draft minutes of 2023 LIAS annual general meeting

Lasqueti Internet Access Society LIAS

AGM, JULY 16, 2023

Lasqueti Community Hall, 11 am

Call to order 11:02 am , directors Dennis Bergen, Camino Cochrane , Mike Purdey , Kathy Rogers and 30 plus LIAS MEMBERS present

Motion to have Joseph Fall chair this AGM was moved by Peter Johnston, 2nd by John Martin. Carried ( one abstain, one no)

Joseph gave the membership approx. 10 mins to have a general discussion, questions on pricing, some disfunction within the LIAS board – members. A suggestion to pay staff who are requested to attend meetings.

Call to read Aug 9, 2022 AGM meeting minutes . Dave Olson put forth a amenment regarding voting bylaws. Peter Johnston 2nd the motion. As in the Aug 9\22 minutes it stated “There was a discussion on voting procedures and a decision was to vote by show of hands” Dave's motion was “ A secret ballot was requested by a member. The Chair responded that the current Bylaws are not what is posted on lias.ca as the chair informed the member the day before to the meeting, but instead are the “model “ bylaws that became available when the Society Act was updated to the Societies Act. Therefore , a secret ballot is not required. Discussion supported the Chair's position and it was decided that voting would be by a show of hands. “After discussion there was a vote by the membership and the amendment was unanamously supported to not make this amendment. Peter Johnston stated that in the August 9, 2022 minutes it was stated an amendment in the 2021 minutes plus a typo. These changes should be specifically stated as to what they were.

Don McDonald moved to approve the minutes, Sue Wheeler 2nd , unanamous.

Financial Report by Dennis Bergen ( statements included with these minutes). Discussion, what is LIAS fiscal year ( January to January). One of the pages included is an information page from 2017 – 2022 is an information page. Motion to approve minutes by Richard Cheshman, 2nd by Jordan Barton, unanamous.

Year summary of LIAS by Mike Purdey, discussion, Kudos to Mike and Larry for their work.

Carly Reisig is our new paid employee for tower and equipment maintience. , she will be in communication with Larry and the Board. Don McDonald asked what the timeline for the QF connection will be dealt with . The answer is by the end of this summer.

Future Needs of LIAS: by Mike Purdey, A survey project by Tanis is almost complete, Oben Rd. Tower construction, a solid call for volunteers. Suggestion brought forward to keep asking , as sometime folks can assist and other times they are unable, even to have volunteer meetings and keep a volunteer list . Also a need to totally be gentle and recognize volunteers as there is volunteer burnout.

Connected Coast ( Fibre Optics Cable) This organization has had communications with Joseph Fall, Andrew Fall , Mike Purdey and Camino Cochrane. A crew is suppose to be coming to Lasqueti this summer to assess a landing site and costs to land the cable. No decisions have been made, as there is none to make and the community will be kept in the loop. Andrew Fall , who is also our qathet regional director has been writting articals in the Lasqueti newletter as well as on Lasqueti.ca.

LIAS 2023 ELECTIONS

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS NOMINATIONS VOTE

Mike Purdey – not standing Lucas Damer unanamous

Camino Cochrane -standing Tracy Loverock unanamous

Kathy Rogers – not standing Tanis Dagert unanamous

Dennis Bergen – not standing Camino Cochrane unanamous

Dave Olson none

Peter Johnson unanamous

Larry Manahan unanamous

Motion to adjourn by Dennis Bergen and Shelly Garside , unanamous. Adjourn 12:48 pm.

A New Directors Meeting was struck right after the AGM