Board Members In Attendance: Linda Colburn, Dee Darby, Rochelle Gregson, Gary Honda, Joseph Lapilio, Mike Masuda, Lurline McGregor, Janis Reischmann, Ron Rex, Marilyn Yoza 
 

Staff: Dawne Deponte, Tom Galli, Keali`i Lopez, Tom McGarvey, Rona Shibuya 
 

I. Board Chair Dee Darby called the meeting to order at 3:00 p.m.
 

II. Public Comment
 

The following speakers made comments:
1) Jim Brewer
2) Kaeo Bradford
3) Gail Hunter
4) R. Walt Hunter
5) Glenn Booth 

III. Approval of July 27^th 2001 Minutes.
The Board approved the minutes of the July 27^th 2001 Board of Directors Meeting. 

IV. Reports
 

Chair's Report:

Dee Darby updated the Board on the recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision regarding cable modem fee revenues and how this ruling could possibly have a significant negative impact on Olelo's funding. Several board members and staff have met with the DCCA and are working with an attorney. This is a national issue and not just related to Hawaii. Dee suggested that in the near future, Olelo may need public support on this issue. Dee encouraged everyone to watch the ruling, because it will affect Olelo. The Board is trying to stay well informed and active about this issue. 
 

Dee mentioned that now that we have a January board meeting, it should become the annual meeting. Hence, according to Olelo's by-laws, a nominating committee will need to be appointed at this meeting to replace the two board seats that will be vacant, Joseph Lapilio's and Dee Darby's seats. As an experiment, this nominating committee, representatives from the community will be asked to serve on the Committee to see if it helps broaden community input into the process. ASAC was asked to select a member to join the Nominating Committee and Joseph Lapilio was asked to select another community member. There will be a total of five members on the Nominating Committee. 

Lurline opened her report with video presentations on two different topics:
 

First she reported to the Board that the HUD grant among Wai`anae High School and Leeward Community College was finally approved. The first video presentation was a clip from a Channel 9 news report about the grant and gives a visual idea on what is going on at the Wai`anae Satellite Facility. 
 

Second, Lurline brought the Board up to date on the Oral History Project partnership between Olelo, the Bishop Museum and the UH Center for Oral History. Olelo has been working with these partners on this video oral history project as a way of outreaching to new people to use Olelo's facilities. The second video presentation was a three minute edited version of some of the programming created in the first class. 
 

Lurline mentioned that Keali`i Lopez, Tom Galli, Candy Suiso and herself will be attending the Western Regional Access Meeting in Santa Fe on November 9<sup>th</sup> and 10<sup>th</sup>. Lurline will be presenting the Oral History Project and Keali`i and Candy will be presenting the Wai`anae High School/Olelo/LCC Project. The theme for this year's meeting is "Community Building Through Partnerships." 
 

Lurline also reported that the University of Hawaii has taken over programming TEC-Channel 55 24/7. Olelo is trying to work out the details of this matter and the Board will soon need to discuss its position on educational access programming. In the meantime, `lelo is continuing to manage the channel. 
 
 

Program Committee:
See attachment for full report.

Program Chair Gary Honda reported that the Program Committee discussed several items at the last two meetings. The ASAC evaluation process drafted by the Program Committee will be adopted. A review of the past procedures for the ASAC election was completed and a new procedure for the election was adopted. 

Under the new procedures, the election will be held from November 30 through December 4. There are six candidates running for two ASAC seats. Gary informed the Board that ASAC member Nalani Mattox resigned. ASAC recommended that the Program Committee replace her with Lynette Cruz, who ran in the last election and had the next highest number of votes. Gary also informed the Board that the Program Committee proposed placing a community producer on the Board Nominating Committee to ASAC. Dennis Ragsdale was selected by his ASAC peers to serve on the Nominating Committee and the Program Committee unanimously approved ASAC's selection. 
 

Gary then requested that the Board appoint Dennis Ragsdale to the Nominating Committee.

Finance Committee:
 

Finance Committee Chair Janis Reischmann reported that the 2002 operating budget reflects the first year activities of the Strategic Plan, therefore for the first time, there are new costs included in the budget that are specific to the plan. Janis also reported that the Ninth Circuit Court ruling will affect Olelo's revenues from Oceanic. Olelo' s revenue projection for 2002 may need to be adjusted if the Ninth Circuit Court rule stands that cable modem access fees are not a cable service and therefore not a part of the overall revenue that `lelo receives. The Finance Committee decided that it was in the best interest of Olelo and its ability to serve the community to budget for the full amount of annual Oceanic revenues and make adjustments next year as needed. 
 

Janis informed the Board that traditionally, the Finance Committee has presented a balanced budget, where expenses equal revenues, however, 2002 expenses are approximately $400,000 over projected revenues. Over half of the $400,000 is related to the Strategic Plan and will not be ongoing expenses. 
 

Lurline reported that one of the larger increases in the proposed 2002 budget is in staff salary. Some are for short-term positions to help implement the Strategic Plan; others are for positions that were never filled this year. Lurline informed the Board that in a year staff will review the positions and whether they need to be continued. Other expenses have to do with staff development and conducting surveys to create baseline data that will be used to fulfill the Strategic Plan goals. 
 

Janis moved that the Board approve the 2002 Operating and Capital Budgets. 

The Board unanimously approved the 2002 Operating and Capital Budgets. 

Nominating Committee:
 

Joseph Lapilio recommended that the Board appoint Jackie Burke as a community representative to serve on the Nominating Committee. 
 

Dee motioned to approve Joseph Lapilio, Mike Masuda, Rochelle Gregson, Dennis Ragsdale and Jackie Burke as members of the 2002 Nominating Committee. The Board unanimously approved the 2002 Nominating Committee. 
 

Respectfully Submitted, 

Linda M. Colburn, Secretary 
 
 
 
 
 

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