Amended Meeting Agenda

 

Alabama Wireless 911 Board

Montgomery, Alabama

February 23, 2007

10:00 a m – 12:00 (Until Finished)

Room – Tenants Conference Room

100 Concourse Parkway Building

Birmingham (Riverchase), 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 (9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.)

Bill Brodeur, Sec/Treas

2)     Board meeting (10:00 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)     Recommendations for responses to T-Mobile regarding claims for refund.

c)      Report on the approval of travel requests.

d)     Status of proposed legislation.

e)     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, and report from Roger Wilson on planning and prepartion for needed legislation.

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

d)     Report on discussions with the external audit firm regarding the September 30, 2007 audit, and the review of an incentive for the 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)       Report on correspondence with all carriers to verify systems and data, accounting procedures and internal controls, and a report on the status of scheduled audits for the board by external CPA firm.

g)     Report on discussions with the Alabama Examiners of Public Accounts regarding the audit of the Board for the year ended September 30, 2006, and the timing of the Sunset Review.

h)     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)      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

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

a)     Date –  March   16, 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

11)Adjourn.

 

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