Minutes of the Board of Directors for the USGenWeb Census Project

Meeting held 03 July 2001 via Internet using mIRC beginning at 20:19 EST
and ending at 21:57 EST.

Present:
     Wayne Duncan
     Ellen Horner
     Sandy Onbey
     Jeri Shangle
     Veda Mendoza
     Sue Soden

A quorum being set, the meeting was called to order by Wayne Duncan.

There were no officer, board, or standing committee reports.

There were no special orders addressed.

Wayne Duncan, on behalf of the Board members, extended a welcome to new
member Sandy Onbey.

New Business:

  Selection of new project officers for 2001-2002 term as per the By-laws.
  Wayne Duncan opened nominations.

   For the office of President:
    Wayne Duncan was nominated and the nomination was unanimously Seconded.
    Wayne accepted the nomination. There being no discussion, the
    nomination was put to a vote with results of 5 aye 0 nay. Wayne Duncan
    is elected President.

   For the office of Vice-President:
    Jeri Shangle was nominated and the nomination was seconded. Jeri
    declined the nomination. Ellen Horner was nominated and the nomination
    was seconded. Ellen accepted the nomination. There being no discussion,
    the nomination was put to a vote with results of 5 aye and 0 nay. Ellen
    Horner is elected Vice-President.

   For the office of Secretary/Treasurer:
    Sandy Onbey was nominated and the nomination was seconded. Sandy
    accepted the nomination. Veda Mendoza was nominated and the nomination
    was seconded. Veda declined the nomination. There being no discussion,
    the nomination was put to a vote with the Results of 5 aye and 0 nay.
    Sandy Onbey is elected Secretary/Treasurer.

   For the office of Membership Secretary:
    April Phillips was nominated and the nomination was seconded. A short
    discussion about April not being present to accept was made and it was
    decided that should she decline another election for this office would
    take place at that time.  The nomination was put to a vote with results
    of 6 aye and 0 nay.  April Phillips is elected Membership Secretary.

Ellen Horner assumed the position of President Pro-tem due to Wayne Duncan
having to leave early.

  Coordinator's Agreement:
    A discussion regarding the posting of coordinator's agreement was held.
    It was decided to postpone any appointments until this could be done.
    Ellen appointed Sue Soden as chair of a sub-committee to work on the
    coordinator's agreement.  Jeri Shangle volunteered to help and Sue
    appointed Sandy Onbey to also help.  Sue will open the discussion to
    all SCs and compose an agreement for Board approval.

  Census Project Mailing Lists:
    Carol Hammett notified Sue Soden that ownership of the lists by Ron
    Eason ended at the time of the election. Ownership of the lists needs
    to be transferred to the current project coordinator. It was decided
    that the CP-Board mailing list should be reserved for the current
    members of the Board only It was also discussed and decided to use only
    the Census Project name on the Upload Report since it is a project
    report.

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned to reconvene on
09 July 2001 at 20:00 EST.

Items for next Board Meeting:
    Status of Coordinator's Agreement
    Status of Census Project Mailing Lists