MINUTES OF THE April 10, 2002 MEETING
OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OF THE NEW JERSEY COMPUTER CLUB

Present:  Doug Beck, John Beck, Terry Beck, John Biegel, Rich Byrne, Phil Corbo, Stephen Emde, Tom Kehoe, Lenny Laich, John O’Neill, and Fred Sabin.

The meeting was called to order at 8:55 p.m. at the North Branch Reformed Church by Fred Sabin.

• Lenny Laich agreed to remain NJCC's 3rd Vice President with the understanding that the scheduling of NJCC functions would be arranged directly with the church office, rather than through him.
  

• Fred Sabin reported that since it is always possible that the NBRC may become unavailable for our meetings for reasons beyond our control, we should look for another backup place to have our meetings if this should happen. Such a contingency was briefly discussed a couple of years ago when the NJCC was growing, and again when we were considering joint activities/memberships with RVCC. The NBRC Fellowship Hall has a maximum official capacity of 138 people. He urged those present to check out any potential places that we might use and bring this info to future meetings.
  

• Motion (Made/Seconded & Approved): That $500 be approved for a 2002 NJCC Founders Memorial Award/Scholarship to a Raritan Valley Community College student (pending membership approval at a general meeting). Other schools may be considered in the future.
  

• Due to business commitments, Doris Smith will be unable to continue as NJCC Refreshment Chairperson. We need to decide what to do in this matter, as we have not had anyone volunteer to take over this position. Mary and Henry Gorski will do the refreshments for the next two meetings.
  

• John O'Neill has proposed that we consider making the membership year coincide with our financial and calendar year - that is Jan 1 to Dec 31. For this year, everyone who is paid up through September will have her/his membership extended through the end of December. In the future, when someone joins NJCC after January, his/her dues will be prorated. The motion to have the membership year coincide with the calendar year was approved.
  

• As a point of information, Fred informed the Executive Committee that there are NJCC officers who will be giving computer classes and private home instruction for a fee. There was a consensus that such private activities by individuals, outside the auspices of the Club, were appropriate.
  

• Jitka Souckova, RVCC Computer Club President, has communicated the following to NJCC with a request for assistance:
  
  A.)    A community project for this semester: Free class with two section for senior citizens /how to buy and how to use computer/. I have finally been able to get free room for April 27th /Saturday/, would you or anyone in your club be interested in presenting in this event? I need someone who is experienced in this field and can do good job. I am sure you are one of the TOP, now it is just a question if you have a time on Saturday 4/27 from 9-12 morning. Please let me know if you could help us so I can seriously put this event into work.
  
  B.)    Also on May 2nd we are having RVCC Spring Picnic, our club will be holding Smash the Computer fund raiser and table with info, if you interested to stop buy and try to recruit some young people for NJCC please let me know and I will give you the details.
  
  Fred will keep the Executive Committee informed of further developments.
  

• Lenny Laich has proposed that a cable modem be installed at the NBRC under the following conditions: NBRC Buildings & Grounds to pay half of the installation price from their Supplies budget and the NBRC will pay the other half.  The 24x7 monthly cost of $70 for a business usage would be met as follows: the church would pay $50, the Preschool $13, and the NJCC Computer Club $7. The NJCC $7 monthly cable fee would be added to the regular NJCC monthly NBRC rental fee.
  
  A motion committing the Club to the seven-dollar per month fee was passed.
  

• The Trenton Computer Festival will be held at the New Jersey Convention Center in the Raritan Center at Edison, NJ, on May 4th & 5th, including a User Group Officer's Conference on Sunday at 10 AM. Information is available at http://www.tcf-nj.org or directly from Scott Vincent at email address: scottvin@optonline.net. Scott is the President of the Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey and President and Co-Director of The Trenton Computer Festival.
  

• Doug Beck was authorized to make a proposal for a new Club PC for a cost not to exceed $300 to President Fred Sabin. Fred will then seek email approval from the other members of the Executive Committee.
  

• Information on how to obtain free PC Expo passes will be placed in the password-protected portion of the Club's Web site.

The next meeting of the Executive Committee will be scheduled at a later date.

The meeting adjourned at 9:32 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Tom Kehoe
Secretary