General Manager's report for BoD Meeting 23Jan03

I am grateful to Emily Addison for working with me on
constructing a "to do" list for this new year.  What follows is a
point form report showing various items and their state of
completion.

OFFICE

Completed or nearly completed

- Bookkeeping to 31 Dec 02 is complete
- References for CBC internships
- SOCAN return licence amount and music log completed

To start or still with substantial work to do
- Trillium accounts and recording of expenditure has not started
- Letters and charity receipts Trevor Alderdice & Donna Gordon
- Barb Bell and Barb Holtman letter of thanks
     $1,250.12 a very successful Radio Marathon.
- return charitable information

Information
  Program Director
  TUMS
  Meeting with the Trent U BoG re: Student space.
   A invitation from Student BoG Member Mike Izzo was
   accepted to meet on 31Jan03 along with other student groups

TECHNICAL & PLANT
We have a mic boom for Studio on loan.  The old one finally
fell apart.

The stairway light leading to the offices needs to be repaired.

The furnace fan belt was replaced under our Heating Insurance
Plan.  The upper apartment furnace was leaking water and this
has been corrected.

A substantial amount of work was done to secure the bottom of
the stairs for the upper apartment, in addition to repairs to
the brick work above the main door leading in from the porch.
The outside porch door was repaired door and reinstalled with a
closer.


LEVY REPORTING
Student groups met with Trent U Finance Office on 03Dec03.
A draft reporting template has been prepared and is being
circulated for comment from all parties.

Also a reporting policy for student groups may be proposed
with a view to having this in place for the next academic year.

STUDIO C
Hiring digital ingest clerk, job description to be prepared and
posted.

OWSP Incoming Music Ingest Clerk hiring - Phil Abbott is
investigating his eligibility, and if all goes well he would
start next week.

Paul Merriam will be reporting on a suggested methodology of ingest
and tagging.  He is also to help with work on the finding aid.

Statistics for Trillium (e.g., number of volunteer hours) &c
are yet to be produced.  This is for a report due 31Aug03

Trent University Music Society is considering the donation of an
electric piano for the Studio C project.

A meeting is be scheduled with Trent U Computer Studies students
who form a team led by Pablo Carbajal Siller.  They are to
present their findings and suggest options for programming and
programmer data, which fits into the Studio C  project.

Equipment purchases and installation
One computer has been purchased and three more are ordered.

A large data storage unit, two turntables, a cassette deck and
reel to reel tape recorder are still required.

A large (120GB) hard disk was installed into the main server
to provide extra storage space for programmers and to start the
spoken word ingest portion of the StudioC Project.

In addition a faster network card was installed into the StudioB
computer to speed up transfer of data to the network.

SUMMER CAMP
A package of information from CKCU in Ottawa has yet to
arrive.  Emily and John meet after looking at package

Audio Soup (Feb 15-16)
Registration (oral publicity and registration) has started.
There is room for eight from Peterborough with a total of about
sixteen.  So far we have three attendees from Peterborough.

I need to recruit trainers, and prepare for catering and
equipment prior to the event.

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