December 18, 2007

Davis Community Network (DCN)
DRAFT UNTIL APPROVED

A duly called regular meeting of the
Board of the Davis Community Network was held
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
at the City of Davis Training Room, 600 A Street.

Present: 6 Board members - Tsui Chang, Jim Frame, , Rick Guidara,  Anne Hance, Jan Meizel,  Kimball Sargeant,  also Kari Peterson, and Rian Graves.
Absent: Brian Gegan (on leave), Steve McMahon,  Robert Nickerson, Tom Stanionis,  Vicki Suter, Richard Yamagata,


1.  The meeting was called to order at 5:21:00 pm by President Kimball Sargeant
2.  The agenda was approved as distributed except that item 6 concerning MOUs was included in error and was deleted. The items following were renumbered.
3.  No public comment
4.  The minutes of the November 20 Board Meeting were approved by consensus

5.  Vista Report
    Rian reported briefly on the Volunteer Handbook that she has been creating. She tested it during a 'get acquainted session' with a new intern and it seemed to work well. The intern especially appreciated learning about DCN's history as an organization.  Jim Frame is editing the material to make sure it is expressed in the 'same voice' throughout.

6. Vista Update
    Kari reported that the working group is actively working on the selection of 6 nonprofits to be part of the pilot Volunteer Management program. Three have been interviewed so far.

7. DCN re-branding report
    Kari taped some butcher paper notes on the white-board and distributed several handouts. Using these she outlined the progress to date of the creation of a DCN logo, tagline and core message. While the board members did not agree with every word used in all of the documents they were very pleased with the progress.  Kari will make the logosavailable for consideration and comment through Tuesday Jan 8th, which is the deadline for any comments to be sent to her.  The OPC will then review the comments and prepare a recommendation to be presented to the Board at its January 21 meeting.

8. Database update report
    Kari reported for Vicki that a productive meeting had been held to clarify the issues so that the Salesforce database will have standardized fields capable of being assembled as needed for DCN's various needs.  The UCD intern for this project has delayed his participation until the new year.

9. Board and officer nominations
    The following committees were formed:
Board:  Tsui Chang, Anne Hance (chair), Jan Meizel, Kari Peterson.
Officer: appointed by the President Tsui Chang, Jim Frame (chair), Richard Lowenberg.

10. Committee reports
    RAC:  Anne reported that the invitation has been sent (forwarded by the Yolo Community Foundation) to Yolo nonprofits to apply for a DCN calendar to 'feed' the new Yolo County aggregated calendar.

    FDC (aka FFDC): Kari reported that the committee had a productive meeting last Friday and that the projects being worked on by UCD intern, Brett, are proceeding well.

11. Annoucements
    Rick commented that his City department is moving to east 5th Street. The Training Room may be remodeled and become two rooms leaving the training area intact.

Meeting adjourned  at 6:43 pm.

Submitted by Anne Hance, Secretary