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March 20008 Financial Report
Checking (as of Feb 29 2008)
Beginning Balance 198.12
Deposits
2815 total ($2000 05 Budget Digest; Memberships R Holcomb,
M Boggs, P Carte, C. Evans and M Asbury; Sponsors: R Holcomb; R Eakle 300;
Health Dept 400)
Checks In:
AUTO Amazon
89.70 30 pedo, Health grant
Simpson Neal
30.00 repairs
Elk Power
400.
Farmers & Mechanics 112
ASCAP
243
SESAC
116
BMI
287
Frontier
206
WV Surplus
225
Total spent (with checks in) 1709.54
Ending Balance
1303.58
Spending since last bank statement
USPO
36 box rent
USPO
41 postage stamps
Staples
33.91 black ink cartridges (2)
Total spent since last statement 110.91
Deposits since last statement 420.00 (Conley membership,
R Eakle $300; C Bernacchi 100)
Right now in checking 1612.00
Station Report
March 10 2008
We made it thru Feb 08 with only one equipment
melt down. Our oldest puter, purchased in the original buy from Delta,
Bert the puter, died in Feb. The normal problems
remain: have to restart the slave puter in the transmitter every third
or fourth day; DSL slowness results in choppy audio feeds and cut outs;
and, during the coldest of weather we went off the air when Bert
the puter froze up (literally, the light bulb burned out)
On the plus side, a new from Surplus
Prop. Dell with Soundblaster sound card replaced the departed Bert
and has greatly improved our product. Clarity and crispness is most noticed.
We actually bought three puters from
Surplus in Feb. We have two of em ready for “other” uses. If those
other uses materialize, the plan is to buy three more keeping one for
in house use, maybe for Room A book keeping and recording.
Discussions with Debbie was a one
hour show featuring Debbie Samples common person, person on the street,
look at current events and politics. The format was a Q&A with
the Station Manager each Friday evening at 8pm. With his entrance in politicians,
the show has been cancelled until someone can volunteer to be the questioner.
Note: The weeknight might be changed if you’re interested in being a part
of it.
Fred Sampson’s Thursday night Roundtable
show is focusing on candidates for office. So far his candidate response
has been very good. Fred covered the expense of mailing out 50 invitation
letters
The next event is March 15th at Lake
Sampson, noon start time, where WYAP will sponsor a walk around the lake
in support of the military. We have 30 pedometers to give to participants
with T shirts coming.
With $ on hand, here’s the recommendations
for equipment purchases: Pay what ever it takes to get B. French down here
to make the “adjustment" for the EAS system (maybe $300); purchase a new
mixer console for the live booth ($1000); and one higher quality earphones
for the DJ’s ($100 or more).
Prepared by A Waddell
Feb 08 Minutes
WYAP Board 2-18-08
Present:
Peter Triplett, President, Fred Sampson, Vice President, Andy Waddell,
Station Manager, Dave Derby, Dana Perkins, Frank Tobia, all Members.
Also Present, Amos Waddell (Andy’s brother), Mr. Tobia, ( Frank’s Dad).
Pete called meeting to order @ 5:27 PM
Minutes of 1-14-08 were read and approved with 3 corrections,
ie: (1)Add Frank Tobia as present,(2) Correct line of credit to $3,500.00,
(3)Correct Terri Lively will have a “talent search”, to correct a
typo. Dave D. motioned to approve, Dana seconded. All voted
aye. (Fred agreed to E-mail corrected report tonight to allow Andy
to go to the Bank for a $3,500.00 letter of credit or a loan.)
Financial report by Andy was reviewed and
discussed:
Andy advised that we had received the State 2006 Budget Digest
$2,000.00 and that his letter sent out at Christmas time announcing our
upcoming Fund Raising had caused people to send in membership and donations
of $205.00.
Andy also announced that ALL bills were paid and we have some cash
on hand giving us some moving room, We are in the BLACK for now. Hooray.
Dave moved to approve Financial report, Frank seconded. All Aye.
We reviewed Andy’s station report Feb 2008 at length.
Dave moved to approve. Dana seconded. All voted aye.
Andy asked Peter if he could provide a Mailing list
of voters for our Fund Raising efforts. Pete said he would provide.
Andy reported on Grant efforts: We did NOT get the ACT
Grant; Media Justice Grant; No word yet.
GKVF Grant. We asked for $12,900.00.
No word yet. The purpose is to grow 3 Festivals for Clay Co., ie, Memorial
Day, 4th of July, and Labor day.
ACT grant. Andy advised that we would need to spend
the money and ask them to pay us when we sent in the cancelled checks.
He advised he was NOT going to ask for this Grant as we would have to first
spend our Money and ask them to reimburse.
Andy repoted that “LIVE 365” was gone and
we now have to click the red ON-AIR button on our Web Site to access
the on air broadcast.
We discussed the FCC application and agreed that
our 1000 WATT station request was in jeopardy because the 3 stations
that applied: Fayette Co. Mr. Syner, The Church
Group and (I forget the third one) all had larger audiences than
we do and that our application was perhaps going to be denied on that basis.
Our Texas Engineer, was late in submitting his report, however, the information
in his report was correct. The consensus was that we have no recourse with
the Texas engineers report.
We also discussed how Mr. Eakle from S. Carolina
may be able to help. Andy will ask him what equipment he has for we need
to fix some of our stations broadcast difficulties.
Andy advised that the Budget Digest request was
submitted requesting $9,000.
Dave motioned to adjourn, Dana seconded. We Adjourned
Fred Sampson (Temporary Secretary, in Liz’’s Absense)
Feb 2008
STATION REPORT
WYAP made it thru the conversion from live365
service to webcasting on our own server. We made it but many listeners
have emailed with connectivity problems. It may take several weeks before
they find us again. With our own server, we can hold just10 listeners at
a time, down from 30.
"Vagabond" Robert Hughes is now on his cross country trip
to see America. He plans to email in audio clips of his journey. We will
air those sound bits and then post on the soon to be public, Download page
on wyap.com
The new late night Lisa show is a real hoot. The
paranormal offering (without a permanent name) is aired Thursday's at 10
pm. Friday night Feb 15, The Machine interviewed guests to the station
from the Appalachian Economics Conference held in Calhoun County. Those
interviews will soon be posted on the download page as well.
The year long Walk to Iraq program continues
to grow. Around 25 participants are now reporting their miles walked. Pedometers
(30) have been ordered for those folks. The next official walk is March
15th at Lake Sampson.
We're ready to finish off the CCHS basketball
season. As of now, we have been successful in airing all boys and girls
games. Meal vouchers will be given our volunteer sportscasters, Dale Mullins,
Nada Waddell, Phillip Carte and Rev Robert Thomas.
Termites have invaded the station. We're in real need of fumigation
ASAP.
Equipment wise, nothing broke in Jan 08. Robert Hughes
dropped off several CDs for our use. Many Mp3 tunes from Jane Cook's collection
are available for our use. Ditto for Dave's stash. Ernest Workman donated
several LP records. We are in good shape music wise for
now.
As more of our broadcasters use the call in
lines, Skype tele service and interview guests, we are in real need of
that $700 audio booth mixer .
One of the goals has been to cut the brush down
to the river behind the station. I have two kids willing to do the work
for $60. As soon as the weather breaks and funds become available, they
will get that job done.
As soon as basketball season is over, it'll be time
to start booking Summer Jam acts for 2008. WYAP will partner with the Apple
Festival for a two day Independence Day Celebration complete with fireworks
that Summer Jam weekend.
We made it thru Jan in one piece.
Good
Report prepared by Andy Waddell
MINUTES - WYAP
Jan. 14, 2008
Present: Peter Triplett, Dana Perkins,
Dave Derby, Andy Waddell, Fred Sampson, Liz Sampson, and Frank Tobia
Meeting called to order 5:33 PM. Minutes from
11/07 read; Dave moved, Fred Seconded, to approve. Motion Carried.
Andy gave the financial report. Budget tight.
Fred Moved. Dave seconded to accept report. Motion carried
Andy moved to get bank loan/or line of credit for $3500.00.
Liz seconded; motion carried.
Live 365 situation was discussed. Fred
moved; Dave Seconded, that we drop 365. Motion carried.
Fred and Andy agreed to start membership campaign for
February.
Station Report: Debbie began show on Fridays
at 8:00 - Discussions with Debbie Lisa no longer at the
station; she got a “real” job. Will do shows as can.
Jane: Iraq Walk will begin at 12:00 from the station on 1/19/08
Terri Lively will have a talent search on 1/19/08
at 6:00 PM in High School auditorium.
Andy recommended grant monies be used for 4 items:
a new, easier to operate live booth mixer, the seven second delay switch;
hiring B. French to reset EAS system and the mandated transmitter kill
switch.
Fred moved; Dana seconded; approve station
report. Motion carried.
Grants: Media Justice; Budget Digest;
GVKFG; and Hamburger Helpers all are due.
Minutes from 11/07 - WYAP
Election of officers: Liz moved;
Andy seconded; all officers will remain the same for 2008.
Station layout: after discussion, Liz
moved and Dave seconded that we continue to use Room B as our roundtable
discussion, interviews, bd. Mtg., etc; and also develop it as a Welcome
Center.
Motion carried Fred moved, Dana seconded that
we adjourn. motion carried. Submitted: by Elizabeth Sampson;
Secretary
Jan 08
Station Report
WYAP-LP
The month of Dec 07 came and went with a bang. Our
annual Holiday party was well received with approximately 20 in attendance.
Food items were donated by many for the festivities. Drinks and supplies
were paid for by the station ($40). The raffles netted $45. The station
was well decorated for Christmas.
The New Year’s Eve party was different this year.
Around a dozen or so young people came to the station to have fun and watch
the mighty Clayberry Ball drop at midnight. In years past it was a mostly
adult crowd that filled the station. That 8 to 15 year old crowd participated
in on air discussions. For many, it was a first time being on a radio.
The station purchased around $35 in party supplies with Delta Communications
picking up the rest of the tab and all of the pizzas. Our special audio
included debuts CDs from three West Virginia musical groups.
Programming wise, we saw change during the last
month of 2007. Songs from the Hills by the Coal Mt Coon hunters was
discontinued at year’s end, their decision. That program aired on WYAP
for over 3 years on Friday nights. Nice show and a big loss for local content
programming. Also in Dec , came and went was an old time rock n roll
show. After airing the shows a couple times, I didn’t like the product
enough to endure the process of receiving the free offering. The two minute
Country Music moments show also stopped production of the weekly series.
On the plus side, Debbie Samples agreed to
do a Friday night show called Discussions with Debbie. The question and
answer show deals with a common sense look at issues facing private citizens
like Ms Samples. Senator Shirley Love is once again providing
Friday morning Legislative Updates , 9am.
Our Basketball sportscasts are going well with equipment
doing fine and complete broadcasts with ½ of the season behind
us. Our volunteer sportscasters (Phil Carte, Robert Thomas, Dale Mullins,
and Nada Waddell) have shown up and done good work. We did have a
problem with one of the headphone combos not working right during a boy’s
game. The plan is to send both headphones over to Simpson Neal for a check
up.
Lisa Heidebrecht continues to do an excellent
job in the morning shift slot, 10 to 3pm M – F. With Lisa at the station
we are able to offer a whole host of newsy and informational shows on a
regular schedule plus her own 1pm music show. Unfortunately for YAP, Lisa
has taken a part time job with a local grocery store and will soon be leaving
her M-F slot. Our hope is Lisa will remain with the station as a volunteer
in her spare time.
Jane Cook’s Operation Home Ties continues
to grow. In Dec she recorded Christmas greetings for the troops. She has
put together a “Walk to Iraq” activity to go on during the next couple
months. Dave, Avis, and Frank continue their shows. All
three provide nice diversity to our operation and do great.
Equipment wise, nothing new has broke down.
The trailer is holding up well with no major problems.
In the way of a recommendation, when grant monies
become available, I’d like to spend a bunch of $ on four needed items:
a new, easier to operate live booth mixer, the much needed seven second
delay switch, hiring Bryan French to reset up the EAS system, and
the mandated transmitter kill switch. Guesstament: $2000.00.
AW
WYAP-LP
Financial Statement
Jan 08
Beginning Balance 143.46
Deposits
210.00
196.00
406.42
Spent
IX Web Hosting 58.71
Live365 29.88
Harold Allen (jam) 10
Pacifica (Donation) 50
Lisa H (Donation) 25
Frontier 110
Insurance (1/4) 112.83
Total 406.42
ENDING BALANCE 12-31-07 143.04
Since last Bank Statement
Deposits
B Ball sponsors
Memberships 130.00 1-11-08
Memberships 45.00
1-12-08
Total $175.00
Spent since last bank statement
Electric 200.00
CCHS donation 25.00
Total
225.00
Balance unhand 45.00
Accounts payable
Frontier 216.
Electric 150
ASCAP 243
BMI 287
SESAC 116
Receivables Jim Samples 50 Digest
Grant 2000
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