Meeting Agenda

 

Alabama Wireless 911 Board

Montgomery, Alabama

December 15, 2006

8:45 a m – 9:45 (Until Finished)

Room – To Be Announced

Renaissance Ross Bridge

Birmingham, Alabama

 

Meeting Facilitator: Chairman Johnny Hart

Attendees: 

Ron Sleeper, Bill Brodeur, Leslie Bonet, Roger Wilson, Jim Sasser, Max Armstrong,           F. Ralph Dowdy, and Regina McDaniel

Guests:         

Agenda Items:

1)     Cost Recovery Committee meeting (8:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.)

Bill Brodeur, Sec/Treas

2)     Board meeting (8:45 a.m.) - Opening comments and introduction of guests, if any.

Chairman Hart

3)     General discussion of the items to be covered during the meeting.

Chairman Hart

4)     Review, discussion, and approval of the prior board meeting minutes.

Jim Sasser, Attorney

5)     Attorney’s report:

a)     General report on legal issues.

b)     Report on the status of the transfer of the CMRS legal contract from Sasser, Rice & Barber, LLC to Jim Sasser.

c)      Other legal issues, if any.

Jim Sasser, Attorney

6)     Accountants’ report:

a)     Review of the current financial statements.

b)     Update on the status of the cost study that was finalized and filed with the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House, the Examiners of Public Accounts, and the board’s independent auditor on September 29, 2006.

c)      Update on the implementation of ACH transfers for the monthly ECD distributions and expenses.

d)     Report on communications with the external audit firm regarding their progress and preparations for the current year’s audit, and the proposed completion of the audit within the sixty-day time period provided by the Alabama statute.

F. Ralph Dowdy, CPA, Regina McDaniel, CPA, and Bill Brodeur, Sec/Treas

 

 

e)     Discussions on the status of remaining Phase I and Phase II cost recovery requests.

f)       Update on correspondence with all carriers to verify systems and data, accounting procedures and internal controls, and notification of potential audit by the board.

g)     Review and comments, if any, of the board’s webpage and information posted.

F. Ralph Dowdy CPA, Regina McDaniel, CPA, and Bill Brodeur, Sec/Treas

7)     Report from the Cost Recovery Committee.

Bill Brodeur, Sec/Treas

8)     Review of expenses submitted for Board approval and payment.

Bill Brodeur, Sec/Treas, and Regina McDaniel

9)     Discussions regarding the approval of requests for out-of-state travel for board members to attend the 9-1-1 Goes to Washington Critical Issues Forum.

Chairman Hart

10) Update on the status of ACH transfers for cost recovery payments to providers, and ACH receipts of service charges received from providers.

F. Ralph Dowdy CPA, Regina McDaniel, CPA, and Bill Brodeur, Sec/Treas

11)Selection of date, place, and time for the next board meeting:

a)     Date –  January 19, 2007

b)     Place – 100 Concourse Parkway Building, Birmingham, AL

c)      Time – 9:00 Cost Recovery meeting - 10:00 Board meeting

Chairman Hart and Ron Sleeper

12)Adjourn.

 

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