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Minutes of the TLDA Board Meeting
Held via Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
on April 10, 2002 at 23:00 EDT. Board Members Present: John Palmer
Leah Gallegos
Eric MacIver
Karl Peters
Marc Brittan
Marc Schneiders
Note that Eric MacIver had to leave the meeting early.
John Palmer expressed his thanks to Bradley Thornton and Patrick Corliss who served on the last Board and welcomed Eric MacIver to the Board. John Palmer made a motion regarding the approval of the minutes of the January 16, 2002 meeting MOTION 1 BY JOHN PALMER That the reading of the minutes of the January 16, 2002 meeting be dispensed with and that
they be approved by the Board. There were no seconds and some board members wanted to table this item until they had a chance to review the minutes. This item was tabled. The board next heard reports from officers and committees. Karl Peters reported for the Elections Committee on the March 2002 elections: We just completed a very poorly attended poll in which we did not even have enough candidates for the seats. We still have an open board seat to fill, as well as some committee seats One Board member threatened to withdraw from the group entirely over the lack of a votebot that I had never had. Should we now make that votebot a part of our polling process formally?
Leah Gallegos indicated that there was a discussion during the development of the current Bylaws about whether or not to require a votebot program for all elections, but it was decided to leave that up to the Elections Committee. John Palmer said that he had a votebot program and that Elections could have it for future use if they wanted it. This issue came up because one TLDA member made a big issue about a votebot not being used in the March elections. Discussion moved on to the vacant seats on the Board (1 seat) and the Elections Committee. Karl Peters made a motion: MOTION 2 BY KARL PETERS That the committee call upon Bradley Thornton to fill the remaining seat on the Elections Committee SECONDED BY LEAH GALLEGOS VOTE: YES: John Palmer, Leah Gallegos, Marc Brittan, Karl Peters, Marc Schneiders. ABSTAIN: Eric MacIver.
TOTAL: 4 YES, 1 ABSTAIN. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO The Board also heard from a member, Marc Storck who also thought that the website should be redesigned.
John Palmer made a motion: MOTION 2 BY JOHN PALMER That we post a request for discussion and request for volunteers on the members list requesting assistance in designing the website and finding/providing content. SECONDED BY MARC BRITTAN VOTE: YES: John Palmer, Leah Gallegos, Marc Brittan, Karl Peters, Marc Schneiders
TOTAL: 5 YES. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO Leah Gallegos made a report for the Compliance Committee: We are still waiting for a list from Taproot so we can begin scoring It was suggested that we begin with the partial list and we can do some of that However if there are duplicates and we score without them being included on the list, we will have some serious errors which we should avoid All eyes are upon us to do this correctly, so I suggest that it is better to take the time rather than rush it and make those mistakes. I disagree with Bradley that it is only a couple of hours' work This is not a root operation and we have to be right.
There was general agreement that we could not start scoring TLDs until our list was more complete. Marc Schneiders agreed to contact Joe Baptista, a new TAPROOT member and get things moving with him as he has a lot of skill in this area. John Palmer, a new member of Ways and Means, agreed to contact the current member, Bradley Thornton, to get moving on a work plan. Secretary Palmer reiterated his invitation for folks to send him any relevant material for the website. Leah Gallegos raised an issue regarding the problem that is present due to the small number of members currently active in the organization. This problem involves the fact that people are limited to two terms consecutive terms on each committee and on the Board. This is in the Bylaws, so any changes to this would have to be made by a 2/3'ds vote of the members. Leah agreed to post a discussion item on the membership list. Next, the Board moved on to elections of officers for this term. Nominations were taken for Chairman of The Board. Marc Brittan nominated John Palmer. This nomination was seconded by Leah Gallegos. There were no other nominations. John Palmer accepted this nomination. VOTE ON THE NOMINATION OF JOHN PALMER AS CHAIRMAN OF THE TLDA BOARD VOTE: YES: Leah Gallegos, Marc Brittan, Karl Peters, Marc Schneiders. ABSTAIN: John Palmer
TOTAL: 4 YES, 1 ABSTAIN. JOHN PALMER WAS ELECTED AS CHAIRMAN OF THE TLDA BOARD. Leah Gallegos then nominated John Palmer as Secretary. This was seconded by Marc Brittan. There were no other nomination for Secretary. John Palmer accepted this nomination. VOTE ON THE NOMINATION OF JOHN PALMER AS SECRETARY VOTE: YES: Leah Gallegos, Marc Brittan, Karl Peters, Marc Schneiders. ABSTAIN: John Palmer
TOTAL: 4 YES, 1 ABSTAIN. JOHN PALMER WAS ELECTED AS SECRETARY. John Palmer then nominated Karl Peters as Treasurer. This was seconded by Leah Gallegos and Marc Brittan. There were no other nomination for Treasurer. Karl Peters accepted the nomination. VOTE ON THE NOMINATION OF KARL PETERS AS TREASURER VOTE: YES: Leah Gallegos, Marc Brittan, John Palmer, Marc Schneiders. ABSTAIN: Karl Peters
TOTAL: 4 YES, 1 ABSTAIN. KARL PETERS WAS ELECTED AS TREASURER. The next issue discussed was a meeting schedule for this Board's term (May, June, July). John Palmer noted the fact that some members wanted to have meetings at varying times to be fair to those Board members around the world. John Palmer suggested that we schedule only next month's meeting and made a motion: MOTION 3 BY JOHN PALMER That the next TLDA Board Meeting be on May 8, 2002 at 3PM Eastern time (1900 UTC). SECONDED BY MARC BRITTAN VOTE: YES: Marc Brittan, Leah Gallegos, John Palmer, Marc Schneiders, Karl Peters
TOTAL: 5 YES. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO. There being no further business, Chairman Palmer made the following motion: MOTION 4 BY JOHN PALMER Motion to Adjourn. SECONDED BY MARC SCHNEIDERS
VOTE: YES: John Palmer, Leah Gallegos, Marc Schneiders, Karl Peters, Marc Brittan
TOTAL: 5 YES. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO. The meeting was adjourned at 1:23am EDT, April 11, 2002.
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