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Minutes from the Board Meeting: January 20, 2008

Meeting Location:   Conference Call

Minutes prepared by:   Benjamin Soencksen

Approved by unanimous vote of the board on:   January 27, 2008

Attending

• Richard Lamberty (co-chair)
• Barbara Zoloth (co-chair)
• Sonja Furiya
• Winter Held
• Pat Hogan
• Citabria Phillips
• Benjamin Soencksen

Absent:

• None

Next Conference Call:

• Sunday, Feb 3, 3 PM PST, 5 PM CST, 6 PM EST
• Barbara will set up the call and notify the Board of call-in details.

The following items were agreed on:

1. Voting Procedures for the Board:
   • All Board Members have one equal vote.
   • A deciding simple majority of 4 will be applied to most issues.
   • A super majority of 5 for specific pre-determined issues will be adopted.
2. Term Limits for the Board:
   • All Board Members stated that they understand their obligation to the community.
   • The Board will strive to accomplish at least a skeletal structure for a constitution and by-laws, which will contain the following:
     1. Rules of Membership
     2. Structure and Rules of Board
     3. Process and Rules for the Election of Board Members
     4. Procedure to Amend those Rules
   • If the Board fails after a two-year period to complete the tasks listed above, it will resign and hold new elections under the same rules that were applied to the recent election.
3. Next Actions by the Board:
   • Composing and posting a "Thank You" letter to the members of the Ad-Hoc Committees & Election Consultant Group for their work of the past 3 month.
   • Seeking and discussing samples of constitutions and/or by-laws of membership driven non-profit organizations that might be helpful in shortening the process.
   • Forming subcommittees on issues filtered out of that discussion.