Meeting of General Membership
February 3 2024
Magnolia Road Internet Cooperative Inc.
Meeting topics will include but not be limited to:
Introduction of Board Members (Paul)
Introduction of current staff (Paul)
Recent activity:
New antennas/radios
Locations upgraded and power status
Website (Mark)
Network monitoring tool UISP (Steve)
Current bank account balances (Mark)
State of Colorado standing is in place (Mark)
Taxation status (annual tax returns filed) (Mark)
Retiring e mail services (Paul)
Looking to the future (Paul)
Seeking staffing/ volunteers/ installation of new equipment
Seeking customer call response personnel
Future technological opportunities:
Goals include:
Reliable, Additional bandwidth, redundant
Back bone bandwidth/ radio capability
MRIC is making infrastructure improvements to make the network reliable in
any weather conditions.
Antenna movement due to weather (wind) affects
Individual home effects will include re-pointing antennas that have been
“bumped”
New host sites
Upgraded connectivity to National backbone/ Multiple sites
Routing updates for redundancy of service points
Questions/Ideas/Desires/
Adjourn
Member comments:
• If a host has an outage or issue, perhaps a nearby neighbor can be
contacted to go to the host house to remedy the issue.
• Status for an outage. Call back regarding outage is desired.
• Information when something is down. On web? Phone call? Email? Text?
Communication on the outage.
• Survey the members at large for needs and requests.
(J.S. note: Boulder Valley Schools has a notification process. They can text,
or call and also have information on the webpage.)