Attending:
Art, Christine, Kat, Michael, Sheri. (Sheri, Diane, Kay and possibly others had issues dialing in with "all circuits busy" message, which may be in-effect ATT/Cingular and others blocking free conference call phone numbers.
Kay's Treasurer's Update
$7277.72 in the bank after refunds on fraud.
Paid back to Travis $368
Paid to GPUS $315.50
County sharing: needs to be paid, $1268.65
Neglected to mention in the meeting, but Kay and Doug would like to stop county sharing because it takes too many resources and it is not fair to the counties because the money gets held up.
National Meeting - All agreed to fund 7 early National Meeting reservations to take advantage of the reduced cost. [Doug]
GPTX fundraiser - Not much discussion. Doug attempted to get July "Butterfly" Hill for April 21 but could not contact her by email or phone.
IT
GPTX database - Michael to handle with Doug offline.
Webhosting server update - Michael to report back with cost proposals on replacing the webhost.
George Reiter for GPUS platform committee - No objections [Doug to write an email to national platform com.]
State convention
Art: Issues contacting people on the ground in Marfa. Now getting some response. Will ramp up work on food, transportation, registration. Camping, state parks. Some hotels in Alpine but 30 min away or so. Some state parks. Art has 6 hugh tents we could use.
Doug volunteers to set up the program. Need online registration. Doug to send out emails periodically with progressively more details.
We need a registration site on txgreens, can IT help?
No platform this time? Keith has minutes from last platform changes (Art to contact).
Miscellaneous
Michael to check how to change the login menu to tell about posting as anonymous versus with login.