Event:2017/05/04 Delegates Meeting

Omni Delegates' Meeting - 4 May 2017 7pm-9pm

Agenda

 * Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]
 * Announcements [5 minutes]
 * Bans [5 minutes]
 * Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]
 * Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)
 * Proposal: Safer DIY Spaces group as OC fiscally-sponsored project - project model [15 minutes]
 * Proposal: GCEA to put a padlock on the doors to the classroom: [15 minutes]
 * Discussion Z: [10 minutes]

Introductions
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation
 * Jenny, sudo
 * Mark, here
 * Joe, FNB
 * Lori, GWS
 * Ken, CCL
 * Julian, BAPS
 * Robb
 * Liz, LL remotely
 * Laura,
 * Josh, Phat Beets

Meeting Roles

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

Delegates

 * ABDC:
 * BAPS: Julian
 * CCL: Ken
 * CSC:
 * FNB: Joe
 * GWS: Lori
 * LL: Liz
 * Sudo: Jenny
 * TIL: inactive
 * Quorum: 6/8 active collectives

Announcements

 * Ken: CCL having Kat Harrison's talk & Mushroom extravaganza in lobby prior
 * Ken: Temescal Street Fair - June 11 - 40K people - we have space along 48th between Shattuck & Telegraph - BAAM doing mushroom kits, CCL will have their Maker Faire setup, ABDC doing t-shirts,
 * Can "sell" things in the form of taking donations
 * laser/3d printer w/ which to hustle on-spot produced commodities?
 * electricity available
 * Ken: BID board meeting - BID has new(ish?) cleaning crew - (possibly gone thru 2 in past year); Ken got the cleaning person's card in case we want
 * Laura: Monday May 8th @ 7pm -anyone that wants to participate in the massive "medium term plan" for building @ finance wg meeting;
 * folks should keep a list of moderate to large size projects and bring those lists to the meeting
 * there is a massive DK spreadsheet, trello
 * Jenny: folx been unplugging the front door extension coord in uncool ways; Jenny recently sent detailed email regarding. generally speaking: DO NOT UNPLUG FRONT DOOR APPARATUS
 * a sign will be installed to remind folx regarding
 * Mark: I'm a handyman!

Bans

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

Building & permits
Meetings: Mondays (still deciding on time)
 * Ken: looking forward to massive meeting
 * Joe: if anyone needs a "metro rack" whole foods is getting rid of those
 * Ken & Robb: we should get all of those we can
 * Mark: plywood them?
 * Jenny: our yearly fire inspection, tho semi-spur of the moment/hurried via DK, went well; inspector emphasized announcements regarding emergency exists
 * various discush re: wheels, modularity of these racks
 * Jenny & Ken: for fire drills, we should thro a celebration
 * Robb: throw a party & then at a random point have the drill
 * Ken: quarterly drill party, sets a good example for the fire department; Quarterly
 * Friday night!
 * This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building

Commons
Meetings: Second and Fourth Thursdays at 6pm
 * Joe: doesn't use occupy anymore w/ exception of for contracts
 * Robb: in October a couple thousand dollar event "East Meets West"
 * Jenny: Commons raised $5486 in April
 * Joe: should we put something in the contacts that instructs folx to make the Omni promo & emergency line?
 * Ken: should this Omni informational line be a responsibility of the Commons person?
 * Laura: would probably be more efficient for them to do this
 * Joe: they may tend to listen to their folx more...
 * This group needs help!!!
 * various theater groups rehearsing
 * https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons
 * https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking

Communications
Meetings: First and Third Sundays at 5pm
 * Newsletter came out
 * sent out on the announce list & the social medias
 * Brochure in the works
 * Marc: would be good to have it by the June 11th Temescal street fair
 * Marc has a friend with a printing business, can get deals, quality
 * Ken: copy world on University is pretty cheap printing
 * Ken: is it possible/do we have an Omni Commons banner?
 * Laura: we have a vinyl cutter (w/ which we could make a banner)

Finance
Meetings: (Mondays at 6pm)
 * Jenny: still @ negative $6000/mo for next 2 months, depending on our reveues (bookings, collectives rent, etc)
 * various collectives working on coming thru for that rent moolah
 * our taxes getting worked on, soon to be submitted
 * various tax exemptions: property, then sales

Fundraising
Meetings: Mondays at 1:00pm
 * Laura: been updating the Patreon; all collectives should rep the Patreon when its ready to go (not yet); https://www.patreon.com/omnicommons
 * Jenny: we still haven't sent all our "perks" from the Omni launch crowdfunding campaign

Welcoming

 * Jenny: had a working meeting w/ Marcus re: Welcoming shtuff; e.g. the wiki/spreadsheet for signing folx for front desk shift
 * Front desk shifts stateing to happen. Sign up through this working group/Marcus
 * Joe: there is a welcoming wg email list?
 * Jenny: yes; all our email lists here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Email_Lists
 * We shold make a vinyl banner for the street fair using the new vinyl cutter
 * Welcoming crew is planning on painting the entry hall in the next week or so

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

 * Couple of new classes in the works - Trauma Recovery Group (apply to participate). Just connected with some folks about some Queer Youth Summer classes starting in July :D (self defense, financial literacy, anitcapitalism). Racialization class may slow pace for a month.

CCL

 * Going to Maker Faire the weekend of May 20th. Whole bunch of projects in the works.
 * Putting in some more electricity after inspection, we'll be dropping power from the ceiling instead of having them run across the floor. It's a priority for the summer
 * Jenny - Have you been plannig to coordinate with SUdo, That would be great if we can do the whole room at once.
 * Robb - apparently it's legal to drop extension cords
 * BSL 2 lab is not yet functional, possibly get it functional as a BSL1 lab
 * Possible aquarium? with cuddlefish?

CSC

 * Zapantera Negra Book release next week: https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/zapantera-negra-book-presentation-video-talk/
 * Waffles & Zapatism on Sat May 20th @ 10am - https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/waffles-and-zapatismo-23-years-of-zapatista-history-and-thought/

FNB

 * Joe sez:
 * selling red truck in June
 * been feeding many events: climate march, several things in SF
 * rich white folx @ climate march complained about ingredients of the free cliff bars offered
 * Ken asks: give away snax @ the Temescal street fair?
 * Joe: yeah okay
 * Jenny: but giving away food to the rich?
 * Joe: been responding to the awful fire effecting homeless folx

GWS

 * Lori: will be May 17th at 5:30 vigil @ Montgomery BART station for Diane Feinstein's office
 * was able to be part of the victory in getting Chelsea Manning rep'd @ the Pride Parade w/ Code Pink; did so by participating in overthrowing the SF Pride Board
 * participated in an Invisible Labor Bloc from May 1st
 * more in the pipeline, but TBA

LL

 * Film night tomorrow, 7:30pm - Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock, with speakers afterwards. 4 members went to the National Association of Broadcasters tradeshow (NAB) in Las Vegas last week, currently editing footage to show people. Lots of filming lately with the First They Came For The Homeless encampment, will have something to show soon. Planning a documentary fundraising workshop with Dawn Valadez, date TBD.

Sudo

 * Jenny: 3rd 5 Minutes of Fame last night; it was recorded; it was good! Marina, an OG sudoer gave a talk on the house the built in Hawaii
 * Robb: video will be uploaded tonight

Proposal: Safer DIY Spaces group as OC fiscally-sponsored project - project model
via Jenny, submitted 4/20: Last night I met with the Safer DIY Spaces group, which the delegates approved to provisionally fiscally sponsor under a grant-making model back in December. They have been doing incredible work (providing consulting and walkthroughs for dozens of spaces in danger as well as participating in shaping future code compliance policies at the city-wide level) and have many more spaces they're still working on. However, the grant-making model of fiscal sponsorship has been rather unwieldy (they need to submit a grant request to allocate their own funds, which Finance then signs off on, then Finance has to write checks out to them, etc etc). This proposal is to fully fiscally sponsor Safer DIY Spaces as a project-based model, enabling them to write checks and make debit card purchases from their own subaccount (which is where their funds have already been going). Check signers on this account are to be Isaac Amala and Sinuba Dreem. This sponsorship agreement would be applicable retroactively to April 1st, 2017. If we could pass this tonight, that would be wonderful and enable them to access their own funds in a more timely fashion, as much of their work is time-sensitive (eg prepping spaces for surprise inspections, life-safety improvements, etc) If you have any further questions, the DIY group can be reached at: saferdiyspaces [AT] gmail [DOT] com (cc'd)
 * folx reiterat this proposal
 * Aye: Lori, Ken, Julian, Joe
 * Abstain: Sudo, LL

Proposal: GCEA to put a padlock on the doors to the classroom
via Almaz, 4/20: We are in the process of renegotiating our lease. One of our concerns is that the room we have been using (the classroom behind the children’s room) is not secure. We agreed to try using the room without a lock, but multiple items have been stolen including activity folders with personal information, chargers, books, art supplies and a stapler. We intend to use the room to hold documents, a laptop, projectors, children activity folders and other valuables. Our proposal is to add a lock with a code to the doors to the room. Anyone who wants to use the room when it is free can get the code from us. We have discussed this with BAPS and they are in agreement with this arrangement. We appreciate your attention to this request.
 * Julian: Almaz communicated with me that this proposal will largely be withdrawn by GCEA, but that we should return to it next time
 * we're going to find a locked cabinet for the space to see if that keeps things satisfactorily secure

Discussion Video: stuff

 * Marc: does Omni have a youtube channel/use video to promote the space
 * [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCshDcQ2eSK_tzJLKV7tBSsw ] Looks like it's just the videos Optik Allusions made for the fundraiser. Not sure who owns the channel
 * various folx: we could def do this more in various ways

Last Meeting Notes
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2017/04/20_Delegates_Meeting