ASAC MEETING MINUTES 
9/17/03
Mapunapuna

Minutes taken by David Mulinix / Formatted by Cheryl Kaster

ATTTENDANCE:

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE:    Linda Colburn

    ASAC
        Present:    Richard Braunskill, William Corless, Lynette Cruz, Cheryl Kaster, David Mulinix, Laurie Veatch,
        Absent:    Michael Goodrich, Dennis Ragsdale
        Quorum:    Yes

    STAFF:        Keali'i Lopez, Mary Roblee, Michele Turner

    COMMUNITY:    Kema Corless (Producer), Jeff Garland (Producer)

        Lynette agreed to chair the meeting, pending the selection of a new chair from the members of the newly-elected ASAC.

Called to Order:    6:45pm

CHANGE IN AGENDA:

    It was agreed that Item 3 of the agenda should be moved to Item 1.  Richard was offered the opportunity to remain in the meeting, or to be excused, during the discussion and voting on the subject of his eligibility to remain on ASAC while an employee of ‘Olelo.  He chose to remain in the meeting.

1.    ASAC CANDIDATE ELIGIBILITY FOR ELECTION

    It has been the general practice in the past that employees are not eligible to be members of ASAC.

QUESTIONS:     Whether or not Richard Braunskill, who after being elected became a part-time, temporary employee of ‘Olelo, should be allowed to continue be seated as a member of ASAC; and

    The following was agreed by the ASAC members:

    The policy has been that employees are not be permitted to serve on ASAC.  However, because this policy has not been written down elsewhere in ASAC's procedures, prior to this time, it was decided that:

        Richard Braunskill will attend meetings, but will not be formally seated as a voting member of ASAC until his contract with ‘Olelo ends, which is scheduled to be some time in November.

        At the November ASAC meeting, his employment status will be looked at again and if his employment has ended, he will be officially seated as a member of ASAC.  If his employment is continuing with ‘Olelo, then the process for filling Richard's seat on ASAC will be implemented;

        Lynette Cruz, a past ASAC member who has agreed to continue for a period of three months to assist with the transition, will fill Richard's seat, with full voting privileges, until the November meeting.

QUESTION:      Should there be a waiting period before former ‘Olelo staff will be eligible to run for election to ASAC?

    It was agreed by the ASAC members that this question be placed on the agenda for the next meeting in order to give the absent members an opportunity for input before a final decision is made.

2.    APPROVAL OF PRIOR MINUTES (August 20, 2003 Meeting)

Amendments/Comments to minutes as presented :

    Cheryl noted and it was agreed that there was not a quorum at the last meeting.  

    Cheryl stated that the minutes should reflect that originally everyone, including Gary Honda agreed that the five winners of the ASAC election would be announced at that the end of that meeting.  Because of later discussions in the meeting with regard to seeking approval to seat seven members instead of five, Gary then made an executive decision at the end of the meeting not to announce the winners until he could discuss it with the Program Committee and seek and obtain approval from the Executive Committee of the ‘Olelo BOD to announce seven winners.

    The minutes were approved with the changes noted concerning the delayed announcement of the ASAC winners.

3.    ASAC STRUCTURE & ORGANIZATION

        [In order to get these draft minutes to the members and participants as quickly as possible, Cheryl will post her recommendations separately, but in any case, no later than Wednesday, September 24, 2003.]

4.    CONSTITUENCY ISSUES

    A.    Jeff Garland submitted a 15 point agenda for ASAC's consideration and response.  It was decided that:

        1.    Members of ASAC who were interested/able to do so, would go through the items with an eye toward first determining which of the items on Jeff's list did, in fact, fall under the scope of ASAC to address, and

        2.    Having made the determination of which were ASAC issues, a further effort would be made to separate the concerns into categories based on the subject, and to work on addressing each of those issues in a timely manner.

            Lynette specifically volunteered to work on this project.

    B.    Traffic cams on two channels at once (52 and 53)(#13 on Jeff's 15-point agenda).
        
            Traffic cams on 2 channels at once, why?  Is ‘Oleo considering changing the traffic cams from 52 to 53 and wants the public to get used to it?  Couldn't the crawl currently used on both channels be used for that purpose and the channel space on 52 could be better used for client programming than duplicate government-oriented programming?

        Mary Roblee, Director of Client Services, stated that:

        The traffic cameras are being shown on two channels, 52 and 53 only during the bus strike.  Once the strike is over, they will be shown only on channel 53.

5.    ADJOURNMENT

    The next meeting will be on Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 6:30 p.m., at Mapunapuna.

6.    NEXT MEETING

    Wednesday October 15, 2003

Adjourned:        9:00pm


Respectfully submitted, as corrected,

Cheryl Kaster
Secretary

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