Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production

Meeting of the Board

March 3, 1998

By Telephone:
  
In Ottawa, Ontario: Victoria Fenner, Barry Rueger

In Hamilton, Ontario: Andy Posthumus

In Brandon, Manitoba: Dave Kattenburg

Regrets: John Hall (Toronto); John Muir (Peterborough): Hal Doran 
(Ottawa)

Minutes recorded by Barry.

1.   Call to Order - The meeting was called to order by Andy at 8 
PM Ontario Time, 7 PM Manitoba Time.  

2.   Agenda - The Agenda was developed as we proceeded.

3.   Financial Statement: "A sock in a drawer is as good as a 
mattress to a miser"  (Andy) There is still about $747.65 in the 
CSIRP Bank Account. 

New members -  David Tait of Carleton School of Journalism; 
Heather Kitching of CiTR Vancouver  

4.  Membership Fees - Both new members paid the $50 Founders 
Fee.  Much discussion ensued. More debate is needed, but for 
now the membership fees ($35/$50) will stand.  

5.   Funding Applications - 

a) Canada Council - Hal just submitted an application for Radio 
Drama funding.

b) Trillium Foundation - work progresses to get an application in to 
fund a workshop series.

c) Canada Council - still waiting for Full Moon Over Killaloe money, 
although Ontario Arts council money is in. Some developmental 
work has happened already.  

d) Non-CSIRP - Victoria and Dave have received CIDA funding for 
another series of radio documentaries. Some negotiation is still to 
be done, but the request was for $40,000.  

6. Membership Development - we will be doing a hospitality evening 
at the June National Campus and Community Radio Association 
conference.  We should also be targeting graduating students who 
need career advice and connections as they leave Journalism or 
Broadcasting school.  It is important to keep our membership 
broad, gathering people from all sectors of radio. We should look 
for opportunities to target specific groups of members.  

7. Corporate Status - Time to get organized and just file the 
papers.  They have been lawyered sufficiently.  Victoria will prepare 
the papers tomorrow and courier to Dave for signatures. They will 
be submitted next week when Victoria gets back from Washington 
DC.  

8.  CRTC Review of Campus Radio - The Commission suggests 
that there should be a third party organization to administer a 
Talent development fund. CSIRP obviously supports this concept, 
but would like such a fund be oriented towards radio producers, 
rather than radio stations.  It also should not be tied only to 
campus radio. We should stress that it is spoken word and 
information programming that needs support, not music.  

8. Newsletter - Next one for May and the NCRA conference.  We 
have almost run out of Issue 1.

Adjourned 8:50 PM Hamilton Time.  Next meeting will happen 
telephonically on April 7, 1999 7PM Manitoba time.   


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Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 8M5
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