Location: IRC server pnwx.com, channel #asfar
Time: 8:30 pm central time

Board members present: Eric Anderson, Matthew Havens, Justin Mallone, Daniel
McGuire, Larissa Price, Susan Wishnetsky
Members present: Ben A., David C., Gorman C., Jason G., Bob M., Vinnie S.
Visitors present: one unidentified

The meeting was called to order at 8:33 pm central time.

A motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes of the meeting of
June 12, 2000.  The motion carried.

Reports of Officers

The President, Eric Anderson, reported that he had done a telephone interview
with a national correspondent from Newshouse news service, which writes
stories for newspapers around the country, about ASFAR and the voting age.

The Vice-President, Justin Mallone, reported that he had received many
favorable and interested e-mails resulting from his profile in Teen People.

The Secretary, Susan Wishnetsky, reported that the number on the announcement
list stood at 433.  She had found an estimate for the circulation of Teen
People of 1.2 million.  Also, she expressed her concern about the cost of
producing and mailing Youth Truth and other printed items; several
suggestions were made to alleviate this problem.

The Treasurer, Eric Anderson, had no official report.

The Public Relations Coordinator, Matthew Havens, reported that he had
completed a rough draft of a membership survey and invited comments.  He also
proposed to begin sending packets on request to members which would contain
an introductory letter, a disk with acrobat-accessible files of ASFAR's
leaflets, copies of Youth Truth and join forms.  He moved that the contents
of the packet be approved so that he could begin producing them.  Justin
Mallone seconded the motion and proposed that the vote be permitted to be
taken at the time, instead of raising it again in "old business".  The
President agreed and called the vote; the motion carried, but it was
requested that the text of the introductory letter be submitted separately
for approval.

Old Business.

Discussion list moderation was discussed.  The President, Eric Anderson,
proposed limiting the discussion to 30 minutes.  He asked that anyone who had
a statement on this matter indicate this by typing "!"  Five people did so
initially, and discussion commenced; two additional people typed "!" after
discussion was already underway.

After discussion, Eric Anderson moved that "The discussion list be moderated
by the president, vice-president and membership coordinator, with three
independent observers to be appointed by the board.  All the moderators and
independent observers will get a copy of any message rejected with an
explanation, as well as the member who sent the rejected message."  Susan
Wishnetsky moved to table this motion until a full board was present.  The
motion to table was seconded and a vote was taken; the motion failed.

Susan Wishnetsky moved to amend the motion to include the option of an
unmoderated version of the list to be available for subscription or viewing
by any member.  The motion was seconded.  A question was raised as to which
version would be the default for new members.  Susan Wishnetsky withdrew her
earlier amendment and replaced it with one which clarified that the moderated
list would be the default list for new members.  The amendment was seconded
and passed.

After additional discussion, Eric Anderson moved to amend the motion to
clarify that the current discussion list would become moderated, and the
unmoderated version would be the new list created (requiring current members
to *choose* to switch to the unmoderated version).  The amendment was
seconded and passed.  Matthew Havens moved to amend Eric's motion to make the
current list the unmoderated one (requiring current members to *choose* the
moderated version).  The amendment was seconded and failed with a tie vote.
Eric Anderson suggested that this amendment be discussed further and voted on
again; after further discussion, a second vote was taken and the amendment
was defeated.

The motion was restated, as amended, and a vote was called.  The motion to
moderate the discussion list passed 3-2.

Aaron Biterman moved to appoint Daniel McGuire to the vacant board position,
the motion was seconded.  Eric Anderson moved to table the appointment for
later consideration; the motion to table was seconded and failed with a tie
vote.  Eric Anderson then moved to amend the motion to replace "Daniel
McGuire" with "Bob M."  The amendment was seconded and passed.  After
discussion, a vote was called; the motion failed with a tie vote.  Matthew
Havens again moved to appoint Daniel McGuire to the vacancy.  Eric Anderson
again moved to table the motion; the motion to table was seconded and failed.
 After discussion, the vote was taken to appoint Daniel McGuire to the board;
the motion passed 3-1 with one abstention.

Matthew Havens moved to approve all the new button designs that had been sent
to the board.  The motion was seconded and passed.

The issue of permitting advertising on the web site as a means of fundraising
was briefly discussed.

Matthew Havens moved to approve the position paper on free speech.  The
motion was seconded and passed.

New Business

Daniel McGuire moved that board appointees like himself be subject to
approval by a majority of the membership.  The motion was not seconded.

Susan Wishnetsky moved to reinstate the member who had recently been
suspended from the discussion list for excessive duplication of messages.
The motion was seconded.  After discussion, the motion carried.

The membership survey draft prepared by Matthew Havens was discussed.  It was
agreed that an e-mail vote could be taken once board members had looked it
over more carefully.

The issue of appointing an official delegate to the World Congress of Youth
was discussed.  Bob M. was asked to submit additional information to the
board for later consideration.

Eric Anderson moved that ASFAR participate in a joint voting day protest with
NYRA, with details to be determined by future communication with NYRA and
subject to later approval by the board.  The motion was seconded and passed.

The issue of accepting donations via credit card was raised and briefly
discussed.

A motion was made to schedule the annual general meeting for September 18,
2000 at 7:30 pm central time.  The motion was seconded and passed.

The issue of fundraising in chapters was raised and briefly discussed.

A motion was made that ASFAR permit the formation of chapters outside the
U.S. in the absence of a "sister body" of ASFAR in that country.  The motion
was seconded and passed.

Other Business

The next board meeting was scheduled for August 7, 2000.

The meeting adjourned at 11:54 pm central time.