Council 2006 07

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Call the meeting to order

  • Are the scribe and facilitator there?
  • Check in - ask how everybody's doing.
  • Have everybody say their name (important at Council meetings.) Scribe: note names below. (under == Attendance ==)
  • You can delete this section from the minutes.

Attendance

martin, richard, oso, kerm, bill, seamus, shawn, wren, phil, serge, liane, marie, wes

Old Commitments

  • Martin will write about escalation of concerns for the wiki. DONE
http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Propogating_Concerns
  • Providence working group will meet and report regularly to Council IN PROGRESS
  • Oso: Phil hiring report DONE

Reports

Reports from other working groups.

Financial stuff

  • Richard or Seamus:
  • things look good in the last quarter

Geek Fair

  • Spent $2800, made $1800 fair events (probly more), made $2000 in the store. things went well.

Providence

  • 4 areas if concern: volunteer retention, space usage, expenses, culture changes.
  • Suggestions have been sent to staff, regardless of providence - we should be doing most of these things already.

a/v hiring

  • trying to fit into a grant we, well, didn't fit. oso takes blame for lack of communication. some grants have hirings built in. we do not want open-ended positions created out of grants, we need to be careful about keeping on mission, and council needs to make these decisions.
  • this grant is not diring anyone anymore (capitalization!), looking for alternate funding.

Old Business

process recommendation

  • Martin Presents
  • They are good. put more in: http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Meeting_Tips
  • We'll be acting on a few of these suggestions soon. Namely, shawn will do a 10-minute presentation at the start of the next council meeting on a facet of participating in meetings run by consensus.

intern hiring

  • Martin presents
  • some of the concerns that martin feels like he's heard center around how we decide whetherr a job is "low stress" or not. All interns now receive the same hourly wage as collective members. It's been figured out that "low stress"=not having to attend meetings. low responsibility may be a better descriptor.
  • Richard took some time to explain the history of the internship
  • Program: give some folks who wouldn't necessarily fit into the collective a chance to get some experience and pay them for helping us out at the same time.
  • NEXT MEETING

ambassadors

  • NEXT MEETING

New Business

copy from email list's agenda additions

Item 1

  • presenter's name
  • summarize presentation
  • record conversation

New Commitments

New commitments, and Carry-Overs copied from above.

  • name - commitment
  • name - commitment
  • etc.

Next Meeting

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  • Reporters to other meetings?
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  • Unfinished business for the next meeting?
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