Magnolia Road Internet Cooperative
July 2018 Annual Meeting Minutes
- Discussion on Tiered service.
- Throttling at certain times of day?
- Can we see what each person is using?
- Attracted to mountain broadband – get consistent speed.
- What is active vs inactive
- when should inactive vote, when should active, when only board
- A number of people like the shares or ownership
- Board member discussion – need different types of specialties as board members
- What about 2 way communication – We get Netsuite for free as a social not for profit even though not a non profit
- Showed financials – no debt
- Pace of technology improvements is based on how much we have extra each month
- Loans might give the option for faster improvements,
- What about grants from various options,
- More options for getting bandwidth discussed –
- New Board members – accept what the current rules say for voting on Board members – 2 weeks,
- Email to solicit board nominations – then we get bios and sent out with 2 weeks,
- Even if less candidates then open seats, we should vote
- Bios – should include a statement from them why they want to be a board member.
- Website should have, Bod email address, Google Groups
- We can have more paid support in addition to volunteers
- Are we looking at growing to a larger area? Would that help with additional funds coming in
- Why not a 501c3 – we could be a 501c7?