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Members not in attendance (2) were:

• Dave Barton
• Colin Fine

No proper notice of meeting by Secretary/Treasurer was given (per Article 3, Section 4 of the Bylaws)., therefore no bylaw amendments may be made.

Reading of the Minutes:

• MOVED: To waive reading of minutes. - PASSED.

Report of officers: Secretary/Treasurer, by President:

• Organization delinquent in state sales tax ($10 per quarter late fees)
• Book orders almost caught up; main problem is the immediate resolution of incoming mail
• Approximately $5500 in bank as of last statement; owe $8000 on the printer loan, of which it is intended to repay $3,000 [figure added after logfest, per agreement at logfest] soon.
• Account moved to non-profit checking account; no checking fees.
• Book sales: 266 total
• Expenses:

  CAIS (internet site) account

  $800 per year

  Phone

  $30 per month

  Visa/Mastercard/Amex service

  $30 per month, plus annual $100

Report of officers - President:

• Improved order filling: almost caught up
• Database not yet updated with balances.
• Once database updated and tax paid, can start JL (Ju'i Lobypli) production and send out notice of book
• Outstanding: resolution of printing problem with printer. A letter has been drafted, but never sent. In it, we have stated that we would like payment for our direct loss is $4400. And for our intangible loss (which we would like restitution on, but will not insist on), we would like a 10%-15% discount of the charge for our next book (or cash rebate of 5% if we use a different printer).

Lower priority ites:

• Coordination of continuing publication effort: not advanced.
• Not sure what is legally required when an address is not good and the person has given money for an order.
• Will call Visa on their orders and see if we can get address verification.
• Production of dictionary: not advanced.
• Level-0 package committee: nothing done.
• Statement of appreciation to Shawn Lasseter for aid in getting Lojban stuff done and in getting ready for Logfest.
• Statement of commendation for Robin Turner for net activity on Lojban and in starting writing lessons (8 written).

Report of Committees:

Finance (aka Poverty) Committee:

• Nothing done because no extra moneys and no JLs sent.
• Cannot use defective books (to send to those who can't pay) because defective books returned to printer.
• John Hodges and Bob LeChevalier have, separate from this committee, copies reserved for indigent; 5 have been distributed.

On-line ordering: no change reported.

WorldCon committee: did nothing about WorldCon.

Meeting notice: no report.

Meeting recessed from 12:23 to 12:28 due to phone call for Secretary.

Consideration of new members:

• MOVED: That all 4 prospective members (Gary Burgess, Shawn Lasseter, Alex Miles-Lasseter, and Paul Francis O'Sullivan) be accepted as new members. - PASSED.

Election of Board of Directors:

Current Board includes: David Barton, John Clifford, John Cowan, Bob LeChevalier, Nora LeChevalier. Maximum of 7 allowed.

• MOVED: To re-elect current slate of board members plus David Twery and Alex Miles-Lasseter - PASSED.

Old/Unfinished Business:

None. [but see below, where it was brought up again after New Business.]

New Business:

• President appointed John Cowan to chair a committee to research streamlining the meeting procedures.
• To investigate possible by-law amendments to streamline procedures.
• To report with proposed amendments prior to the 1st day of March, 2000.
• Discussion of Hartmut Pilch's request to promote use of Lojban in European patent office.

Background: Hartmut Pilch works in patent law (in Germany). He has asked LLG (Logical Language Group, Inc) support for promotion of the language in the patent office as a language for clearly stating patent descriptions in translations from other languages. In particular, he has asked for LLG support through promotion of the idea on our Web page, and through a statement of official support.

Comments:

"Web page" support moot. We have no official web page.

Discussion of setting up and maintaining a web page followed.

One (and possibly a second) person offered to set us up. We also promoted consideration of the existing, un-official, web site (Veijo Vilva's); but were not sure whether this could be done. People were concerned about the possible impact on Veijo's system if a separate official web site were set up.

• MOVED: That, if we have sufficient resources, to set up an official web site. - PASSED.

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