Board Meeting Minutes – 2022-12-03

Magnolia Road Internet Cooperative
Board of Directors Meeting

December 3, 2022 – In person at HubNed
Minutes

1. Call to order:2022/12/03 09:18
   1. Attending: Dixon, Mark, Charles, Paul, Matt
2. Update and approval of previous minutes
   1. Motion to approve previous minutes by Mark – passes
3. Reports:
   1. President’s Report
   2. Treasurer’s Report
      1. Savings: 60,000
      2. Checking: 49610
      3. All bills are paid, $13,000 for November
         1. $2400 to Mtn Broadband (Bandwidth)
         2. $5600 to Ayva (Bandwidth)
   3. Business Manager/Administrator’s Report:
   4. Network Manager’s Report
   5. Committee Reports:
      1. FCC Form 447
4. Presentations – Nick Wilson
   1. Nick is frustrated that his requests for votes are not acted on.
   2. Nick thinks the membership is frustrated with the COOP
   3. Nick and Brian are essentially handling operations
   4. Nick has a garage and basement full of next gen hardware (owned by Ayva)
5. Old Business
   1. Report of proposed PFI contract for Form 447.
      1. Motion to accept PFI contract by Dixon. 2nd by Charles. Passes
6. New Business
   1. Discussion of MRIC’s Vision – No consensus
   2. Discussion of the questions for Nick –
      1. What is Nick’s vision? Nick is fully interested in supporting MRIC as long as there is good communication with MRIC BOD and the BOD is responsive. The support includes network monitoring and maintenance. Nick’s ability to “volunteer” for the community will diminish over the next year as Ayva takes more and more of Nick’s time.
   3. MRIC needs at least one /24 (preferably 2) and one ASN, according to Nick
   4. Need to have chat in-person with Brian
7. Action Items:
   1. Dixon to get minutes posted to the current website.
   2. Mark will go through equipment list with Nick
   3. Matt will research a document repository for MRIC
   4. Matt will research a new website
   5. Dixon will research obtaining ip blocks and ASN
   6. Paul will discuss with Elizabeth future contact or retainer business
8. Calendar Items:
   1. Registered Agent Filing – November (last registered 2022)
   2. Annual Meeting
9. Schedule next BOD meeting
   1. 12/8 – 4:00pm Zoom (matt will arrange zoom)
   2. 12/17 – 9:00am in person @ HubNed
10. Adjournment – 12:08

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