The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of Rogue Area Senior Computer Assistance League was held on February 09, 2010 at the Josephine County Fairgrounds Floral Building, Grants Pass, Oregon. The following board members were present: President Galen Garretson, Vice President Ron Willing, Secretary Velma Gustafson, Education Director Lou Garrotto, Membership Director Pat Hentges, and Communications Director Murray Johnson Members present were: , , Audrey Williams, and Betty Buskirk.

Secretary's Report: Velma Gustafson reported:

The minutes of the January 2010 Board of Directors meeting were approved and placed on the RASCAL website.

Treasurer's Report: Naomi Carlson reported:

We have $23,841.00 in the bank, checking $9,838.00. She requested to move $5,000.00 of this to a CD. This was voted on and approved.

Membership Director's Report: Pat Hentges reported:

We have 905 RASCAL members and 37 new members. Our new Data Base Work Group had our first meeting. The group consisted of: Audrey Williams, Betty Buskirk, Naomi Carlson, Murray Johnson, Lou Garrotto, Mark Simmons, and Chris Oman. We discussed whether putting the database on line was doable, and or reasonable. We discussed various software programs to use, user satisfaction and ease, security, having Smartwire host the database, Not having to have the Access program on each user's computer. Plan of action: Mark will work on improving the data base functions. Mark and Chris will work together with research, developing, and testing. Current users are to provide feedback. A tentative completion date was set as January 1st, 2011, but hope for an earlier completion date.

Education Director's Report: Lou Garrotto reported:

He talked about an e-mail that he received from a foreign scam. This was discussed.

Communications Director's Report: Murray Johnson reported:

He talked about buying new software versus purchasing a new Windows Lap Top. It was agreed to purchase a new lap top; voted on, and approved. There was a discussion about looking into software to safeguard computers used by instructors in classes. Murray also noted that he is working with a company regarding the audio in our meeting room at the fairgrounds. Galen asked Murray to check out the wireless router at RCC. They are having problems with it. There are now constant drops coming off the connector. We may have to buy a new one for about sixty dollars.
Action: Galen will go with Murray to handle the problem.

Vice President's Report: Ron Willing had no report.

President's Report: Galen Garretson reported:

He and Lou Garrotto met with the president of RCC. They talked about funding cuts and community education. The president is happy with our relationship. He told us to call him if we should have any problems in future. There will be a change in their staff people. We don't know who we will be dealing with. It was a positive meeting.

Lou noted the school will make any handouts at no charge. Let them know in advance how many the instructor needs. Hand carry or e-mail to them for your order at the main college. One must pick them up there. They will charge us $.03 per page, $.05 for two if we want them printed for our general meetings. RCC local classes handouts, etcetera was discussed.
Action for Galen: Talk to Nancy Kain about archiving teachers lessons.
Action for Lou: He will talk with RCC regarding handouts locally.

Footprints: Lou Garratto

He can get us 30 seconds on local tv stations public service announcements. He wants to add Dr. Tank to the Footprints group. We discussed bumper stickers and sweatshirts. They will have a meeting this coming week.
Action for Ron: Send Lou a Power Point presentation for tv. Send Lou info on bumper stickers.

The meeting was adjourned at 12:40 p.m.

Respectfully submitted
Velma Gustafson, Secretary

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