MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF TRENT 
      RADIO, held at 356 Stewart Street, Peterborough Ontario, 
      on Sunday February 11, 1996. 

P R E S E N T: 
      Barb Bell, Darcie Death, Andrew Fogarasi, Scott Gordon, 
      Lisa Howard, and Jonathan Priddle; being Directors of the 
      Corporation. 

Also present; Barb Woolner, Programme Director and John 
      Muir, General Manager 

R E G R E T S: 
      Suzie Young.

The meeting was called to order with Scott Gordon acting as 
Chair and Lisa Howard acting as secretary. 

With all the directors being notified of the time and place of 
the meeting, and a quorum present the meeting was declared duly 
constituted. An agenda was agreed upon and discussion followed. 

Previous Minutes:
Upon a motion duly made seconded and carried be it resolved to 
accept the minutes of the previous Board of Directors meeting 
held January 14, 1996. 

President's Remarks:
Scott congratulated Darcie on the article she wrote for the 
Arthur. He noted that a survey was being conducted by Champlain 
College cabinet of student media. John has already attempted to 
discuss the survey with Alex Thompson of Champlain College. It 
was also noted that John will be laid off for budgetary reasons 
on or before 10 March 1996. 

Programme Directors Report:
Kirsten Addis has been hired through the Futures programme until 
the end of March. She will be working full time coordinating the 
Community Links show. Several radio projects were scheduled 
including something for March 8 which is International Women's 
day. The schedule has been updated and is in a form suitable for 
wide distribution : a poster.  Various other events were planned 
including a trip to the CBC to talk to the people who produce 
the radio show, 'Ideas'. 

Manager's Report:
John presented the financial statements.  An arrangement had 
been made with Ray Macgregor of the Red Dog to accept food in 
lieu of cash for a debt that was owed Trent Radio. This 
arrangement will continue until the debt is paid off. Debts to 
Trent Radio in general are being payed off. One thousand five 
hundred dollars more than was anticipated was received from 
student memberships. Rental income from the upstairs apartment 
was zero for September and October. One hundred and thirty six 
dollars was paid to Jim Gleason to install the electric strike 
device and door closer in the archive room.  The new logging 
system cost three hundred and fifty dollars. Ninety three video 
cassettes were purchased. No CROP money was received last year. 

A motion was made seconded and carried to pass the financial 
statements. 

Committees:
The Spoken Word committee reported that they were sponsoring 
speakers and taping lectures. The committee is working with 
Kirsten to solicit volunteers to tape lectures. The posters are 
up but there has been little response. Scott suggested a written 
report from the Spoken Word committee would be useful for 
continuity. 

Music:
Three suggestions were made to Darcie re: the Music committee. 
First that a printout of the archive (perhaps in alphabetical 
order by artist) would be useful to those producing shows. A 
hard copy is a useful things to have around the archive and is 
often more reliable than the computerised version. A song book 
was also suggested (that is a list in alphabetical order of all 
of the songs in the music archive). It was noted that this would 
take a long time to produce. This would allow people to more 
easily research their shows, and might even give producers 
ideas. The third suggestion was that new music and local music 
should be made available in the on-air studio. It was recognised 
that programmers often wanted to play music when it was still 
current and that local music would be played more often if it 
were displayed prominently. It was suggested that the Music 
Committee produce a written report for the next Board of 
Director's meeting. Darcie is currently sorting Trent Radio's 
45's (i.e. seven inches). 

Membership and Fundraising:
Barb Bell reported that the Trent Winds has been booked for the 
14th of April. There is no cost for the booking. Stu McCue will 
be playing as well as eight to ten other bands for the upcoming 
Trent Radio benefit organised by the Membership and Fundraising 
committees. A discussion of a future raffle ensued. Suzie has a 
further proposal which will be elaborated at the next Board of 
Directors meeting (this message relayed by Scott). 

Power Boost:
John will do the paperwork necessary to make a proposal to the 
bank on the 15th of February (thursday), for the power boost. 
Trent Radio's former President, Andrew Cousins recommends a bank 
loan of twenty to thirty thousand dollars and that the whole 
project (power boost change of frequency etc.) should be done at 
once. 

Security:
A survey of Trent's c.d. collection showed that there was very 
little improvement of the theft problem (this despite the new 
electric strike). It was suggested that if increased security 
did not achieve the desired ends, then perhaps it should be 
reconsidered. The strike, for instance, may negatively affect 
Trent Radio's environment such that 'outreach' is affected. 
There is no desire to create an atmosphere of escalating 
suspicion. In short, security is a means not an end in itself. 

It was decided that the next meeting of the Board of Directors 
of Trent Radio will again take place at 4:30 pm at 356 Stewart 
Street (Jonathan Priddle's house). 

There being no further business the meeting was adjourned. 


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  Scott Gordon, President            H Lisa Howard, Secretary