Agenda for July 2006 Board Meeting

This meeting was held as scheduled. The minutes are at http://corp.sbay.org/board/minutes-20060725.html

Time and Location

This meeting was scheduled for Tuesday, July 25, 2006 at 8:00PM at Pizza My Heart in downtown San Jose, at 17 E San Carlos St. between 3rd and 4th streets.

Agenda items

The following items are planned for discussion. The agenda is equally owned by all Directors.

1. Opening Items

1. Revise and accept the agenda.

2. Old Business

1. Report on the Article 12 rewrite.
2. The committee to write by-laws for a parallel 501(c)3 organization has determined that the situation has changed and it is now more appropriate just to make the existing corporation a 501(c)3.
3. Determine that the organization needs to be a 501(c)3 instead of a 501(c)7, and not two of them side-by-side. The accelerated pace of the SVWUX arrangements with the City of San Jose's emergency services and Stratofox's WiFi^?-Net with charitabel contributions have made it unlikely to meet 501(c)7 rules of 60% of revenue coming from members. The Linux Picnic also already operates on a model of corporate sponsorships.
   1. End the committee of the board tasked with writing By-Laws for a separate 501(c)3 alongside a 501(c)7.
   2. Establish a committee of the board to write an amendment to the By-Laws to make The South Bay Community Network a 501(c)3 organization instead of a 501(c)7.
   3. Establish a committee of the board to revise the budget from our draft 501(c)7 filing for our 501(c)3 filing.
   4. Propose changing the membership structure from a dues-paying system to a Meritocracy (government by those who make accomplishments) system similar to the Apache Software Foundation's model.
   5. Hold a vote on the organizational change by the dues-paid members and those participants who would reasonably have been expected to join had the system been fully deployed.
4. Report on the progress on Stratofox and LinuxPicnic^? charters.
5. Report from committee on aquiring an insurance quote for the 501(c)3.

3. New Business

1. Amend our policy regarding SIG charter amendments to require a 2/3 simple majority of SIG members instead of where it currently requires a 2/3 absolute majority of SIG members.
2. Approve of SVWUX's method of approving it's charter and vote to ratify their charter.
3. Amend the by-laws to modify the requirments for SIGs to ratify changes to their own charter.
4. Approve Stratofox's charter using the 2/3rd majority vote by SBAY board members.