Operationss Report for BoD 26Apr01

1) Our bookkeeper has been ill and the financial
statements are delayed.

2) The Programme Director's report presents some
interesting comparisons as to changes in content
broadcast (see attached)

3) The "Rough Plan for the Summer 2001" is now
available for consideration of the Board.  It is
essentially the same plan as last year.

4) An grant application has been made to Human
Resources Development Canada under their Summer
Career Placement programme.  Among other things the
application asks for funding for a Summer Programme
Coordinator, and two other technical and publicity
support positions.  We would pay $8.50 per hour plus
statutory benefits and receive a subsidy of $6.85
per hour.  As of 26Apr01 HRDC has a recorded message
stating that they hope to announce funding next week
(beginning 30Apr01)

5) There was an informal meeting with the new TCSA
President, Marisa Barnhart, to discuss a levy report
protocol which would involve the participation of
the TCSA, student funded groups, and Trent
University. The idea is to have a single statement
reporting the receipt and disbursements of monies
to, from and by all parties.

6) The new logger system would record and save all
material broadcast as per CRTC Radio Regulation No.
8 on a personal computer.  We are awaiting a
software update before proceeding, however, noted
fiddler and local Unix computer wiz Ken Brown has
agreed to help us set up the system.

7) TRadio programmer, Christian Durand set in a hour
long programme of news and music from Ecuador,  The
programme is now on the TRadio web site and Trent
University has made a links to it.

In a related matter, the web presentations produced
here and at Trent Photographics have earned a bronze
medal from an association of college and
university web developers.

8) We received a letter from the CRTC asking for a
copy of the by-law amendments made at the last AGM,
A letter from us containing this information was sent
on 19 Dec 00, however, it appears they did not
receive it. It is noted that a cheque sent out about
the same time was not received either.

The required information was emailed to the CRTC and
this was acceptable to them.

9) Our thanks go to all involved in making the first
two broadcast season of YE 2001 such a great
success.

Respectfully submitted 26 Apr 01
/ John K Muir; General Manager