Friends of Iowa Gen Web Annual Meeting
Minutes
July 19, 2024 – July 29, 2024
1. Call
to Order and Roll Call
Meeting called to Order by Lynn Diemer-Mathews. Those responding as
present:
Kris Meyer, Conni
McDaniel Hall, Jena Patzner, Jennie Williams Pahls, Steve Williams, Linda
Ziemann, Cheryl Siebrass, Lynn McCleary, Bill Haloupek, Karen De Groote, Barbara Hug, Mark Christian, Ralph
Leonard, Constance Diamond, Sharyl Ferrall
2. Old Business
A. Secretary's Report
Due to an unforeseen issue, Lynn Diemer-Mathews will be responding to the
Secretary’s report thread.
Link to the May meeting:
http://www.iagenweb.org/state/friends_of_iagenweb-operations/meetings/minutes-May-2024.html
May 2024 meeting minutes approved without correction by:
Barbara Hug, Linda Ziemann, Conni
McDaniel Hall, Constance Diamond, Sharyl Ferrall, Steve Williams, Jennie Williams
Pahls, Kris Meyer, Ralph Leonard, Bill Haloupek, Lynn
McCleary
B. Treasurer's Report
Mark Christian presented the Treasurer’s Report.
Financial Reports as of June 30, 2024 can be found at: http://iagenweb.org/state/friends_of_iagenweb-operations/
Our asset balance (US Bank plus PayPal accounts) as of June 30, 2024 is $20,828.59, an
decrease of $201.99 from the starting balance on January 1, 2024, and an
increase of $594.98 for the past 12 months. Year-to date income (donations)
increased $303.66 over the corresponding period last year. (A reminder that a
2023 donation of $250.00 actually deposited in 2024 skewing the numbers.)
Year-to-date expenses increased $148.21 from the preceding period, largely due
to our domain renewal.
In the May 2024 meeting the directors
authorized up to $150.00 for a nine-year renewal of our iagenweb.org domain
with Hover. $145.53 was spent under this authorization on May 8, 2024.
Treasurer’s Report was approved by:
Ralph Leonard, Linda Ziemann, Jennie Williams Pahls, Lynn Diemer-Mathews, Conni
McDaniel Hall, Sharyl Ferrall, Barbara Hug, Lynn McCleary, Kris Meyer, Bill Haloupek, Karen De Groote, Cheryl Siebrass,
Constance Diamond
3. New Business
A. New Appointments are Director-at-Large: Jena Patzner and Secretary Susie
Keller-McCain
As appointments do not require a motion, the Board needs to confirm or
object the appointments. Appointments confirmed by:
Lynn McCleary, Kris Meyer, Sharyl
Ferrall, Jennie Williams Pahls, Mark Christian, Karen De Groote, Cheryl Siebrass, Constance Diamond, Linda Ziemann, Cindy Booth
Maher, Bill Haloupek
B. Technical Budget Support for ISP Support Services
Mark Christian made the following budget motion:
From time-to-time our Support Team may need billable technical support from
our web hosting provider inmotionhosting.com. One such example is moving
our server from an unsupported operating system to one that is supported.
In Motion will do the move, but they may not agree to install back-level
software on the new system. While Technical Support attempts to keep the
server software up-to-date, we must use a back-level Perl programming language
required for our message boards. Should we need technical assistance during a
move it may mean that our server is down. We would not have time to call a
Directors meeting to approve the expenditure. This is just an example of where
an expenditure may be needed. I move that the board authorize a technical
support budget of $300.00 for maintenance of our server.
Second by Lynn Diemer-Mathews and
discussion period opened for 48 hours.
No comments were received opposing the proposal.
Motion to end the discussion was made by Jennie Williams Pahls. Second by
Conni McDaniel Hall.
A 2/3 majority vote is needed to approve/disapprove this motion.
Those voting in favor of the motion:
Conni McDaniel Hall, Kris Meyer, Jennie Williams Pahls, Linda Ziemann, Sharyl
Ferrall, Bill Haloupek, Mark Christian, Karen De
Groote, Cheryl Siebrass, Lynn McCleary, Barbara Hug,
Steve Williams
The motion is passed by approval of more than 2/3 of the Board with no objections.
4. Comments from the Board and/or visiting guests
No comments
5. Adjournment:
Motion to adjourn made by Kris Meyer. Second
by Lynn McCleary
This Friends Meeting is now ADJOURNED.