Access Perry County held a regular meeting on June 26, 1997 at 7:00 o'clock P.M. in the Meeting Room of Ivy Tech, Tell City, Indiana. Notice of the date, time and place thereof having been duly given to all Board Members in accord with the approved by-laws of Access Perry County.

Board members present were; Kathy Gerber, John Spencer, Gary Palmer, Dale Sprinkle, Debbie Gerlach, Francie Wagner, Joyce Lane, Judy Howe and Debby Beavin. Also attending was Lauren Gottlieb and Tim Reed.

The meeting was called to order and the meeting agenda and the minutes of the previous meeting were approved.

Joyce Lane presented the Treasurer's Report to the Board. The report reflected a June 19, 1997 balance of $573.20. This report reflected the payment of the following expenses:

1. Lauren Gottlieb d/b/a T.G. Design Group -- $3700.00 - Web Page Design and content assembly.
2. Greenwell Chrisholm -- $287.70 -- Printing of pamphlets for P.C. Showcase.
3. Perry County News -- $93.10 -- P.C. Showcase/Advertising.

Claims/billings presented for board approval

1. Network Solutions - $100.00 - Purchase of new domain name -
   www.perrycounty .org
2. World Connection Services - $600.00 - Community Calendar program/service

John Spencer reported that the charge of $100.00 should not be paid at this time because PSCI, will be registering the new domain name for APC instead of another ISP. This charge may be picked up by PSCI. In concern to the community calendar, Lauren Gottlieb reported that the calendar is currently not working correctly and must have some changes made before it can be placed on APC's Webpage for use. Lauren stated she has spoke to the company about making this change but as of yet, nothing further has been done. The Board moved that neither claim be paid until the time both situations are resolve. The treasurer will hold both of these claims until the next meeting.

The next order of business concerned the Board's appointment approval of Tim Reed to the APC Board. Tim will serve as the appointment of the Perry County Chamber and Kathy Gerber will move to the appointment of the P.C. Convention and Visitors Bureau. Debby Beavin made a motion to accept Tim Reed's nomination to the Board, John Spencer seconded. Motion carried 9-0.

The next order of business concerned the election of officers for the 1997 calendar year. (Due to the lack of a quorum at the annual meeting, officer elections were postponed). Joyce Lane informed the Board that she would resigned her office of treasurer due to her time constraints but would like to continue as a member of the Board. The members thank Joyce for all she had done in the past for Access Perry County. At this time, nominations for officers were opened. Francie Wagner was nominated as president and nominations were closed. Debby Beavin made a motion that Francie Wagner be elected as president of the Board, John Spencer seconded. Motion carried 9-0. Kathy Gerber was nominated as vice-president and nominations were closed. Francie Wagner made a motion that Kathy be elected as vice-president, Debby Beavin seconded. Motion carried 9-0. Debby Beavin was nominated as secretary and nominations were closed. Kathy Gerber made a motion that Debby be elected as secretary, Dale Sprinkle seconded. Motion carried 9-0. Tim Reed was nominated as treasurer and nominations were closed. John Spencer made a motion that Tim Reed be elected as treasurer, Gary Palmer seconded. Motion carried 9-0.

The next order of business concerned committee reports. John Spencer reported that Debby Beavin, Francie Wagner and himself met with PSCI concerning the renewal of their agreement with APC. However, in this meeting, Dave Buse of PSCI stated that they (PSCI) did not feel that APC had included or promoted PSCI whenever possible, as our agreement stipulated and that many incidents had taken place where PSCI was totally left out of the picture. John reported that the committee try to smooth the situation out as gracefully as possible and explained to Buse that any oversight on APC's part was purely unintentional. APC is very interested in continuing the partnership with PSCI and the renewal of the agreement. John also reported that PSCI offered to contact the ISP in Evansville and take care of all the necessary arrangements of changing the registration of the new domain name, perrycounty .org back to PSCI instead of the Evansville ISP. John stated that he and the committee assured Dave Buse that it was not the intention of the board to use any other ISP other than PSCI and that we would appreciate PSCI taking care of this situation on our behalf. Dave Buse also requested that in the future, APC would make him their contact person for all technical advice from PSCI and asked that we designate a board member as an administrative contact for them. The board agreed this designee would be the current APC Board President, which is now Francie Wagner. All billing matters will be addressed to APC, P.O. Box 64, Cannelton, IN.

In the next order of business, Lauren Gottlieb asked the Board to place her on a monthly retainer fee of $500.00 per month instead of a lump sum contract amount. She stated that she could work between 20 and 40 hours for this monthly amount, performing needed work to complete the content and homepage. Member Gary Palmer asked Lauren what work had she been paid to complete up to this date. Lauren stated she had received 2 separate contracts for creating the general shell of APC homepage and design of content, work also included artwork and necessary conversations with the ISP, creation of the "mall" and the keying in of all the businesses in Perry County which included the contacting of each of those businesses for their permission. A fee of $600.00 had also been paid to Anita Sanders for work she had done on the keying and contacting of businesses. Lauren stated that she had not completed the entry of all the information to the "mall" but is still working on it. Gary asked what the total amount of those two contracts. Joyce Lane reported the total amount paid to Lauren's company, T.G. Design Group, was $5,800.00. Following no further discussion by the board, Member Tim Reed made a motion to approve Lauren's proposal of a monthly retainer fee in the amount of $500.00 for a period of one year. Member Gary Palmer seconded. Motion carried. Lauren will have an agreement to present to the board for their review and approval at the next monthly meeting in July.

At 8:25 p.m., Member Debby Beavin made a motion to recess the meeting for the purpose of an Executive Meeting to be conducted. Member Kathy Gerber seconded. Motion carried.

At 8:50 p.m. the regular meeting was reconvened. No further business was brought before the board and the meeting was adjourned.
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