September 23, 2020

Agenda (DRAFT):

1. Call to order (Griffin) (5 min)

   1. 1. Welcome Tom Pagano, JCCC

2. Consent Agenda (Griffin/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: May 2020, June 2020, July 2020, August 2020

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

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

      2. Personnel Committee (Palmer, 5 min)

      3. Finance Committee (Neufeld, 5 min)

         1. 1. FY2020 audit under way -- report expected at Dec. Bd. Meeting

      4. Memership Committee (Warner, 15 min)

      5. NTAC/Technical Report (Fleming, 15 min)

         1. 1. KC-WSU fiber project update

            2. WSU-I2 Tulsa project update

      6. Executive Director's Report (Buffington, 20 min)

         1. 1. COVID-19 Impact & FFCRA leave

            2. KanREN brand refresh and "marketing" prioirities

            3. SPARK & CARES act funding

            4. KanREN Projects FY21

               1. 1. Accounting system migration (carry over)

                  2. Salesforce overhaul (carry over)

                  3. Unified policy/procedure (carry over)

                  4. FY22 Backbone

                  5. Establish KRAC (CI Program)

                  6. Decision: HCF consortium

                  7. Finalize fee calculations for backbone members (Finance Committee)

4. Old business

   1. 1. USAC Program compliance/alignment (Buffington, 20min)(recommend: action)

         1. 1. KanREN compliance issues resolved

            2. Interpretation on FUSF contributions (who should pay)

            3. Choices for future:

               1. 1. No change

                  2. KanREN becomes consoritum

                  3. KS Creates a consortium (KanREN remains SP)

5. New business

6. Other business

7. Adjourn

Other Supporting Documents:

• Consolidated PDF of Agenda and Documents