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

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

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?