Council 2006 07
- Date: July 19, 2006
- Facilitator: Seamus
- Scribe: Martin
- Minutes Checker:
- Place: Free Geek
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
- 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
Board elections
- The Board reported
- 4 positions opening. we want accountants and people with nonprofit experience.
first tech
- Our new credit union. join if you want.
New Commitments
- Shawn will make 10 minute presentation on consensus
- Oso will talk to liane and our landlord
- business
- Intern hiring (martin)
- Ambassadors (martin)
Next Meeting
- Facilitator: Phil
- Scribe: Wren
- Minutes Checker:
- Reporters to other meetings?
- Date and time:
- Place: Free Geek
- Unfinished business for the next meeting?