Blueskin Bay FM/minutes/2009-12-16

Blueskin FM Meeting

7.30pm, 6 December 2009, Warrington School

Present: Mike McAlevey, Nathan Parker, Sandra Muller, Brent Bell, Susie Newlands, Finley Horsefield and Louise Booth

Apologies: Peter Dowden

Matters arising:


 * Blueskin Bay FM regretfully accepts the resignation of our Secretary
 * Blueskin Bay FM appreciates the work of our resigning Secretary Rozi during her short time with us and wishes her well for the future
 * New secretary elected Louise Booth Nathan/Sandra
 * A letter to be sent to Rozi thanking her for her short time with us
 * Now have own PO Box 88 at Waitati
 * Bank account been opened with Kiwibank
 * Blueskin Radio frequency now 88.2
 * Brent investigating making Blueskin FM a charitable trust. A long involved process
 * Recommended that we stay with mono and maybe upgrade to stereo later. Mono will cover most of Blueskin Bay. At a later stage add repeaters on the hills above the shop and Doctors Point to increase coverage
 * Mike seen a building inspector and it is okay to have transmitter on Warrington School as long as it is less than 15 metre’s high
 * Charlie (Oamaru) suggested that an amplifier was not needed. All the equipment can be plugged into a mixer. It was agreed not to purchase an amplifier at this stage
 * Nathan suggested getting the radio station up and running before looking at extras such as linking into Radio Puketapu
 * Have official opening on a Saturday hopefully in March 2010
 * Need to allow a month for training the volunteers
 * Radio Dunedin kindly offering training. Contact Nathan if interested
 * Radio Toroa helping to install the software
 * Licensing payments to:
 * ARPA $250 + GST
 * Song writers $105 + GST
 * Agreed to pay these subscriptions which will allow us to play both licensed and open source music
 * Also need to provide ARPA with a 90 day list of songs to be played. (A little like a random audit)
 * Two CD players
 * Brent ordered 2 CD players from Bond and Bond at $219 each. Brent has offered to pay the difference if insufficient funds
 * Louise to organise sign for library, shop etc adverting $10 subscriptions to become a “Friend of Blueskin FM”
 * Need to think of other fundraising projects for Blueskin FM
 * Next meeting. TBA