March 6, 2006 - Board Minutes

Minutes of the REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING of the BOARD OF DIRECTORS in the CRTV Board Room, 500 Robron Rd., Campbell River, BC.

Archived Board Minutes

PRESENT: J. Kerr, K. Croft, S. Sinnott, R. Kerr, L. Marshal and T. Renney.
ALSO PRESENT: Jim Forsyth, General Manager

1. Call to Order at 7:00 pm

2. Presentation by the “Literacy Initative in Campbell River” group A. Boyd & L. Tremain.

T. Renney excused himself from the presentation & Board discussion as he felt he had a Conflict of Interest.

The group did their presentation describing it as a production funding proposal to create a DVD for free distribution to new parents in Campbell River. The DVD would be a tool educating parents on how to read to a child with the objective of increasing literacy.

The Board then reviewed the proposal in detail noting the following motion…

Moved by K. Croft, seconded by S. Sinnott:
THAT CRTV donate $2,500. to Literacy Initative. Motion was defeated with regret.

T. Renney returned to the meeting.

3. Minutes of the Meetings:

Moved by K. Croft, seconded by T. Renney:
THAT the minutes of the Regular Board meeting of the 6 February 2006 be approved.
CARRIED.

Moved by T. Renney, seconded by L. Marshal:
THAT the minutes of the Special Board meeting of the 27 February 2006 be approved.
CARRIED.

4. Ends Issues:

Ends policies were reviewed with no changes.

5. Policy Review:

Moved by S. Sinnott, seconded by K. Croft:
THAT Board Governance policy BL4 be accepted as reviewed.
CARRIED

Moved by L. Marshal, seconded by R. Kerr:
THAT Board Governance policy GP4 item #5 be changed to read “General Manager remuneration will be decided annually following a review of monitoring reports received from the previous twelve months.
CARRIED

Moved by S. Sinnott, seconded by L. Marshal:
THAT Board Governance policy GP4 be changed to add 2) b) i and read as “That any new Director of CRTV participate in a formal Carver Board Governance training within the first year of their Directorship.
CARRIED

6. Incidental Information:

Moved by S. Sinnott, seconded by R. Kerr:
THAT the Consent Agenda be approved.
CARRIED

The Manager updated the Board on the status of Island Internet.

The Manager stated that he had received three responses from local auditors to perform CRTV audits for the next three years. The Board left the decision to the Manager to determine the most cost effective audit firm to deal with and to let the Board know of his decision.

It was decided that the next Board meeting would start at 5:30 pm on the 3 April 06 with the objective of reviewing Board Governance policies in light of the Strategic Plan objectives.

The Manager was instructed to proceed with the CRTV 50th Anniversary Committee objectives.

Moved by R. Kerr, seconded by S. Sinnott: THAT CRTV sponsor a Board Governance training session in co- operation with the CR Volunteer Centre. CARRIED L. Marshal abstained from the vote.

7. Board Meeting Evaluation:

General comments include: Did good Board Business but a bit sluggish (SS), Time allocation fell by the wayside (KC), No wasted time a lot of relevant conversation (JK) & Good discussion (RK).

8. ADJOURNMENT:

Moved by R. Kerr, seconded by S. Sinnott:
THAT the meeting be adjourned at 8:23 p.m.
CARRIED

Next Meeting: 3 April 2006

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