Trent Radio BoD Meeting                                     27 February 2003

     MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING held at Trent Radio House,
     715 George St. N., Peterborough, Ontario on 27 February 2003 at 7:30pm.

P R E S E N T: Ryder Ziola, Emily Addison, Laura Farina, Kim Fielding,
               Anne Stevenson, and Joel Buxton

R E G R E T S: Al Kirkaldy

Also Present: John K. Muir, General Manager

Notice of this meeting having been made to all the Directors, and quorum of
the Directors being present in person, the meeting was declared duly
constituted and called to order at 7:35 p.m., with Ryder Ziola acting as
Chair and and Joel Buxton acting as Secretary.

The minutes of the previous board meeting were presented.

UPON A MOTION duly made, seconded and carried unanimously, the minutes of the
previous Board of Directors' meeting, held on 23 January 2003, were approved
unanimously.

Business Arising:
Board members were thanked for submitting biographies, one was identified as
still outstanding.

The orientation for the newest Board member is still outstanding.

Hiring Committees:
The General Manager requested help from individual Directors in forming the
Programme Director and the Digital Ingest Clerk hiring committees.

It was noted that, that the responsibility for hiring falls to the General
Manager, however, a member of the Board on each committee would be beneficial
to the process.  It was decided that Laura Farina would assist with the
Digital Ingest Clerk Hiring Committee and Ryder Ziola would assist with the
Programme Director Hiring Committee.

Details of the two new jobs were shared, including rates of pay,
clarification of positions and the digital ingest process, as well as
required qualifications for the positions.

The job postings for both positions was presented, discussed and approved.

At this juncture Joel Buxton left the Meeting to attend to another
obligation, and Ryder Ziola acted as Secretary.

OPERATIONS REPORT:
The General Manager presented his verbal report. It was noted that the errors
in the financial statements presented at the last meeting have been resolved
to the satisfaction of the Board.

The General Manager presented the financial statements prepared by the
Bookkeeper to 31Jan03.  Following discussion it was decided that a report of
Trillium fund expenditures will be presented at the next Meeting.

AudioSoup was a success, featuring 16 participants from near and far. The
General Manager noted the tremendous amount of positive feedback received,
specifically comments about how unique it was.

Trent Radio has been contracted to provide teaching and tech support at
CSIRP's Full Moon over Killaloe audio art camp to be held in August 2003.

The Music Collection Ingest has been proceeding well, with 3,198 titles
ripped and encoded to date.  The homepage has received 4,653 hits since
08Dec02, with 1,719 stream hits during the same period.  Three Ingest
Workstations were purchased and assembled into the 'Lean Mean Ripping
Machine'.  The network attached server and uninterruptible (UPS) for the
Studio C project have arrived and a used equipment rack was purchased through
HPH.  In addition, two digital turntables were purchased for the ingest
portion of this project.

It was reported that the Return of Charitable information to CCRA is due on
28Feb03 and was nearing completion.

The General Manager informed the Board of his involvement with a TCSA
Referendum proposal for the institution of a levy to be put toward the
purchase of student space downtown.

As well, the General Manager informed the Board of his correspondences
regarding the upcoming Trent University policy regarding non-academic
activity.  Discussion followed regarding the conflict between any such policy
and CRTC regulations.

One of the inkjet printers has been acting up. In anticipation of its
breakdown, research has been done into the pros/cons of replacing it with a
network laser printer.

Thanks were extended to a neighbour for his assistance with snow removal.

Trent Radio has acquired the ability to enforce parking by-laws in response
to parking infringements. It will be confirmed that the signage is adequate
for this.

The application to hire a summer student under the HRDC "Student Career
Placement" programme has been submitted, well in advance of the 28Mar03
deadline.

It was reported that that the Peterborough Symphony will be using Trent
Radio's facilities for a Symphony fundraising broadcast on Saturday,
26 Apr 03.

UPON A MOTION duly made, seconded and carried, the Operations Report was
accepted.

The Operations Report was followed by a tour of the purchases made for
StudioC.

The date for the next board meeting was changed from Thursday, 20Mar03 to
Thursday, 27Mar03 7:30pm at the Trent Radio house.

There being no other business, the meeting was adjourned.


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   Ryder Ziola, President                Joel Buxton, Secretary