Board report for the months of Jul, August and September 2007.

Time flies when the office is busy.  I hope that each of you has enjoyed 
the summer and is looking forward to the winters works schedule.  

The NCF office continues to function well with Andre, Daniel and myself in 
most days.  We have yet to replace the terrific summer student although I 
have a number of resumes on my desk.  I am convinced that with the current
member load, another full time office position is warrented.  

Financially the NCF continues to run very close to target.  A forecast 
shortfall in donations has materialized but the strength in DSL membership
has nicely balanced the shortfall.  Overall revenues are slightly ahead of 
forecast and expenses slightly under resulting in the fortunate situation 
that we can report an improved balance sheet for the second straight quarter.

The expenses for dialup lines was reduced for the summer in keeping with the 
system load.  With the migration of additional members to our high speed 
service I have elected to make the PRI reductions perminent.   This will
result in a monthly saving of over $1000 with no loss of service to the 
dial-up members.  We will closely monitor the load and should dial-up demand
begin to grow we will again increase the number of PRI.

The NCF has recently completed a member feedback program in the form of a 
bi-lingual survey that will be presented to all renewing members.  Their 
feedback will be useful in helping to understand where to focus our energies 
as we seek to improve the NCF.  The survey is also going to be useful in 
providing a statistical basis for seeking funding from various governmental
organisations.
 
The OC-transpo bus ads are up after some delays.  We have had numerous sightings 
but it is still too early to tell how effective they are being.

Our general insurance and E&O insurance has been renewed.  Unfortunately due to
our increased revenue we have apparently pass a threshold which has raised our
rates by not a small amount.  

In all the NCF has weathered the summer months pretty well and you should be 
pleased that I see (knock on wood) no major storm clouds on the horizon.  


See you Tuesday night

john