Event:2019/06/06 Delegates

Omni Delegates' Meeting - 6 June 2019 7pm-9pm

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Agenda

 * Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]
 * Access Check-in [5 minutes]
 * Brief Announcements [5 minutes]
 * Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]
 * Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)
 * Ban Report (if any) [5 minutes]
 * Proposal X: [15 minutes]
 * Proposal Y: [15 minutes]L
 * Discussion Z: [10 minutes]

Introductions
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation; any brief announcements; say whether you're a delegate; let us know about any access needs you have†
 * WHY DO WE ASK PRONOUNS? To make space for people who are trans, nonbinary, gender noncomforming or otherwise vulnerable to being misgendered. It's not an invitation to make jokes or trivialize the idea of pronouns. If you are fine with the gender and pronouns society generally assigns to you, please just say what they are without fanfare or embellishment. Conversely, please don't pressure anybody to give their pronouns, as that can harm trans people who are closeted or questioning. The point is to prompt and normalize asking, but not to mandate or enforce. Thank you! <3 Yar


 * Jenny - Sudo / Finance & Building WGs, MediaLab
 * Laura - Finance WG
 * Dennis - LibLens
 * Niki - GWS
 * Mary Ann - Chiapas
 * Rilke
 * Asaad - FYE Collective
 * Phil - FNB, Building WG
 * Joe - FNB, Commons WG
 * Gerald - LibLens / Building WG
 * Yar - Sudo / Building WG
 * Ian - CCL
 * Robb - Sudo / LibLens / Building & Commons WGs, MediaLab

Access Check In
Is everybody able to participate fully in this meeting? Do people have unmet needs or concerns?

Meeting Roles

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

Delegates

 * CCL: Ian
 * CSC: Mary Ann
 * FNB: Phil
 * GWS: Niki
 * LL: Dennis
 * Sudo: Yar
 * Quorum: Yes

Brief Announcements

 * Anka and Travis' documentary Homeless First is showing on Sunday at 5pm
 * Temescal Street Fair is also Sunday

Building & permits
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Kitchen work parties on Saturdays at noon
 * Massive reorg of the secure storage room underway! Cleared out, new drywall, electrical outlets and lighting fixtures. Come help re-sort!
 * Met with architect (Jim Gallagher) who's drafting our floor plan w/ measurements from our equipment list
 * This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building

Commons
Meetings: 2nd & 4th Mondays at 5pm
 * Big conference next weekend - Women's Visionary Congress. Conferences bring in good $$$, helping bolster the budget we need to reach for future building upgrades!
 * This group needs help:
 * https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons
 * https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking

Communications
Meetings: Not currently meeting

Finance
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Fundraising, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm
 * We are recruiting for officers and officers elect for Omni Commons.
 * joe found thousands of dollars in "open" or "pledged"? 15k overdue from renters.

Fundraising
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Finance, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm

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?

CCL

 * Ian - Will be at Temescal Fair on Sunday. Can set up a table for Omni if we want. Just did Maker Faire and had a good time.

CSC

 * Mary Ann - we've been notified that a delegattion will be here form the national indigenous congress of Mexico on September 22nd. They mostly want to mee with indigenous people. We will be reaching out. They are expecting a lot form us.
 * Jenny - should we throw them a banquet in the ballroom? I would help.
 * Mary Ann - we probably should.

FNB

 * Finally got a Sunday

GWS

 * Jenny - There were some folks in Sacramento over the weekend for International Sex Workers Day. Planning to go to Washington DC with the Poor People's Campaign. Rachel will be in DC and they will livestream it here.

LL

 * Dennis - the fourth in our Black 400 years film series will be shown on the 19th (3rd SUnday through August), and Anka's film about FIrstThey Came for the HOmeless SUnday at 5.

Sudo

 * ongoing work on the space - goal is to get floor installed this summer

Sudo Mesh

 * Will have table at Temescal Street Fair. Still looking for rooftops to connect to in Richmond where we are getting bandwidth from.
 * LMI is upgrading to gigabit fibre in the neighborhood. We will switch to it when available for the building.

Ban Report (if any)

 * Young men are coming into the building and smoking, propping doors open.
 * somebody threw a tennis ball at marc's head
 * Add to list of people asked to leave

= Proposals =

FYE Proposal

 * Laura: Can you afford first/last/security?
 * Asaad: At the moment no, by the end of the 3-month trial period
 * Laura: market events won't work because we'd lose property tax exemption
 * niki wonders how anarchist bookfair was allowed
 * maryanne: depends what money is for. private benefit vs charity. something to figure out.
 * la pena has fairs, charge people rent to come and sell their goods
 * gerald: govt / white man will want a cut when money is changing hands. we have to keep them satisfied so they don't come investigating
 * joe: as long as there's no surplus that'd be covered?
 * laura: covering org costs is fine, as long as individuals aren't taking it home at the end of the day
 * asaad: we'd break it down the way spaz does. keep 1/3, donate 1/3, etc.
 * robb: nonprofits can pay employees, give stipends
 * jenny: furnishing educational facilities
 * it's pronounced "fie", not "eff why ee"
 * laura: you formed in early 2019? haven't been working together for that long?
 * asaad: we officially formed this year, we organically formed in late 2018, as a result of being in a live-work space together. very new but at the end of the day the bond we built was very productive. we were roommates, would host events. asaad was the newest group at alena museum.
 * niki: they were operating collectively for a lot longer than that
 * laura: what are your goals as an org? be a positive force in community, contribute, curate experiences - anything else you'd say your goals are? your purpose?
 * asaad: beyond fulfillment of individuals, the end goal is contributing to community through craftsmanship, education, event planning
 * laura's excited about painting a mural
 * jenny: the basement walls are begging for it
 * Consenso - Passes: phil FNB, yar Sudo, maryanne Chiapas, ian ccl, dennis LibLens, niki GWS
 * they've been working with silver on the media lab
 * FYE probably won't have events until their space is set up
 * yar: to get keys, go to https://omnicommons.org/keys/
 * they haven't thought about asking help yet. they thought they'd take it on themselves because of not paying rent
 * laura: but you can send emails to discuss/building/volunteers lists if you want asking for help
 * media lab is still common space
 * gerald: there's some things not just about individual effort or trying really hard. some technical things ... like electrical\
 * they'll mostly just get that wall back up
 * FYE won't have an official delegate until trial period over
 * we'll evaluate their trial period on Thursday September 5

helen's commons proposal

 * https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2019-April/001688.html
 * joe: she wrote it mostly to deal with almaz not following rules
 * yar: is this still an ongoing problem?
 * gerald: no but you need principles
 * jenny: she hasn't come to the last 2 meetings. she was volunteering to bottomline events and then not following through, so we missed those events

= Discussions =

FNB bikes

 * greg's bike stuff still in the basement. needs to go somewhere else.

Lib Lens Bank Account Signers

 * This was presented at last meeting
 * Bank needs Board Resolution to set up account for Lib Lens w Dennis and Jenny as signers
 * CCL abstains, all else consent

electrical

 * gerald really wants us to finish documenting electrical panels
 * etching OMNI into our tools and spray-painting them to decrease their resale value
 * monthly training on the building, our tools, going through the storage room
 * recommends roadtrip to Laney's tool area
 * youtube DIY tutorials - putting together a set of recommended tutorials (gerald/marc)


 * joe:

Last Meeting Notes
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2019/05/16_Delegates_Meeting

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