MO-RIVER.NET BOARD MINUTES |
MAY 1998
NEXT MEETING: 10:30 A.M. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, AT BOONSLICK INDUSTRIES
Mo-River.Net Board of Directors
May 15, 1998
Boonslick Industries
Board Members Present:
Jeff Maddy, Tim Nadeau, Melanie Spencer, Art Schneider, Betty Vollmer
Call to Order:
In the absence of the president and vice president, Art Schneider, secretary-treasurer,
called the meeting to order at 10:45 a.m.
Minutes:
The April board minutes were approved.
Treasurer's Report:
Art Schneider reported that there were two new individual memberships, bringing the total
memberships to 19. Expenses were $35.88 -- $15.88 for refreshments recognizing the
contributions of the Boonville High School students to the Mo-River.Net pages and
$20 for amending incorporation papers and change of registered agent name and address with
Mark Eslick's assuming a new position. Total in account is $419.87.
Agenda Information:
The secretary-treasurer noted that University Outreach/Extension received its new CPUs and
e-mail program and that the new program is not compatible with the old e-mail program. It
requires all e-mail addresses be re-entered and staff have not learned how to do this yet.
Consequently, the agenda and notification for today's meeting were not distributed.
RTEP
Betty Vollmer reported that the Cooper County area Rural Telemedicine Evaluation Project
(RTEP) is one of 10 sites throughout Missouri affiliated with this effort to bring
additional medical expertise access to rural Missouri. Each of the 10 communities
has a local advisory group composed of the different users, e.g. in Cooper County the
hospital, nursing home in Pilot Grove, local physicians, Cooper County Nursing Service and
pharmacies. Betty has been working toward collaboration between the local RTEP
effort and Mo-River.Net, particularly in the areas of public access stations, health
related information and, in the future, e-mail addresses that can be accessed from across
the country.
At the May advisory meeting she invited Art Schneider to speak about Mo-River.Net's application process for 501(c) (3) status. She also has been working toward a link from the RTEP Home Page to Mo-River.Net and recommends that the Mo-River.Net community and/or Health pages have linkages to RTEP.
RTEP is a pilot program and the National Library of Medicine, a funder, is closely following the local progress and wanting to learn the ways that the local medical community and the local community use it to access medical information.
The initial grant period for RTEP ends in September 1999.
The RTEP URL is: Hansel.mig.missouri.edu/rtep
Maintenance Committee
JoAnn Sullivan chairs the committee. She is unable to be here and committee member and
board member Tim Nadeau gave the report. There were five recommendations:
1) Develop a calendar for each county with links between the counties. Requests for information to be put on the calendar should be in writing, email or fax.
2) Each board member should chair a committee, made up of volunteers, to be responsible for a certain portion of the Mo-River.Net site.
3) Each committee should develop a process for monitoring their share of the site. Material should be updated every 6 months. If no changes are need, the date can be changed to show update. A warning system needs to be put in place. When warnings are ignored and a site is not updated, it should be deleted from Mo-River.Net.
4) Develop written guidelines for web pages, remembering to keep it family oriented, but not saying as much, in order not to jeopardize some medical sites, which may be explicit.
5) Develop a list of professional web masters in the area, without recommending any of them.
In discussion on the five items, the board --
Item 1 - Will continue to work to get a calendar program. Efforts are being made to secure the Missouri Express calendar program.
Item 2 - Tim moved and Melanie seconded that at the June meeting board members will be asked to take responsibility for specific sections/pages. Passed unanimously.
Item 3 - The board discussed three months. General agreement, but no vote.
Item 4 - Agreement, but no action taken.
Item 5 - Agreement
Art Schneider said he would arrange link for this purpose. Board concurrence it should be from the home page. Promotion of Mo-River.Net-Board members discussed possible ways to further promote Mo-River.Net. It was suggested that flyers be distributed at grocery stores and check-out counters at various retail businesses. It also was suggested that Welcome Wagon and Newcomers Club representatives be contacted and asked to put Mo-River.Net flyers with the welcoming materials. It was asked that board members identify the greeters for their communities and bring the information to the next board meeting.
Public Access Stations
Art Schneider showed the board the 5 by 5 logos that will be used to identify public
access stations. He requested that the board designate public access points and that these
sites be identified and placed on Mo-River.Net. He further asked that the Boonslick
Library, Southwestern Bell TCC at Central Methodist College and Cooper County Extension
Center be the first sites officially designated. Tim Nadeau and Jeff Maddy seconded. Board
unanimously approved. All three sites have the public access logos.
Internet Masters
Art Schneider informed the board that University Outreach/Extension is planning to offer
its Internet Master program this fall in Cooper County. Final determination of time, dates
and location will be made in the near future. A final determination on whether the classes
will be offered will be made in July, based upon enrollment of 20 people.
Board members suggested that a special reduced rate beyond that currently offered be made available to Internet Masters completing the course and agreeing to serve as mentors. Art said he would take that information back to the course developers. It also was suggested that information on the program be broadcast on KWRT.
Adjournment:
No further items on the agenda, the board adjourned at 11:50 a.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Art Schneider
Secretary-Treasurer
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