Event:2017/09/07 Delegates

________ __________ __    ________  ________   _______  _____________________  ___   / ____/ / / / ____/ //_/   /_  __/ / / / ____/  / ___/\ \/ / ___/_  __/ ____/  |/  /  / /_  / / / / /   / ,<       / / / /_/ / __/     \__ \  \  /\__ \ / / / __/ / /|_/ /  / __/ / /_/ / /___/ /| |     / / / __  / /___    ___/ /  / /___/ // / / /___/ /  / /  /_/    \____/\____/_/ |_|    /_/ /_/ /_/_____/   /____/  /_//____//_/ /_____/_/  /_/       ________  __________ __    ________  ________   _______  _____________________  ___   / ____/ / / / ____/ //_/   /_  __/ / / / ____/  / ___/\ \/ / ___/_  __/ ____/  |/  /  / /_  / / / / /   / ,<       / / / /_/ / __/     \__ \  \  /\__ \ / / / __/ / /|_/ /  / __/ / /_/ / /___/ /| |     / / / __  / /___    ___/ /  / /___/ // / / /___/ /  / /  /_/    \____/\____/_/ |_|    /_/ /_/ /_/_____/   /____/  /_//____//_/ /_____/_/  /_/   Omni Delegates' Meeting - 07 September 2017 7pm-9pm

Agenda

 * Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]
 * Announcements [5 minutes]
 * Bans [5 minutes]
 * Discussion: Cleanliness @ the Omni
 * Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]
 * Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)
 * Action Items

Introductions
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation
 * Laura
 * Jenny
 * Mary Ann
 * Kathy
 * Robb
 * Phil
 * Almaz
 * Julian
 * Marcus [digitally]

Meeting Roles

 * Facilitator/s: Laura
 * Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.
 * Stacktaker: Robb
 * Timekeeper: Julian
 * Notetaker/s: Jenny, Julian
 * URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom
 * Vibe Reader:
 * Next meeting's facilitator(s): Julian

Delegates

 * ABDC:
 * BAPS: Julian
 * CCL:
 * CSC: Mary Ann
 * FNB: Phil
 * GWS:
 * LL: inactive
 * Phat Beets: Kathy
 * Sudo: Robb
 * TIL: inactive
 * GCEA: Almaz
 * Quorum: yes (6/9)

Bans

 * Add to list of people asked to leave
 * Add to list of people asked to leave

Building & permits
Meetings: First & Third Mondays @ 6pm
 * Jenny: We learned the hard way that building parties should include clean-up time
 * entrance cleaned up, secure stroage & cleaning closet rat-patched, FNB faucet & sudo/ccl bathroom fixed, basement vent fixed, leaking water heater fixed, wall between water heater room & FNB pantry was rebuilt
 * Phil & others did a lot of cleaning & replacing items after all the building party
 * could have used tarps & drop cloth more for the painting
 * Laura: if we had more regular work days it would be less onerous
 * Kathy: peppermint essential oil etc can help scare away rodents
 * Phil: FNB continues to have problems with rats getting at food storage - continues to be an ongoing problem; there are plenty ratproof containers, but not used sufficiently by some of the cooks
 * at the meeting last night, discussion whether FNB should pitch in for utility bill given how much of what they use via freezers
 * Jenny: CCL's freezers use a lot of energy too, but they're actively working on a repair and potential replacement of the always-running -80 freezer
 * This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building

Commons
Meetings: Second and Fourth Thursdays at 6pm
 * brought in $5000 last month
 * low participation, falling on 4-5 people to facilitate all of that
 * This group needs help:
 * https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons
 * https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking

Communications
Meetings: First and Third Sundays at 5pm
 * brochures, to be ordered
 * informal zine & sign making
 * Commons needs to get tax exemption letters

Finance
Meetings: Second and Fourth Mondays at 6pm (currently converging with Fundraising)
 * We received our clearance from the CA BoE, first step in getting property tax exemption
 * Commons need reminding to get non-profit exemption letters

Fundraising
Meetings: Second and Fourth Mondays at 6pm (currently converging with Finance)
 * Jenny: working on the kithcen budget for the crowd funding campaign
 * Laura: Mary Ann will collect data on activities of each collective such as # of people served, classes taught, etc

Member Collective Updates
What is going on with your collective? What are you working on? What have you accomplished? Any events coming up? Any difficulties you are encountering that you need help with?

BAPS

 * Queers Teach Their Peers class was pretty solid
 * Oakland Jericho is going again
 * Writing Class on Mondays & Tuesdays now (alternating) going good

CSC

 * in 2 weeks another waffles & Zapatismo, on Saturday the 23rd.
 * this sunday meeting w/ a filmmaker to do a film preview here for a film about zapatismo. may not be the only location for preview
 * Robb: perhaps a collab w/ LL?
 * Mary Ann: would be
 * how have the waffles & zapatismo gone?
 * the last one was the best one; folks have varied expectations. last time, there were a few people that have become regular & there's starting to be an important discussion happening – how to work with Zapatismo & how they can be transfered to an urban society in a 1st world society
 * Laura is going to make a poster of the principles of zapatismo
 * the classes are definitely attracting people, though it is an experiment
 * focusing mainly on doing organizing in the EB

FNB

 * call for volunteers
 * bycicle blender for the Anarchist Bookfair

GCEA

 * event Plan(et?) Africa, 500-1000
 * trip to africa
 * afterschool program classes starting soon
 * fundraising event coming up soon

GWS

 * Jenny: Lori's memorial – very moving
 * definitely put something about Lori in the newsletter

LL

 * film screening on Sunday - 3 shorts by local film maker craig baldwin
 * a Films to the People fundraiser is currently getting planned

Sudo

 * next Build Your Own Internet workshop is Sat, Sep 23rd from 2-5pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your-own-internet-workshop-v3-tickets-36134206384
 * the third of the year
 * in addition to the regular Sudo meetups, a new one is Friday - Functional Programming
 * Matt, also an intro to digital literacy and Node JS
 * up in the den Monday evenings
 * Sudo sold the rest of their bitcoins went it recently peaked

TIL

 * Contraverse book event, check out their instagram

Phat Beets

 * Getting on top of cleaning up the office, the truck, storage etc

Discussion
Kathy: Cleanliness
 * Max is working toward cleaning up Phat Beets office
 * When women use the bathrooms, they need to squat. Not something a women should have to endure. Don't want to have to put up with it anymore, doesn't think she should have to clean up after others.
 * all of the bathrooms are insufficiently clean, also surfaces.
 * Email was sent out that offensive to Cathy, directly referencing her.
 * if a person is attributed to making a statement in an email, that person attributed should be cited
 * have repeatedly asked that people stop smoking so close to the entrance
 * we should be conscious about how people are described in emails may cast them in positive or negative light, and, consequently, be at risk of relying upon and reiterating racist stereotypes
 * we should also be careful about making assumptions about who is responsible for a given mess without being certain
 * probably many of the people in the current room are folks that
 * what are some practices that could promote cleanliness
 * signage to remind people to clean after people
 * remind collectives to ask their members to clean up after themselves
 * we could have regular cleaning days, asking cleaning delegates
 * marcus: hey, you know how bitcoin rewards it's miners for all the work they do, omni should do that by creating like an omni coin or something, which is a share of omni's monthly income. this would then go to the people who actively clean and do other very real important shit for omni... each month paid out
 * marcus: people don't like to clean, very rarely do people voluntarily clean, they should get paid to do so. watch how quickly the cleaniness situation changes.
 * Phat Beats is considering not renting here because of the insufficient cleanliness
 * we don't know who specifically is leaving the messes
 * Julian: Actually having a regular day, and making it a requirement of collectives, is a good idea. No amount of signage is going to significantly change peoples habits.
 * Robb: Issue wrt those collectives with very low membership, could be a burden. Seems unbalanced if a collective doesn't have a large membership
 * Almaz: Agree with Cathy - is this the culture that people don't flush the toilet? I didn't grow up like that. People leave their cups and don't rinse them. Lots of fruit flies. Not the first time we've discussed this. Support what Julian's saying - bring collectives in to clean, punish them if they don't show up. Tried having a regular cleaning party... Sent email to everybody but only the same people who always clean showed up.
 * Laura: When I was on the Commons WG it was made clear that a task of the point person was to ensure the room was clean before the event, and ensure it was left that way.
 * this practice is inconsistently maintained. we should make sure that abnormal commons point person know what the practice, that person should be accountable for the cleanliness.
 * it's hard to make things look entirely clean, surface & floorwise, because of the filth deep in some of them
 * this is not the precise issue being raised,
 * could one restroom be exclusively for women; it potentially becomes an issue for disabled folks
 * almaz - also a cultural issue with regard to multiple genders
 * phil: one problem could be the number of events and the size. do people that come here understand that there are no professional clean up crews?
 * mary ann: one of the men in our group had the same complaint, said he had to clean all the bathrooms before our last event.
 * laura: if it's a member collective's own event, they don't have a point person and clean both before and after their event
 * robb: there are some mentally unstable people here who do trash the bathrooms on occasion.. not so much lately
 * Julian: there are real gendered difference in terms of the habits of cleanliness; we should in some fashion confront the politics of this
 * Laura: smoking - go down by the parking lot?
 * Almaz: Also comes in to the classroom sometimes [shattuck side]
 * also supportive of a women's bathroom. sometimes events request gendered bathrooms
 * laura: how about this? we make one bathroom cis men only :D
 * robb: we need to remind the recurring events point people to remind their event folx to clean up after themselves
 * robb: another option is we could just actually pay people
 * word! ie: agreed
 * we make like 20% of total monthly income go to the cleaning fund. members here at omni who timesheet in tht they're cleaning "this space" over "this time" get access to that fund.
 * this fund means that the money stays within the omni collective of folks, not leaving it to an outside cleaning service.

action items

 * jenny on no smoking and bathroom cleaning signage
 * cathy will write women's bathroom proposal
 * schedule a regular cleaning day
 * laura will call around and get quotes on cleaning services
 * laura to meet greg from fnb and remind him about sanitary food storage
 * kathy suggests we should discuss next time how to prepare for the new bourgies in the neighborhood, in part by connect with the neighbor's on side
 * Jenny will make sure GCEA is on the omni website

Last Meeting Notes
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2017/MM/DD_Delegates_Meeting

= End of Meeting =
 * please archive these meeting notes by copying the entire pad contents onto the omni wiki
 * then please erase the contents of this pad
 * then please cut & paste a blank template from here: https://omnicommons.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Delegates_Meeting_Notes_Template&action=edit
 * previous notes are archived here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Meetings