Minutes of MATV Board of Directors - DOC

							MATV Board of Directors

                         Minutes of MATV Board of Directors
                               Meeting: May 13, 2008

Present: Bill Spadafora (President), Barry Greenspan, Christine Murphy, Anthony
DeMarco, Fred Williams, Maria Luise, Iodiah Henry, Richard Amirault,
and Ron Cox (Executive Director)

Absent: John Spadafora

Next board meeting is Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 6 PM.

Call to Order at 6:09 PM

Opening Statements by Board President and Executive Director:
Bill indicated that MATV Week went well and that Ron & the staff did an outstanding at
job in the very full week of events.

The Chevrus mass was covered in early May, including closed circuit TV (a few
technical glitches) for overflow attendees. The Cardinal’s mass will be televised later
this year. MATV got great shots of both the school and Sacred Hearts Church. Chevrus
had over one thousand attendees for the weekend events.

Barry Greenspan mentioned that Howard was collecting coke/pepsi bottle caps for
MVES throughout most of 2008. A collection container is in the front lobby.

Approval of last month’s minutes (4/10/2008) is postponed until later in this meeting as
they were just distributed.

Ron gave an overview of MATV Week. He said that the live shoot on Saturday was
more extensive than last year. There was a great turnout for the “We Have a Dream”
project and really represented a cross-section of the Malden community. About 150
people participated, including those who attended the middle school art exhibit (teachers,
parents, students). The High School Green Room Drama Club used costumes and wigs
as they performed skits to inaugurate the new portable studio during the Monday Media
Madness event. The Video Shorts was well attended. The culmination of the week was
the live shoot on Saturday from 1 PM to 9 PM including 6 bands, 2 comedians, flamenco
dancers, and the Boston Chinese Dulcimer Group, as well as various talk shows
segments.

Ron asked if everyone had received the MATV newsletter, which had just been
completed by Anne D’Urso-Rose.

The YWCA event honoring the YWCA Women of the Year (including Anne D’Urso-
Rose) will be June 4 at Anthony’s. The board agreed that MATV would pay ½ of the
$50 cost for any board, staff or member who attends. MATV will also be taping the
event.

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Financial reports were not distributed, but Fred had reviewed them and indicated that
MATV was on budget or slightly below (actual to expected) and that everything looked
good. The first payment from the Comcast capital fund was received ($27,000);
additional bills totaling about $14,000) have to be submitted to the city for capital
reimbursement.

Nothing has been received from Verizon yet. Verizon has 1 year before the operational
portion of the budget is due to the city as they have that time to build viewership in the
city. The city probably has already received the capital funds. Ron will check on this.

Staff reports are on-line. Ron will also be sending his out on-line.


New Business:

The MATV air conditioner is not working. Ron has received 1 bid on replacing it, but
needs to get 2 more. This is involved, as a crane has to be used to raise & lower the air
conditioner. Ron is going to look into getting roof estimates at the same time, as the
underpinnings of the roof will be visible when the current air conditioner is removed.

September Annual Meeting:
Barry’s membership seat is up for election. As he has had 2 terms, he cannot run this
time. Note: Anthony’s board appointed term is also up and the board will address that at
the October board meeting. Ron is thinking of having a “diversity theme” at the Annual
Meeting, and shifting the location to VFW/American Legion/Italian American so that
members can bring in a diversity of foods (pot-luck).

Motion: To give the Executive Director the latitude to change the date of the Annual
Meeting, if necessary. Motion made by Maria Luise; seconded by many; passed
unanimously. (Note: the by-laws are very specific about the date, hence the motion was
needed.)

The Donald Francis space has been sold to the Israeli martial arts group. Legal review of
the condo bi-laws indicates that the condo association would only consider sound and
parking issues. Ron will check with Kathy Fallon/ Chris Siminoli (Planning Board) to
see if the appropriate occupancy rules were approved). The sale might be contingent on
this.

Gary Christenson has requested that the council chamber studio be reviewed to see about
eliminating the rolling black line that appears when meetings are televised. Ron will
work with the Malden IT expert and John Spadafora to identify the problem (might be
modulators). Funding for this fix will come from other sources, as this is not an upgrade
of equipment at this time.




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Fight Night

Maria has done a great job in securing donations for the event. Ron had received an
additional number of gift certificates from local businesses. Maria is planning on
creating “theme baskets”, each of which would hold multiple gift certificates.
Anthony volunteered to create a web page highlighting the “theme baskets”.

Bill informed the Board that he has been busily selling ads and tickets. He reviewed the
list of sponsors and ads collected to date. The plan is to have all copy for ads submitted
by the end of this week (5/16). The plan is also to have the ad book ready for print at
least a couple of days prior to the event.

Bill also informed the Board that the ringside tables have been sold. The concentration is
now on selling the $80.00 tickets. Anthony suggested that we list the businesses that
have contributed or purchased an ad on the MATV Fight Night website.

The Meeting was not adjourned for an Executive Session, as the Board did not feel such a
session was necessary.

Motion: To adjourn the meeting. Motion made by Maria Luise; seconded by many;
passed unanimously.

Meeting Adjourned at 7:25 PM

Next meetings: June 10, July 8, no meeting in August, September 9, Annual Meeting in
September (possibly the 16th), October 14, November 11, and December 9.


Outstanding:
No vote to accept the April 13, 2008 minutes which were distributed at the meeting.
Note that the date should be April 8th on the minutes.

Note: Christine has the minutes from the December meeting; Richard has the January
minutes. Both still need to be distributed.


Minutes submitted by:         Christine Murphy,
                              Board Clerk




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