Board of Directors Meeting
July 17, 2001
Executive Directors Report


Executive Director Report - July 2001


I.	Monthly Stats
A.	Public Access Sites
Location		Users		Hours		Avg. Hours
Taos		976		1140		1.24 hours
Questa		293		  219		  .75 hours
Penasco		120		  236		1.97 hours
Taos Pueblo	149	Lab opened 49 hours in June.

B.	Classes
Intro to Email	9
Intro to WWW	5
Basic Computer	2
Easy Web Design  8
HTML		6
Total	           30

C.	New Registrations - 
Primary Accts	17
Secondary		  3
Reactivations	  6
Total		26

D.	Closures
84 notices sent for past due balances, with no closures due to lack of payment.

	Per User Request
	Not Using	10		Moving	4
	Moved to ISP	  4		Connect Problems  4
Total	22

E.	Billing of Access Hours
Accounts billed	31
Excess Hours	2,261.22
Dollars Billed	1,130.61

F.	User Online Hours
Total Hours	53,360.34
Total Users	1892
Average Online 	28.21 hours

II.	Community Outreach
A.	Very Special Arts - Beth Rudolph, ED, was referred to La Plaza by Gene Goetz for possible
 presentations by La Plaza at their September conference in Taos.  Nancy Montano will present on the
 Open Studio grant and online gallery and Barb Hau will present on researching health
 information on the WWW.
B.	Texas Community Technology Center grants - Dukes and Company, a private consulting firm who is
 writing CTC grants for 10 small communities in Texas, contacted me about La Plaza hosting 50+
 community members for a conference in November 2001.  La Plaza would host a two-day organizational
 lessons-learned conference for the communities who are awarded the CTC grants.  Ray Linder,
 consultant, and I discussed compensation for La Plaza staff-time for the two day presentation. 
 Details to be completed in the future.
C.	Taos Pueblo Public Access Site - the newly created public access site on Taos Pueblo opened on
 June 11 and 149 youth and adults visited the Day School Computer lab thru June 27.  Taos News
 published the press release in the July 12 newspaper describing McCune Foundation as the funding
 source for the new La Plaza public access site.

III.	Action Items:
A.	Fund Raiser - board discussion of the June request for a fund raiser asking La Plaza users to
 donate a small amount to complete the funding required for development and implementation of the
 training center.
B.	Youth Essay Contest for Computers in Fall 2001 - any ideas from Board members in how to fund the
 contest for computers this year.  The computers will be presented at the Taos County Chamber
 of Commerce annual Christmas party with the business sector.

IV.	Technology  Report:
The old modem banks, modems and servers were retrieved from Penasco and Questa locations.  The La
 Plaza users in those locations are very satisfied with the new local dialin service provided by Qwest.


Respectfully Submitted:
Judith Pepper
Executive Director