Part 1 of 2
Minutes for the AVCNet Meeting held on July 11, 1995 at City Hall,
Lewiston - Room A.
The meeting was called to order at 7 pm by Rick Speer. Those in
attendance were: Rick Speer, Art Turley, Dwight Payne, Bob Leduc,
Rob Waite, David Grondin, Nathan Christopher (Auburn, private
consultant), Rob Spellman, Bruce Hall and Jim Hart.
Rick Speer asked for a motion to approve the minutes of the last
meeting (June 6, 1995). Dwight Payne so moved and was seconded by
Art Turley.
The Treasurer's Report was tabled until later in the meeting.
Old Business:
Rick Speer brought up the delay in filing for IRS
501-c-3 status, mentioning that Judy Gervais had recommended
waiting a year before filing for this. Judy had mentioned that it
would be beneficial if the organization had a history behind it for
filing purposes. A vote was taken and all present agreed to
postpone the application for IRS 501-c-3 until May of 1996.
Rick Speer brought up State Incorporation, and Art Turley
immediately mentioned that it should proceed with little haste
citing the liabilities involved should we provide information that
might be damaging to others. Incorporation would remove the danger
of individuals being liable for damages. Dwight Payne asked about
the steps needed to get incorporation papers. Rick Speer replied
that it was merely the payment of the State fee and filing papers,
and that Judy Gervais has agreed to do that for us.
A vote was taken and all present agreed to proceed with the filing
of Incorporation papers.
The Mission Statement was then discussed. Concern was voiced by
Bob Leduc, Rob Waite and Jim Hart on the wording of several
sections in the Mission Statement. Some changes were to use
'information provider' in the statement and to change the
'Lewiston/Auburn' to 'Greater Lewiston/Auburn' so that a wider area
could be serviced by AVCNet. Art Turley made a motion to add a
'timeframe' statement so that the Mission Statement could be
reviewed after being in effect for a while, suggested May, June or
July of 1996. A vote was taken and all present agreed to
incorporate these changes.
Program Committee:
Rob Spellman and Jim Hart reported that with the fall classes
starting at Bates that space would be limited. A decision was made
to move the fall workshop to a tentative date of October 14.1995.
Dwight Payne mentioned that with the summer vacations being on hand
it might be wise to take the committee's discussion to newsgroups,
whereas Rob Spellman voiced approval and recommended created a
mailing list for the committee to use. It was decided to create a
mailing list called AVC-PROGCOM@ABACUS.BATES.EDU for the committee
to use, wherein the mailing list would be OPEN and Rick Speer would
be the OWNER. The proper method of joining this mailing list is to
send e-mail to:
MAJORDOMO@ABACUS.BATES.EDU
and in the body of the message have:
subscribe avc-progcom
with nothing else in there, save it and send it along the network.
Next committee meeting was scheduled for August 22, 1995 at the
Lewiston City Hall, Room A (third floor) at 7 p.m., the public is
invited to attend.
Treasurer's Report:
Jim Hart presented the Treasurer's Report, as of July 10, 1995
AVCNET had a total inflow of $350.00, total outflow of $0.00 for
total cash flow of $350.00. Fourteen memberships were received
since our last meeting, each for a $25.00 amount and each
qualifying for a Charter Membership, the following are the donors:
Larry Marcoux, David Grondin, Barbara Harness, Dwight Payne, Art
Turley, Rick Speer, Maine Center for Educational, The Chamber,
Auburn Public Library, Bruce Hall, Allyson Lane, Margo Simmons,
Madeleine Giguere, and Jim Hart.
This concluded Old Business.
Part 2 continued on next message.
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