose Quinn called the meeting to order at 3:15
PM.
The minutes of the October meeting were not
distributed to the Board. They will be available at the next meeting.
Tom Scully distributed the financial report as of
October 31, 2003 A motion was made by Marjorie Hill-Devine and seconded by Anne
Tullson to accept the Treasurer's Report. Passed without opposition.
The New England Innovative Users Group will meet
Friday at Rivier College. Ron Gagnon was a member of the planning committee.
Martha and Elizabeth will be making presentations at the meeting.
Martha Driscoll spoke at NELA last week in Worcester on wireless security, along with presenters from Simmons and Atrion.
Ron Gagnon attended last weeks Atrion Customer Advisory Board Meeting in Foxborough.
Ron Gagnon will be attending a joint
network administrators/regional administrators meeting next Thursday in
Millbury to hear about the MBLC Legislative Agenda. He will also be attending
the regular network administrators meeting on the 17th at Minuteman and the NMRLS Annual meeting on
the 19th. Elizabeth and Marilyn will also be attending this meeting.
The Phillips Andover integration continues. Atrion
has connected the router yesterday. NOBLE staff will be at Phillips for
training sessions on the 12th, 13th, and 17th.
NOBLE is working to get Minutesman's Alpha servers for additional memory and spare part. NOBLE is awaiting Minuteman Board approval. The cost should be $780.00.
The replacement of the UPS and
related electrical work will take place during
Thanksgiving week. Ron expects all systems to be up on Wednesday the 26th.
Some extra preliminary work will be done to assure that will happen.
Ron also indicated that he has requested some minor
electrical work be done in the
printing/scanning room while the
electricians are on site.
After a brief discussion of the audit, Doug Rendell moved and Linda Hummel-Shea seconded the approval of the FY 2003 Audit. Passed without opposition.
Ron Gagnon presented an overview of the current
capital fund and the proposed contingency fund. The Executive felt that it was
important to have the two accounts and not just the current capital fund.
Marjorie Hill-Devine moved that the Board establish a capital fund and a contingency
fund. These accounts will be
established with available funds. Seconded by Tom Scully. Passed without
opposition. The contingency fund will be created by transferring $575,000 from
the capital fund. This will leave a balance of $560,940 in the capital fund.
Ron Gagnon reviewed the proposed Telecom Grant that
was approved by the members of the corporation in October. Ron noted any
changes that had been made. Anne Tullson and Mary Rose Quinn volunteered to
supply Ron with some supporting documentation. The grant is due into the MBLC
on November 14, 2003.
Ron Gagnon reviewed the proposed FY 2005 Action Plan which is to be submitted to the MBLC in December. Ron highlighted new activities which will take place during the coming year. The Board made no changes to the proposed plan.
Tom Scully made a motion to accept the plan. Marjorie Hill-Devine seconded.
Passed without opposition.
Adjournment
On a motion by Tom Scully and seconded by Marjorie
Hill-Devine the meeting was adjourned at 4:45 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Douglas W. Rendell