Chebucto Community Net
Annual General Meeting
April 23, 2014

Board members present: Marilyn MacDonald, Alan Turner, Ed Dyer, Deborah Dostal, Dorothy Moore, Doug Brown, Corrie Watt, Johnathan Thibodeau, Danny Melvin, Chris Maxwell

Presentation by Corrie Watt: Chebucto at 20
	Corrie gave a history of Chebucto Community Net and outlined current trends and directions. She ended the presentation with a call to volunteers to help in any way they can. 

Call to order
Marilyn called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m.

1.	 Minutes of the 2013 Annual General Meeting
Approval of the minutes of the 2013 Annual General Meeting was moved by Dorothy Moore and seconded by John McKay; motion carried.

2.	Report from the Chair
Marilyn highlighted the importance of the Manors Project and thanked Andrew for his extraordinary efforts. She noted that the  project had attracted media attention but the information was most extensively followed on our Twitter feed. There were  meetings with all three local provincial candidates before the election. At the municipal level, CCN was successful in getting a grant  and has indicated an interest in municipal wireless to city officials. In closing, Marilyn asked the members to spread the word about CCN to attract new members and donations. Acceptance of the chair’s report was moved by Doug Rigby and seconded by Nina Dyer; motion carried.

      3.	Treasurer’s Report
Alan noted that after several years of expenses exceeding income, there has been a turnaround and this year saw an excess of income over expenditures. This is largely due to Andrew’s half salary and Johnathan’s volunteer work. The wiring of the two manors was funded entirely in house by donations from the board and especially the staff, and volunteer labour. The manor’s project has attracted some attention and it is hoped that funding will be found to do more manors and increase our membership.
Nancy Armstrong moved acceptance of the treasurer’s report and Dorothy Moore seconded; motion carried.
There were questions from the floor about the future of CCN without donations, the number of new subscribers, rental of the storage locker and bank charges.

4. 	Report from Policy Committee
Andrew reported that spammers got a user’s password but the abuse was caught quickly. There were also three cases of infected computers which were removed from the network. He stressed the importance of keeping operating systems updated. 
Alan Turner moved acceptance of the Policy Committee report and Mary Rigby seconded; motion carried.

      5.    Technical Report
Manor’s Project:
Johnathan reported that all the hardware has been installed in the manors and the system is quite reliable except for power outages. The authentication system is being worked on and will be coming soon. There was a question from the floor about a contract with the province regarding the wireless project.
Heartbleed:
This is a vulnerability in the encryption software that allows attackers to copy data from a remote server. Johnathan noted that CCN updated the software and the security system and changed the passwords. In response to a question from a member regarding how often the systems are updated, Johnathan  reported that the security certificates are changed about every 1.5  years. Another member asked about how spam can be stopped.
Funding:
HRM has approved funding from the District 7 Counsellor's Discretionary Fund. The money will be used by CCN to upgrade servers and systems.
Grant proposals have been submitted to CANARIE and CIRA.
The members expressed appreciation for the work of Andrew and Johnathan.
Acceptance of the report was moved by Doug Rigby and seconded by Mary Rigby; motion carried.   

6.   Election of Directors

 Five members are in the middle of their term and six members are at the end of their term. Marilyn MacDonald, Dorothy Moore, Johnathan Thibodeau, Corrie Watt and Deborah Dostal are reoffering. Danny Melvin is not reoffering. Nancy Armstrong nominated Nina Dyer to join the board. All six were declared elected by acclamation.

7.   Appointment of the Auditor 
A motion was put forth to appoint Joanne DesRosier of Harnish DesRosier Chartered Accountants to be the auditor for the next AGM. Approval of the motion was made by Bill Matheson and seconded by Doug Brown;; motion carried.

8.   Other Business
John McKay asked that the minutes reflect the members thanks to the board for their service over the year and to acknowledge the great work of Andrew Wright, Johnathan Thibodeau and Dave Johnston.

      9.    Awarding of the door prizes
The door prizes consisted of a $50.00 Sobey’s gift certificate, a blu ray player and a scarf. They were awarded to the winners. Jeff Warnica gave the gift certificate to the CCN office.

3.	Adjournment
Bill Matheson  moved adjournment.