Town of Berry

Communications Committee Meeting - reschedule

Thursday, June 19, 2008 7 p.m., Town of Berry Hall

 

MINUTES

  1. Meeting called to order at 7:05 pm. 
    1. Time:
    2. Attending: Onstad, Molling, Leetch, Baker, Studz (chair)

Excused: Henneman

 

    1. May minutes approved with changes correction to title (“minutes”, not “agenda”) Ohnstad/Molling (4-0)

 

  1. June newsletter reviewed. Some lines in pdf version seemed light;  text box in dsl sheet was cut off by one copy line (electronic version only).  

 

  1. July newsletter MAY include:
    1. Good Neighbors (Tim)
    2. Annexation/Extraterritorial area map? (Tim)
    3. DSL (Sue)
    4. District 1 EMS new building/cost (Tony)
    5. Gift of new/old TV from Onno Brouwer (sp?); request for other stuff (Sue)
    6. Echo panel construction – call for volunteers  (if/when Jim Laubmeier directs)
    7. Clean Sweep (Char)
    8. Invasives – Canada Thistle, Teasesl (Christine)
    9. Horribly Hilly follow-up (Leroy to check with Varda)
    10. Business– Keuhler (Char)
    11. Park workday–thistle pull (Christine or Sue)
    12. Well water testing (Tim)
    13. Curly fluorescent bulbs (Char)
    14. Road hazard reporting (Linda)
    15. Rerun Mazo kids program (if filler needed)
    16. Flood/weather damage (Brenda)

 

  1. The DSL program was briefly discussed. There has been a fair amount of response to the newsletter pleas, though not huge numbers yet. Testimony has been compelling. Ad Hoc committee to meet in early July to discuss and explore options for high speed internet including TDS, power companies,  cell phone companies.  

 

5.      Town email addresses were discussed. Studz is now using a Berry email address for sending/receiving Town emails.  Original plan was to provide Town email addresses so that board and committee members could segregate their town business from their personal or business emails.  Automatically copying clerk on every email was not originally envisioned.  Baker to check re ability to store all board/committee member email on server. Speculates there is not enough space (Town may need to buy more).   Baker also to set up email addresses for all board and committee members. Said members will be responsible for setting up web mail accounts on their computers.  Baker speculates having this done possibly within 2-3 weeks.

 

6.      Web  subcommittee:  Ohnstad reports work continues to get ordinances/policies online.

 

  1. Upcoming events: a meeting re broadband connection is tentatively planned prior to August board meeting. 

 

  1. Creation of new resident package was discussed.  Committee unaware of existing package models. Molling to list elements to include in the package. List will then be passed to other committee members to add on.  Some new residents will be contacted for their suggestions.

 

  1. The next committee meeting date is 7/17, copy deadline is 7/7.

 

  1. No other business coming before the committee, the meeting was adjourned at 8:10pm

 

 

 

Respectfully submitted,

Sue Studz