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Meeting of 23 September 2015
Present: Loreto Doyle,
Anne-Claude Pépin, Angelo Spinazzola, Paul Weinberg,
Jitka Zgola
Regrets: Rosie Smith,
Ian Green
- Meeting Called to Order; Agenda approved as discussed.
- Approve minutes of the meeting of 28 July
(moved: Jitka;
seconded:
Loreto; carried.)
- Financial Report (Jitka)
- Current balance is $10,462.
- Latest expenditure was to renew the
our Societies registration with the Registry of Joint Stocks,
in the amount of $31.15.
- Motion to accept the financial report
as read (moved:
Jitka; seconded:
Loreto; carried.)
- Community Web Site
- Our designer sent us his final invoice in April, saying
that he did not feel he could do any more work without more pay.
He has been paid 75% of his fee and there is a balance of 25%
outstanding. When asked about the training in the use of his
template that was included in our contract, he forwarded a digital
WordPress manual; this is of no use to us, as we do not have staff or
volunteers willing to learn it and manage our system indefinitely. The
web site is not user friendly, requiring a fair bit of skill to upload and
maintain content, particularly lister content (this was intended to be
accessible to most listers, themselves). The design is not quite
completed, and there are numerous little niggles and issues that the
designer was either not able or not willing to correct.
- Action: Angelo will
contact Mike Shepherd to see if he is willing to consult with us on
the time and money required to bring the web site up to
operable standard.
- Business Training
- SABDA has been approved to run another training
workshop to be funded by the NS Department of Labour and Advanced
education, but we are not interested in running a programme this
year. The Department is willing to let several other communities join
this application, should they wish to run a session instead. SABDA, in
this case, would be liaison, and would keep the administration fee
that is included in the application.
- Community Transportation Study
- A letter on SABDA stationery will be sent to Council
asking them to let us know how they will be moving forward with the
transportation study compiled in 2013, and the proposed implementation
plan received in 2014.
- Action: Loreto will create
a draft letter and forward it to Anne-Claude for action.
- Letters regarding concern for both the Englishtown
Ferry rates and potential school closures have been sent out by
Anne-Claude on our behalf; copies are attached as
Appendix I
to these minutes.
- New Business
- Jitka, as current treasurer, has requested that we
consider adopting a consistent bookkeeping system for recovering file
information. After some discussion, we decide to focus on a digital
system, possibly simple Excel spreadsheets, and to ask someone in
the community for ideas.
- Motion: That Jitka approach
a local skilled person to find out what kind of system s/he would propose,
and fix a price to impement it (moved:
Jitka; seconded:
Loreto; carried.)
- Action: Jitka will contact
Lisa Finney to help define and price a computer-based system.
- Next meeting:
- Our next meeting is set for 6:30 pm, Tuesday
27 October 2015, at Cabot Shores.
- Meeting Adjourned (moved:
Loreto; seconded: Angelo)
Appendix I
Two letters to MLA Pam Eyking regarding:
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