by Jack Kincaid / jkinca1@cugkc.cjb.net
Finally!! It looks like it is over! Now let the bickering and backbiting begin. We have a new President elect. LONG LIVE THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. I am sure that politicians will try to "twik" the system in the coming years to try and eliminate the Electoral College so that popular vote will prevail. I hope not - if it isn't broke don't fix it! As the framers of our constitution envisioned, the people are so factional that they would bring down a democratic form of government. Their hopes were for a representative republic. Only the future will show if they were correct.
The December meeting continued the tradition, of GOODY time and fellowship. We had a good turnout and some very tasty homemade cookies, thanks to the Ladies! Everyone seemed to find our new digs without too much trouble.
At the December meeting we had one renewal, John and Valoris Strenge. Thanks for your continuing support of the CUGKC. Also our visitor from last month, Fuzzy, came with his Commodore 64 to get some help on setting it up and getting it running.
Since our President and Vice President were not available at the meeting, Scott Heider was selected to preside over the meeting. The order of business was to elect officers for the coming year. The officers for last year were elected by acclamation for another year.
I still have 64s and 128s with 1541 and 1571 drives. I also have monitors and printers just sitting in my basement doing nothing. For a small price they can be in your home doing something! Call or see me at the next meeting.
Financial Report
Balance Nov. 2000.................... $275.16
Income:
Renewals (1) ........................
$ 25.00
Expenses:
BBS Phone Bill (2 months)............-$ 45.64
Closing Balance Dec. 2000............ $254.52
by Scott Heider / sheide1@cugkc.cjb.net
The Group meeting for December was held on Wednesday, December 6th at the Waldo Library. The attendance was 11 members.
The sysop (yours truly) delivered some bad news: the Fidonet feed to our BBS was cut off with almost no warning. Our Fidonet provider pulled the plug on his node, and left several local BBSes in the lurch! At this date it is unknown if/when we will be able to locate another local Fidonet provider.
Elections were held for 2001 officers, and all 2000 officers were re-elected by acclamation. See the bottom of this newsletter for a list of officers.
The meeting was officially adjourned, after which the eating and drinking commenced... indeed, a happy start to the holidays!
Finally, a reminder about the next Group meeting. See you at the Waldo Library at 7:00 on Wednesday, January 3rd.
The Commodore Users Group of Kansas City is a not-for-profit educational support group for persons using Commodore computers.
Membership benefits include a monthly newsletter as well as access to CUGKC's Bulletin Board System (BBS) open 23.5 hours every day, with upload and download privileges, plus electronic mail, and access to over 500 doors of the FidoNet (part of a world-wide network). Also, members receive access to a library of over 1000 public domain and shareware disks.
Dues are $30 the first year, $25 annually thereafter. Disks of the month and library disks cost $3 each for members.
Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month at the Waldo branch of the Kansas City Public Library, 201 E 75th Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Visitors are welcome to attend any meeting. For more information, contact any officer:
Email us at cugkc@cugkc.cjb.net
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Our snail-mail address is:
CUGKC
PO Box 36034
Kansas City, Missouri 64111