Blueskin Bay FM/minutes/2009-12-16
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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