June 17, 2020

Agenda (DRAFT):

1. Call to order (Warner)

2. Consent Agenda (Warner/Buffington, <5 min) (recommend approve)

   1. 1. Approval of Agenda

      2. Approval of minutes from the previous meeting

      3. Membership & Connectivity Report

      4. Financial Summary Reports: March 2020, April 2020

3. Reports (recommend accept all reports as a single action)

   1. 1. Executive Committee (Warner, 5 min)

         1. 1. Mission Accomplished

      2. Personnel Committee (Palmer, 5 min)

         1. 1. Conflict of Interest certification

            2. Executive Director evaluation

      3. Finance Committee (Neufeld, 5 min)

      4. NTAC Report (Fleming, 10 min)

         1. 1. Access circuit outages

            2. Fiber deployment

            3. Wichita/Tulsa GPN/I2 connection

      5. Executive Director's Report (Buffington, 10 min)(recommend accept)

         1. 1. Annual meeting/Voting outcomes

            2. HINU connected

            3. Banking change

            4. COVID-19 Impact

            5. Health insurance

4. Old business

   1. 1. USAC Program compliance/alignment (Buffington, 1min) (tabled pending more information)

5. New business

   1. 1. Chair-Elect & Committee Chairs FY22 (Warner/Griffin, 10 min)

         1. 1. Chair-Elect (recommend elect Michelle Kaiser)

            2. Finance Committee (recommend elect Keith Neufeld)

            3. Personnel Committee (recommend elect Tyler Palmer)

            4. Membership Committee (recommend elect Sandra Warner)

      2. Board meeting dates/times FY22 (Griffin, 5 min)(recommend adopt)

         1. 1. Wednesday, September 23, 10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

            2. Wednesday, December 16, 10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

            3. Wednesday, March 24, 10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

            4. Wednesday, June 23, 10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

      3. Presentation of Backbone Member Fee Philosophy FY22 Forward (Neufeld, 30 min)(recommend adopt)

      4. Discussion of KanREN involvement with rural broadband and the COVID impact on education (Walsh, time avaialble)

6. Other business

7. Adjourn

Other Supporting Documents:

• Consolidated PDF of Agenda and Documents

• Slides used for Fee Philosophy Presentation