CALL TO ORDER – Meeting was called to order by President Messer at 9:02 a.m.
ROLL CALL -
Board Present: Steve Crow, Barbara Dillmann, Todd Cory, Jim de Pree, Greg Messer
Staff Present: Audra Gibson, Kathy Blevins, John Cumming
Public: Randall Lawrence, Ron Demele, Brian Stewart, Vince Reinig

Approval of Minutes of December 2008 and January 2009 - Steve moved and Jim seconded to approve the minutes of December 2008 and acknowledge the meeting of January 2009 without a quorum. Motion carried, unanimous.

Public Comment: COS President Randall Lawrence addressed the Board concerning his experiences with public television and his support for MCTV 15. He answered questions from the Board.

CLOSED SESSION
9:55 a.m. Employee compensation.
10:13 Board came out of Closed Session and President Messer announced that the ED was directed to gather more information to be presented to the Board at the meeting in March.

COS Instruction Liaison – Ron Demele gave a report on current second semester enrollment and collaboration with MCTV staff.

Meeting adjourned at 9:25 a.m. for Annual Meeting
Meeting reconvened at 9:36 a.m.

REPORTS
Executive Director Report – Audra Gibson gave her report. Reminder: Board/Volunteer retreat scheduled for Saturday, Feb 7th to be facilitated by Bonnie Kubowitz/Vision Consulting.

Operations and Programming Update – Need to evaluate training for office/programming duties

Technical Director Update– The studio lighting project funding is to be submitted for July 2009. Tech committee to review specs and make formal recommendation to COS Vice President Steve Crow.

Treasurer’s Report – Treasurer’s Quarterly report was given by Barbara Dillmann

Ad Hoc Committees:
Core Services Committee – Greg Messer/no report, defer to retreat meeting
Board Recruitment Committee – no report
Video Streaming Committee report – John Cumming demonstrated the look of our home page with the live streaming incorporated. Todd Cory expressed concerns that people with slow connections would not be able to access our basic home page info. John will adjust the link to accommodate this. Audra will be meeting with reporter to “roll out” live streaming info. Other promotion of this service will be done.

OLD BUSINESS
Approval of adjustments to Rate Sheet and Access Fees (continued from January 09 meeting)
Tabled until after the retreat.

NEW BUSINESS - none

BOARD/STAFF COMMENTS

Items for future agendas/board action:
March meeting, Closed session on Personnel, Move $10,000 to CD, Tech Committee report on automatic surveillance of airing/video-streaming of programming.

Adjourn 11:37 AM
Next regular meeting, March 3, 2009