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Event:2024/08/20 Delegates

2025-09-14T04:15:42Z

Ceremona: /* CALLI Purchase Agreement and leases */

'''Omni Delegates' Meeting - 20 August 2024 6pm-9pm'''

== Meeting Details ==
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=== Roles ===
* Facilitator/s:
* Stacktaker:
* Timekeeper:
* Notetaker/s: Paige
* Next meeting's facilitator(s):

=== Delegates ===
* CCL: Patrik
* FNB: Toan
* LL:
* SMAC: Ruby
* SM: Daniel
* SR: William
* Quorum (2/3 of active groups):

=== intros ===
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== Christina / CALLI contact ==
Christina asked us whether or not we can waive the attorney/client privilege to discuss property tax issue. Do we approve this?
* SL: I can also discuss the issue with them. It's possible that I am more up to date re situation?
* Board resolution authorizing her to share client information (property tax info) with CALLI. Reasonable to do because they are agreeing to take on this property tax situation. And represent CALLI if she wants to - we waive the conflict of interest.

CCL/Patrik yes SR/William yes FNB/Toan yes SM/Daniel yes SMAC/Ruby yes

== CALLI Purchase Agreement and leases ==
* Patrik - any back and forth will add a week, because they have to get back to their board?
* Jesse - I think there's a difference from wholesale changes and refinements
* Toan - is there enough time if delay for week?
* Jesse - better not to. I think its putting the cart before the horse. I think proper way to go through is approving purchase agreement now, then getting to leases
* Yar - thing we are agreeing to now is just a timeline, that still requires hammering out the leases by Aug 30
** Jesse - correct. When you do PA, there's always things still left to be worked out - contingencies. Here as I understand, there will be no finance or inspection contingencies - but the leases are the key contingency. We need to figure out the standard parts of the lease for all groups, then CALLI would go back and forth with each individual group to fill in the blanks. The whole package of those approved by then would be signed. For each group it would be different, i.e. for Free Store. Who is fiscally sponsored, and the situation with CC needed to be defined. Purchase Agreement I wrote up could be signed tomorrow, my guess is we haven't sent this to them yet. Once we send a copy, they will mark it up, oon’t expect this to be final. Lease work can happen at the same time that the purchase agreement is negotiated. If leases done before Aug 30, great, but there needs to be a deadline
* Yar - I am hearing that major decision to agree is Purchase agreement
* Jesse - I recommend we first go off of Ojan's email, then go through the Purchase Agreement. Would be great to
* Jesse - [going over email] they will be buying the building for the amount due on foreclosure plus taxes. Will put funds in by Sep 1 (sunday...may need to be changed because its a weekend), closed by the 5th. Want title insurance. I don't know what Sarah has sent, but it helps you to disclose as much as you can. Things I added to that that I think would be reasonable: They included "any fees incurred". My doc is clear they are paying all closing costs, also 1) my bill 2) safer DIY debt. if any other debts, let me know, because no time after this.
** Yar - theres Christina also
** Jesse - yes, great idea. She should be added
* Yar - what needs to be done to agree to the purchase agreement?
* Jesse - It’s 25 pages, key points are figuring out purchase price - closing costs, dates on there, and talks about the leases. Long leases for all groups except Free Store. Might make sense to have SR under old entity, and free store under the current.

* Patrik - which collectives have a security deposit?
* Jesse - Sarah said there were two about $2k each
** SL: CCL & SR - transferred from Old Omni
* Jesse - in terms of negotiating these leases, they may ask groups to pay security deposit. That may be reasonable. Alternative is you move to another place, where they will also ask this. I dont think this is what should stop the deal.
* Patrik - did want to point out that Ojan responded about "lesser of 5% and CPI", initial reaction is that it would not be workable. Maybe CPI + 1%.
* Jesse - better to have CPI involved in it than straight 5%. Arguing less than CPI is hard argument. If you can agree CPI or CPI + 1, much better. Involved with another project that had 5%, seemed reasonable in 1994, but now regretting it.
* Patrik - also ask to delay rent increase until roof is fixed, and they say amenable to that
* Jesse - maybe we should pause on the Purchase agreement, then

* Jake - CC wants to formalize the downstairs area becoming part of sudo, and she would be stewarding it. For the lease with Sudo Room going forwards, then we would want that space downstairs, and realize it would include higher rent. Seems like everyone wants to do that
* Jesse - I think it still makes sense to have two leases, so you could stop renting one space and still rent the other. That's one way to go. Would have to look at the maps, if its really a CC thing vs a Sudo thing, you would want to make it easy to separate
* Jake - but also maybe SR could figure out how to manage space down there even if CC left
* Jesse - whole Omni doesn't need to decide what Sudo is doing, it needs to be a lease that works for CALLI and that group. Can be a little bit different.
* Yar - I would not support SR expanding into more space, if it came into consensus I would try to block it.
* Jesse - I want to say this is a question for each group and CALLI, not Omni has a whole. Focus on Purchase agreement, get that thing done.
* William - I suggest we get an idea of what CC and people there want to do. I think they should just directly talk to CC.
* CC - I talked to Ojan earlier today, just saying at the time for insurance purposes, umbrella'd under SR at this time, with future ability to become separate thing. If fiscal sponsorship comes for our group, there's a lot of money on the table for us to start.
* Yar - SMAC has expanded into most of the basement, are you hoping to steward all of it?
* CC - yes whole area SMAC was utilized, including screenprinting and jewelry making. Right now just me steward for all of that, but other people are coming on board to help me. There is funding for it that is long term. Financing made available recently, so wanted to make a proposal out to SR this week.
* Paige - why does it need to be absorbed into SR, instead of just being fiscally sponsored like other groups?
* Jesse - before they would all have own leases. If fiscally sponsored, you would need a sponsor. Right now Omni has all these delegates and meetings. I'm thinking, with a 34 year lease - will there be all this organization in the future to sponsor this? With these leases, makes sense to be a standalone. Really if SR doesn't like that, you could do it a different way. But right now people go to these meetings because of ownership. If you don't own it, will this structure work? Why would CCL and FNB want to put in effort to go to these meetings for SR? Other reason for old dormant nonprofit, don't know about liabilities that could come up for existing nonprofit. Since these leases are 34 years, really valuable, why don't we just put it into a nonprofit that doesn't have these contingent liabilities? Highest level of safety that way. From EB PREC point of view - I don't think they care one way or another. Free Store, if that's the last one - then they can take over the current omni nonprofit. Its a temporary lease, so risking less because the asset that nonprofit has is less weighty. I'm not trying to doom the free store, and I dont think CALLI is either
* Yar - free store is a luxury, not a priority, just trying to exist without impacting Omni's ability to exist.
* Patrik - should talk about hours of operations. I think we gave wrong impression. They suggested 7am-8am, while a lot of things happen after 8pm. Hoping we can extend it to midnight.. But I would prefer that people are out of building after hours of operation.
* Jesse - I still think it would be good to have a vote on the purchase agreement first. But hours should be added to lease form. Original document is from you.
* Jesse - Omni Oakland Commons is the old nonprofit (Omni Commons current), you could change to Sudo Room, could probably file an amendment tomorrow.
* Jesse - Sarah has made sure tax forms are filed. But we don't know who is on the board. Who is on the board, and what those bylaws say should also be a Sudo Room discussion. By Aug 30, to be clear, you need to be working on lease first - that is binding.
* SL: Jake is President, Phil McDonald is also on the board and two people who are inactive, plus Jenny
* SL: I made a do-ocractic decision to add active sudo room members for this purpose
* Jesse - key point of the purchase agreement - selling it below market rate to continue your mission. Also need to understand that they will probably come back with changes. Moving forwards fast will be the best chance to get a good result.
* Yar - my main concern still is this will give Sudo Room more space despite harmful things they have done
* Paige - it is nice that Ojan sounded open to letting it split at a later date.
* Jesse - If you get to the next 10 days, and can't agree to leases, you could certainly not sign the deed over to them, then it would not close. I will put some additional language in about that scenario - then you are at last minute, and I don't think you would have time for plan b. Might be deciding at that point between leases and losing the building
* Patrik - if any groups refuse to sign a lease, CALLI could potentially call it off, but they don't have to?
* Jesse - middle position, CALLI could sign with groups it wants to. They could do with some not all. Or they could cancel the whole deal. The question is -- I guess I should include something to let you cancel the deal unless all leases are signed. But again, that's a right with not much umf behind it - its "we don't agree but we are going off a cliff". Discussed last week, I don't like the idea of a trust fall. But this deal is being dictated by circumstances beyond my control to contract around. I.e. When Patrik brought up thing about hours, they expressed want to come to a workable agreement.
* Jesse - that wasn't discussed at all. Last week I said you have the option of going into foreclosure and splitting the money. That could be better, I don't know.
* Yar - we have already had plenty of groups leave, and they never got a buyout. Don't see how this is different.
* Daniel - seems like good faith with Jesse, I think we should keep trying to get to the point of approving this.
* Jake - to be clear Jesse is a professional and has to answer all your

Decision to approve the Purchase Agreement
* CCL/Patrik yes, SM/Daniel yes, SR/William yes, FNB/Toan yes, SMAC/Ruby yes

* Ruby - I am a yes to going through with the purchase, but we want to see an accountability process form post this agreement
* Patrik - that should be in included in building rules. We should ask them how they deal with interpersonal conflict at their other projects
* Toan - I met with Ojan before this meeting, and they expressed openness to working with us. Didn't want to come in and change a lot since they are new to the building. So I think it is better if we work with them, also in terms of accountability. I have my trust with them. I think there will be friction in time
* Yar - I do trust EBPREC.
* Patrik - lease does include that lease holders are responsible for behavior of their members and guests - can be "good cause" for canceling a lease! Would be good to ask to see a copy of building rules for some of their other properties.
* Jesse - I started with your draft. If you have building rules now, I would suggest including those. I don't have that, would be helpful if you sent me that. My idea - first idea is to get standard terms right. Like utilities, common areas. Then send out with all the blanks about rent example. Will fix now with rent increases paused til roof is repaired.
* Paige - lease already allows
* Yar - I would like to not entrench hours into lease
* Jesse - I think it is in your interest. If important to your mission to stay open late. If volunteer org, most people working during the day. I would put in your make or breaks. More things you leave up to them, more you could be unhappy with them later.
* Yar - allow the tenants to determine its hours. Omni's culture has included these late night hours. I think it should give maximal control of the groups for operating hours. Lots of orgs allow unrestricted access. Might require
* Toan - I think they just brought this up for safety concerns. Also for their management, they need to inform them how late someone will be.
* William - can have a few people designated to know how to close the building. Dont know if worth getting into these details now
* Daniel - Marc was insistent about having 2 ballroom events per year.
* Yar - should we put something in there to advocate long term renters. Should be clarity if they can continue during this transition phase
* Patrik - I dont think we should get too into the way of event management
* Jesse - they seem fairly aligned, but have boundaries, they want to be ones making these decisions. I think we can ask for some of these things to be determined. Also begs questions, how that works, what structure. I thought the ballroom was clear was they will run it, but anyone can rent ballroom on same terms as anyone else renting it
* Patrik - I dont know which groups have been doing events in the ballroom.
* Toan - Ojan mentioned that people can rent through their group
* KO - we have limited funds to host __ Brown in September. Put on hold for this conversation.
* Patrik - would much rather negotiate on a smaller rent increase than having regular access to the ballroom.
* William - 24 hour big to me
* Patrik - not amenable to that.
* Paige - might be different when access control setup. If they have cafe in front, don't want people messing up commercial space.
* Yar - property manager could approve the list. difference between rented space and commons space. 24 would to be in rented space
* Patrik - personally I would prefer not having 24/7 access, can secure better. Also prevent people sleeping here
* Yar - dont see how building open past midnight changes this.
* William - I think we could mandate 24/7 given we have access control for our individual spaces, and a member is always there for that group.
* Patrik - when is it ok to have visitors, and when ok to have events to the public.
* Yar - and what do those even mean in context of the lease. Are these lease going to flesh this out - member vs key card member vs.. Or just left to be determined. Lease to include inalienable rights, not to be taken away later.
* Jesse - yes usually dont get into those micro-details. Would just list when you could operate. Hard to know what they will agree to. Could ask for 24/7 access. From my point of view, if they are operating the building, if well thought out idea, they could say no if not in the lease, but they can also say yes. They might say yes in advance to 8-midnight, but not to 24/7 access. Some industrial leases where its clear you need that, but here the common areas, there's no separate access, so that's why they would be saying that they don't want to give you 24 hr access. I think tomorrow come back with suggested changes for base lease. Then groups can fill in the blanks.
* Patrik - is 15% increase doable?
** William/SR yes Daniel/SM yes Toan/FNB yes, Patrik/ CCL just making rent right now. Hoping roof repair would attract more members. SMAC area/ $1200->$1380 yes

=== 5% increase ===
* Patrik - existing leases had 3%. 5% well above inflation rate. Their core mission to prevent pricing people out
* Ruby - rent control anywhere from 2% to 3%
**
* CC - reward, if you make all your payments, next year you get incentive
* Patrik - they pushed back against lessor of CPI or 5%. But could try matching to CPI
* Paige - reads Ojan email
* Jake - remember that we are working towards the same goal. We are arguing with ourselves in that Ojan is on the same team. Also we have no other option
* Patrik - sure but need to know where they are.
* Yar - and this lease will exist longer than we will be here. Reason we cant just assume good faith, because it exist longer than both current parties
* Patrik - 2058 I think would be when we will be renegotiating them

* Paige - timeline for figuring out the overall lease questions?
** Patrik - ASAP over email with Ojan

== Free Store ==
* Yar - not sure if free store set up to take over the nonprofit
* William - thought Omni might be a useful thing to organize together to talk to our direct contact with CALLI. Could be useful things
* Patrik - mission will be different if managing building
* Yar - EB PREC will be renting to other groups, will they want to join Omni?
* Patrik - EB PREC has an owner group. Could become something like that
* Patrik - could also be our means for dealing with interpersonal conflict.
* Paige - would both scenarios work out?
* Patrik - could use remaining omni funds to support the free store. Something to figure out later I think.

SL: or use remaining funds to subsidize rents for collectives that have actually paid into Omni... rather than a project which might no longer exist depending on how event spaces are tenanted. It's rarely open and it generates dumping. But I trust that PREC will use good judgment and be thoughtful about it.

== utility measuring ==
* Jake - I have a lot of solar installation measurement devices. Several actual meters that
* William - cool but I think metering plan is good as is in the lease document
* Patrik - code required if submetering done to determine leases
* Jake - the one I have would meet that requirement
* Yar - might use your equipment but they would do labor
* Patrik - generous as is at 50%. We did some quick math and estimated it would be 100 per month estimated for CCL and we are using the biggest amount of space. Last bill was $34k in utilities. I expect we all will pay higher if metered. CCL offered to submeter in the past because of how we use more energy. Also, we are trying to push back on initial rent increase if we are imagining we will pay more in utilities
* Yar - Only paying more until there’s the solar panels…
* Daniel - SM not using much energy now
* Yar - would be interesting to look at the server rack, might be some waste going to that
* Patrik - if server rack doing a service to whole building, doesn't make sense for that all to be charged to you.
* Daniel - SM, the server and rack we have, let's pretend we leave in a year. What happens to this infrastructure, do we leave it behind there? Just putting that out there, might be collectives in similar situation where they share things, and if they takes those out it would affect the building.
** William - can work that out ahead of time with you
** Patrik - Also other things in building, bunch of dollies i.e., that might go to ownership to CALLI afterwards.
** Jesse - that's one of the blanks remaining, not sure how it would be used. Bill of Sale but also assignment of property.

== authorizing Paige to sign purchase agreement ==
* Jesse - would be great to recommit something like this. In a perfect world, by friday have purchase agreement signed.
* Jesse - authorize Paige to sign purchase agreement and make amendments if both 1. amendments circulated to omni groups, and got 2. majority of them approve in email.
No objections

== timelines ==
* Toan - encourage you to meet one on one in person with Ojan. I feel like they are open to our comments on the lease, and are patient. But the more we delay, we will just keep finding more concerns. For me, its not a compromise to go forward with EB PREC. Not something we are settling for

== Todo ==
* Next meeting thursday
* Jesse sending Purchase Agreement tomorrow
* thinking and working on the leases

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Event:2023/12/15 Delegates

2025-09-14T04:14:46Z

Ceremona: /* intros */

notes archived here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2023/12/07_Delegates

'''Omni Delegates' Meeting - 15 Dec 2023 7pm-9pm'''

== Meeting Details ==
* Talk at https://https://omnicommons.org/meet or 515-428-1108 (PIN: 465814905)
* Type at https://omnicommons.org/notes
* Send proposals to consensus@lists.omnicommons.org prior to the meeting

=== Roles ===
* Facilitator/s:
* Stacktaker:
* Timekeeper:
* Notetaker/s: paige
* Next meeting's facilitator(s):

=== Delegates ===
* BOGSS:
* CCL: patrik
* FNB: josh
* SB:
* LL:
* SB:
* SM:
* SR: paige
* Quorum (2/3 of active groups):

=== intros ===

BRIEF INTROS MAY INCLUDE: name, pronouns, groups you're in, land you're on, if you're a delegate, unmet access needs, meeting roles you'd like to help with, discussion topics or proposals to add to agenda, announcements/updates/report-backs from your groups, safe space issues or updates
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* Silver - they/them
* Pallavi - she/her/they/them grantwriter, development consultant
* Philip - is 5013c omni exists, i expect grants can still be granted
* Pallavi - yes thats why im still looking for grants
* Tuan - he/him FNB delegate
* Joe - he/him access issue of hearing. not getting clear audio. i was on meeting hybrid, i thought more people came in person. its not a good way to make such an important decision. i think we need a decision made in person
* ruby - just sitting in for the first time, im here with the media lab collective
* phillip m - fnb and omni maintenance
* carlos - he/him, here on behalf of tanc
* paige - they/them sudo room delegate
* yar - she/her free store
* jake - any pronouns member of sudo room, been a member of omni for a long time
* josh - he/him fnb alternate delegate
* phillip bell - events working group
* ? - she/her they, havent been in here for a long time. looking to get more involved this time
* troy - im the omni librarian. after few text messages, people stop talking to me. made a commitment to phil and juan? ian and myself that im not going to take more books in. been having issues with health but going to bring books out every day. want to help people do research. who, what, when where?
* elaine - just came to listen, member of sudo room
* patrik - delegate for counter culture labs
* G - nice to see you all, he/they, helping with marketing and communications

== meeting for decision making ==
* silver - joe had idea to have larger meeting for decision making. can you expand joe?
* joe - im overwhelmed, so many things coming to a head. university has staked out the park, signs of construction coming about. this go round with getting the omni refinanced, i think it deserves a meeting where we could all see each other and read each other, and know the humanity of each other. this means extending decision to longer.
* silver - next week on the 21st?
* yar - next thursday at 7?
* joe - sounds reasonable. this meeting we should prepare for a meeting that would take full advantage
* phillip m - party on that date?
* joe - oh thats my anniversary. having people over at 4
* phillip b - i would suggest more officially setting a deadline for gathering proposal, options that are had. and putting them together into one google doc, with everything gathered at once, so everyone can make comments on it asynchronously. i know huge looming deadline.
* G - are there other proposals

== LLC idea ==
* jake - this idea has been done before, many times, some of us have lived in coops. corp created to buy the omni commons. people join by putting in money. money buys off balloon payment of 876k. that 876k comes from the combined funds of people. that corporate structure written in a way that all of those people could be assured that (like mulberry trust was assure) of their money. if omni doesnt make the deadline, they get building liquidation to pay themselves back. something we would have the lawyer draw this up
* troy - what is validity of our community land trust if it doesnt give people time to pay back
* patrik - no community land trust currently
* troy - oh i was told...
* jake - already a few people expressed. no one has 867k but many with 5 digits. but i think a lot more people who do it with more assurance/structure set up by lawyer.
* patrik - to be clear, not donations, just a way to create a lender
* silver- my critique, we tried something like this before but it was when omni was way more put together. I dont think we have enough time for a land trust
* patrik - i dont think so, we have at least 3 months, hopefully 6 months. we should pursue all options
* silver - most formal proposal is PP, still lots of questions. we would lose ownership but still be able to use the building.
* jake - reminder to everyone PP has put up the boycott.
* silver - please stop
* pallavi - yes we discussed this last meeting
* patrik - still 110 days after foreclosed about
* phillip - i wouldnt be talking about 6 month. omni doesnt have expensive
* yar - starting to become an issue for our events. i,.e. sketchboard needs security to plan things in advance. sooner we can solve the uncertainty
* joe - any leeway with mulberry, if we raise some money with the LLC
* yar - might buy time but wouldnt count on that

== peoples programs ==
* dv - she/her grocery
* nyallah - breakfast lead for pp
* abbas - cofounder pp
* delency - cofounder and cochair
* josh - fnb, delegate. a lot of fnb members are really excited about the idea of the proposal in the format that it was. few concerns raised. im not sure if now best time or to go with a list. one of the primary ones is in regards to - how likely is anonymous donor is to come through? seen some fall through. also more clarity on what the proposed governing structure is. understanding voting and democratic centralism. other concern is yalls relationship to CLP, but that is a broader conversation. our collective has not decided to block anything, we are just interested in getting more information, but if you are comfortable talking about this relationship. also concerns about pro-iran and pro-russia
* silver - last week they shared their relationship to CLP
* delency - we have no problem, i think its best we address everything you brought up. good to collectively ground yall on why we are here. we are here to address any matter that blocks our goal. which is our goal is to take over leadership of omni, as hub for anti-imperialist organizing. we hope you will pass a vote, to let us to. kwame use to say, we are going to keep on keeping on. seems like time is starting to be wasted. would you agree? i think also its imporatnat. but we also have our concerns. also some misrepresentation spread by omni. so lets come here today to show in practice how we address contradictions so you can all take that into account.
* abbas - goal of us in our proposal is to have conflict resolution. discuss in a way that roots our common humanity. question about me being pro iran and pro russia. i am muslim. big part of my life. if we talk about iran specifically. i was offered position to work with presstv to talk about black african plight in us. i think its important that we are grounded in facts. first thing has anyone watched the show power to the people where i discussed new afrikans, africans. presstv is only org that would let me say what i wanted to say without being censored. been on other channels for 45 seconds, few seconds. new african cause to new terrain. a lot of people dont know whats going on, they see famous ppl. we can reclaim a certain narrrative, we dont have infrastructure, we dont have land. black radical tradiionaly, willimas nhad a show in cuba. accusations about being a state agent, iran is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world. malcom shabazz, grandson of X. he went to iran and did an interview on presstv. he was assassinated in mexico city. claims of iranian agent is not only disrespectful to my intelligence, but also language CIA to criminalize any type of free kind of speech for us to have. understanding assassination of malcom, then calling me an agent, these are things that cia. serious reprecussions for myself. could send me to guantameno, thats not an exaggeration as a muslim. everyone entitled to their own opinions on iran, but it becomes dangerous when accusations are made, and those accusations are backing us and israeli talking points. tends to patronize and weaponize muslims. using iran as a pawn to advotate has a pawn. complex understanding of hijab. this is me an hijab, this is part of a religiion, what i chooose to practice. need to understand history of how statements can be violent. irans relationship to african movements. iran kicked out SA apartheid gov. iran welcomed in palestinain a lib groups. if you listen to our brics episode, you can hear a different statement on russia. what is russia? capitalist. jalil muntaqim spent 49 years in penintentiries. my family. first time out to spend time with family. someone talking about banning me from omni, thinking that is very egregious, given plight of neighborhood. given plight of the black panther party, how they were systematically removed to allow tech people to come in. to say i cant come to omni.symbolic to what has happened to black people . idk what else to call that other than racist or islamophobic. even here have to affirm my humanity in a room where people dont look at me. we're open to having conversation. like yar said we talked about middle east conflict for hours. what we are trying to say we are open for conversation. in terms of being pro-russia, hey we are critical of the west, we are critical of nato.

* nyallah - as a muslim woman, for anyone to speak whether or not i should wear a hijab. that is not anyones place. i wear my hijab with pride. that is are own personal relationship with allah. very western, white, racist ideology for you to feel that it is your place to speak as a representation for other people rights when they have not asked you to be.
* seer - i really appreciate you sharing that. i guess i dont want to speak for anyone, maybe ive been exposed to things are inaccurate portrayals. i have seen muslim women talk about oppression
* nyallah i think that its a very thin line between trying to support people and trying to insert yourself in a conversation that you do not belong. you do not know intricacies of what it means to be a muslim women. evne as a muslim im still learning, we all are still learning. very thin line and i would be careful, personally
* seer - yea im talking about exploring more opinions, not explaining for them. context, i just moved here, ive been in the space 2 days. im not representing anyone other than myself. as a trans person i have questions, muslim beliefs. any intersectional with trans right
* delency - perfect segue, to our ideology. abbas laid the foundation. how that might play out on the international terrain. claims of us being marxist leninists, stalinists, followers of mao zedong. just need to scroll, new afrikans have a right to free the land. our goal is to free the land. state either reactionary or revolutionary, we want revolutionary that serves all people, no matter religion gender ... we do want to see a world where all people walk free. understand how this world is shaped by nation states, nato. to address that game, we want to see the republic of new afrika. ultimate goal is pan africanism. only by unification that is the only way to combat western imperialism. africa one of richest nations in world. if we organize socially economically, and most importantly militarily, we can combat. no where does marx address pan africanism, he dont even talk on imperialism. mao said they should forge their own path "combatting liberalism" now i want to know what omni
* phil - in fnb, have to belivee in the 911 conspiracy, cant kill the ants. i can see how that be unsettling. got to go to a certain number of protests.
* d - who ideology is that?
* phil - i dont call myself an anarchist, but i am around
* d - we have worked with groups that dont work in anti-imperialsm. if your anti-imperialism comes through anarchy. revolutionary nationalism is our
* troy - now is what people taught are global capitalism. lenin forward, that got interprested by the new left, i dont read spanish, i cant most people dont want to do violence, do backwards things. i will dedicate 6 years of my life if we develop __ and
* d - concerns addressed.
* josh - were satisfied with answer you got, or do you want to hear more about ideology.
* d - yall got a point where we have these problems and these contradictions so we can get to this vote.
* silver - one suggetstion to a larger group meeting for all collectives. given all these accusations and allegations. we can research anyone and find problems. weird to level we are doing to PP. when talkijng about systems of harm. and we need to look in at ourselves. esp with their. as person coming from 2018
* yar - i appreciate you coming here. i want this to work. the only thing that is still giving me pause, is iranian friends of mine, who are scared with people who have . if you can assure iranian dissidents are safe here. thats all i need
* d - weve spoken of this for. our community is boycotting you but we are breaking bread. we have said multiple times. we good we want to have a conversation. what from our writings has it made that iranian women are not safe. what episode or writing makes them feel unsafe. those that source rafiqs piece, nothing but women in that piece. he who cast the first stone. you are asking something that you are not giving us
* pallavi - as poc taking space, the pushback against pp proposal. pushback really reeks of islamophobia. i dont feel comfortable in this space if that is where you are coming from. i am close with people who have worked with PP. i trust those people with their life. no doubt in my mind that they have the financial . the options to save the building are unrealistic, given reality of lack of structure, and inability to raise funds, know donors backgrounds. a lot of this discussion is really short sited. those qs should be directed to people with experience, not those who are failing. even though you have created a beautiful space here, if you dont have a clear idea of how to go forward on a tight deadline, they i dont know how to help you
* yar - ill take that as a yes
* g - i saw some conversation about PP and things found online, there were deciscions made off of what was being found. i appreciate PP coming through. why are we making deciscions without having conversations first. reflection of a pattern of alleged statements made against omni
* pallavi - by people of color specifically
* g - dont want ppl to feel scared. well fuck it feel scared. this is bigger than any one of us specifically.
* josh - i want to echo safe space for iranians. i think theres a hyper emphasis on picking out specific things people program. drawing ideological jumps. remember that a lot of people dont feel safe. who are we to say pp need to commit to some specific thing. under auspice of protecting iranian dissidents. but there are so many people who dont feel safe here. this space is not safe now, so why demand that from PP. thats personal opinion. with fnb hat back on - appreciate PP being here. i dont think this should be a trial of abbas. conveyed things fnb had asked. i think we should move past that.
* G - one thing i noticed in this meeting and with prev groups, intellectual war of my thoughts vs your thoughts. reason why things are the way that they are. if we are going to be an inclusive space. how do we hold space without being harmful each other. true of demographic. why are their conflicts with other groups
* joe - this is very hard for me. the omni commons has a lot of problems. i was gung ho 2014. put in hours of hours rebuilding sound walls and things. always been clear that we lacked ability to have a modicum of trust that we could speak blunt. so a lot of factionalism. i know how i feel so thats all i can say. part of events working group. rented to PYM two summers ago. youth camp. to now hear they are boycotting us, all i can say is what happened. at least not on all levels. there were contentious meetings, all involved CLP stuff. beating the drum. hard to process that with interactions with PYM or black ppl in community. oscar grant committee works here. church for 6 months. FNB doesnt have overarching radical program. try to serve the marginalized. your program is so organized and powerful, and way you present yourself. i dont know if youll have much need for fnb. i dont if fnb can pass your test
* d - frustration right now. folks in leadership has conveyed what we have done to your. all we are doing is making them stronger.
* yar - big enough for both food?
* abbas - pp do people park, pp do northgate to 29. can be welcoming to black people. beacon of light for whole nation. change a lot of time started right in oakland.
* troy - right to eat food, capitalized
* yemi - if folks in the space understand how we move, currently right now in oakland 8000 unhoused people. majority black, genocide of our people. material numbers drive our org. factually fnb has an expansive group, why arent we working together. for folks to say we might be authoritarian. weve worked with non profits to women dv. we dont practice purity politics. ply and peeth, acupuncture protocol to do a detox clinic.
* pallavi - back channels here because people want to be called racist. back channels have to stop. pp providing so much transparency. do it here while you have people here. staying anonymous is not productive
* d - if that is how people acting, i have no desire to interact.
* paige - heat of boycott meeting
* d - reconciliation between silvers friend,
* yar - came in with one remaining concern. emphatic yes.
* tuan - what paige brought up, PP was first introduction to a lot of people at omni. people felt like it wasnt addressed to . good you responded that you are open to that.
* d - i think its important to know so of the stuff of racism is true. we just had to plead our humanity. now we have to get a full investigation to make a proper conclusion. presentation is yall came in did these things. but basis is true. for things that werent principled, will be addressed.
* troy - land trust keep going to monetize. need to focus on what will protect us as a community
* G - open up some transparency about what is going on with foreclosure and accountability. omni is exploring additional options. looking for other proposals. dont mean to say that peoples programs x'd out. currently seems like most fleshed out plan. also in late jan planning to do a 2 day meeting. foreclosure meeting with community, and anohter on accountability with groups who have left the building.
* josh - yall have conveyed some urgency. want clarity on when omni needs an answer for PP
* abbas - urgent situation in terms finances and donors. legal work to appease a foreclosure after speaking with an attorney. could be a long process or quick or expedited process. urgency omni should have because of foreclosure status. all these are different factors that we have to consider. we want to know as soon as possible because we dont want our time to be wasted. there are going to be developers who are waiting for this to happen.
* josh - really interested in what would be a comfortable timeline
* silver - foreclosure will start til jan, but still have 90 days
* paige -
* abbas - we also need time to learn about building, and liabilites. going to be a lot of work. no need
* yar - my understanding of next steps is one lawyer turn that proposal into a legally binding contract.
* abbas - be us to come to conclusions that we should make together rather than the lawyer
* yar - what your saying is we give soft yes, then hard yest to contract
* d - we need hard yes or no, then we can start working with a lawyer. for us to have a soft yes, not a scientific process
* patrik - i think proposal is lacking with specifics
* d - it has been updated.
* abbas - q?
* patrik - govenerance, and legalese. want lawyer to hash out details
* yemi - my understanding proposal from this delegate body to move things forward. now its sounds like you want lawyers to create bylaws that you would then vote on.
* abbas - question about governance
* yemi in legal language?
* patrik - not necessarily
* abbas - us taking over finances and full ownership of the building for 900k. delegates meets in similiar way. but making this a black hub. if no black delegates now thats a problem. our proposal, we would assume financial for mulberry trust and that debt, maintain delegates and tenants in the space, and move forward in a positive way, while also creating new leases.
* g - two interests that omni that exists now and omni of the future. also what does transition process. just want to voice that feels tense.
* yar - ownership i appreciate, that was not in the proposal you sent. that could happen in two ways. could body of omni commons replaced with new people from PP, or a real estate transaction. RE transaction costly. if omni commons org repurposed, then what is delegate structure. but the existing delegate structure is the board. i believe theres a way to satisfy these contradictions without a lwawyer but...
* abbas - for us to be able to raise that money. i think there needs to be a 2million investment in this building. we have a track record that omni doesnt have on paper. transfer of ownership would be best for creating black community center
* yemi - temperature check, what is ideal situation for folks that are currently tenamts. what ownership have you thought about, given we are providing all the funding
* yar - one scenario i asked lawyer about would be for omni maintain ownership but would give 35 year lease for PP with understanding that new groups would be added to that board, so both groups . lease as a corporation would be where all the details of relationship hashed out. i dont want property relationship but because real estate transaction costly, would trigger a 2million. potentially reapply for welfare exemption. we need details before we can get a hard yes. need to know what we are saying yes too.
* silver - as a person who does mostly of admin something we dont do very well. a lot of collectives want to keep organizing in their space. really hard to even get delegates to come here. wrangling cats. to me it felt clear but seems like we need to have more discussion.
* patrik - most of the groups in building dont want to own building, but we want to do what our orgs are set up to do, which are not owning the building
* seer - from that position, you all are coming in talking about experiencing a modern lynching, and coming to a space that is experiencing a lynching. with both orgs experiencing misinformation.. i think theres a lot in common about that and be very vulnerable. chinese perspective but coming to space where you may come and be in danger. saying "can you be more specific" before coming in seems like a power imbalance. makign up for omnis reputation, i think from limited . people havent watched the video you are being slandered for.
* josh - as FNB we are not married to any logistical structure of building. our primary motivation is to continue having space that we can cohabitate and continue doing food justice. only concern about ownership is will we get kicked out randomly. not a concern ive had, but i think people would be assuaged by what youve said
* toan - when groups come in to omni, to become member collective. process is usually longer. i think we are not trying to rush it, just trying to know details of who is coming in. i dont think this require a haste process. but also pressure of foreclosure. just a question to clarify - last week there was a statement that allegience to politics not to people. can you clarify
* d - scientific to the politic. i would not put relationship with abbas above politic of PP.
* patrik - how do you forsee working with people who dont share your politics
* d - we are doing it right now
* yemi - no one is specifically interested in owmership, but do want to maintain space. temp check around ownership
* joe - concern about deciscion making. once you take over financially and admin, theres a contradiction in maintaining any type of strict or quasi non hierarchiacal deciscion making. you say a leadership caucus., with our without those titles, ownership places you in a space where you are in a higher power because you have responsibility larger. knowing how much we will be able to participate in decision making
* yemi - helpful to understand, from what silver and yar have shared, administration is something people dont want to deal with. what decisions are you talking about making as a collective. what decisions are you concerned about with that hierarchy
* joe - space allocation. pretty quickly allocation of space
* abbas - in proposal we maintain tenant structure that already exists. we understand different levels for space. we are not kicking anyone else. weve said very clearly. my opinion ballroom and kitchen need upgrades. food bank that serves black brown, muslim communities. for us as financial and administrative, we are responsible for that. safe food handling according to alameda laws. sprinklers in ballroom. society ruled by capitalist. hierarchy in this room right now even if you say theres not. collective ideology to where delegates and tenants to advocate for certain things. i want you to come about issues. black movement center and movement incubator; deep obligation felt to our town and our people
* patrik - appreciate a little of time to talk amongst ourselves.

== after meeting discussion ==
* josh - hung up on details of decision making. i think the reality is we will never get a fully legally binding structure that will say that we will have decision making in the building when admin is moved over to pp. will have to trust that they will work with us in good faith. working within a country where legal contracts not set up for communal structure. cooperatives and land trusts rely on some level of trust. we also dont have a true consensus process already. hierarchies in this room that are deeply present, we are entrusted those with institutional power through holding knowledge. not going
* patrik - community land trusts do this, hold groups occupying groups responsible via their bylaws. i think legally theres a way to
* seer -
* josh - if we really wanted a land trust, that shit shouldve happened a while ago. demanding so much from these black individuals to jump through these hoops for.
* troy - need a structure of accountability
* silver - difficult to be here, attending a delegate meeting where delegates dont know what the hell is happening in the building. expect volunteers to do it. to expect PP to come with a perfect proposal is unfair. i beg all delegates and volunteers to participate and they dont join. even with capacity building group its still been a shit show. decision making model doesnt work.
* patrik - all members collectives just want to do their own thing
* pallavi - ideology of lets do our own things in silos. disservice to sharing the space. frankly its selfish.
* silver - want to address that delegates are volunteers, all have their full time jobs
* yar - i want to say my vision when we started it was not that were rooms, not just transactional relationship. my vision was member collectives are here bc they serve a purpose. serve building blocks for what a community needs. sudo room - place where people can fix things. if somebody skill is to run a fixit clinic on tuesday - you are helpping the building by doing your work in sudoroom. takes some discipline to maintain that. not true of every group. try not to get too caught up in like "why arent you in a wg". FNB - if someone is serving food, i dont think they need to be doing something else
* pallavi - i think its more that delegates. if delegates is failure on their part. they dont have that much care for the spcae
* patrik - i didnt know PP were going to join us. i really would appreciate if we had time to talk amongst ourselves. CCL meeting, theres a lot of distrust of PP. few of core members said they would leave ccl if PP join the building. PP still has Rafiqs post up. their goal of bible belt into black nation, secession is goal. counter culture already on the radar of the FBI. and FNB, ppl with occupy. there was a lot of opposition, also partially due to lack of detail. i liked a lot of what i heard today. got some feedback from response in the Peoples Garden.
peoples garden
* pallavi - should be asked before next time
* paige - next meeting is our big meeting
* G - if its a huge group, we need a facilitator.
agreed
* patrik - also how are we going to vote on the proposal
* silver - facilitator to talk about harms in past. even if omni ceases to exist, will help when we are working with each other after. Friday/Saturday first weekend of January.
* --- - thing that stood out to me is speculator developers coming in
* -- deeds of what this place could be, disappearing. hope that its going to be okay. hope to help you fundraise some time,

* lawyer is 175/hr
* patrik - but worth it

Event:2022/09/15 Delegates

2025-09-14T04:13:59Z

Ceremona: /* Delegates */

'''Omni Delegates' Meeting - September 15, 2022 7pm-9pm'''

* Talk at https://meet.google.com/diw-hszw-msr or 515-428-1108 (PIN: 465814905)
* Type at https://omnicommons.org/notes
* Send proposals to consensus@lists.omnicommons.org prior to the meeting

=== Meeting Roles ===
* Facilitator/s:
* Stacktaker:
* Timekeeper:
* Notetaker/s:
* Next meeting's facilitator(s):

=== Delegates ===
* inactive groups: CSC, GWS, LL
* ANV: active, silver
* CCL: active, Patrik
* CLP: active, billy
* FNB: active, helen
* MOP: active, jacqi
* SM: inactive, camber
* SR: inactive, jake
* Quorum (2/3 of active groups): need 4

* yar she/her
* peter sudoroom
* patrik he/him ccl
* geraldo he/they clp, events wg
* billy they/them clp
* helen she/her fnb
* imma she/they. treasurer, bank signer, working on press releases and messaging
* joe he/him fnb. peoples park still battling UC. very much in favor of cleanliness accountability committee. will help getting entrance hall paint to hazardous waste depot.
* jacqi she/her mop. working on liquor license + fire inspection. need to leave early. yes on cleanliness accountability! city says we need a CUP
** yar: we already have a CUP! that's a trap!
* jake sudo, working on door access
** imma: jake has been hosting bike light party!
* silver they/them anv. helping with bookkeeping, events treasurer, liaising with collectives. applying for 20k grant due 9/22.
* camber sudomesh

= Agenda =

== intros ==
BRIEF INTROS MAY INCLUDE: name, pronouns, groups you're in, land you're on, if you're a delegate, unmet access needs, meeting roles you'd like to help with, discussion topics or proposals to add to agenda, announcements/updates/report-backs from your groups, safe space issues or updates

== board ==
confirmed:
* ANV - Rachel Ruiz
* CCL - Patrik D'haeseleer
* CLP - does not want any named board member
* FNB - Helen Finkelstein
* LL - John Torok
* MOP - Michael Sierra

still in question:
* CSC - Arnoldo (pending that board's consent)
* GWS - Rachel but need confirmation from her
* SM - Marc Juul says Sudo Mesh still very much alive, but core members have spent much of the summer traveling. Will check with members about delegate. Note: correct contact email is info@sudomesh.org , *not* mesh@sudoroom.org. Possibly Camber - will talk to folks
* SR - ??
* BOGSS - ??

* imma: i'd like to know who's best to contact in these groups also
** yar can help
* billy: sounds like we're talking about a mass email to get folks' attention. "this is what's happening, this is what needs doing". the cleanliness proposal will also be something to announce.
* we'll keep trying to fill these gaps
Current comms needs:
1) official paperwork need a board member per each collective^
2) delegates - need names for active ones and process for collectives' comms
3) Cleaning Accountability - need collectives' cooperation

== lawyer ==
* Yar's email yesterday: Jesse Palmer is Omni's lawyer. A bunch of people have been wanting to ask him questions lately, but it's best to try and fit them all into one call since his time is so limited and expensive. So let's compile all our questions here (and at tomorrow's delegate meeting) and
hopefully have a call in the next week?
** events contracts: how do we force people to send receipts without undermining the "event presenter" language
** events: how to navigate asking for w9s and 1099s
** developing a game plan for december, what happens if mulberry forecloses
** asking mulberry for more favors - either for more time, to be a guarantor, or something else?
** Jacqi wants info on liquor license process
** If anybody else would like to add to this list, or join the call, let us know!

=== discussion ===
* who wants to be on this call? yar, jacqi, patrik

== fire inspection ==
* Probably coming up in next month or so
* Possible use of saferDIY (Sarah/David) to help us with fire inspection - should we approach - Cere will ask: would they be willing to put aside past debts to them for now, and allow us to pay them to prep for this upcoming fire inspection (expect to take an hr or two)

== cleanliness ==
* cleanliness accountability proposal from last meeting
https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/GcTDiTZqA3ao5+6hbaAuobdc/
* billy: in short we are gonna fine omni member groups who keep spaces messy. define exactly when shared spaces are being used, and not used, by member groups. stop spaces from being ... fucking disgusting, literally a repellent of human beings and human survival. hopefully a monetary fine will be a deterrant. our respect for each other hasn't been enough to maintain that standard. dire time when we need all hands, and the first thing people see is rotting food and rat shit? need to stop that. proposed 2 weeks ago on consensus list. ready to vote?
** billy: the document defines a committee that's empowered to do that, to hand out fines, and has a budget.
* helen: fnb thought this was a really good proposal
* patrik: rather than charging a fixed amount, maybe charge for cleanup service might scale much better. some messes are much bigger than others. if we can call a cleanup service, at least it'll happen.
* silver: want to see each member collective participating, stewarding part of the common space. very few individuals continuously doing it.
** billy: so you want the committee to enact some kind of chore system for member collectives that requires them to do stuff like cleaning? sounds pretty reasonable
* need to appoint a committee before we can start proposing stuff like that
** Yar: yes, we have some money to pay for cleaners
* billy: a lot of stuff are cleaning for free already. if we start paying them, we'll get great results. thank them for tons of unseen labor that's been essential for so long. hiring clenaers who don't know the space, if we don't alreayd have it at a set state, seems challenging. we'd need to supervise them intensely. it's not a normal space with straightforward goals. "what do i do with these piles of crates? rat shit?"
** yar: open the airlock, send it all into space
* patrik: the fines increase pretty quickly, $15/day
** billy: we'll start slow. form committee, give grace periods. need time to define the spaces, get people on it. you'll all have warning.
* silver: the $50 fine is for collectives or individuals?
** billy: there's a lot of people in collectives who use the space. if they don't accept these consequences we'd have to restrict their access perhaps. also some edge cases like members of FNB who are in the space all the time. in those cases i'd defer to hold the org accountable cuz i thin kthat's more powerful for groups to hold their own people accountable.
* jake: i'm in favor personally. just seeing it now. it's good, we should formalize the invisible labor of keeping the space clean. but creating a structure with parking tickets, policing people for whatever transgressions they've done inadvertently or carelessly to create this extra labor, i think it's a step beyond and we're not ready for that. so rather than create a bunch of cops with authority to issue tickets, we should just fund the cleaning effort we're already doing and formalize that, then create a communication channel for the people doing that labor to all the delegates of member collectives and tenants using the building, so whenever there's a mess that's found and has to be cleaned up, there can be direct communication to whoever's responsible for creating that mess, or have info on how it was created. and on a case by case basis, funds can be directed as appropriate. rather than just deputizing cleaning people to be able to just issue a $50 fine per day or something like that. doesn't take into accounta any of the realities that i think go into running the building
* yar: we should offer folks the cleaning services as an alternative to fines?
* yar: jake, fines are a last resort, the ocmmittee will try those things first
** jake: who gets the first fine? ... the delegate meeting should do this, not a separate committee. we should fund the cleaning labor, create a communications channel [too much for yar to type]
* patrik: for people who aren't affiliated with orgs ... i think if someone's in omni they should be the responsibility of one of the collectives. i like the structure of orgs holding their members responsible. but what about messes we don't know who left them? who would we currently assign fines to? there's a couple groups very active and always have a hard time cleaning up at the end. it's not too hard to figure it out. i'd like the idea much better of actually doing a cleanup and apportioning what the cost of that cleanup was. if you look for rat shit, you're gonna find it everywhere at omni. i don't want ccl to be on the hook for $50/day because there's some rat shit in the corner. you're gonna find it somewhere. we should pay for rodent abatement, and if need be apportion that to different collectives.
* jake: i plugged 2 giant rat holes on the border hole between sudo + ccl, how much do i get paid for that? giant rat holes. i vacuumed up literally 10lb of rat shit in that area, permanently closed those areas off with metal like 1.5 weeks ago.
* patrik: the $50/day will create resentment and be hard to enforce. i'd much rather say to a collective, "you need to clean this up, if you don't by [date] we're gonna pay people and charge you"
** helen: i like that. would billy accept that amendment? more workable than a flat fee.
* billy: what about in a situation that needs to be cleaned that day? i think adding more labor of having to do an investigation case by case ...
** helen: if it has to be cleaned that day then you have to pay more, ok
** billy: reality is that before this meeting, it's been the same few of us representing the only active member collectives. at last meeting, nobody was that afraid of the fines, maybe the number or amount but agreed this is the direction we should be moving in. also tenants like VOL - a very important force that's struggling to feel welcome in the space because of cultural norms that invisibilize [...] but really mean anybody can just do whatever they want to others and "who's gonna stop me?" interesting to me that people involved in this labor agree, but people who aren't involved are creating more labor without staffing the committees. i don't want to make this super complicated. we need a deterrent, a group of people who can enforce that deterrent and keep that going. it's important for that process to be easy because everybody who's gonna be on it is already on all the other ocmmittees too. it's a lot of work that's challenging. i don't think it needs to be made harder out of some ideological purity that i don't see in reality in the space. i see what it's been organized around for 8 years and i've seen the result. this is what we need to survive. these issues are what makes people unable to be part of omni and that's why we're short on people. i hope this will never have to be enacted because people will clean up after themselves. if they do, pay us money. i like the idea of offering CSC/GWP that option. but for folks who aren't gonna do that, we're gonna have to have some kind of more real reality. talking it out over a series of weeks at meetings that happen twice a month that most people don't show up to, that's not enough. we need all hands on decks. ship is sinking. i wanna bail the water out. let's make that happen.
* patrik: if you think administering a daily increasing penalty is gonna be easier than hiring a cleaning team and charging the cost, i think you're gonna be frustrated. we're gonna end up with people not cleaning up messes, and who can't pay the penalty. that's gonna be harder to manage than "we did the cleanup, here's the bill, we can negotiate whether to add that to your rent or not"
* jacqi: i think we need to respect the culture we're trying to build in this space while still bringing accountability. appreciate patrik's suggestion. idk if it'll be practical to try to figure out who made a mess and who do we impose the fee on? that might take longer. might require immediate cleanup. so an accountability structure involves [...] don't want to charge people money they can't afford, but do want cleaners to be compensated.
* yar: i feel like we're micromanaging this committee. if we empower them to form and do things we should trust them to use fees wisely and not as a first resort. to be clear, if delegates don't like the results in 2 or 4 weeks, we can undo it. this is a highly reversible decision.
* patrik: an easy solution is to add to "$50/day fine" and asy "alternatively the committee can decide to give the org a deadline or a cleaning crew will be hired and costs charged". that gives the committee more flexibility and will wind up being easier as well.
** billy: so say "the committee is empowered to charge up to this amount" rather than require it
* billy: people are afraid of approaching others sometimes. puts the labor on folks to say "this is what your'e doing to me, this is what's affecting me". this is what i'm hearing from people at omni now. a system is important, to be able to say, "this is omni's rules, this is omni structure, i'm not singling you out, this is nothing personal between us, it's just what our culture and rules are". having that above individuals is important. without that, our interpersonal dynamics are challenging enough. having to plead folks to clean up yet again after years, might [...]
** jake: specific examples of situations where there was a failure of communication, of the existing process that would necessitate this new structure? i think the first thing we should do besides formalize and fund our cleaning operations (so it's not volunteers feeling burned out & exploited) is to [...] so accountability for messes can be discussed, and then after that, if necessary, deal with the compensation issue
* yar: jake are you REALLY telling me right now to "create a communications channel"? i've been doing that for years and years and i'm burned out
** jake: [quits meeting]
* billy: we've been talking about this at THESE meetings for months. specific messes.
* patrik: should we take another 2 weeks because we amended the proposal?
* jacqi: situation is frustrating. the tone that's being used, the words, the cussing, speaking down about people who are part of omni - it's frustrating that people aren't doing the same amount of labor. how we address them, i believe, makes us who we are as a group. addressing them in a way that makes people feel belittled or can't have a say, i don't think is going to be helpful. i totally understand we're not gonna put things on hold for people who aren't showing up or doing work. but we shouldn't talk down about the way people interact or run their groups. it's ok to follow our rules about inactive collectives, but this conversation is making me uncomfortable. like i said, i think this should move forward, love patrik's amendment. appreciate billy for the initiative. but i think we might lose people because of the way things are spoken about in these meetings. i love you all, i hope we can ground and be kind ot each other.
* jake: as a member of sudoroom, i'd want our delegate to block the proposal
** yar: jake, you understand sudoroom is inactive?
* explanation of what inactive means. last time sudoroom delegate showed up was jake on july 7th
* helen: jake is asking for better communication before this process of trying to have accountability. i don't see why we need to wait for the accountability. the two channels are: having the committee, setting up the committee, giving the committee its powers, AND setting up the communications about what is to be done, which jake wants to see happen. there's no need to wait for 1 before the other.
** patrik: i agree with helen. i appreciate the frustration billy feels about how slow these decisions take to get passed, but that's just the system that we have, i'd have to ask to exercise some patience. last meeting we all agreed we should have a mechanism like this. i don't think anybody's opposed to setting up a committee to start enforcing some of these things and start keeping an eye on it. 1 weeks from now we can actually have a vote. personally even tho sudoroom isn't an active delegate at the moment i'd feel uncomfortable voting over jake's objections. i'd prefer to vote on the specific language in 3 weeks, but meanwhile set up the committee and figure out who wants to be on it.
* yar: if we approve the proposal but delay the fine enforcement until after our october 6 meeting, and require another affirmative consensus decision on october 6 to give them that fine enforcement power?
** jake is ok with that
** CONSENSUS: YES (ccl/patrik silver/anv jake/sr helen/fnb billy/clp jacqi/mop) abstain (camber/sm), block (none), PASSES!
* patrik: have fnb and anv had this discussion in their orgs? the 2 groups that deal with food the most
** helen: yes we have
** Silver: will talk with them tomorrow, but ready to vote in favor
* willing to be on committeee: Patrik, Silver, Helen

== basement messes ==
* silver: media lab is getting out of hand. how do we maintain that before it gets worse?
** at a previous meeting we talked about contacting CC about sewing area
** yar tried to talk to her about setting boundaries for the sewing area - pretty minimal ask - and she responded nonlinearly, not much accountability
** people think it's cc's private studio and don't realize it's common space
** cc needs to know we have to keep stuff clean. same response, a ramble
* peter: cc is part of an effort to raise awareness of sudoroom and omni as part of our fundraising efforts. providing fabric classes, brings people on tuesday nights, raises visibility, serves a valuable role in that way. this is the first i'm hearing about the issues of collecting clutter.
* yar's asks:
1. clear boundary for media lab, and a deadline to move everything inside
2. Ratproof all cloth storage (we can buy some bins and racks if needed)
3. Share equipment and space better. it's not just for one person. Equipment and tables should be clear for the next person after use.
4. Transparency about money changing hands

* silver: need a formal proposal of what media lab can be. it can be so much more. legitimize and formalize it. ask cc to be part of that proposal.
* jake has been holding onto cash donations from media lab, bitcoin and other things but hasn't deposited it yet. the ledger so far contains: $20 $20 $5 $5 $5820 200 100 10 35 25 5

== basement storage ==

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[[Category:Delegates Meeting]]

Event:2022/09/15 Delegates

2025-09-14T04:13:18Z

Ceremona: /* cleanliness */

'''Omni Delegates' Meeting - September 15, 2022 7pm-9pm'''

* Talk at https://meet.google.com/diw-hszw-msr or 515-428-1108 (PIN: 465814905)
* Type at https://omnicommons.org/notes
* Send proposals to consensus@lists.omnicommons.org prior to the meeting

=== Meeting Roles ===
* Facilitator/s:
* Stacktaker:
* Timekeeper:
* Notetaker/s:
* Next meeting's facilitator(s):

=== Delegates ===
* inactive groups: CSC, GWS, LL
* ANV: active, silver
* CCL: active, Patrik
* CLP: active, billy
* FNB: active, helen
* MOP: active, jacqi
* SM: inactive, camber
* SR: inactive, jake
* Quorum (2/3 of active groups): need 4

* yar she/her
* peter sudoroom
* cere, just trying to see how i can help. not sure what i have to offer.
* patrik he/him ccl
* geraldo he/they clp, events wg
* billy they/them clp
* helen she/her fnb
* imma she/they. treasurer, bank signer, working on press releases and messaging
* joe he/him fnb. peoples park still battling UC. very much in favor of cleanliness accountability committee. will help getting entrance hall paint to hazardous waste depot.
* jacqi she/her mop. working on liquor license + fire inspection. need to leave early. yes on cleanliness accountability! city says we need a CUP
** yar: we already have a CUP! that's a trap!
* jake sudo, working on door access
** imma: jake has been hosting bike light party!
* silver they/them anv. helping with bookkeeping, events treasurer, liaising with collectives. applying for 20k grant due 9/22.
* camber sudomesh

= Agenda =

== intros ==
BRIEF INTROS MAY INCLUDE: name, pronouns, groups you're in, land you're on, if you're a delegate, unmet access needs, meeting roles you'd like to help with, discussion topics or proposals to add to agenda, announcements/updates/report-backs from your groups, safe space issues or updates

== board ==
confirmed:
* ANV - Rachel Ruiz
* CCL - Patrik D'haeseleer
* CLP - does not want any named board member
* FNB - Helen Finkelstein
* LL - John Torok
* MOP - Michael Sierra

still in question:
* CSC - Arnoldo (pending that board's consent)
* GWS - Rachel but need confirmation from her
* SM - Marc Juul says Sudo Mesh still very much alive, but core members have spent much of the summer traveling. Will check with members about delegate. Note: correct contact email is info@sudomesh.org , *not* mesh@sudoroom.org. Possibly Camber - will talk to folks
* SR - ??
* BOGSS - ??

* imma: i'd like to know who's best to contact in these groups also
** yar can help
* billy: sounds like we're talking about a mass email to get folks' attention. "this is what's happening, this is what needs doing". the cleanliness proposal will also be something to announce.
* we'll keep trying to fill these gaps
Current comms needs:
1) official paperwork need a board member per each collective^
2) delegates - need names for active ones and process for collectives' comms
3) Cleaning Accountability - need collectives' cooperation

== lawyer ==
* Yar's email yesterday: Jesse Palmer is Omni's lawyer. A bunch of people have been wanting to ask him questions lately, but it's best to try and fit them all into one call since his time is so limited and expensive. So let's compile all our questions here (and at tomorrow's delegate meeting) and
hopefully have a call in the next week?
** events contracts: how do we force people to send receipts without undermining the "event presenter" language
** events: how to navigate asking for w9s and 1099s
** developing a game plan for december, what happens if mulberry forecloses
** asking mulberry for more favors - either for more time, to be a guarantor, or something else?
** Jacqi wants info on liquor license process
** If anybody else would like to add to this list, or join the call, let us know!

=== discussion ===
* who wants to be on this call? yar, jacqi, patrik

== fire inspection ==
* Probably coming up in next month or so
* Possible use of saferDIY (Sarah/David) to help us with fire inspection - should we approach - Cere will ask: would they be willing to put aside past debts to them for now, and allow us to pay them to prep for this upcoming fire inspection (expect to take an hr or two)

== cleanliness ==
* cleanliness accountability proposal from last meeting
https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/GcTDiTZqA3ao5+6hbaAuobdc/
* billy: in short we are gonna fine omni member groups who keep spaces messy. define exactly when shared spaces are being used, and not used, by member groups. stop spaces from being ... fucking disgusting, literally a repellent of human beings and human survival. hopefully a monetary fine will be a deterrant. our respect for each other hasn't been enough to maintain that standard. dire time when we need all hands, and the first thing people see is rotting food and rat shit? need to stop that. proposed 2 weeks ago on consensus list. ready to vote?
** billy: the document defines a committee that's empowered to do that, to hand out fines, and has a budget.
* helen: fnb thought this was a really good proposal
* patrik: rather than charging a fixed amount, maybe charge for cleanup service might scale much better. some messes are much bigger than others. if we can call a cleanup service, at least it'll happen.
* silver: want to see each member collective participating, stewarding part of the common space. very few individuals continuously doing it.
** billy: so you want the committee to enact some kind of chore system for member collectives that requires them to do stuff like cleaning? sounds pretty reasonable
* need to appoint a committee before we can start proposing stuff like that
** Yar: yes, we have some money to pay for cleaners
* billy: a lot of stuff are cleaning for free already. if we start paying them, we'll get great results. thank them for tons of unseen labor that's been essential for so long. hiring clenaers who don't know the space, if we don't alreayd have it at a set state, seems challenging. we'd need to supervise them intensely. it's not a normal space with straightforward goals. "what do i do with these piles of crates? rat shit?"
** yar: open the airlock, send it all into space
* patrik: the fines increase pretty quickly, $15/day
** billy: we'll start slow. form committee, give grace periods. need time to define the spaces, get people on it. you'll all have warning.
* silver: the $50 fine is for collectives or individuals?
** billy: there's a lot of people in collectives who use the space. if they don't accept these consequences we'd have to restrict their access perhaps. also some edge cases like members of FNB who are in the space all the time. in those cases i'd defer to hold the org accountable cuz i thin kthat's more powerful for groups to hold their own people accountable.
* jake: i'm in favor personally. just seeing it now. it's good, we should formalize the invisible labor of keeping the space clean. but creating a structure with parking tickets, policing people for whatever transgressions they've done inadvertently or carelessly to create this extra labor, i think it's a step beyond and we're not ready for that. so rather than create a bunch of cops with authority to issue tickets, we should just fund the cleaning effort we're already doing and formalize that, then create a communication channel for the people doing that labor to all the delegates of member collectives and tenants using the building, so whenever there's a mess that's found and has to be cleaned up, there can be direct communication to whoever's responsible for creating that mess, or have info on how it was created. and on a case by case basis, funds can be directed as appropriate. rather than just deputizing cleaning people to be able to just issue a $50 fine per day or something like that. doesn't take into accounta any of the realities that i think go into running the building
* yar: we should offer folks the cleaning services as an alternative to fines?
* yar: jake, fines are a last resort, the ocmmittee will try those things first
** jake: who gets the first fine? ... the delegate meeting should do this, not a separate committee. we should fund the cleaning labor, create a communications channel [too much for yar to type]
* patrik: for people who aren't affiliated with orgs ... i think if someone's in omni they should be the responsibility of one of the collectives. i like the structure of orgs holding their members responsible. but what about messes we don't know who left them? who would we currently assign fines to? there's a couple groups very active and always have a hard time cleaning up at the end. it's not too hard to figure it out. i'd like the idea much better of actually doing a cleanup and apportioning what the cost of that cleanup was. if you look for rat shit, you're gonna find it everywhere at omni. i don't want ccl to be on the hook for $50/day because there's some rat shit in the corner. you're gonna find it somewhere. we should pay for rodent abatement, and if need be apportion that to different collectives.
* jake: i plugged 2 giant rat holes on the border hole between sudo + ccl, how much do i get paid for that? giant rat holes. i vacuumed up literally 10lb of rat shit in that area, permanently closed those areas off with metal like 1.5 weeks ago.
* patrik: the $50/day will create resentment and be hard to enforce. i'd much rather say to a collective, "you need to clean this up, if you don't by [date] we're gonna pay people and charge you"
** helen: i like that. would billy accept that amendment? more workable than a flat fee.
* billy: what about in a situation that needs to be cleaned that day? i think adding more labor of having to do an investigation case by case ...
** helen: if it has to be cleaned that day then you have to pay more, ok
** billy: reality is that before this meeting, it's been the same few of us representing the only active member collectives. at last meeting, nobody was that afraid of the fines, maybe the number or amount but agreed this is the direction we should be moving in. also tenants like VOL - a very important force that's struggling to feel welcome in the space because of cultural norms that invisibilize [...] but really mean anybody can just do whatever they want to others and "who's gonna stop me?" interesting to me that people involved in this labor agree, but people who aren't involved are creating more labor without staffing the committees. i don't want to make this super complicated. we need a deterrent, a group of people who can enforce that deterrent and keep that going. it's important for that process to be easy because everybody who's gonna be on it is already on all the other ocmmittees too. it's a lot of work that's challenging. i don't think it needs to be made harder out of some ideological purity that i don't see in reality in the space. i see what it's been organized around for 8 years and i've seen the result. this is what we need to survive. these issues are what makes people unable to be part of omni and that's why we're short on people. i hope this will never have to be enacted because people will clean up after themselves. if they do, pay us money. i like the idea of offering CSC/GWP that option. but for folks who aren't gonna do that, we're gonna have to have some kind of more real reality. talking it out over a series of weeks at meetings that happen twice a month that most people don't show up to, that's not enough. we need all hands on decks. ship is sinking. i wanna bail the water out. let's make that happen.
* patrik: if you think administering a daily increasing penalty is gonna be easier than hiring a cleaning team and charging the cost, i think you're gonna be frustrated. we're gonna end up with people not cleaning up messes, and who can't pay the penalty. that's gonna be harder to manage than "we did the cleanup, here's the bill, we can negotiate whether to add that to your rent or not"
* jacqi: i think we need to respect the culture we're trying to build in this space while still bringing accountability. appreciate patrik's suggestion. idk if it'll be practical to try to figure out who made a mess and who do we impose the fee on? that might take longer. might require immediate cleanup. so an accountability structure involves [...] don't want to charge people money they can't afford, but do want cleaners to be compensated.
* yar: i feel like we're micromanaging this committee. if we empower them to form and do things we should trust them to use fees wisely and not as a first resort. to be clear, if delegates don't like the results in 2 or 4 weeks, we can undo it. this is a highly reversible decision.
* patrik: an easy solution is to add to "$50/day fine" and asy "alternatively the committee can decide to give the org a deadline or a cleaning crew will be hired and costs charged". that gives the committee more flexibility and will wind up being easier as well.
** billy: so say "the committee is empowered to charge up to this amount" rather than require it
* billy: people are afraid of approaching others sometimes. puts the labor on folks to say "this is what your'e doing to me, this is what's affecting me". this is what i'm hearing from people at omni now. a system is important, to be able to say, "this is omni's rules, this is omni structure, i'm not singling you out, this is nothing personal between us, it's just what our culture and rules are". having that above individuals is important. without that, our interpersonal dynamics are challenging enough. having to plead folks to clean up yet again after years, might [...]
** jake: specific examples of situations where there was a failure of communication, of the existing process that would necessitate this new structure? i think the first thing we should do besides formalize and fund our cleaning operations (so it's not volunteers feeling burned out & exploited) is to [...] so accountability for messes can be discussed, and then after that, if necessary, deal with the compensation issue
* yar: jake are you REALLY telling me right now to "create a communications channel"? i've been doing that for years and years and i'm burned out
** jake: [quits meeting]
* billy: we've been talking about this at THESE meetings for months. specific messes.
* patrik: should we take another 2 weeks because we amended the proposal?
* jacqi: situation is frustrating. the tone that's being used, the words, the cussing, speaking down about people who are part of omni - it's frustrating that people aren't doing the same amount of labor. how we address them, i believe, makes us who we are as a group. addressing them in a way that makes people feel belittled or can't have a say, i don't think is going to be helpful. i totally understand we're not gonna put things on hold for people who aren't showing up or doing work. but we shouldn't talk down about the way people interact or run their groups. it's ok to follow our rules about inactive collectives, but this conversation is making me uncomfortable. like i said, i think this should move forward, love patrik's amendment. appreciate billy for the initiative. but i think we might lose people because of the way things are spoken about in these meetings. i love you all, i hope we can ground and be kind ot each other.
* jake: as a member of sudoroom, i'd want our delegate to block the proposal
** yar: jake, you understand sudoroom is inactive?
* explanation of what inactive means. last time sudoroom delegate showed up was jake on july 7th
* helen: jake is asking for better communication before this process of trying to have accountability. i don't see why we need to wait for the accountability. the two channels are: having the committee, setting up the committee, giving the committee its powers, AND setting up the communications about what is to be done, which jake wants to see happen. there's no need to wait for 1 before the other.
** patrik: i agree with helen. i appreciate the frustration billy feels about how slow these decisions take to get passed, but that's just the system that we have, i'd have to ask to exercise some patience. last meeting we all agreed we should have a mechanism like this. i don't think anybody's opposed to setting up a committee to start enforcing some of these things and start keeping an eye on it. 1 weeks from now we can actually have a vote. personally even tho sudoroom isn't an active delegate at the moment i'd feel uncomfortable voting over jake's objections. i'd prefer to vote on the specific language in 3 weeks, but meanwhile set up the committee and figure out who wants to be on it.
* yar: if we approve the proposal but delay the fine enforcement until after our october 6 meeting, and require another affirmative consensus decision on october 6 to give them that fine enforcement power?
** jake is ok with that
** CONSENSUS: YES (ccl/patrik silver/anv jake/sr helen/fnb billy/clp jacqi/mop) abstain (camber/sm), block (none), PASSES!
* patrik: have fnb and anv had this discussion in their orgs? the 2 groups that deal with food the most
** helen: yes we have
** Silver: will talk with them tomorrow, but ready to vote in favor
* willing to be on committeee: Patrik, Silver, Helen

== basement messes ==
* silver: media lab is getting out of hand. how do we maintain that before it gets worse?
** at a previous meeting we talked about contacting CC about sewing area
** yar tried to talk to her about setting boundaries for the sewing area - pretty minimal ask - and she responded nonlinearly, not much accountability
** people think it's cc's private studio and don't realize it's common space
** cc needs to know we have to keep stuff clean. same response, a ramble
* peter: cc is part of an effort to raise awareness of sudoroom and omni as part of our fundraising efforts. providing fabric classes, brings people on tuesday nights, raises visibility, serves a valuable role in that way. this is the first i'm hearing about the issues of collecting clutter.
* yar's asks:
1. clear boundary for media lab, and a deadline to move everything inside
2. Ratproof all cloth storage (we can buy some bins and racks if needed)
3. Share equipment and space better. it's not just for one person. Equipment and tables should be clear for the next person after use.
4. Transparency about money changing hands

* silver: need a formal proposal of what media lab can be. it can be so much more. legitimize and formalize it. ask cc to be part of that proposal.
* jake has been holding onto cash donations from media lab, bitcoin and other things but hasn't deposited it yet. the ledger so far contains: $20 $20 $5 $5 $5820 200 100 10 35 25 5

== basement storage ==

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[[Category:Delegates Meeting]]

Event:2022/09/15 Delegates

2025-09-14T04:12:26Z

Ceremona: /* Meeting Roles */

'''Omni Delegates' Meeting - September 15, 2022 7pm-9pm'''

* Talk at https://meet.google.com/diw-hszw-msr or 515-428-1108 (PIN: 465814905)
* Type at https://omnicommons.org/notes
* Send proposals to consensus@lists.omnicommons.org prior to the meeting

=== Meeting Roles ===
* Facilitator/s:
* Stacktaker:
* Timekeeper:
* Notetaker/s:
* Next meeting's facilitator(s):

=== Delegates ===
* inactive groups: CSC, GWS, LL
* ANV: active, silver
* CCL: active, Patrik
* CLP: active, billy
* FNB: active, helen
* MOP: active, jacqi
* SM: inactive, camber
* SR: inactive, jake
* Quorum (2/3 of active groups): need 4

* yar she/her
* peter sudoroom
* cere, just trying to see how i can help. not sure what i have to offer.
* patrik he/him ccl
* geraldo he/they clp, events wg
* billy they/them clp
* helen she/her fnb
* imma she/they. treasurer, bank signer, working on press releases and messaging
* joe he/him fnb. peoples park still battling UC. very much in favor of cleanliness accountability committee. will help getting entrance hall paint to hazardous waste depot.
* jacqi she/her mop. working on liquor license + fire inspection. need to leave early. yes on cleanliness accountability! city says we need a CUP
** yar: we already have a CUP! that's a trap!
* jake sudo, working on door access
** imma: jake has been hosting bike light party!
* silver they/them anv. helping with bookkeeping, events treasurer, liaising with collectives. applying for 20k grant due 9/22.
* camber sudomesh

= Agenda =

== intros ==
BRIEF INTROS MAY INCLUDE: name, pronouns, groups you're in, land you're on, if you're a delegate, unmet access needs, meeting roles you'd like to help with, discussion topics or proposals to add to agenda, announcements/updates/report-backs from your groups, safe space issues or updates

== board ==
confirmed:
* ANV - Rachel Ruiz
* CCL - Patrik D'haeseleer
* CLP - does not want any named board member
* FNB - Helen Finkelstein
* LL - John Torok
* MOP - Michael Sierra

still in question:
* CSC - Arnoldo (pending that board's consent)
* GWS - Rachel but need confirmation from her
* SM - Marc Juul says Sudo Mesh still very much alive, but core members have spent much of the summer traveling. Will check with members about delegate. Note: correct contact email is info@sudomesh.org , *not* mesh@sudoroom.org. Possibly Camber - will talk to folks
* SR - ??
* BOGSS - ??

* imma: i'd like to know who's best to contact in these groups also
** yar can help
* billy: sounds like we're talking about a mass email to get folks' attention. "this is what's happening, this is what needs doing". the cleanliness proposal will also be something to announce.
* we'll keep trying to fill these gaps
Current comms needs:
1) official paperwork need a board member per each collective^
2) delegates - need names for active ones and process for collectives' comms
3) Cleaning Accountability - need collectives' cooperation

== lawyer ==
* Yar's email yesterday: Jesse Palmer is Omni's lawyer. A bunch of people have been wanting to ask him questions lately, but it's best to try and fit them all into one call since his time is so limited and expensive. So let's compile all our questions here (and at tomorrow's delegate meeting) and
hopefully have a call in the next week?
** events contracts: how do we force people to send receipts without undermining the "event presenter" language
** events: how to navigate asking for w9s and 1099s
** developing a game plan for december, what happens if mulberry forecloses
** asking mulberry for more favors - either for more time, to be a guarantor, or something else?
** Jacqi wants info on liquor license process
** If anybody else would like to add to this list, or join the call, let us know!

=== discussion ===
* who wants to be on this call? yar, jacqi, patrik

== fire inspection ==
* Probably coming up in next month or so
* Possible use of saferDIY (Sarah/David) to help us with fire inspection - should we approach - Cere will ask: would they be willing to put aside past debts to them for now, and allow us to pay them to prep for this upcoming fire inspection (expect to take an hr or two)

== cleanliness ==
* cleanliness accountability proposal from last meeting
https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/GcTDiTZqA3ao5+6hbaAuobdc/
* billy: in short we are gonna fine omni member groups who keep spaces messy. define exactly when shared spaces are being used, and not used, by member groups. stop spaces from being ... fucking disgusting, literally a repellent of human beings and human survival. hopefully a monetary fine will be a deterrant. our respect for each other hasn't been enough to maintain that standard. dire time when we need all hands, and the first thing people see is rotting food and rat shit? need to stop that. proposed 2 weeks ago on consensus list. ready to vote?
* cere: this document defines space and what cleanliness means?
** billy: the document defines a committee that's empowered to do that, to hand out fines, and has a budget.
* helen: fnb thought this was a really good proposal
* patrik: rather than charging a fixed amount, maybe charge for cleanup service might scale much better. some messes are much bigger than others. if we can call a cleanup service, at least it'll happen.
* silver: want to see each member collective participating, stewarding part of the common space. very few individuals continuously doing it.
** billy: so you want the committee to enact some kind of chore system for member collectives that requires them to do stuff like cleaning? sounds pretty reasonable
* need to appoint a committee before we can start proposing stuff like that
* cere: do we have a pool of funds for you to pay a cleaner?
** Yar: yes, we have some money to pay for cleaners
* billy: a lot of stuff are cleaning for free already. if we start paying them, we'll get great results. thank them for tons of unseen labor that's been essential for so long. hiring clenaers who don't know the space, if we don't alreayd have it at a set state, seems challenging. we'd need to supervise them intensely. it's not a normal space with straightforward goals. "what do i do with these piles of crates? rat shit?"
** yar: open the airlock, send it all into space
* patrik: the fines increase pretty quickly, $15/day
** billy: we'll start slow. form committee, give grace periods. need time to define the spaces, get people on it. you'll all have warning.
* silver: the $50 fine is for collectives or individuals?
** billy: there's a lot of people in collectives who use the space. if they don't accept these consequences we'd have to restrict their access perhaps. also some edge cases like members of FNB who are in the space all the time. in those cases i'd defer to hold the org accountable cuz i thin kthat's more powerful for groups to hold their own people accountable.
* jake: i'm in favor personally. just seeing it now. it's good, we should formalize the invisible labor of keeping the space clean. but creating a structure with parking tickets, policing people for whatever transgressions they've done inadvertently or carelessly to create this extra labor, i think it's a step beyond and we're not ready for that. so rather than create a bunch of cops with authority to issue tickets, we should just fund the cleaning effort we're already doing and formalize that, then create a communication channel for the people doing that labor to all the delegates of member collectives and tenants using the building, so whenever there's a mess that's found and has to be cleaned up, there can be direct communication to whoever's responsible for creating that mess, or have info on how it was created. and on a case by case basis, funds can be directed as appropriate. rather than just deputizing cleaning people to be able to just issue a $50 fine per day or something like that. doesn't take into accounta any of the realities that i think go into running the building
* yar: we should offer folks the cleaning services as an alternative to fines?
* yar: jake, fines are a last resort, the ocmmittee will try those things first
** jake: who gets the first fine? ... the delegate meeting should do this, not a separate committee. we should fund the cleaning labor, create a communications channel [too much for yar to type]
* patrik: for people who aren't affiliated with orgs ... i think if someone's in omni they should be the responsibility of one of the collectives. i like the structure of orgs holding their members responsible. but what about messes we don't know who left them? who would we currently assign fines to? there's a couple groups very active and always have a hard time cleaning up at the end. it's not too hard to figure it out. i'd like the idea much better of actually doing a cleanup and apportioning what the cost of that cleanup was. if you look for rat shit, you're gonna find it everywhere at omni. i don't want ccl to be on the hook for $50/day because there's some rat shit in the corner. you're gonna find it somewhere. we should pay for rodent abatement, and if need be apportion that to different collectives.
* jake: i plugged 2 giant rat holes on the border hole between sudo + ccl, how much do i get paid for that? giant rat holes. i vacuumed up literally 10lb of rat shit in that area, permanently closed those areas off with metal like 1.5 weeks ago.
* patrik: the $50/day will create resentment and be hard to enforce. i'd much rather say to a collective, "you need to clean this up, if you don't by [date] we're gonna pay people and charge you"
** helen: i like that. would billy accept that amendment? more workable than a flat fee.
* billy: what about in a situation that needs to be cleaned that day? i think adding more labor of having to do an investigation case by case ...
** helen: if it has to be cleaned that day then you have to pay more, ok
** billy: reality is that before this meeting, it's been the same few of us representing the only active member collectives. at last meeting, nobody was that afraid of the fines, maybe the number or amount but agreed this is the direction we should be moving in. also tenants like VOL - a very important force that's struggling to feel welcome in the space because of cultural norms that invisibilize [...] but really mean anybody can just do whatever they want to others and "who's gonna stop me?" interesting to me that people involved in this labor agree, but people who aren't involved are creating more labor without staffing the committees. i don't want to make this super complicated. we need a deterrent, a group of people who can enforce that deterrent and keep that going. it's important for that process to be easy because everybody who's gonna be on it is already on all the other ocmmittees too. it's a lot of work that's challenging. i don't think it needs to be made harder out of some ideological purity that i don't see in reality in the space. i see what it's been organized around for 8 years and i've seen the result. this is what we need to survive. these issues are what makes people unable to be part of omni and that's why we're short on people. i hope this will never have to be enacted because people will clean up after themselves. if they do, pay us money. i like the idea of offering CSC/GWP that option. but for folks who aren't gonna do that, we're gonna have to have some kind of more real reality. talking it out over a series of weeks at meetings that happen twice a month that most people don't show up to, that's not enough. we need all hands on decks. ship is sinking. i wanna bail the water out. let's make that happen.
* patrik: if you think administering a daily increasing penalty is gonna be easier than hiring a cleaning team and charging the cost, i think you're gonna be frustrated. we're gonna end up with people not cleaning up messes, and who can't pay the penalty. that's gonna be harder to manage than "we did the cleanup, here's the bill, we can negotiate whether to add that to your rent or not"
* jacqi: i think we need to respect the culture we're trying to build in this space while still bringing accountability. appreciate patrik's suggestion. idk if it'll be practical to try to figure out who made a mess and who do we impose the fee on? that might take longer. might require immediate cleanup. so an accountability structure involves [...] don't want to charge people money they can't afford, but do want cleaners to be compensated.
* yar: i feel like we're micromanaging this committee. if we empower them to form and do things we should trust them to use fees wisely and not as a first resort. to be clear, if delegates don't like the results in 2 or 4 weeks, we can undo it. this is a highly reversible decision.
* patrik: an easy solution is to add to "$50/day fine" and asy "alternatively the committee can decide to give the org a deadline or a cleaning crew will be hired and costs charged". that gives the committee more flexibility and will wind up being easier as well.
** billy: so say "the committee is empowered to charge up to this amount" rather than require it
* billy: people are afraid of approaching others sometimes. puts the labor on folks to say "this is what your'e doing to me, this is what's affecting me". this is what i'm hearing from people at omni now. a system is important, to be able to say, "this is omni's rules, this is omni structure, i'm not singling you out, this is nothing personal between us, it's just what our culture and rules are". having that above individuals is important. without that, our interpersonal dynamics are challenging enough. having to plead folks to clean up yet again after years, might [...]
** jake: specific examples of situations where there was a failure of communication, of the existing process that would necessitate this new structure? i think the first thing we should do besides formalize and fund our cleaning operations (so it's not volunteers feeling burned out & exploited) is to [...] so accountability for messes can be discussed, and then after that, if necessary, deal with the compensation issue
* yar: jake are you REALLY telling me right now to "create a communications channel"? i've been doing that for years and years and i'm burned out
** jake: [quits meeting]
* billy: we've been talking about this at THESE meetings for months. specific messes.
* patrik: should we take another 2 weeks because we amended the proposal?
* jacqi: situation is frustrating. the tone that's being used, the words, the cussing, speaking down about people who are part of omni - it's frustrating that people aren't doing the same amount of labor. how we address them, i believe, makes us who we are as a group. addressing them in a way that makes people feel belittled or can't have a say, i don't think is going to be helpful. i totally understand we're not gonna put things on hold for people who aren't showing up or doing work. but we shouldn't talk down about the way people interact or run their groups. it's ok to follow our rules about inactive collectives, but this conversation is making me uncomfortable. like i said, i think this should move forward, love patrik's amendment. appreciate billy for the initiative. but i think we might lose people because of the way things are spoken about in these meetings. i love you all, i hope we can ground and be kind ot each other.
* jake: as a member of sudoroom, i'd want our delegate to block the proposal
** yar: jake, you understand sudoroom is inactive?
* explanation of what inactive means. last time sudoroom delegate showed up was jake on july 7th
* helen: jake is asking for better communication before this process of trying to have accountability. i don't see why we need to wait for the accountability. the two channels are: having the committee, setting up the committee, giving the committee its powers, AND setting up the communications about what is to be done, which jake wants to see happen. there's no need to wait for 1 before the other.
** patrik: i agree with helen. i appreciate the frustration billy feels about how slow these decisions take to get passed, but that's just the system that we have, i'd have to ask to exercise some patience. last meeting we all agreed we should have a mechanism like this. i don't think anybody's opposed to setting up a committee to start enforcing some of these things and start keeping an eye on it. 1 weeks from now we can actually have a vote. personally even tho sudoroom isn't an active delegate at the moment i'd feel uncomfortable voting over jake's objections. i'd prefer to vote on the specific language in 3 weeks, but meanwhile set up the committee and figure out who wants to be on it.
* yar: if we approve the proposal but delay the fine enforcement until after our october 6 meeting, and require another affirmative consensus decision on october 6 to give them that fine enforcement power?
** jake is ok with that
** CONSENSUS: YES (ccl/patrik silver/anv jake/sr helen/fnb billy/clp jacqi/mop) abstain (camber/sm), block (none), PASSES!
* patrik: have fnb and anv had this discussion in their orgs? the 2 groups that deal with food the most
** helen: yes we have
** Silver: will talk with them tomorrow, but ready to vote in favor
* willing to be on committeee: Patrik, Silver, Helen

== basement messes ==
* silver: media lab is getting out of hand. how do we maintain that before it gets worse?
** at a previous meeting we talked about contacting CC about sewing area
** yar tried to talk to her about setting boundaries for the sewing area - pretty minimal ask - and she responded nonlinearly, not much accountability
** people think it's cc's private studio and don't realize it's common space
** cc needs to know we have to keep stuff clean. same response, a ramble
* peter: cc is part of an effort to raise awareness of sudoroom and omni as part of our fundraising efforts. providing fabric classes, brings people on tuesday nights, raises visibility, serves a valuable role in that way. this is the first i'm hearing about the issues of collecting clutter.
* yar's asks:
1. clear boundary for media lab, and a deadline to move everything inside
2. Ratproof all cloth storage (we can buy some bins and racks if needed)
3. Share equipment and space better. it's not just for one person. Equipment and tables should be clear for the next person after use.
4. Transparency about money changing hands

* silver: need a formal proposal of what media lab can be. it can be so much more. legitimize and formalize it. ask cc to be part of that proposal.
* jake has been holding onto cash donations from media lab, bitcoin and other things but hasn't deposited it yet. the ledger so far contains: $20 $20 $5 $5 $5820 200 100 10 35 25 5

== basement storage ==

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[[Category:Delegates Meeting]]

Event:2023/01/05 Delegates

2025-09-14T04:11:49Z

Ceremona: /* Delegates */

'''Omni Delegates' Meeting - January 5, 2023 7pm-9pm'''

== Meeting Details ==
* Talk at https://meet.google.com/diw-hszw-msr or 515-428-1108 (PIN: 465814905)
* Type at https://omnicommons.org/notes
* Send proposals to consensus@lists.omnicommons.org prior to the meeting

=== Roles ===
* Facilitator/s:
* Stacktaker:
* Timekeeper:
* Notetaker/s:
* Next meeting's facilitator(s):

=== Delegates ===
* inactive groups: CSC, GWS
* ANV: depends, nobody here, so inactive
* BOGSS: active, geraldo
* CCL: active, patrik
* CLP: active, silvia
* FNB: active, joe
* LL: active, nobody here
* MOP: active, jacqi
* SM: depends, nobody here, so inactive
* SR: depends, jake
* Quorum (2/3 of active groups): need 5

=== intros ===
BRIEF INTROS MAY INCLUDE: name, pronouns, groups you're in, land you're on, if you're a delegate, unmet access needs, meeting roles you'd like to help with, discussion topics or proposals to add to agenda, announcements/updates/report-backs from your groups, safe space issues or updates

* yar she/her
* emily finance she/her
* geraldo he/they bogss
* silvia she/her clp. hoping for emergency shelter. great opportunity to bring more mutual aid to omni
* jacqi mop she/her
* silver they/them
* sevine he/they. proposing transformative justice support space.
* jake sudo.
** sudo may have to revert to 2k/mo instead of 3k/mo.
* shikako (ko) they/them. foodz, cook every monday. looking forward to working together. emergency shelter would be helpful way to use the space.
* madrone he/they. curious how things work.

== abk ==
* silvia: No update for ABK

== crates ==
* jacqi: forgot to email ANV, sorry

== weapons ban ==
* jacqi: we all agreed on ban but weren't sure how to word it / post it?
* shikako: maybe a lock box for people to turn their weapons in. you need it on the street.
* jacqi: these are 2 convos. a previous proposal to generally ban weapons from omni, and a newer discussion about how to handle weapons at a shelter
* harold: our previous proposal was “No individuals at the Omni Commons should carry weapons (i.e., firearms, knives, machetes, tasers, pepper spray). Licensed and bonded event security may carry pepper spray.” - Geraldo
* jake: can put up signs that say "you're not allowed to have weapons or say you have weapons in the course of arguing with people", it's basically a threat to say you have a gun. that's a good first step which would relate to the incident that sparked this discussion. from a practical standpoint it doesn't make sense to suggest we could get people to hand over their weapons, or expect people to do that, or that it makes anything safer to have a locker filled with guns. make a policy that says "if you have a weapon, you should keep it secret". if you break that policy, you either are using it to save someone or you need to leave.
* yar proposes 10 minute time limit on this convo
* emily: that could be summed up by a sign that says "no weapons"
* patrik: i think requiring it to be secret is counterproductive.
* yar: i'm more worried about what the consequences are? a policy is about what we do, not about what they do.
* patrik & jacqi concerned about banning pepper spray
Geraldo via chat: Agree with the signage of no weapon and we craft an internal policy
* jacqi: tough thing. maybe a vague sign makes the most sense to start with.
* cere: for pepper spray, less lethal weapons for defense or averting escalation, that'll result in mediation anyway. we can't imagine all the different levels of weaponry or safety etc.
* Yar: Need to be explicit about consequences - a policy is about what *we* do, not what they do.
** Emily: consequence would be asking them to leave the building
* yar: just saying it's a safe space violation, and triggers all our existing processes, is good enough for me
* delegate decision to put up signs saying "no weapons" with those using or threatening others with weapons to be asked to leave the building per safer spaces policy
** CONSENSUS: yes (jacqi/mop clp/silvia geraldo/bogss ccl/patrik sudo/jake) abstain (none) block(none). passed!

== hire building manager ==
* proposal "to hire a building manager to complete the fire permit process and any other repairs needed for fire and water proofing the building. This person should understand fire code and permits, be able to talk to construction vendors, and be interested in communicating with the omni on building@ 1-2 times a month about progress as a point person, but not as the only person, working on building improvements."

== fundraising grant ==
* proposal: authorize Sarah & Safer DIY to write $25,000 reimbursement facade improvement grant
* emily: i don't think it should need approval, but the question of how to use gofundme money implies this should be also.
* jake: i agree, i don't think that needs to be a proposal. but any objections?
* no objections
* yar: i don't think my points about the gofundme money imply that this also needs approval

== use of gofundme ==
* Currently 50k raised. Use?
** Option 1: Mortgage payments
** Option 2: Preserving the building (ie property tax payments, principal portion of mortgage payments, building changes for fire inspections, ____)
** Option 3: ??
Patrik 7:54PM "Every dollar we earn here will go towards the $900,000 we need to raise"
Yar: Our gofundme is being sent to contractors
Emily: There was a one time issue where Sarah paid herself from paypal when Yar did not respond, I was not hired, and no one else could access the pay account
Yar: That is not relavant
* silver: a lot of work went into raising that money. my and others' free labor. we're 99% volunteers. emily gets paid. i wanna understand - their role is they can pay people out? want clarity around that. money is hard.
* Patrik: I think property taxes are valid as well
Jake: The purpose of the gofundme was "Save the Omni"
* Proposal: GoFundMe money can be used specifically for the following purposes:
** Paying off the principal of our loan, including whatever % of our monthly mortgage goes towards principal (see loan amortization schedule for exact amounts - around $1600-1700/mo)
link to loan amortization schedule: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erV_VqazAIiLJ8GNXptd7a2SCRDv8BNw/view?usp=share_link
** Paying the monthly mortgage if no other funds are available
** Property taxes
** Any taxes, fees, expenses that are used directly for the loan refinance
* Emily: The purpose of the gofundme was "save the omni" and to go toward 900k payments. Changing this to a savings account changes the purpose
* Yar: village of love rent has not been collected, sudo dues were not being transferred consistently
Indigo: Can we postpone
Patrik & Jake: Let's postpone to next meeting

== Emergency Shelter ==
* proposal is to start hosting people in volunteer shifts from friday night thru wednesday morning
* a small discussion about using omni for emergency shelter from rain storm, ended up snowballing into a large thing and then a reporter already has written about it
* Friday night-Wednesday morning, starting with 30 guests along with 4-8 omni volunteers
* east oakland shelter closing just as we open
ballroom for sleeping, basement to be used for donations
Full proposal:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13JXhQ5Oefuf5DXvSd_sZZI6QbeKcrsmjOOtV5MW5Aj4/edit
* jacqi: 6 volunteers, possibly more. 1 at door doing intake, folks floating, with first aid / conflict resolution knowledge. sharing info with new volunteers. sharing donations so people are sleeping comfortable. masks and sanitizer. covid protocol if people are showing symptoms. rapid tests for symptomatic people. our goal is to check in after first night, see how it went, decide whether to raise capacity or make changes. idea is to use ballroom + basement to start. ballroom to sleep, basement for storage. families who want privacy can use VOL space (got their permission).
* patrik: wondering about legality of people sleeping at omni?
* yar: IMO it doesn't impact zoning or anything like that, as long as it's in response to a temporary emergency like a storm. hosting a perpetual/indefinite shelter would open up more serious legal issues for sure. de minimis. it's not habitation if it's temporary.
* alameda county listed us as a shelter
* city of oakland reposted it on their official instagram
* patrik: hard to approve something without clear legal guidance
* yar: storm is tomorrow
* jacqi: i think because it's an emergency ...
* yar: IMO the worst that would happen is they tell us to stop. the nature of the emergency gives us enough protection from this impacting our other activities as long as we obey a shut-down if/when it comes. ask forgiveness rather than permission. AS LONG AS nothing bad happens and nobody is hurt. it would not be covered by insurance and it could be very bad. also they probably won't shut us down because kicking folks out in the rain would be a terrible look for them.
* proposal: delegates will let this new ad hoc working group try an experimental project of hosting an emergency shelter in the ballroom for the next week. great care will be taken to stay safe. if anything happens we have to shut it down. make that clear to people. Starts Friday and ends Wednesday morning, or until the major rain storm passes.
* emily: what if 100 people show up?
** jacqi: we'll just have a really hard boundary for that first night. it sucks, it'll be tough, but we need to make sure we're not biting off more than we can chew.
** yar: the storm probably won't start in earnest until saturday around sunrise
* silvia: old berkeley city hall also having a shelter with no limit
** yar: probably also not zoned for habitation
* emily: slip and fall plan? emt or injury? will you feed people? bathrooms working?
** jacqi: we have volunteers who are EMTs and nurses. we'll have protocol. call 911 if we have to. peoples programs or mental health first folks on call. volunteers will be trained to respond. food is being donated, folks offering to bring and serve it. shouldn't have to worry about heating.
* other spaces in omni will be restricted
* patrik: basement is more of a fire hazard
** jacqi: most people won't use basement. it's reserved for people who need safe space.
* patrik: can we use the ticket booth room instead of the basement?
** patrik thinks egress from ticket booth room is easier but yar isn't so sure
* patrik: also keep ventilation fans and heater both on
* silver: more folks die of hypothermia on west coast than east coast
* emily: air purifiers?
** jacqi: yes, there will be air purifiers
** patrik: ccl & sudo have hepa filters; Patrik will check with CCL about moving theirs into the ballroom
* jake: i'm abstaining because i didn't have time to ask the rest of sudo
* patrik: i'm abstaining because we don't know enough about the legal implications. concerned about how it could impact omni.
* consensus: yes (jacqi/mop geraldo/bogss silvia/clp joe/fnb) abstain (jake/sudo patrik/ccl) block (none). passed!

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[[Category:Delegates Meeting]]

Event:2023/01/05 Delegates

2025-09-14T04:11:22Z

Ceremona: /* intros */

'''Omni Delegates' Meeting - January 5, 2023 7pm-9pm'''

== Meeting Details ==
* Talk at https://meet.google.com/diw-hszw-msr or 515-428-1108 (PIN: 465814905)
* Type at https://omnicommons.org/notes
* Send proposals to consensus@lists.omnicommons.org prior to the meeting

=== Roles ===
* Facilitator/s:
* Stacktaker:
* Timekeeper:
* Notetaker/s:
* Next meeting's facilitator(s):

=== Delegates ===
* inactive groups: CSC, GWS
* ANV: depends, nobody here, so inactive
* BOGSS: active, geraldo
* CCL: active, cere & patrik
* CLP: active, silvia
* FNB: active, joe
* LL: active, nobody here
* MOP: active, jacqi
* SM: depends, nobody here, so inactive
* SR: depends, jake
* Quorum (2/3 of active groups): need 5

=== intros ===
BRIEF INTROS MAY INCLUDE: name, pronouns, groups you're in, land you're on, if you're a delegate, unmet access needs, meeting roles you'd like to help with, discussion topics or proposals to add to agenda, announcements/updates/report-backs from your groups, safe space issues or updates

* yar she/her
* emily finance she/her
* geraldo he/they bogss
* silvia she/her clp. hoping for emergency shelter. great opportunity to bring more mutual aid to omni
* jacqi mop she/her
* silver they/them
* sevine he/they. proposing transformative justice support space.
* jake sudo.
** sudo may have to revert to 2k/mo instead of 3k/mo.
* shikako (ko) they/them. foodz, cook every monday. looking forward to working together. emergency shelter would be helpful way to use the space.
* madrone he/they. curious how things work.

== abk ==
* silvia: No update for ABK

== crates ==
* jacqi: forgot to email ANV, sorry

== weapons ban ==
* jacqi: we all agreed on ban but weren't sure how to word it / post it?
* shikako: maybe a lock box for people to turn their weapons in. you need it on the street.
* jacqi: these are 2 convos. a previous proposal to generally ban weapons from omni, and a newer discussion about how to handle weapons at a shelter
* harold: our previous proposal was “No individuals at the Omni Commons should carry weapons (i.e., firearms, knives, machetes, tasers, pepper spray). Licensed and bonded event security may carry pepper spray.” - Geraldo
* jake: can put up signs that say "you're not allowed to have weapons or say you have weapons in the course of arguing with people", it's basically a threat to say you have a gun. that's a good first step which would relate to the incident that sparked this discussion. from a practical standpoint it doesn't make sense to suggest we could get people to hand over their weapons, or expect people to do that, or that it makes anything safer to have a locker filled with guns. make a policy that says "if you have a weapon, you should keep it secret". if you break that policy, you either are using it to save someone or you need to leave.
* yar proposes 10 minute time limit on this convo
* emily: that could be summed up by a sign that says "no weapons"
* patrik: i think requiring it to be secret is counterproductive.
* yar: i'm more worried about what the consequences are? a policy is about what we do, not about what they do.
* patrik & jacqi concerned about banning pepper spray
Geraldo via chat: Agree with the signage of no weapon and we craft an internal policy
* jacqi: tough thing. maybe a vague sign makes the most sense to start with.
* cere: for pepper spray, less lethal weapons for defense or averting escalation, that'll result in mediation anyway. we can't imagine all the different levels of weaponry or safety etc.
* Yar: Need to be explicit about consequences - a policy is about what *we* do, not what they do.
** Emily: consequence would be asking them to leave the building
* yar: just saying it's a safe space violation, and triggers all our existing processes, is good enough for me
* delegate decision to put up signs saying "no weapons" with those using or threatening others with weapons to be asked to leave the building per safer spaces policy
** CONSENSUS: yes (jacqi/mop clp/silvia geraldo/bogss ccl/patrik sudo/jake) abstain (none) block(none). passed!

== hire building manager ==
* proposal "to hire a building manager to complete the fire permit process and any other repairs needed for fire and water proofing the building. This person should understand fire code and permits, be able to talk to construction vendors, and be interested in communicating with the omni on building@ 1-2 times a month about progress as a point person, but not as the only person, working on building improvements."

== fundraising grant ==
* proposal: authorize Sarah & Safer DIY to write $25,000 reimbursement facade improvement grant
* emily: i don't think it should need approval, but the question of how to use gofundme money implies this should be also.
* jake: i agree, i don't think that needs to be a proposal. but any objections?
* no objections
* yar: i don't think my points about the gofundme money imply that this also needs approval

== use of gofundme ==
* Currently 50k raised. Use?
** Option 1: Mortgage payments
** Option 2: Preserving the building (ie property tax payments, principal portion of mortgage payments, building changes for fire inspections, ____)
** Option 3: ??
Patrik 7:54PM "Every dollar we earn here will go towards the $900,000 we need to raise"
Yar: Our gofundme is being sent to contractors
Emily: There was a one time issue where Sarah paid herself from paypal when Yar did not respond, I was not hired, and no one else could access the pay account
Yar: That is not relavant
* silver: a lot of work went into raising that money. my and others' free labor. we're 99% volunteers. emily gets paid. i wanna understand - their role is they can pay people out? want clarity around that. money is hard.
* Patrik: I think property taxes are valid as well
Jake: The purpose of the gofundme was "Save the Omni"
* Proposal: GoFundMe money can be used specifically for the following purposes:
** Paying off the principal of our loan, including whatever % of our monthly mortgage goes towards principal (see loan amortization schedule for exact amounts - around $1600-1700/mo)
link to loan amortization schedule: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erV_VqazAIiLJ8GNXptd7a2SCRDv8BNw/view?usp=share_link
** Paying the monthly mortgage if no other funds are available
** Property taxes
** Any taxes, fees, expenses that are used directly for the loan refinance
* Emily: The purpose of the gofundme was "save the omni" and to go toward 900k payments. Changing this to a savings account changes the purpose
* Yar: village of love rent has not been collected, sudo dues were not being transferred consistently
Indigo: Can we postpone
Patrik & Jake: Let's postpone to next meeting

== Emergency Shelter ==
* proposal is to start hosting people in volunteer shifts from friday night thru wednesday morning
* a small discussion about using omni for emergency shelter from rain storm, ended up snowballing into a large thing and then a reporter already has written about it
* Friday night-Wednesday morning, starting with 30 guests along with 4-8 omni volunteers
* east oakland shelter closing just as we open
ballroom for sleeping, basement to be used for donations
Full proposal:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13JXhQ5Oefuf5DXvSd_sZZI6QbeKcrsmjOOtV5MW5Aj4/edit
* jacqi: 6 volunteers, possibly more. 1 at door doing intake, folks floating, with first aid / conflict resolution knowledge. sharing info with new volunteers. sharing donations so people are sleeping comfortable. masks and sanitizer. covid protocol if people are showing symptoms. rapid tests for symptomatic people. our goal is to check in after first night, see how it went, decide whether to raise capacity or make changes. idea is to use ballroom + basement to start. ballroom to sleep, basement for storage. families who want privacy can use VOL space (got their permission).
* patrik: wondering about legality of people sleeping at omni?
* yar: IMO it doesn't impact zoning or anything like that, as long as it's in response to a temporary emergency like a storm. hosting a perpetual/indefinite shelter would open up more serious legal issues for sure. de minimis. it's not habitation if it's temporary.
* alameda county listed us as a shelter
* city of oakland reposted it on their official instagram
* patrik: hard to approve something without clear legal guidance
* yar: storm is tomorrow
* jacqi: i think because it's an emergency ...
* yar: IMO the worst that would happen is they tell us to stop. the nature of the emergency gives us enough protection from this impacting our other activities as long as we obey a shut-down if/when it comes. ask forgiveness rather than permission. AS LONG AS nothing bad happens and nobody is hurt. it would not be covered by insurance and it could be very bad. also they probably won't shut us down because kicking folks out in the rain would be a terrible look for them.
* proposal: delegates will let this new ad hoc working group try an experimental project of hosting an emergency shelter in the ballroom for the next week. great care will be taken to stay safe. if anything happens we have to shut it down. make that clear to people. Starts Friday and ends Wednesday morning, or until the major rain storm passes.
* emily: what if 100 people show up?
** jacqi: we'll just have a really hard boundary for that first night. it sucks, it'll be tough, but we need to make sure we're not biting off more than we can chew.
** yar: the storm probably won't start in earnest until saturday around sunrise
* silvia: old berkeley city hall also having a shelter with no limit
** yar: probably also not zoned for habitation
* emily: slip and fall plan? emt or injury? will you feed people? bathrooms working?
** jacqi: we have volunteers who are EMTs and nurses. we'll have protocol. call 911 if we have to. peoples programs or mental health first folks on call. volunteers will be trained to respond. food is being donated, folks offering to bring and serve it. shouldn't have to worry about heating.
* other spaces in omni will be restricted
* patrik: basement is more of a fire hazard
** jacqi: most people won't use basement. it's reserved for people who need safe space.
* patrik: can we use the ticket booth room instead of the basement?
** patrik thinks egress from ticket booth room is easier but yar isn't so sure
* patrik: also keep ventilation fans and heater both on
* silver: more folks die of hypothermia on west coast than east coast
* emily: air purifiers?
** jacqi: yes, there will be air purifiers
** patrik: ccl & sudo have hepa filters; Patrik will check with CCL about moving theirs into the ballroom
* jake: i'm abstaining because i didn't have time to ask the rest of sudo
* patrik: i'm abstaining because we don't know enough about the legal implications. concerned about how it could impact omni.
* consensus: yes (jacqi/mop geraldo/bogss silvia/clp joe/fnb) abstain (jake/sudo patrik/ccl) block (none). passed!

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[[Category:Delegates Meeting]]

Event:2024/07/30 Delegates

2025-09-14T04:09:59Z

Ceremona:

'''CAST office hours - 07/30 2024 6-7pm'''

* Shreya - we are not in position to act between a buyer and seller. But we are able to review any documents, pro formas. This might be a good time to start transition planning, I know some groups have already started this. We are happy to support in that process too.
* Patrik - would like to share an email from our lawyer, correcting some of the timing for foreclosure. Would love to hear a second opinion. May 17 was recording, so that is when he says clock starts ticking. 3 months after that would be August 17. 5 days before that they can do notice of sale, August 12. 20 days after is earliest they could have a sale, which is September 6. Legally could pay back any time before the sale. This does extend our timeline quite a bit. Do you think this would make a difference for CAST's funding leads?
** Shreya - that is excellent news. Yes I passed along that information.
* Dane - I reached out to Sogorea Te land trust, they were interested but would need more time and would like to know the exact number. For me that would be the group that I would want to move towards. Would Mulberry be willing to take a smaller portion as a leverage?
** unlikely for extension at this point
* Ajay - someone was trying to tell me that title is now in hands of whoever owns Mulberry's debt?
** Shreya - my understanding is Mulberry owns it, but has contracted with a third party to handle foreclosure.
** Ajay - the person talking to me made it sound like it was too late at this point to pay off loan, but if no one else verifying it, I will assume not true. I'm also curious about the past, and how to get exact foreclosure timeline?
* Yar - my question is when does the 900k go up? Like once a bid is made? What I care about most is saving building from demolition. Rather see it go to another group who wants to preserve the building, if thats what it takes to preserve the building
** Shreya - This would be a good question for mulberry
** Patrik - expect notice of sale, early as Aug 12, should include a finalish number in there
** Yar - People who want to buy the building want to know when the deadline is to still buy at 900k
** Patrik - Sep 6
** Shreya - yes, timing would be end of august
** Yar - if money could show up in escrow early september, could that potentially prevent auction?
** Shreya - sooner is better. Challenging to know how flexible. Racing the clock here.
* Phillip - shortest timeline would be Aug 15 not 17, that is soonest they could remove title from omni. 20 days from that is soonest it could be listed for sale. Placer foreclosure inc is who is listed on the letter. Any time after Aug 15 could be really hard, because would need to roll things back. Their interest is going to be in selling more than loan amount.
* Phillip - Update from me, which is good but not solid news: I have a lender lined up, but they have some contingencies. Working with our lawyer to draw up an LOI. Omni delegates and officers would be replaced by CiM team. Giving the lender a tour of the building soon, they have been there a number of years ago. Seeing we have more time now, going to use that time to reach out to other lenders who can make smaller loans (though still greater than $10k each). I've been working full time on this. Hopeful, but still everyone please assume that we need to be out of the building in Sep until further notice, just to be safe.
* Phillip - have one person willing to put house on the line as collateral. Have two soft commitments of about $100k each. That's maybe enough already to convince the main lender to agree by next week. In the meantime, we have these extra 10 days, if you know anyone, we can only take maximum of 10 people in this loan, so I'm leaning 50k or more, if they want to throw it in, they will loan at 10% for 3 years, or earlier if we refinance or pay it off. Now with the prime lender lined up, dont need to ask for the full million. Guarantor would also help. If we can get folks to put in money now, hope is they will come back again, not a one time thing, if we are wanting to keep this building going for another 100 years.
** Patrik - do you think you would have a draft for bylaw changes by Thursday?
** Phillip - Don't think there's a need to change much. I would need to remove consensus voting in bylaws. Jesse wants protections against selling the building which is fine, because that is not my intention. I want protection that CiM staff I would bring in wouldn't get voted out immediately.
** Patrik - any guesstimate on rent increases needed?
** Phillip - I have asked CAST and a few others to look at my projection spreadsheets. Once I get some feedback on those projections on increasing tenancy, I can make projections. What is needed is realistic rates that prevent us from getting in this same situation again in the short term. Near term will probably need rent increases until we get more utilization. I am trying to figure out what is the most equitable and makes sense. A flat sq footage rate doesnt make sense here with what we are trying to do. Ballpark 25-30% increase [?]. Patrik, can you share properties you are looking at? I can use that as a maximum limit. I think we will stay way below that.
** Phillip - I have a property management team that would be coming in. Open to working with CAST, I am talking with them but still building a relationship.
** Shreya - we are not in any formal agreement to partner. Development deals are a big deal, and CiM is brand new to us. CAST was proposing to form a newco, that would dissolve governance structure, but invite it into a new one
* Paige - I shared this ranked list of potential outcomes with Jesse. It's based off an old straw poll and my impression of delegate's opinions in meetings. It has outcomes with CAST at the top, CiM partnership allowing Omni to stay in the building after, then selling the building to aligned org, and lastly (least preferred) foreclosure. Would be good to talk about this again. Actual ranking will depend on having more details, too.
** Yar - to me, most likely option sounds like selling the building. If any org that wants to preserve the building, we should be preserving this. Once this building is gone, it will never come back. That will impact the entire city. I find it hard to think in any other terms at this point
** Shreya - thats right Yar. CAST has mostly exhausted its options. Open the floodgates, follow any needs. Folks with liquid cash or lenders you may know
** Phillip - selling also takes time to process
** Peter - I am wondering if we can align people who can put up the cash with Phillip's proposal. From what Paige said, Phillip's approval is still preferred to selling the building
** Phillip - my proposal would keep collectives in the building
** Patrik - Theresa also has found someone interested in buying building and keeping tenants. This is new and don't have details
** Yar - I appreciate effort to stay in the building, but need to be attaching strings to deal. We would be betraying Oakland, need to choose our role, of letting this building be knocked down for selfish reasons or not
** Patrik - I want to push back on what Yar said. The purpose of nonprofit Omni Commons, is education of public, scientific research, and to provide relief to the poor, distressed and underprivileged. Would be great if we could save the building, but I think our first duty is to the organization, not to Oakland.

** Paige - it'll depend on buyer. Right now reaching out to "aligned orgs." Wouldn't want to sell it just to someone who would use it like a residence or something just to save building... we would like to stay in building, but if there's an org doing good work, we would consider passing it off to them, even if we don't get to stay in the building.
* Peter - given now we have a bit more time, Shreya, very much urge that CAST try and get their leads to reconsider lending.
** Shreya - yes this is the plan, we will follow up with our leads.

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[[Category:Delegates Meeting]]

Event:2022/10/20 Delegates

2025-09-14T04:08:10Z

Ceremona: /* board */

'''Omni Delegates' Meeting - October 20, 2022 7pm-9pm'''

* Talk at https://meet.google.com/diw-hszw-msr or 515-428-1108 (PIN: 465814905)
* Type at https://omnicommons.org/notes
* Send proposals to consensus@lists.omnicommons.org prior to the meeting

=== Meeting Roles ===

* Facilitator/s: Patrik
* Stacktaker:
* Timekeeper:
* Notetaker/s: yar,
* Next meeting's facilitator(s):

=== Delegates ===
* inactive groups: CSC, GWS
* ANV: active, silver
* CCL: active, Patrik
* CLP: active, Billy
* FNB: active, Helen
* LL: active, John
* MOP: active, jacqi
* Sudo Room: active, Jake
* Sudo Mesh: active, nobody here
* Quorum (2/3 of active groups):

= Agenda =

== intros ==
BRIEF INTROS MAY INCLUDE: name, pronouns, groups you're in, land you're on, if you're a delegate, unmet access needs, meeting roles you'd like to help with, discussion topics or proposals to add to agenda, announcements/updates/report-backs from your groups, safe space issues or updates

* jake, sudo delegate
* patrik
* john
* billy: delegate CLP; cleanliness accountability comitee
* troy, self-appointed librarian
* Yar, she/her; "between working groups"
* max, he/him ebdsa & sudo
* jacqi she/her mop
* helen fnb
* Silver they/them anv

== Refinance progress ==
* Have we restarted formal negotiations with Self Help?
** Yar: not yet, finishing profit & loss sheets
** silver: we've been finishing up PnLs, within a week will be ready
* Do we have firm targets? How close are we to hitting those targets?
** Yar: not close enough. Expenses have been rising as well. PG&E, waste mgmt - because more events
* Should we ask all organizations currently paying rent whether they can volunturaly increase their contribution (and how much closer would that get us)?
** Yar (from email): That would help if anybody is able. Some groups probably are not able.
I'd recommend that we not try to renegotiate with groups that have moved in less than a year ago. SR just went from 2->3k. That leaves ANV, CCL, CSC, FNB, GWS + SM as potential groups to ask.
** Billy: leases typically have a % increase per year. have not been enforcing that
* Progress getting property tax exemption sorted out?
** Still big question mark in loan application. Meeting with lawyer next week. Christina been trying to get a hold of the assessor. May need to pay 20% penalty (on $250K) by next June
** should we hire Sarah to complete the documents required by the assessor?
*** Sarah mentioned there is still one outstanding debt < 1K to Safer DIY
* Finance WG could use more participants! Work party on Sunday 7pm-late. most work happening on slack
* how goes the process of hiring and retaining qualified professionals to do the technical work that we need done in order to achieve refinancing, apply for and get a loan to pay back taxes (which we have been advised will need to be paid even as we pursue exemption)
** Yar: onboarded some great folks. miliaku & phoenix.

* Proposal: Pre-approve paying outstanding debt to Safer DIY, and paying Sarah to help with paperwork for assessor. Up to $2500 total, to be completed in 2wks. Plus bonus of $500 is completed in 1wk.
** Consensus: YES (CCL/Patrik, FNB/Helen, Sudo/Jake, John/LL, ) Abstain (CLP/Billy, ANV/Silver) Block (), dropped off call (jacqi)
** Jake will contact Sarah

== DSA ==
* Proposal for DSA to move into room under construction above entrance as a renter, $1250/mo. Host next 2 general meetings for free (normally ~$500 each) and renegotiate later.
** Max: have not yet discussed process of becoming member collective internally
** Current proposal is just for renter, can deal with member collective later. Only concern might be low diversity in leadership
** Billy: seems too good of a deal, CLP would block. $1000 in free events that event team would have to put labor into. Proposes $2k/mo
** Max: DSA may be willing to go as high at $1500; would need to take back to members
** John: $1500 plus one free event?
** Current proposal is $1600/mo, Yar offers to pay for 1st event, Patrik for 2nd
** Consensus: YES (John/LL, CCL/Patrik, ANV, Sudo, FNB, CLP/Billy) Abstain () Block (), dropped off call (jacqi)

== event manager ==
* Proposal (from Silver, by email):
** We need to generate $6k+ a month in revenue to show our loan officers at self help that they were an ideal loan candidate.
** We need the event working group to have a committed event manager. Billy , Silvia, Geraldo, Kiri and CLP folks have volunteered as events working groups since Summer 22’. Their organizing body has created documented structures. It stabilized the finances into profit. This month we are expecting $10,000 from events so far!
** Billy has operated as a volunteer event manager. Billy’s knowledge and experience in event organizing has been executed with high regards. Billy will be fading off into parenthood in the next few weeks. It is crucial we hire Billy as event manager to define the contracting role ASAP. Event working group will list job postings, interview and hire the most appropriate individual. Billy will onboard, train, and support the new hire.
** Contracting event manager at 15-25 hours a week at $35 an hour.
** Event managers will bottomline all incoming events by working with events working groups and ensuring contracts are filled, deposits are submitted, event payout is completed.
** Event manager will respond to event requests and support booking them.
** Event manager will also support Omni Commons fundraising through special event planning.
** Event manager will support the building foundation of the event contracting staff team for AV, catering, security etc.
** They will be responsible to report monthly income to the delegates and ongoing transactions with the finance team.

* Silver: we made around $10K in events in October!
* Proposed fee would come to ~$3K/mo. But ballroom could bring in $16K/mo if managed professionally
** Patrik & John: board would need to resolve conflict of interest - should be fairly easy decision

* Proposal: approve Billy to act as event manager for next 4 wks, 15-25 hours a week at $35 an hour (max of $3360)
Consensus: YES (LL, CCL, ANV, FNB), abstain (clp), dropped out of call (jacqi/mop, jake/sr)

== board ==
* still need names from sudo mesh + BOGSS
* sudoroom board member is Jake
* need to schedule annual meeting soon

== building/construction issues
* progress on upstairs room - any blockers?
* Status of ballroom skylights - are some still covered with plywood? Are we ready for the coming rainy season?
** 2 skylights covered in plywood
* One of the sound baffles on AV balcony got dislodged
* Front door physical lock no longer working? Need to replace lock
* Do we have anyone who can work on these tasks?
** Harold: We could use the CLP’s Omni work days to help with this but we need to get more volunteers and I don’t want to speak for the org.
*** Overlaps with BOGSS meeting!

== bins ==
* should we pay Matt Costa to build more bins under the stage?
* no, we can't afford it right now, sadly

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[[Category:Delegates Meeting]]

Event:2022/10/20 Delegates

2025-09-14T04:07:14Z

Ceremona: /* intros */

'''Omni Delegates' Meeting - October 20, 2022 7pm-9pm'''

* Talk at https://meet.google.com/diw-hszw-msr or 515-428-1108 (PIN: 465814905)
* Type at https://omnicommons.org/notes
* Send proposals to consensus@lists.omnicommons.org prior to the meeting

=== Meeting Roles ===

* Facilitator/s: Patrik
* Stacktaker:
* Timekeeper:
* Notetaker/s: yar,
* Next meeting's facilitator(s):

=== Delegates ===
* inactive groups: CSC, GWS
* ANV: active, silver
* CCL: active, Patrik
* CLP: active, Billy
* FNB: active, Helen
* LL: active, John
* MOP: active, jacqi
* Sudo Room: active, Jake
* Sudo Mesh: active, nobody here
* Quorum (2/3 of active groups):

= Agenda =

== intros ==
BRIEF INTROS MAY INCLUDE: name, pronouns, groups you're in, land you're on, if you're a delegate, unmet access needs, meeting roles you'd like to help with, discussion topics or proposals to add to agenda, announcements/updates/report-backs from your groups, safe space issues or updates

* jake, sudo delegate
* patrik
* john
* billy: delegate CLP; cleanliness accountability comitee
* troy, self-appointed librarian
* Yar, she/her; "between working groups"
* max, he/him ebdsa & sudo
* jacqi she/her mop
* helen fnb
* Silver they/them anv

== Refinance progress ==
* Have we restarted formal negotiations with Self Help?
** Yar: not yet, finishing profit & loss sheets
** silver: we've been finishing up PnLs, within a week will be ready
* Do we have firm targets? How close are we to hitting those targets?
** Yar: not close enough. Expenses have been rising as well. PG&E, waste mgmt - because more events
* Should we ask all organizations currently paying rent whether they can volunturaly increase their contribution (and how much closer would that get us)?
** Yar (from email): That would help if anybody is able. Some groups probably are not able.
I'd recommend that we not try to renegotiate with groups that have moved in less than a year ago. SR just went from 2->3k. That leaves ANV, CCL, CSC, FNB, GWS + SM as potential groups to ask.
** Billy: leases typically have a % increase per year. have not been enforcing that
* Progress getting property tax exemption sorted out?
** Still big question mark in loan application. Meeting with lawyer next week. Christina been trying to get a hold of the assessor. May need to pay 20% penalty (on $250K) by next June
** should we hire Sarah to complete the documents required by the assessor?
*** Sarah mentioned there is still one outstanding debt < 1K to Safer DIY
* Finance WG could use more participants! Work party on Sunday 7pm-late. most work happening on slack
* how goes the process of hiring and retaining qualified professionals to do the technical work that we need done in order to achieve refinancing, apply for and get a loan to pay back taxes (which we have been advised will need to be paid even as we pursue exemption)
** Yar: onboarded some great folks. miliaku & phoenix.

* Proposal: Pre-approve paying outstanding debt to Safer DIY, and paying Sarah to help with paperwork for assessor. Up to $2500 total, to be completed in 2wks. Plus bonus of $500 is completed in 1wk.
** Consensus: YES (CCL/Patrik, FNB/Helen, Sudo/Jake, John/LL, ) Abstain (CLP/Billy, ANV/Silver) Block (), dropped off call (jacqi)
** Jake will contact Sarah

== DSA ==
* Proposal for DSA to move into room under construction above entrance as a renter, $1250/mo. Host next 2 general meetings for free (normally ~$500 each) and renegotiate later.
** Max: have not yet discussed process of becoming member collective internally
** Current proposal is just for renter, can deal with member collective later. Only concern might be low diversity in leadership
** Billy: seems too good of a deal, CLP would block. $1000 in free events that event team would have to put labor into. Proposes $2k/mo
** Max: DSA may be willing to go as high at $1500; would need to take back to members
** John: $1500 plus one free event?
** Current proposal is $1600/mo, Yar offers to pay for 1st event, Patrik for 2nd
** Consensus: YES (John/LL, CCL/Patrik, ANV, Sudo, FNB, CLP/Billy) Abstain () Block (), dropped off call (jacqi)

== event manager ==
* Proposal (from Silver, by email):
** We need to generate $6k+ a month in revenue to show our loan officers at self help that they were an ideal loan candidate.
** We need the event working group to have a committed event manager. Billy , Silvia, Geraldo, Kiri and CLP folks have volunteered as events working groups since Summer 22’. Their organizing body has created documented structures. It stabilized the finances into profit. This month we are expecting $10,000 from events so far!
** Billy has operated as a volunteer event manager. Billy’s knowledge and experience in event organizing has been executed with high regards. Billy will be fading off into parenthood in the next few weeks. It is crucial we hire Billy as event manager to define the contracting role ASAP. Event working group will list job postings, interview and hire the most appropriate individual. Billy will onboard, train, and support the new hire.
** Contracting event manager at 15-25 hours a week at $35 an hour.
** Event managers will bottomline all incoming events by working with events working groups and ensuring contracts are filled, deposits are submitted, event payout is completed.
** Event manager will respond to event requests and support booking them.
** Event manager will also support Omni Commons fundraising through special event planning.
** Event manager will support the building foundation of the event contracting staff team for AV, catering, security etc.
** They will be responsible to report monthly income to the delegates and ongoing transactions with the finance team.

* Silver: we made around $10K in events in October!
* Proposed fee would come to ~$3K/mo. But ballroom could bring in $16K/mo if managed professionally
** Patrik & John: board would need to resolve conflict of interest - should be fairly easy decision

* Proposal: approve Billy to act as event manager for next 4 wks, 15-25 hours a week at $35 an hour (max of $3360)
Consensus: YES (LL, CCL, ANV, FNB), abstain (clp), dropped out of call (jacqi/mop, jake/sr)

== board ==
* still need names from sudo mesh + BOGSS
* sudoroom board member is Jake
* need to schedule annual meeting soon
* cere: Marc Juul said he would ask his group if Camber could/should/wants to be a board member. Will cc consensus@ later, if so.

== building/construction issues
* progress on upstairs room - any blockers?
* Status of ballroom skylights - are some still covered with plywood? Are we ready for the coming rainy season?
** 2 skylights covered in plywood
* One of the sound baffles on AV balcony got dislodged
* Front door physical lock no longer working? Need to replace lock
* Do we have anyone who can work on these tasks?
** Harold: We could use the CLP’s Omni work days to help with this but we need to get more volunteers and I don’t want to speak for the org.
*** Overlaps with BOGSS meeting!

== bins ==
* should we pay Matt Costa to build more bins under the stage?
* no, we can't afford it right now, sadly

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[[Category:Delegates Meeting]]

Event:2022/11/17 Delegates

2025-09-14T04:06:35Z

Ceremona: /* Emily B application for "Executive Director" */

'''Omni Delegates' Meeting - November 17, 2022 7pm-9pm'''

* Talk at https://meet.google.com/diw-hszw-msr or 515-428-1108 (PIN: 465814905)
* Type at https://omnicommons.org/notes
* Send proposals to consensus@lists.omnicommons.org prior to the meeting

=== Meeting Roles ===
* Facilitator/s:
* Stacktaker:
* Timekeeper:
* Notetaker/s:
* Next meeting's facilitator(s):

=== Delegates ===
* inactive groups: CSC, GWS, SM
* ANV: active, silver
* BOGSS: active, geraldo
* CCL: active, patrik
* CLP: active, Silvia
* FNB: active, joe and Helen
* LL: active, anka
* MOP: active, Jacqi
* SR: active Jake
* Quorum (2/3 of active groups): need 6

== intros ==
BRIEF INTROS MAY INCLUDE: name, pronouns, groups you're in, land you're on, if you're a delegate, unmet access needs, meeting roles you'd like to help with, discussion topics or proposals to add to agenda, announcements/updates/report-backs from your groups, safe space issues or updates

* yar
** DSA signed a lease for another space
** a million other things to say but stack overflow when i try to list them
* jake, any pronoun, sudoroom member/delegate, working on door access systems at omni, looking for people for executive role and event coordinator
* peter he/him, sudoroom + helping with omni overall. race & gender questionairre for guidestar https://forms.gle/RPG2zAHKwZEwUFyj7
* patrik ccl
* jacqi - city still slow scheduling our fire inspection
* helen fnb
* anka LL, been painting new wall joe built
* geraldo BOGSS he/they, bogss is up and rolling, that's exciting. send emails to us to check in, complaints, etc
* joe he/him, FNB delegates on 1st thursdays. i was the first bogss interviewee. it was a very thorough and rewarding experience. would like to be sure the delegate board makes a decision about whether we're going to do assembly events this month and the coming month, in relation to how things go with jacqi pursuing fire inspection
* silver
** fundraising is talking about getting a grantwriter
** temescal brewery reaching out for drive
** knocking on neighbors doors soon
* emily she/her, waiting my turn, here to answer questions or tell you about myself
* silvia she/her CLP, we need to hire an event coordinator

== Emily B application for "Executive Director" ==
* "[omni-consensus] PROPOSAL: hire executive director" https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2022-October/003710.html
* [omni-consensus] Application and proposal https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2022-November/003720.html
* consensus list discussion, by thread: https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2022-November/thread.html#3726
* jake: yar proposed we hire ED because we need somebody to do that role because it's an important role for our org, and we need somebody qualified. i got some pushback on the title director because we endeavor to have a horizontal org structure. i proposed executive conductor. in a symphony [yadda yadda]
** yar: that's even more authoritarian than ED lol. omni requires much less lockstep than an orchestra does. also first violin sets the real pace and conductor's a figurehead.
* jake explains w2 vs 1099. w2 is dangerous and expensive. 1099 is acceptable/legitimate if the person is a genuine professional with other clients. probably want somebody for events coordinator and building compliance or whatever, but for now we're talking about executive conductor position for finance group.
* joe: before we get to emily, we should give some background about how we're going about this search, how many applications have we had, what are we asking for, what are we offering?
** joe: there's been people hired in finance team. not clear exactly who. since yar's proposal idk if there's been a search to fill that role. a 1099 worker we can tell "that's enough thanks" and have another person do it
* silver: finance tried to hire bookkeeper. me, yar & imma did interviews. chichi was underqualified. phoenix wasn't doing the things we needed. need to have outlines of what they need to do and not just expect them to figure out on their own. miliaku doing loan application. i'm also supporting events hiring committee. the people need to be impartial, not emotionally involved. all these things need to be met, this has been a whirlwind.
* patrik: definitely be careful about w9/w2. not clear to me ED can be w9. we never actually decided to have an ED. after that we'd need a job description, open to candidates, have a process to evaluate and all that.
* jake: since emily's involvement has been for so long and since her professional experience is very close to what we need, i felt it'd make sense for her to be able to tell US what we need to do. if that's the case, it'd be good for us to move on that. since she has other clients she'd qualify for the 1099.
* silver: people doing core work of omni (ED, etc) should be w2 person
** jake: with an exception if the person has other clients in that field
* silver: i wanna hire people who already have relationships with omni. miliaku has worked closely but still doesn't know everything. i met toast years ago but toast has not been around since then. a lot's happened.
* yar: can emily describe their understanding of what the job is and what they'd be doing?
** emily: in the same way that people facilitate these meetings, the head of finance is there to say, this is kind of a collective agenda, these are things we're looking to get this year, the next 6 months, next month. how do we get those things done? how do we plan ahead? do we have the right people? what are their strengths? how can we trailn them to be in line with our collective values, as well as where we wanna go and how do we meet our goals? just making sure that kind of vision stays on track with actions and coordiation. that's generally what a director/collaborator/conductor does. ove rthe past couple years a lot of things have needed to be done, and they just fall on whoever's most available. this is a role that says, these are important things that need to be done, we need someone who's there regularly who's able to talk with all the different collectives and assess maybe prioritization, and making sure we have the people/skills for it, keeping it on track.
** emily: i've been involved with sudoroom a decade now. tend to be on the internal side, but have interfaced with a lot of the other collectives. really love omni. 3rd building i've been in with sudoroom. i've seen the space as it's evolved over the yeras. faces come and go, but a lot stay the same. would like to see it flourish. had a lot of discussions over the past couple months with previous bookkeepers, people who worked with taxes and communicated with the city. did a kind of building review a couple yeras ago. familiar with the layout of the building. i have a backgrouned in finance and construction. have a unique experience with many aspects of what's needed for omni, what kind of goals they're looking at right now. for example, last couple years of tax filings needed to be done. based on square footing. been involved in those discussions, very aware of what the city needed, all the people putting that time and work in, and how that's being coordinated. i already know the history, familiar with the space, know the skillsets. i worked in nonprofit financial consulting since 2015. done roles like financial officer, roles like just using quickbooks. all kinds of financial skillsets. sub-skillsets in building management and construction. as we're trying to move things along, it helps to have someone who can just quickly plug in, already has this info, has hours in the week to quickly get these goals done, all the (honestly) emails it'll take to do these things, and also there for that collective process which you all are doing tonight
* anka: how much of this role is telling other people what to do?
** emily: typically 6 major roles are compressed currently into one person who's been spearheading that just because they're present. the idea here was actually to make those into proper roles. not just whoever happens to get it gets it, but actually, this person is going to focus on project A, B, C, guide them along. making decisions is a group process. part of that is who's interested in making decisions? eg i think we all want the building to stay open, but in terms of who's actually mapping square footage into a srpeadsheet, there's a macro and a micro lens. this role is an in between. we have everyone getting together as a group saying this is what we need to do, and this person says "ok let's make this committee, work with finance committee, say who wants to weigh in" and make sure it gets done. this person would guide decisions forward, implement decisions and "how to do it" after group decides
* Patrik: Here is a good resource for 1099 independent contractors vs W2 employees: https://www.worklawyers.com/1099-contractors-w2-employees/
* helen: how many hours would you expect to spend on this job? a lot of things need to be done, but what would you think the first thing would be?
** emily: proposal outlined hours. 15h/week i think? part time that'd segue into full time next year. obviously subject to change as you all need it, more or less. i'd be interested in a 6 month omni necessities list, of gathering info on things needed to keep the building open. i've heard them in bits and pieces, and everyone i've talked to has thier specific niche. i'd like to create this very transparent group idea of these are the things we need to be getting done to stay open and also thrive preferably. one is talking about the fire inspection, larger things like that, which have to be done in a somewhat sped up time period from what they might normally be.
* patrik: if someone can be fired at will, that's a employee. if you have to prove breach of contract, that's 1099 indep contractor. also depends how much control we have. if we wanna have oversight how things are done, that'd typically be more w2. would need to write specific contract. maybe give them budget, and if they come under they keep the money.
* Patrik counter-proposal: hire Emily as Financial Coordinator / Head of Finance for 6 mo at 15hr/wk (up for debate), to accomplish a specific set of tasks:
** tax filings (Sarah already doing most of this)
** property taxes
** getting our books in order
** getting us ready for refinance
** hiring or training a bookkeeper
** potentially add a bonus if we can close refinance within 6mo?
** outline some intermediate goals at 3 months
* Emily: could potentially close refinance in 6 months
* Emily: would also advocate for events manager and grants coordinator
* lots of conversation not covered in notes

== Fire inspection preparation and scheduling ==
* Jacqi is actively trying to get an inspection scheduled, waiting to hear back from "Chris" at the fire department
* preparation checklist email thread: https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2022-November/003716.html
* who is coordinating efforts to prepare for the fire inspection, curating a checklist
* We have several broken windows. Do we have a regular to fix windows? Needs to be done *before* fire inspection
** Yar will get a referral, but needs to leave town Sunday
* waiting on Safer DIY to agree to inspections
* we agreed at previous delegate meeting on what the boundaries should be, to still plan events a few weeks out

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[[Category:Delegates Meeting]]

Event:2022/11/17 Delegates

2025-09-14T04:05:47Z

Ceremona: /* intros */

'''Omni Delegates' Meeting - November 17, 2022 7pm-9pm'''

* Talk at https://meet.google.com/diw-hszw-msr or 515-428-1108 (PIN: 465814905)
* Type at https://omnicommons.org/notes
* Send proposals to consensus@lists.omnicommons.org prior to the meeting

=== Meeting Roles ===
* Facilitator/s:
* Stacktaker:
* Timekeeper:
* Notetaker/s:
* Next meeting's facilitator(s):

=== Delegates ===
* inactive groups: CSC, GWS, SM
* ANV: active, silver
* BOGSS: active, geraldo
* CCL: active, patrik
* CLP: active, Silvia
* FNB: active, joe and Helen
* LL: active, anka
* MOP: active, Jacqi
* SR: active Jake
* Quorum (2/3 of active groups): need 6

== intros ==
BRIEF INTROS MAY INCLUDE: name, pronouns, groups you're in, land you're on, if you're a delegate, unmet access needs, meeting roles you'd like to help with, discussion topics or proposals to add to agenda, announcements/updates/report-backs from your groups, safe space issues or updates

* yar
** DSA signed a lease for another space
** a million other things to say but stack overflow when i try to list them
* jake, any pronoun, sudoroom member/delegate, working on door access systems at omni, looking for people for executive role and event coordinator
* peter he/him, sudoroom + helping with omni overall. race & gender questionairre for guidestar https://forms.gle/RPG2zAHKwZEwUFyj7
* patrik ccl
* jacqi - city still slow scheduling our fire inspection
* helen fnb
* anka LL, been painting new wall joe built
* geraldo BOGSS he/they, bogss is up and rolling, that's exciting. send emails to us to check in, complaints, etc
* joe he/him, FNB delegates on 1st thursdays. i was the first bogss interviewee. it was a very thorough and rewarding experience. would like to be sure the delegate board makes a decision about whether we're going to do assembly events this month and the coming month, in relation to how things go with jacqi pursuing fire inspection
* silver
** fundraising is talking about getting a grantwriter
** temescal brewery reaching out for drive
** knocking on neighbors doors soon
* emily she/her, waiting my turn, here to answer questions or tell you about myself
* silvia she/her CLP, we need to hire an event coordinator

== Emily B application for "Executive Director" ==
* "[omni-consensus] PROPOSAL: hire executive director" https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2022-October/003710.html
* [omni-consensus] Application and proposal https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2022-November/003720.html
* consensus list discussion, by thread: https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2022-November/thread.html#3726
* jake: yar proposed we hire ED because we need somebody to do that role because it's an important role for our org, and we need somebody qualified. i got some pushback on the title director because we endeavor to have a horizontal org structure. i proposed executive conductor. in a symphony [yadda yadda]
** yar: that's even more authoritarian than ED lol. omni requires much less lockstep than an orchestra does. also first violin sets the real pace and conductor's a figurehead.
* jake explains w2 vs 1099. w2 is dangerous and expensive. 1099 is acceptable/legitimate if the person is a genuine professional with other clients. probably want somebody for events coordinator and building compliance or whatever, but for now we're talking about executive conductor position for finance group.
* cere: emily is putting forward herself for this role?
* joe: before we get to emily, we should give some background about how we're going about this search, how many applications have we had, what are we asking for, what are we offering?
** joe: there's been people hired in finance team. not clear exactly who. since yar's proposal idk if there's been a search to fill that role. a 1099 worker we can tell "that's enough thanks" and have another person do it
* silver: finance tried to hire bookkeeper. me, yar & imma did interviews. chichi was underqualified. phoenix wasn't doing the things we needed. need to have outlines of what they need to do and not just expect them to figure out on their own. miliaku doing loan application. i'm also supporting events hiring committee. the people need to be impartial, not emotionally involved. all these things need to be met, this has been a whirlwind.
* patrik: definitely be careful about w9/w2. not clear to me ED can be w9. we never actually decided to have an ED. after that we'd need a job description, open to candidates, have a process to evaluate and all that.
* jake: since emily's involvement has been for so long and since her professional experience is very close to what we need, i felt it'd make sense for her to be able to tell US what we need to do. if that's the case, it'd be good for us to move on that. since she has other clients she'd qualify for the 1099.
* cere: this was discussed, but (...)
* silver: people doing core work of omni (ED, etc) should be w2 person
** jake: with an exception if the person has other clients in that field
* silver: i wanna hire people who already have relationships with omni. miliaku has worked closely but still doesn't know everything. i met toast years ago but toast has not been around since then. a lot's happened.
* yar: can emily describe their understanding of what the job is and what they'd be doing?
** emily: in the same way that people facilitate these meetings, the head of finance is there to say, this is kind of a collective agenda, these are things we're looking to get this year, the next 6 months, next month. how do we get those things done? how do we plan ahead? do we have the right people? what are their strengths? how can we trailn them to be in line with our collective values, as well as where we wanna go and how do we meet our goals? just making sure that kind of vision stays on track with actions and coordiation. that's generally what a director/collaborator/conductor does. ove rthe past couple years a lot of things have needed to be done, and they just fall on whoever's most available. this is a role that says, these are important things that need to be done, we need someone who's there regularly who's able to talk with all the different collectives and assess maybe prioritization, and making sure we have the people/skills for it, keeping it on track.
** emily: i've been involved with sudoroom a decade now. tend to be on the internal side, but have interfaced with a lot of the other collectives. really love omni. 3rd building i've been in with sudoroom. i've seen the space as it's evolved over the yeras. faces come and go, but a lot stay the same. would like to see it flourish. had a lot of discussions over the past couple months with previous bookkeepers, people who worked with taxes and communicated with the city. did a kind of building review a couple yeras ago. familiar with the layout of the building. i have a backgrouned in finance and construction. have a unique experience with many aspects of what's needed for omni, what kind of goals they're looking at right now. for example, last couple years of tax filings needed to be done. based on square footing. been involved in those discussions, very aware of what the city needed, all the people putting that time and work in, and how that's being coordinated. i already know the history, familiar with the space, know the skillsets. i worked in nonprofit financial consulting since 2015. done roles like financial officer, roles like just using quickbooks. all kinds of financial skillsets. sub-skillsets in building management and construction. as we're trying to move things along, it helps to have someone who can just quickly plug in, already has this info, has hours in the week to quickly get these goals done, all the (honestly) emails it'll take to do these things, and also there for that collective process which you all are doing tonight
* anka: how much of this role is telling other people what to do?
** emily: typically 6 major roles are compressed currently into one person who's been spearheading that just because they're present. the idea here was actually to make those into proper roles. not just whoever happens to get it gets it, but actually, this person is going to focus on project A, B, C, guide them along. making decisions is a group process. part of that is who's interested in making decisions? eg i think we all want the building to stay open, but in terms of who's actually mapping square footage into a srpeadsheet, there's a macro and a micro lens. this role is an in between. we have everyone getting together as a group saying this is what we need to do, and this person says "ok let's make this committee, work with finance committee, say who wants to weigh in" and make sure it gets done. this person would guide decisions forward, implement decisions and "how to do it" after group decides
* Patrik: Here is a good resource for 1099 independent contractors vs W2 employees: https://www.worklawyers.com/1099-contractors-w2-employees/
* helen: how many hours would you expect to spend on this job? a lot of things need to be done, but what would you think the first thing would be?
** emily: proposal outlined hours. 15h/week i think? part time that'd segue into full time next year. obviously subject to change as you all need it, more or less. i'd be interested in a 6 month omni necessities list, of gathering info on things needed to keep the building open. i've heard them in bits and pieces, and everyone i've talked to has thier specific niche. i'd like to create this very transparent group idea of these are the things we need to be getting done to stay open and also thrive preferably. one is talking about the fire inspection, larger things like that, which have to be done in a somewhat sped up time period from what they might normally be.
* patrik: if someone can be fired at will, that's a employee. if you have to prove breach of contract, that's 1099 indep contractor. also depends how much control we have. if we wanna have oversight how things are done, that'd typically be more w2. would need to write specific contract. maybe give them budget, and if they come under they keep the money.
* Patrik counter-proposal: hire Emily as Financial Coordinator / Head of Finance for 6 mo at 15hr/wk (up for debate), to accomplish a specific set of tasks:
** tax filings (Sarah already doing most of this)
** property taxes
** getting our books in order
** getting us ready for refinance
** hiring or training a bookkeeper
** potentially add a bonus if we can close refinance within 6mo?
** outline some intermediate goals at 3 months
* Emily: could potentially close refinance in 6 months
* Emily: would also advocate for events manager and grants coordinator
* lots of conversation not covered in notes

== Fire inspection preparation and scheduling ==
* Jacqi is actively trying to get an inspection scheduled, waiting to hear back from "Chris" at the fire department
* preparation checklist email thread: https://omnicommons.org/pipermail/consensus/2022-November/003716.html
* who is coordinating efforts to prepare for the fire inspection, curating a checklist
* We have several broken windows. Do we have a regular to fix windows? Needs to be done *before* fire inspection
** Yar will get a referral, but needs to leave town Sunday
* waiting on Safer DIY to agree to inspections
* we agreed at previous delegate meeting on what the boundaries should be, to still plan events a few weeks out

= End of Meeting =
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[[Category:Delegates Meeting]]

Event:2024/08/13 Delegates

2025-09-14T04:04:58Z

Ceremona: /* Wishlist */

'''CAST office hour - 13 August 2024 6pm-7pm'''

== Meeting Details ==
* Talk at https://omnicommons.org/meet or 515-428-1108 (PIN: 465814905)
* Type at https://omnicommons.org/notes
* Send proposals to consensus@lists.omnicommons.org prior to the meeting
* Someone should go check incoming mail RIGHT NOW.

=== Roles ===
* Facilitator/s: CAST
* Stacktaker:
* Timekeeper:
* Notetaker/s: Paige

=== Delegates ===
* CCL: Patrik
* FNB:
* LL:
* SMAC: Ruby
* SM:
* SR: William

== CAST facilitated discussion: buyer due diligence ==
* Shreya - thanks for having these more targeting meetings going into September. Today we are going to focus on buyer vetting. Exciting that there are promising leads right now. As we hold space for vetting buyers, we want to reiterate our role. Not an arbiter for governance, or a development partner, but we support y'alls thinking process. We do recommend that all formal communication remain between buyer and seller - what we are laying out here, you should bring that to the buyer (we are not brokers). Setting this session such that potential buyers won't be joining, so we can hold space for open and honest communication on these nuances with this work.
* Ken - Want to check in around on the process you imagine conducting as the delegates, functionally serving as the board. Whether that is a very open community feedback session, like the open office hours right now, or something else, it is critical that it is transparent, and you must share that you have potential parties trying to secure the space. #1 Recommended deciding now - "We will accept offers up to this date", and stick with that date. Time now for you to establish this process. #2 would ask you to document these, can be as you do now with meeting minutes #3 I would work with Jesse now to find out his availability ahead of time. Lots of paperwork to be done. I would conduct a quick check in, wanting to make sure everything is reviewed. #4 come up with a group, delegates or broader group, some consensus or agreement of what you want as terms to agree to the sale. Right now you still have the right of veto, and depending on who it is, some ability to negotiate. One thing to ask about wiggle room, and another thing to tell Jesse what you want to see happen. It's the time to codify and formalize things, transfer of title and approval process with the buyer. Someone will have hurt feelings, either one of the buyers or delegates, but encourage you to share whatever you communicate with one party, with all parties. Even if not asked.
** Ken - Yes I can share some prompts with you. Some already brought up - are there non-negotiables with the transfer of ownership? I.e Paige asked Ojan whether or not they would raise rents. Ojan I believe gave a balanced response. It's a hard promise to make. Another one that came up was, if Omni would still be in control of the door system [no not something we require]
* William - We would not like to get priced out, want some sort of appeal system, but doesn't need same governance as now
* Ken - when we were trying to do the direct funding raise, we were not planning to introduce new governance immediately, but did want a commitment to a process to figuring that out (not spelled out beforehand). From our perspective, if you asked for a guarantee, i.e. for 18 months we want a system of governance, it reverts back to what it was, we probably wouldn't agree.
* Ken - I started every conversation with buyers asking if they would maintain space as a community space for arts. No flipping it. Thinking of it as a deed restriction, even if not a deed, but equity. Made some people walk away. But yes, I can share some more of those questions with you.
* Ken - I heard Phillip is ready to make an offer. Given that we have interest from EBPREC, it might be worth communicating with Ojan that we have a viable offer. We want to let you know and we will deliberate by this date. Timing, communication, and Phillip's readiness to put some pressure on other folks.
* William - question, I wasn't expecting to make it over the goal post, so I'm pretty surprised. Lots of conversations on LOIs, about power. What I was thinking, would it be possible to put in LOI an option for someone to buy back the loan? If we put in the document, if a party comes that can pay off the debts, they will be able to manage the building (i.e. CAST, EBPREC). There's nothing in writing to prevent Phillip from coming in and then not wanting to engage in land trusts
** Ken - I would encourage you to ask questions like that to Phillip directly. In finance, the question often raised is "where is your money coming from?" "What are your obligations?" Could we embed the right to share in equity down the road? At that point you are also assuming the obligations of the purchasing party. Here it comes down to a game of chess, determining risk. If you are going to request ability to buy it, you may require that you are able to purchase it near the purchase price rather than market value. I think it would be hard to name which groups would be able to do this, particularly if some of you are informal. But you can name a process, by which you would participate in qualifying for the buyer. I.e. "within 6 months, 2 years, the buyer will offer ?% of equity, at an amount reflective of initial purchase price."
** William - Since we are going to give up the building to have any autonomy in the building, how do we go about creating motivation to work with a land trust or well established org within Phillip's proposal. We are okay with giving up governance, but there's a want for giving that to an org with history on some project like this. Is there a way we can give an option for EBPREC to fully buy at a later point? Something like a "2 year cliff"? Hope that we could use this loan as a way to buy time to work with someone who has more experience with this. How do you see the motivations playing out?
** Patrik - EBPREC not a nonprofit, a cooperative. They have a nonprofit named CALLI, but they might still be in limbo about their nonprofit standing. So there's some difficulty in selling to them
** Ken - I don't see that as a concern, they can apply for exemptions as a for profit owner
** Patrik - Jesse has said its a nonstandard process
** Ken - we can help advise you on any scenario. EBPREC is the best way forward towards a collaborative trust model. Paul wouldn't go the land trust route, but also wouldnt want to flip it - he is wanting to manage as an asset. Paul has that money now, liquid, but he is being really deliberate in his choices. As I said, they came to us looking for a building 10 years ago.
* Patrik - I thought it might be useful to outline current bottlenecks to everyone here. Phillip Bell has let us know he has arranged financing, so willing to jump as soon as possible. Bottleneck with Phillip is we keep going back and forth if we can have the current community having some control of what happens to the building in certain scenarios. It wouldn't need to be current delegates in that role, or retain any of the delegates structure. These passive directors would only would have a vote in major decisions, like selling the building, or moving the majority of assets. Jesse is calling these "doomsday questions". According to Phillip even that would be too much based on the investors he's been talking to.
** The bottleneck on EBPREC's side is timing. Ojan and Noni need to talk to their board. Ojan said the earliest they could give an answer is Aug 22. I think he may have said Aug 22 because there will be delegates meeting that week (next week) on Thursday. We should find out when their board meeting is, and then schedule ours right after. I would assume that EBPREC would fold us into their system of community owners. Haven't said anything about that, but that is how they typically work. I would like to see what that would look like
** Ken - I would suggest reaching out to Ojan with that question now
** Patrik - a lot is spelled out in their public bylaws. Designed to be understandable for lay people. I encourage everyone to look at EBPREC's bylaws. They include different types of owners. Could make existing communities community or investor owners. Could have a seat at the table.
** Yar - very similar to people power solar in the past. Magical thing they also do of the cartoon bylaws.
* Ken - those not in loop, advantage of EBPREC, is they have the funds in hand. No investors
* Patrik - whereas Phillip's City in Motion proposal would be 12% loan, probably resulting in higherrents
* Ken - not necessarily, Phillip is aiming for a higher level of activation. His model is on having it full, 80-85% utilization rate, to cash flow it. He builds in months of loss. I think he has been really thoughtful. Cant speak to the level of risk, given the rate is high. All the planning and work he put in is very visible, encourage you to ask him to share.
* Patrik - in terms of what's non negotiable, do we want to make the community in the building having some say in the building non-negotiable? Then that might make Phillip's proposal out.
** Ken - Includes a theater group. They came to CAST about 10 years ago. They have the capacity to utilize the ballroom. Stability of their presence would do wonders for the bottom line of the space. Do not have a direct application yet. They are interested in learning how to coexist with the community there, not sure if that means everyone, but in good shape and well intentioned people.
** Patrik - I believe they would offer current groups 2 years, but would like to subdivide the bocce court. Would make more sense to subdivide the space into more artist spaces. They are also a nonprofit, so it makes the sale more clean.
* Ajay - I understand that LOIs are not legally binding?
** Ken - our version was not, but Phillip's is. The LOI will state generally how quickly you need to respond and move to a PSA ("purchase of sale agreement"?)
* Patrik - how worried would you be with EBPREC giving their proposal by Aug 22? Seems very last minute
** Ken - I wouldn't be. The paperwork is between experienced attorneys. I do not want to minimize it, but very this would be standard. The delays usually are by getting money available, and they can wire the money so that is not an issue.
* Patrik - timeline still uncertain. last we heard from foreclosure agents is 5 days before auction, Yesterday was the first day they could set an auction date. Folks at omni should check the mail. [Mail was checked and no letter received]

== post CAST office hour discussion ==
* Azadeh - for us to come to our non-negotiables, we should work on what is really important to us once we let go of governance.
* William - Would like to come back to my prior proposal - making an exit plan for Phillip, where he will have to abide by, allowing us to buy him out if it meets a certain criteria.
* Paige - EBPREC does restriction on sale, must be to an indigenous land trust at below market rate. We could use that as a model.
* Jake - since Ken isn't worried about waiting til Aug 22, then I don't think we should be worried. a 12% loan is an exploitative rate. Any lender demanding 12% isnt going to agree to limiting the sale. Seems clear we should pin our hopes on EBPREC.
* Paige - i agree EBPREC has the best proposal, but Phillips proposal is in our court right now, whereas we are waiting on EBPREC.
** Yar - I don't agree there's nothing to do with EBPREC. Planning an onsite Thursday - we could strategize what questions we are wanting to ask them then.
* William - there's a lot we are taking from Phillip at his word. Realistically, there are there deadlines that are pressing. We could communicate that we are waiting til the 22nd to both him and Paul. Also should ask Paul to share a proposal.
** Paige - lets check with Jesse to confirm whether the 22nd is enough time to finalize.
* Yar - Main thing I was agreeing to, one of the decisions the delegates should be deciding on right now, is how long is Omni willing to wait? We should game it out with a flow chart, day by day. I.e. if we don't hear back by EBPREC by Thursday or Friday, then do [ ]...

== proposal on how to collaborate online ==
* William - we should have a contact person for all of the buyers. And trello cards for each buyer's conversations. To be organized. Then communicate the next message internally.
* William - Alternatively, we could have two threads for each proposal. One for internal discussions and one with the buyer party.
* Azadeh - I think Trello is a good option so people who can see who are doing what
* William - I'm seeing a ton to read from Patrik and Phil, feel hesitant to jump in.
* Paige - worried it'll be hard to get people on board in time. What about emails, and texting someone if there response to email is urgent?

== Wishlist ==
* Yar - security over the doomsday questions, but also not subdividing the ballroom. I remember in looking for prospective buyers in 2016, a few people talked about turning the ballroom into a bunch of offices. I think the ballroom is such an important piece of Oakland, at the very least should be a deed restriction
** Ruby - Yea I like this, by requiring ballroom open as an events space, a
* Azadeh - Ken suggesting we set dates - come up with a deadline, and then communicate that deadline to everyone. Can we agree to do that now? What time frame after Aug 22nd?
* Azadeh - what do we want to sustain in the space. I'm hearing, the ballroom staying a ballroom. What other things do we really want? Give everyone our best case scenarios, then in their court to give their best case to us. Gives a chance for everyone to share what they can work with and what they cannot. We did not know we would have this opportunity.
** Yar - no cops at the building, deed restriction
** Paige - something preventing a flip
** Patrik - everything we put in the bylaws, can be changed, so don't think we are able to control things like that
** Paige - I've been confused about that. Was a back and forth - I thought something like restriction of sale in LOI could get replaced by directors, but then Phillip said that was not true, it would be legally binding. If that's true, how do we secure things like this? A deed restrictions?
** Patrik - anyone here know more about them? [no]
* Azadeh - I loved hearing about native land restriction on sale [EBPREC]. We are all saying we don't want it sold out in non-community scenarios. What would the alternative be? I.e. native land if not to the community.
** Ruby - Phillip does have objection from any involvement from the orgs that are here, and any restrictions on making his lender's money back.
* Paige - another avenue, is board appointees along EBPRECs model
** William - I think its worth asking about appointing board members, but does add more risk if trying to utilize money to make money back. According to him, I think building in an exit within 6 months to 2 years. Says he wants to get it back in the hands of the community. Does Not necessarily build in any risk.
* William - another wish item that cooking food in building becomes possible, with food distribution still going on.
* Patrik - I would want some involvement of current people in the building in governance. One idea was one elected board member. Jesse's original proposal was passive directors, no voice in day to day, but do get ability to veto "doomsday" questions. Phillips thought that was too close to having delegates having control in building. I gave other ideas but still not receptive. He's willing to put restrictions on sale of the building, but not have a passive director to have a say on it. To EBPREC, I would like to know if we would automatically join one of their ownership classes in their coop. Resident owners, community owners... Would love some more people to put eyes on it. Lot to digest, not sure how it plays out in practice
** Yar - because they are cooperative, traditional way is you own a share, i.e. can get dividends as an investor owner. EBPREC has alternatives, where instead of putting up money, you can be a stakeholder in other ways, as in ways of being a shareholder in the cooperative, having some vote in how its run. There's also a board and staff employees. They are ultimately accountable to the owners. Omni currently does have an owner group of some kind, a couple years ago Kai and I created an omni owner group to be a constituent. Don't know status anymore.
** Patrik - 5 elected board directors, elected by different ownership classes.
* Patrik - I do think we should pass the LOI Jesse wrote, that includes passive directors to Paul. In mechanism with passive directors, I think we would end up with a small number of them, no need for every org in the Omni to have a passive director
* Azadeh - In the end I would like it to be there for the community. I'll come up with better wording. Thank you all for all this continued work but have to leave now.
* Yar - Scenario I'm nervous about with EBPREC, is making too many demands to them, given they are waiting for Ojan to convince the board. Especially given the history, things that smell like reluctance will seem like one of the things that could poison the deal.
* William - I think we should ask questions about what their governance structure proposed would be in their words.
* Paige - when Paul submit an LOI?
* Patrik - agenda for Thursday?
* William - ask Phillip what his pressures are for the timeline. Make sure we are continuously talking to him. He's also been down on his luck recently, with car and housing and personal loss. Lots of musical equipment, music nonprofits.

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[[Category:Delegates Meeting]]

Event:2024/08/13 Delegates

2025-09-14T04:04:04Z

Ceremona: /* CAST facilitated discussion: buyer due diligence */

'''CAST office hour - 13 August 2024 6pm-7pm'''

== Meeting Details ==
* Talk at https://omnicommons.org/meet or 515-428-1108 (PIN: 465814905)
* Type at https://omnicommons.org/notes
* Send proposals to consensus@lists.omnicommons.org prior to the meeting
* Someone should go check incoming mail RIGHT NOW.

=== Roles ===
* Facilitator/s: CAST
* Stacktaker:
* Timekeeper:
* Notetaker/s: Paige

=== Delegates ===
* CCL: Patrik
* FNB:
* LL:
* SMAC: Ruby
* SM:
* SR: William

== CAST facilitated discussion: buyer due diligence ==
* Shreya - thanks for having these more targeting meetings going into September. Today we are going to focus on buyer vetting. Exciting that there are promising leads right now. As we hold space for vetting buyers, we want to reiterate our role. Not an arbiter for governance, or a development partner, but we support y'alls thinking process. We do recommend that all formal communication remain between buyer and seller - what we are laying out here, you should bring that to the buyer (we are not brokers). Setting this session such that potential buyers won't be joining, so we can hold space for open and honest communication on these nuances with this work.
* Ken - Want to check in around on the process you imagine conducting as the delegates, functionally serving as the board. Whether that is a very open community feedback session, like the open office hours right now, or something else, it is critical that it is transparent, and you must share that you have potential parties trying to secure the space. #1 Recommended deciding now - "We will accept offers up to this date", and stick with that date. Time now for you to establish this process. #2 would ask you to document these, can be as you do now with meeting minutes #3 I would work with Jesse now to find out his availability ahead of time. Lots of paperwork to be done. I would conduct a quick check in, wanting to make sure everything is reviewed. #4 come up with a group, delegates or broader group, some consensus or agreement of what you want as terms to agree to the sale. Right now you still have the right of veto, and depending on who it is, some ability to negotiate. One thing to ask about wiggle room, and another thing to tell Jesse what you want to see happen. It's the time to codify and formalize things, transfer of title and approval process with the buyer. Someone will have hurt feelings, either one of the buyers or delegates, but encourage you to share whatever you communicate with one party, with all parties. Even if not asked.
** Ken - Yes I can share some prompts with you. Some already brought up - are there non-negotiables with the transfer of ownership? I.e Paige asked Ojan whether or not they would raise rents. Ojan I believe gave a balanced response. It's a hard promise to make. Another one that came up was, if Omni would still be in control of the door system [no not something we require]
* William - We would not like to get priced out, want some sort of appeal system, but doesn't need same governance as now
* Ken - when we were trying to do the direct funding raise, we were not planning to introduce new governance immediately, but did want a commitment to a process to figuring that out (not spelled out beforehand). From our perspective, if you asked for a guarantee, i.e. for 18 months we want a system of governance, it reverts back to what it was, we probably wouldn't agree.
* Ken - I started every conversation with buyers asking if they would maintain space as a community space for arts. No flipping it. Thinking of it as a deed restriction, even if not a deed, but equity. Made some people walk away. But yes, I can share some more of those questions with you.
* Ken - I heard Phillip is ready to make an offer. Given that we have interest from EBPREC, it might be worth communicating with Ojan that we have a viable offer. We want to let you know and we will deliberate by this date. Timing, communication, and Phillip's readiness to put some pressure on other folks.
* William - question, I wasn't expecting to make it over the goal post, so I'm pretty surprised. Lots of conversations on LOIs, about power. What I was thinking, would it be possible to put in LOI an option for someone to buy back the loan? If we put in the document, if a party comes that can pay off the debts, they will be able to manage the building (i.e. CAST, EBPREC). There's nothing in writing to prevent Phillip from coming in and then not wanting to engage in land trusts
** Ken - I would encourage you to ask questions like that to Phillip directly. In finance, the question often raised is "where is your money coming from?" "What are your obligations?" Could we embed the right to share in equity down the road? At that point you are also assuming the obligations of the purchasing party. Here it comes down to a game of chess, determining risk. If you are going to request ability to buy it, you may require that you are able to purchase it near the purchase price rather than market value. I think it would be hard to name which groups would be able to do this, particularly if some of you are informal. But you can name a process, by which you would participate in qualifying for the buyer. I.e. "within 6 months, 2 years, the buyer will offer ?% of equity, at an amount reflective of initial purchase price."
** William - Since we are going to give up the building to have any autonomy in the building, how do we go about creating motivation to work with a land trust or well established org within Phillip's proposal. We are okay with giving up governance, but there's a want for giving that to an org with history on some project like this. Is there a way we can give an option for EBPREC to fully buy at a later point? Something like a "2 year cliff"? Hope that we could use this loan as a way to buy time to work with someone who has more experience with this. How do you see the motivations playing out?
** Patrik - EBPREC not a nonprofit, a cooperative. They have a nonprofit named CALLI, but they might still be in limbo about their nonprofit standing. So there's some difficulty in selling to them
** Ken - I don't see that as a concern, they can apply for exemptions as a for profit owner
** Patrik - Jesse has said its a nonstandard process
** Ken - we can help advise you on any scenario. EBPREC is the best way forward towards a collaborative trust model. Paul wouldn't go the land trust route, but also wouldnt want to flip it - he is wanting to manage as an asset. Paul has that money now, liquid, but he is being really deliberate in his choices. As I said, they came to us looking for a building 10 years ago.
* Patrik - I thought it might be useful to outline current bottlenecks to everyone here. Phillip Bell has let us know he has arranged financing, so willing to jump as soon as possible. Bottleneck with Phillip is we keep going back and forth if we can have the current community having some control of what happens to the building in certain scenarios. It wouldn't need to be current delegates in that role, or retain any of the delegates structure. These passive directors would only would have a vote in major decisions, like selling the building, or moving the majority of assets. Jesse is calling these "doomsday questions". According to Phillip even that would be too much based on the investors he's been talking to.
** The bottleneck on EBPREC's side is timing. Ojan and Noni need to talk to their board. Ojan said the earliest they could give an answer is Aug 22. I think he may have said Aug 22 because there will be delegates meeting that week (next week) on Thursday. We should find out when their board meeting is, and then schedule ours right after. I would assume that EBPREC would fold us into their system of community owners. Haven't said anything about that, but that is how they typically work. I would like to see what that would look like
** Ken - I would suggest reaching out to Ojan with that question now
** Patrik - a lot is spelled out in their public bylaws. Designed to be understandable for lay people. I encourage everyone to look at EBPREC's bylaws. They include different types of owners. Could make existing communities community or investor owners. Could have a seat at the table.
** Yar - very similar to people power solar in the past. Magical thing they also do of the cartoon bylaws.
* Ken - those not in loop, advantage of EBPREC, is they have the funds in hand. No investors
* Patrik - whereas Phillip's City in Motion proposal would be 12% loan, probably resulting in higherrents
* Ken - not necessarily, Phillip is aiming for a higher level of activation. His model is on having it full, 80-85% utilization rate, to cash flow it. He builds in months of loss. I think he has been really thoughtful. Cant speak to the level of risk, given the rate is high. All the planning and work he put in is very visible, encourage you to ask him to share.
* Patrik - in terms of what's non negotiable, do we want to make the community in the building having some say in the building non-negotiable? Then that might make Phillip's proposal out.
** Ken - Includes a theater group. They came to CAST about 10 years ago. They have the capacity to utilize the ballroom. Stability of their presence would do wonders for the bottom line of the space. Do not have a direct application yet. They are interested in learning how to coexist with the community there, not sure if that means everyone, but in good shape and well intentioned people.
** Patrik - I believe they would offer current groups 2 years, but would like to subdivide the bocce court. Would make more sense to subdivide the space into more artist spaces. They are also a nonprofit, so it makes the sale more clean.
* Ajay - I understand that LOIs are not legally binding?
** Ken - our version was not, but Phillip's is. The LOI will state generally how quickly you need to respond and move to a PSA ("purchase of sale agreement"?)
* Patrik - how worried would you be with EBPREC giving their proposal by Aug 22? Seems very last minute
** Ken - I wouldn't be. The paperwork is between experienced attorneys. I do not want to minimize it, but very this would be standard. The delays usually are by getting money available, and they can wire the money so that is not an issue.
* Patrik - timeline still uncertain. last we heard from foreclosure agents is 5 days before auction, Yesterday was the first day they could set an auction date. Folks at omni should check the mail. [Mail was checked and no letter received]

== post CAST office hour discussion ==
* Azadeh - for us to come to our non-negotiables, we should work on what is really important to us once we let go of governance.
* William - Would like to come back to my prior proposal - making an exit plan for Phillip, where he will have to abide by, allowing us to buy him out if it meets a certain criteria.
* Paige - EBPREC does restriction on sale, must be to an indigenous land trust at below market rate. We could use that as a model.
* Jake - since Ken isn't worried about waiting til Aug 22, then I don't think we should be worried. a 12% loan is an exploitative rate. Any lender demanding 12% isnt going to agree to limiting the sale. Seems clear we should pin our hopes on EBPREC.
* Paige - i agree EBPREC has the best proposal, but Phillips proposal is in our court right now, whereas we are waiting on EBPREC.
** Yar - I don't agree there's nothing to do with EBPREC. Planning an onsite Thursday - we could strategize what questions we are wanting to ask them then.
* William - there's a lot we are taking from Phillip at his word. Realistically, there are there deadlines that are pressing. We could communicate that we are waiting til the 22nd to both him and Paul. Also should ask Paul to share a proposal.
** Paige - lets check with Jesse to confirm whether the 22nd is enough time to finalize.
* Yar - Main thing I was agreeing to, one of the decisions the delegates should be deciding on right now, is how long is Omni willing to wait? We should game it out with a flow chart, day by day. I.e. if we don't hear back by EBPREC by Thursday or Friday, then do [ ]...

== proposal on how to collaborate online ==
* William - we should have a contact person for all of the buyers. And trello cards for each buyer's conversations. To be organized. Then communicate the next message internally.
* William - Alternatively, we could have two threads for each proposal. One for internal discussions and one with the buyer party.
* Azadeh - I think Trello is a good option so people who can see who are doing what
* William - I'm seeing a ton to read from Patrik and Phil, feel hesitant to jump in.
* Paige - worried it'll be hard to get people on board in time. What about emails, and texting someone if there response to email is urgent?

== Wishlist ==
* Yar - security over the doomsday questions, but also not subdividing the ballroom. I remember in looking for prospective buyers in 2016, a few people talked about turning the ballroom into a bunch of offices. I think the ballroom is such an important piece of Oakland, at the very least should be a deed restriction
** Cere - would never have thought anyone would want to do that
** Ruby - Yea I like this, by requiring ballroom open as an events space, a
* Azadeh - Ken suggesting we set dates - come up with a deadline, and then communicate that deadline to everyone. Can we agree to do that now? What time frame after Aug 22nd?
* Azadeh - what do we want to sustain in the space. I'm hearing, the ballroom staying a ballroom. What other things do we really want? Give everyone our best case scenarios, then in their court to give their best case to us. Gives a chance for everyone to share what they can work with and what they cannot. We did not know we would have this opportunity.
** Yar - no cops at the building, deed restriction
** Paige - something preventing a flip
** Patrik - everything we put in the bylaws, can be changed, so don't think we are able to control things like that
** Paige - I've been confused about that. Was a back and forth - I thought something like restriction of sale in LOI could get replaced by directors, but then Phillip said that was not true, it would be legally binding. If that's true, how do we secure things like this? A deed restrictions?
** Patrik - anyone here know more about them? [no]
* Azadeh - I loved hearing about native land restriction on sale [EBPREC]. We are all saying we don't want it sold out in non-community scenarios. What would the alternative be? I.e. native land if not to the community.
** Ruby - Phillip does have objection from any involvement from the orgs that are here, and any restrictions on making his lender's money back.
** Cere - don't blame him because I wouldn't lay down that much money without control of it. But also why I would prefer going to someone with experience behind this, who has history of hedging bets like this.
* Paige - another avenue, is board appointees along EBPRECs model
** William - I think its worth asking about appointing board members, but does add more risk if trying to utilize money to make money back. According to him, I think building in an exit within 6 months to 2 years. Says he wants to get it back in the hands of the community. Does Not necessarily build in any risk.
* William - another wish item that cooking food in building becomes possible, with food distribution still going on.
* Patrik - I would want some involvement of current people in the building in governance. One idea was one elected board member. Jesse's original proposal was passive directors, no voice in day to day, but do get ability to veto "doomsday" questions. Phillips thought that was too close to having delegates having control in building. I gave other ideas but still not receptive. He's willing to put restrictions on sale of the building, but not have a passive director to have a say on it. To EBPREC, I would like to know if we would automatically join one of their ownership classes in their coop. Resident owners, community owners... Would love some more people to put eyes on it. Lot to digest, not sure how it plays out in practice
** Yar - because they are cooperative, traditional way is you own a share, i.e. can get dividends as an investor owner. EBPREC has alternatives, where instead of putting up money, you can be a stakeholder in other ways, as in ways of being a shareholder in the cooperative, having some vote in how its run. There's also a board and staff employees. They are ultimately accountable to the owners. Omni currently does have an owner group of some kind, a couple years ago Kai and I created an omni owner group to be a constituent. Don't know status anymore.
** Patrik - 5 elected board directors, elected by different ownership classes.
* Patrik - I do think we should pass the LOI Jesse wrote, that includes passive directors to Paul. In mechanism with passive directors, I think we would end up with a small number of them, no need for every org in the Omni to have a passive director
* Azadeh - In the end I would like it to be there for the community. I'll come up with better wording. Thank you all for all this continued work but have to leave now.
* Yar - Scenario I'm nervous about with EBPREC, is making too many demands to them, given they are waiting for Ojan to convince the board. Especially given the history, things that smell like reluctance will seem like one of the things that could poison the deal.
* William - I think we should ask questions about what their governance structure proposed would be in their words.
* Cere - confused about Ken's comment about debt. Should we care about whether we would be inheriting their debt? I guess in the sense of it we stand to gain something if we were to leave?
* Paige - when Paul submit an LOI?
** Cere - he wants to talk to us. Cause a lot of work on their end. He's asking whether omni would be willing to work with them. The thing he is attracted to is the ballroom. Actual theater space is inside a room. A big bottleneck is he can't even build out the collaborations he wants. Super excited about the fixit clinic. I think he is flexible about how he sees his art program. Don't think he falls into the bottom line capitalism thing.
* Patrik - agenda for Thursday?
* William - ask Phillip what his pressures are for the timeline. Make sure we are continuously talking to him. He's also been down on his luck recently, with car and housing and personal loss. Lots of musical equipment, music nonprofits.

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[[Category:Delegates Meeting]]

Event:2014/08/11 Fundraising Conversation

2025-09-14T04:01:46Z

Ceremona: /* Questions */

7pm we will discuss a plan to do some nominal fundraising!

Experience we bring to this? Danny (CoFed, several fundraising campaigns), Margaretha (lots of grant writing/fundraising, urban commons projects: Hayes Valley Farm [20K kickstarter], Bloom Justice, web and graphic design), Cere (passing hats at events), Athena (worked in nonprofits, but not fundraising), David (Alt Exposure grant, community investors / donors / loaners etc; excited about block grants from our district, human relations, specific project fundraising), Elaine (nonprof$ for artists w/ disabilities - grant writing and program coordinating; other event space in Mass, fundraising for a small press), Jenny (sudo room and sudo mesh; Gittip, crowdfunding, positioning ourselves to be given big grants at the end of the year).

David: Getting the 1023 important for getting 501c3 and major tax deductible donations; writing off rent as a 501c3 renting to for-profits
* 3 mayoral candidates coming here to debate in a next month
* Use Oakland Nights Live to help with our fundraising and donations
* Article in the Bay Guardian
* Policy on admitting new collectives, space and rent

=Questions=
* Danny: What's the latent potential for people to want to support Omni?
* Margaretha: General fund or specific funds?
* How can I help? x2
* Athena: How to bring all the collectives together to represent the Omni, at say, a fundraising event?
* Elaine: Timeline? How can I most effectively contribute?
* Jenny: Newbie Night - can we make this Omni-wide? What does each collective contribute to the Commons - cultivating this message. How do we
engage people who might contribute funds to also see it as *their* space and participate?
* Jenny: How do we get the masses to contribute the cost of a cup of coffee every week?

=Revenue Streams=
* One-page financial overview
1. Weekly / Monthly membership donations
* What is Omni membership?
2. Online donations
* Campaigns / Kickstarters
* Donate button
3. Events
* Fundraising Gala
* Weekly Newbie Night
4. Omni-produced events that make money
* Shows (taking a cut)
** Thurston Moore, The Melvins, MGMT
5. Booked events
* Weddings, etc;
* Space Rental
6. End-of-the-year campaign
* Very conventional, but end of tax year is very
* Corporate matching
* Rich families
7. Capital Campaign
* Find the rich believers

=Grants!=
* Grant-writing hackathon
* Boilerplate

=Message=

What are the best few things we can prioritize?

==Community==
* Inner circle: direct and intimate connections
* Wider audiences: eg; global hackerspace community, arts community, people writing about or giving ted talks about these topics
* Hosting events / "stunts":
* Launch night, leverage press, target various large communities

==Pitch==
* What is the transformation we're promising?

==Call to Action==
* How can people help us to the work?

=Ideas=
* Newbie Night
* Tiny art sale
* Coordinate Newbie Night for First Friday
* Study upcoming Temescal community events and coordinate with them

=Action Items=
* David talking to Dan Kalb about block grants
* Talk to Helen about FNB fiscal sponsorship [Jenny]
* FOCUS ALL ACTIVITY ON AUG21st POTLUCK and then replicate successes at a larger scale

=AUG 21 POTLUCK PARTICIPATION NOTES=

Synthesized from many post-its late; s we discussed on Monday night, this potluck is a great way for all Omni member groups and working groups to take one step together towards collective unity.

There are two areas of tasks:

'''Omni presence (pun!):'''
* suggest each Omni member group have 2+ representatives present
* organize set-up and cleanup volunteers
* suggest everyone "bring a friend or two"
* create half-sheet "About Omni" handouts (building on existing copy on website, wiki, etc)
* welcome participation far more than donation! let's build a beloved community

'''Omni publicity:'''
* send email through Omni announce list
* suggest each Omni member group email their list and post on social media
* create event using Omni Facebook page (necessary to engage regular FB users)
* create simple image for posting on social media – example attached! Improvements welcome!
* create "potluck page" or "soon-to-open" page on the Omni website
* consider posting to local event calendars, inviting press, etc – needs discussion
* invite specific groups?
** prospective member groups (RLL, Rise Above printing, and others??)
** movement allies (EBASE, Causa Justa Just Cause, Phat Beets Produce, Ella Baker Center, Oakland Rising..... etc?)
** city & neighborhood reps?

Event:2014/11/22 Commons wg

2025-09-14T04:01:15Z

Ceremona: /* Action Items */

Commons WG Mtg 11/22

* Synthesizing our documents
* Don:
** Sunday at 11, Monday at 7:30 for students
** Qi Gong at 6 on Mondays, Self-Defense on Thursdays at 7:30 - all in the den
* Went through the spreadsheet
* Sarah to take on migrating Disco / Dance events
* Niki to take on migrating BAPS and La Commune events
* Jenny to take on migrating ballroom events
* Next meeting: 1pm in two weeks

=Action Items=
* Niki to follow up with Mia about Dora Malech workshop in ballroom Saturday Dec 6
* Ask Danny to follow up with Digital Detox people - they may be interested in a monthly device&alcohol-free event
* Make sure Bear/Skin is on new calendar
* Niki to follow up with Natasha / Fatty Winter Wonderland
* Sarah P to send Kwic info on rental fee structure and bottom-lining basics
* Check Dec 4 dance event
* Sarah to add Sara's poetry class to calendar
* Jenny and Yar to add field for estimating how much people can pay
* Sarah to follow up w/ Danny and Devil-ettes
* Sarah to make more copies of liability waivers - for dance/movement/martial arts events
* Jenny to check on calendar and move things over from spreadsheet and wiki
* Jenny to remove next week's meeting from the calendar
* Jenny to work on a cheatsheet

Crowdfunding

2025-09-14T04:00:46Z

Ceremona: /* Groups */

==Fundraising Meeting Notes==

See [[Calendar]] for past and future meetings. Here is a short list:

* [[Event:2014/12/01_Community_and_Fundraising|2014/12/01]]
* [[Event:2014/10/27_Community_and_Fundraising|2014/11/03]]
* [[Event:2014/10/27_Community_and_Fundraising|2014/10/27]]
* [[Event:2014/10/20_Community_and_Fundraising|2014/10/20]]
* [[Event:2014/10/13_Community_and_Fundraising|2014/10/13]]
* [[Event:2014/10/07_fundraising_pseudo_meeting|2014/10/07]]
* [[Event:2014/09/22_community_and_fundraising|2014/09/22]]
* [[Event:2014/09/13_Community_&_Fundraising|2014/09/13]]
* [[Event:2014/08/11_Fundraising_Conversation|2014/08/11]]

==First Campaign==

===Scope===
Raise money for critical start-up costs.

===Goals===
'''$70,000'''
Stretch goals of $88k, $111k,...maybe all the way to $700k?

===Timeline===

'''[https://ethercalc.com/omni-crowdfunding-timeline DRAFT Omni Commons Fundraising Campaign Timeline]'''

====Key====

=====Groups=====
* '''Fund-raising (FR) Working Group'''
** Danny, Laura, Matt, Joel, Stan, Hayley, Sarah P, Sean, Anthony, Helen,
* '''Internal Omni Coord'''
** Organizes members & collectives to participate in fundraising
** Danny – Bottom-Lining, writing, delegate meeting
* '''Communications / Design'''
** Message and materials design, tech support
** Joel - Bottom-Lining
* '''Publicity and Outreach'''
** Contacts and organizes external support for Omni FR
** Laura – temp Bottom-Liner, major donor/challenge grant outreach
** Matt – tech support
** Danny - writing
* '''Events'''
** Plans and coordinates large FR events
** Stan – Bottom-Lining for 1st event

Ballroom

2025-09-14T03:59:59Z

Ceremona: /* Primary Sound System */

Documentation for all things "Ballroom" in the Omni Commons.

==Sound systems==

There are several [[sound systems]] accessible throughout the building, including mobile PA systems. However, importantly, there is one primary sound system that is permanently installed in the Ballroom that has been carefully calibrated to provide sufficient amplified sound in a room the size of the ballroom.

===Primary Sound System===

For the primary sound system in the Omni Ballroom, it should only be operated by someone who has been trained to use the system, '''otherwise you risk permanently damaging or destroying delicate equipment'''. It is very easy to damage and destroy speaker drivers. A specific order of operations must be followed when turning the system on, and when turning the system off. '''Please contact someone from this list to help you or to [[sound systems|train you]] to use the sound system:'''

* Sean L
* Liz R
* Kwe
* Kwic
* Dragon
* Marina K
* David K
* Sam T
* Matt S
* Jake

Most of the audio equipment you may need to use in the ballroom should either be stored securely (locked) in:

# The crow's nest above the stage, accessible from the ballroom mezzanine
# The secure storage room accessible from the NorthWest ballroom exit (the staircase that leads down into the basement).

== See also ==
* [[Ballroom Floor Refinishing]]

Event:2014/09/15 Communications Committe Meeting

2025-09-14T03:59:24Z

Ceremona: /* Action Items */

=Details=
* 7pm in the Omni mezzanine

=Attendees=
* Jenny, Patrick, Danny, Matt S, Derek

=Agenda=
* Explore Loomio for collaborative decision-making
* Check-in on email addresses
* Update website
* Calendar Universe
* Potluck on Thurs!
* Paper Materials
** Flyers / Print Collective support (omg asap)
** Business Cards
** Stickers
* See: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a6ThnVp35RnAlkUocV3mL----Xvl4slD-9OaFgAmGBY/edit
* Fundraising spiral-out
==Loomio==
* Derek works with Enspiral, the company behind Loomio! Loomio:
** Creates an in-depth history of all decisions collectively made
** Can be adapted for consensus, modified consensus, majority etc;
** Can create subgroups (for eg working groups and collectives)
* Describes "iterative decision-making" where everyone shares their questions/concerns and each person gives a green-light when they see their questions/concerns represented
* Dot Voting / Ranked Choice voting
* will always be free
* individuals who propose something for a decision will get emails and updates, which will encourage their facilitation of the discussion PLUS their facilitation of the platform (which is minimal)
* "people will share their voice on things they care about"
* encourages a model by which anyone who cares about a topic / proposal can participate in the discussion / decision-making process, rather than certain point people being assigned to care about decisions
==Email Update==
via yar:
"Sorry I can't make it, something last-minute came up, but I want to just say for the record that I am in the process of overhauling the omni server's email infrastructure with the aim of having as many email addresses and email lists as our hearts desire. You can consider me a bottom-liner although I prefer the status of "do-ocratic sysadmin". Let me know if that's cool. Some moral support would be nice!
Status: would have already happened this morning except I had a really bad headache. Very soon."
* events@omni-oakland.org -> ballroom wg
* info@omni-oakland.org -> comms wg, set it up for a month and see what kind of demands on the system we get
* join or membership@omni-oakland.org -> facilitating collectivity or omnilogistics
==Update website==
via yar:

"Not sure if this is directly relevant but I just removed ONL from the website: https://github.com/oomni/oomni.github.io/commit/63f5238c"
* mailto:info@omni-oakland.org OR contact form - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QfOp1onfqQFDVd9yPzECuEeervdPtezthqaW47PIVA8/viewform as an example

==calendar==
* Events Manager Wordpress plugin for ESS (event syndication to sync with other calendars) and Booking of events
* Dev site at http://cal.omni-oakland.org
* Booking goes to a queue for approval; you can disable double-booking
* We should also explore some of the in-development alternatives in the future (eg; Calagator)

==potluck==
* Paint stations
* Poster of triumphs
* Thank Yous/Gratitudes section
* Omni Needs a lá http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/WishList
* Musical jam corner
* Nametags
* Project booths

==fundraising==
* see notes here http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Event:2014/09/13_Community_%26_Fundraising
* action items include:
** Danny & Laura & Sarah & Stepehn requesting "personal stories" from individuals, and from groups
* $70K by 12/1! That's 2,333 people each donating $30 on avg.
* "matching donations" from individuals and foundations
* "low-stress, anti-desperate" timeline to crowdfund
* get Vegan Cheese's designer to help? (Jared!)
* maybe an event to have presentations from vegan cheese and loomio?

==paper goods==
* flyers for potluck
* generic business cards
* stickers

=Action Items=
* 'Rentals' page on site - Danny will talk to ballroom wg
** Update omni-oakland.org website with info from ballroom group (this week) - Matt
* Implement Persona logins, migrate old events, import existing users, and link to it on the site - jenny/matt
* Get vegan cheese folks to present about their campaign - jenny/matt?
* Get Loomio folks to present about their campaign - Derek
* Prepare proposed timeline for Crowd-Funding campaign for mon 9/22 (pubbed earlier for improvements) - Danny
* Reach out to potential donors - Derek
* Updating Jordan on email futures - jenny
* Migrate riseup lists to new email lists - jordan/jenny
* Help set-up for potluck on Thurs - jenny/xxx
* Facebook push for potluck - Jenny
* Need cheap-o brushes or sponges - Patrick
* Need 5 volunteers for potluck!!! - Patrick
* D introduces Derek to Niki+Jen re finance and CRM
* Need flyer for potluck - Patrick/Matt
** Jenny
** Matt
** MAYBE sam? who knows?
** ???

Event:2014/09/15 Communications Committe Meeting

2025-09-14T03:59:03Z

Ceremona: /* Attendees */

=Details=
* 7pm in the Omni mezzanine

=Attendees=
* Jenny, Patrick, Danny, Matt S, Derek

=Agenda=
* Explore Loomio for collaborative decision-making
* Check-in on email addresses
* Update website
* Calendar Universe
* Potluck on Thurs!
* Paper Materials
** Flyers / Print Collective support (omg asap)
** Business Cards
** Stickers
* See: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a6ThnVp35RnAlkUocV3mL----Xvl4slD-9OaFgAmGBY/edit
* Fundraising spiral-out
==Loomio==
* Derek works with Enspiral, the company behind Loomio! Loomio:
** Creates an in-depth history of all decisions collectively made
** Can be adapted for consensus, modified consensus, majority etc;
** Can create subgroups (for eg working groups and collectives)
* Describes "iterative decision-making" where everyone shares their questions/concerns and each person gives a green-light when they see their questions/concerns represented
* Dot Voting / Ranked Choice voting
* will always be free
* individuals who propose something for a decision will get emails and updates, which will encourage their facilitation of the discussion PLUS their facilitation of the platform (which is minimal)
* "people will share their voice on things they care about"
* encourages a model by which anyone who cares about a topic / proposal can participate in the discussion / decision-making process, rather than certain point people being assigned to care about decisions
==Email Update==
via yar:
"Sorry I can't make it, something last-minute came up, but I want to just say for the record that I am in the process of overhauling the omni server's email infrastructure with the aim of having as many email addresses and email lists as our hearts desire. You can consider me a bottom-liner although I prefer the status of "do-ocratic sysadmin". Let me know if that's cool. Some moral support would be nice!
Status: would have already happened this morning except I had a really bad headache. Very soon."
* events@omni-oakland.org -> ballroom wg
* info@omni-oakland.org -> comms wg, set it up for a month and see what kind of demands on the system we get
* join or membership@omni-oakland.org -> facilitating collectivity or omnilogistics
==Update website==
via yar:

"Not sure if this is directly relevant but I just removed ONL from the website: https://github.com/oomni/oomni.github.io/commit/63f5238c"
* mailto:info@omni-oakland.org OR contact form - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QfOp1onfqQFDVd9yPzECuEeervdPtezthqaW47PIVA8/viewform as an example

==calendar==
* Events Manager Wordpress plugin for ESS (event syndication to sync with other calendars) and Booking of events
* Dev site at http://cal.omni-oakland.org
* Booking goes to a queue for approval; you can disable double-booking
* We should also explore some of the in-development alternatives in the future (eg; Calagator)

==potluck==
* Paint stations
* Poster of triumphs
* Thank Yous/Gratitudes section
* Omni Needs a lá http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/WishList
* Musical jam corner
* Nametags
* Project booths

==fundraising==
* see notes here http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Event:2014/09/13_Community_%26_Fundraising
* action items include:
** Danny & Laura & Sarah & Stepehn requesting "personal stories" from individuals, and from groups
* $70K by 12/1! That's 2,333 people each donating $30 on avg.
* "matching donations" from individuals and foundations
* "low-stress, anti-desperate" timeline to crowdfund
* get Vegan Cheese's designer to help? (Jared!)
* maybe an event to have presentations from vegan cheese and loomio?

==paper goods==
* flyers for potluck
* generic business cards
* stickers

=Action Items=
* 'Rentals' page on site - Danny will talk to ballroom wg
** Update omni-oakland.org website with info from ballroom group (this week) - Matt
* Implement Persona logins, migrate old events, import existing users, and link to it on the site - jenny/matt
* Get vegan cheese folks to present about their campaign - jenny/matt?
* Get Loomio folks to present about their campaign - Derek
* Prepare proposed timeline for Crowd-Funding campaign for mon 9/22 (pubbed earlier for improvements) - Danny
* Reach out to potential donors - Derek
* Updating Jordan on email futures - jenny
* Migrate riseup lists to new email lists - jordan/jenny
* Help set-up for potluck on Thurs - jenny/cere
* Facebook push for potluck - Jenny
* Need cheap-o brushes or sponges - Patrick
* Need 5 volunteers for potluck!!! - Patrick
* D introduces Derek to Niki+Jen re finance and CRM
* Need flyer for potluck - Patrick/Matt
** Jenny
** Matt
** Cere
** MAYBE sam? who knows?
** ???

Event:2015/03/21 Commons Working Group Meeting

2025-09-14T03:58:41Z

Ceremona: /* This Week's Events */

Commons WG 3/21

We started at 2:30pm, Jenny, Laura, Julio (left early), Darin

Event Rentals Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BXxNRMsfXNS93sUfToc_0iUwktK31EBUpnh6hVFwiVM/edit#gid=1736285254

=Agenda=
* Julio's events showed up once he manually sync'd
* Kwic's stuff update

=Check in on:=
* Experimental music event
* Kwic's stuff
** He moved his trike.
=Last Week's Events=
* West African Dance Class - Cere - Jenny following up with Cere
* Space Open Pin-Up and Meeting - Stephen - jenny re-pinged, Stephen taking this on
* support liaison workshop - niki / steve - note: march 22nd is open circle from 3-6pm
* film screening: Roadmap to Apartheid - Niki emailed them
* A taste of justice - Jenny will ask taller Ryan to be responsibilibuddy - Naomi/Jenny following up
* This is your brain on Race with Victor Lewis - Jenny will email Laura re: status --> They are looking for a new date. The one they originally asked for was already booked. - waiting on Victor
* Club Requiem April 2015 - Jenny will email them - emailed 3/16
* SPAZ soundsystem presents “OMNIPOTENT” - Jenny emailed Jake 3/16 - First Fridays in the basement
** Would be great to do a bigger thing, really promote first fridays, get all the collectives involved to host an open house with beats bumpin in the basement
** Will need to have security of some sort
** CC Darin re: integrating with FNB benefit
** The future of the inner sanctum / library is uncertain
* International Space Apps Challenge - Ryan - Jenny will check in w/ Ryan
* Sustainable Agriculture and demystifying Synthetic Biology - Laura - haven't heard back from FOE after contacting, prob not going to happen here
* TGIJP Stiletto Release Party - Laura Received contract filled out with basic info. will review and respond. *day-of responsibilibuddy: RACHEL
* Women’s Rock Camp Reunion Show - Niki emailed them, the dates/times they want are booked, asked to end earlier, waiting to hear back
* Art Auction to Benefit Rock Paper Scissors Collective community arts programming - Noemie following up, ask for split
* Dance Performance - Niki, needs to be published
* HAXAN Film Festival - Niki - need to decide on dates
* Clinging to a Rock Hurtling through Space - Jenny will delegate - emailed commons 3/16 - *Rachel book it, put it on the calendar, collect deposit and tell them we'll get back to them in June
=This Week's Events=

* Otf Meeting - Jenny
* Space Open Pin-Up and Meeting - Stephen - hasn't been published yet
* SURJ bay area general meeting - Jenny
* Katsy Pline dance rehearsal - ask Rachel and Sarah
* film screening: Roadmap to Apartheid - check in w/ niki
* Autonomous Armed Resistance in Mexico with filmmaker Simon Sedillo - Laura emailed, waiting to hear back
* A taste of justice - Naomi / Jenny
* This is your brain on Race with Victor Lewis - Laura
* Club Requiem April 2015 - Jenny
* Roadmap to Apartheid screening - Niki
* International Space Apps Challenge - Ryan
* (To be Determined) Sustainable Agriculture and demystifying Synthetic Biology - Laura
* Rexx Life Raj – The Escape Listening Party - Jenny will ask Matt to be responsibilibudy
* International Sculpture Day, West Coast - Niki
* INHABIT A Permaculture Documentary Screening - published, Niki following up
* Women’s Rock Camp Reunion Show - Niki
* JVP Bay Area Speakers Training - Jenny will follow up, ask for $, offer basement instead
* INHABIT film
* SPAZ soundsystem presents “OMNIPOTENT” - Jenny following up
ADDED NOTE:
* Rachel was emailed to by Piedmont Yoga, about a request and previous email she can't find. If you've seen it, please share! - *Rachel will pursue/schedule

Event:2023/01/17 Finance

2025-09-14T03:57:58Z

Ceremona: /* grants */

== mission statement ==
* jesse wrote it in 2014, doesn't reflect internal dynamics, we need to restate shared values etc
* sarah: the mission in the 990 is for the 1023 exempt application

== roles ==
* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oOz8L-FH-CRmiGaN4kjBQlIxlFXekAIdVPWTHPTu7l8/edit
* vague intersections between reporting and budgeting, when delegate-set policies make budgets depend on numbers that need to be reported, with unclear timescales
* sarah tried to make these granular, but it's been a challenge since she and jenny tended to end up doing all the things
* yar: a separate budget working group would need delegate authority to convene and decide who gets to be on it. also the group would need clear inputs about what money is available, as they wouldn't necessarily have the skillsets to investigate QB or bank accounts

** silver: Or delegates approve stuff if it’s above $500?
** sarah: what if the bedbugs cost $525?
* sarah: omni projects/wgs need clear ideas of their fundraising/income targets. confusion about what we can afford to reinvest
* sarah will do pro formas, but not doing the rest of the loan applications
* mortgage liaising is a huge job, needs multiple people, toast can project manage but not do it all

== compensation ==
* unresolved issues about equity in who gets paid for work and how much

== grants ==

* discussion with sarah about the restrictions of this grant

== action items ==
* donor letters & 1099s due Jan 31st!!
** need list of everyone who donated over $75 - who will do that?
* corrections still needed (from Sarah L)
** Event income paid as donations to gofundme need to be identified and recategorized as event income
** Stripe transactions for Omni Stripe transactions for Sudo get AFCO statement to break out property vs. liability expense (currently all allocated to property, but we are billed for both through the same entity)
** Review paypal donations to make sure there aren’t any event payments still miscategorized
** Review Rent Amounts for Village of Love (how much were they paying for eve
*** yar: vol paid 2600/mo through the end of nov, then 1800/mo starting dec 1
** Confirm no missing rent payments for Myriad
** Mystery deposit – $232.95 on 8/3 – what is it?
** Who is Mercedes Aldao and why were they paid $600 on 9/1
*** probably the documentary?
** Reconcile event income spreadsheets from Events WG with QBO accounting

== future meetings ==
* Approver/Payer Workflow: Program approves > Finance approves > Payer/Signer
* Restricted Accounts - TRNA time & purpose, Accounts: GFM, Shelter, Kitchen, Ballroom improvements
* 3rd party auditing for large grants
* next meeting is 5-7pm Tuesday January 24

Event:2023/01/17 Finance

2025-09-14T03:57:29Z

Ceremona: /* roles */

== mission statement ==
* jesse wrote it in 2014, doesn't reflect internal dynamics, we need to restate shared values etc
* sarah: the mission in the 990 is for the 1023 exempt application

== roles ==
* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oOz8L-FH-CRmiGaN4kjBQlIxlFXekAIdVPWTHPTu7l8/edit
* vague intersections between reporting and budgeting, when delegate-set policies make budgets depend on numbers that need to be reported, with unclear timescales
* sarah tried to make these granular, but it's been a challenge since she and jenny tended to end up doing all the things
* yar: a separate budget working group would need delegate authority to convene and decide who gets to be on it. also the group would need clear inputs about what money is available, as they wouldn't necessarily have the skillsets to investigate QB or bank accounts

** silver: Or delegates approve stuff if it’s above $500?
** sarah: what if the bedbugs cost $525?
* sarah: omni projects/wgs need clear ideas of their fundraising/income targets. confusion about what we can afford to reinvest
* sarah will do pro formas, but not doing the rest of the loan applications
* mortgage liaising is a huge job, needs multiple people, toast can project manage but not do it all

== compensation ==
* unresolved issues about equity in who gets paid for work and how much

== grants ==
* cere: start imagining what paid positions we might want if we could get a grant to pay it! example of stopwaste grant budget template. need guidance on how to fill this out.
* discussion with sarah about the restrictions of this grant

== action items ==
* donor letters & 1099s due Jan 31st!!
** need list of everyone who donated over $75 - who will do that?
* corrections still needed (from Sarah L)
** Event income paid as donations to gofundme need to be identified and recategorized as event income
** Stripe transactions for Omni Stripe transactions for Sudo get AFCO statement to break out property vs. liability expense (currently all allocated to property, but we are billed for both through the same entity)
** Review paypal donations to make sure there aren’t any event payments still miscategorized
** Review Rent Amounts for Village of Love (how much were they paying for eve
*** yar: vol paid 2600/mo through the end of nov, then 1800/mo starting dec 1
** Confirm no missing rent payments for Myriad
** Mystery deposit – $232.95 on 8/3 – what is it?
** Who is Mercedes Aldao and why were they paid $600 on 9/1
*** probably the documentary?
** Reconcile event income spreadsheets from Events WG with QBO accounting

== future meetings ==
* Approver/Payer Workflow: Program approves > Finance approves > Payer/Signer
* Restricted Accounts - TRNA time & purpose, Accounts: GFM, Shelter, Kitchen, Ballroom improvements
* 3rd party auditing for large grants
* next meeting is 5-7pm Tuesday January 24

Event:2015/01/22 Finance Working Group

2025-09-14T03:56:35Z

Ceremona: /* Agenda for 1/22/15 */

=Notes from 1/22/15=
*We shall repay Jesse the lawyer $1,000 monthly until paid off--Niki will confirm with him that this is a great idea
*We're working on completing the in-take form for Berkeley law school to help up become 5013c. We'll be attending the welcoming lunch thing on Saturday--not sure who yet.Amgo will recruit another person to accompany. The draft form is in the finance google drive 501(c)3 folder
*Niki and judy need to finish turning transactions into actuals
*We shall move $10k from our checking to our fancy savings account
*We shall put $700 monthly away in a savings account
=Agenda for 1/22/15=
*Niki-did we buy QB?
*Jesse payment plan
**$1000/month? YES - AMGO NO!!! niki will ask jesse what he is willing to get

*Prof Kell BBQ - who is going? amgo! judy?
*Material Print Machine insurance
*high yield savings accts: https://site.western.org/Rates/rates_savings.aspx
**Brel account $300/mo?
**Arnas acct? - $700/MO

Event:2015/02/14 Commons Working Group Mtg

2025-09-14T03:54:24Z

Ceremona: /* Events This Week */

Commons WG 2/14

=Attendees=
* Niki, David, Jenny, Kaldari, Sarah P, Kwe, Ryan

=Agenda=
* Kaldari presenting on roller disco

=Events=

==Last Week Check In==

* Isaura’s Brazilian Workshop of Dance, Rhythm, Chant with Live Percussion - Kwe following up. Need to add to spreadsheet, get signed contract
* Parent’s Liberation Workshopping - Kwic will follow up - Niki followed up. Event is on the calendar. Working to organize childcare
* San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Art Festival - Judy following up. On the calendar, need signed contract
* International Capoeira Encounter and Graduation - xxxx following up - niki pinging xxxx. Not happening
* American Library Association Unconference - Robert following up (Jenny to ping Robert). No response from ALA

===Niki===
* El Grillo Bus - Niki. happened, yay!
* rehearsal for sound performance - niki following up with kevin. Not happening
* Magnolias All At Once : A Talk with Norman Fischer - niki following up. On the calendar.
* 2 π r – dance and music production - Niki following up. On the calendar
* HAXAN Film Festival - Niki / Nick / Dragon. Emailed, no response yet.
** Need to cleanse the space after this

===Jenny===
* Practice debate - jenny will follow up. No response

===Sarah===
* Ziji Collective Small Council Meeting and Potluck - Sarah following up - niki pinging xxxx. Happened already
* Second Annual Pi/e Festival - Sarah following up. Not happening

===Taller Ryan===
* East Bay ShareFest Organizing Meeting - Taller Ryan? On the calendar
* RootsKeeper Meeting - Taller Ryan following up On the calendar
* East Bay Gift Circle - Taller Ryan? On the calendar
* Occupythefarm fundraiser and screening - Taller Ryan following up Not happening

===Rachel===
* we are the future - Rachel is following up (cancelled, I believe)

===David===
* Work Party & Sound Testing - DK following up with Stan Not happening. Cant find on calendar anymore.
* Kommunity FK anniversary show (pushed back to April) - DK
* Kristin & Slim’s Wedding Reception & Party - David K following up (waiting to hear back from Stan who made the req.)

===Drum Sunday=== (postponed til april?)
** Would need to move Kristen's yoga class, she's flexible
** Problematic of ongoing in-perpetuity events
** DK: Need to dial down loud events in the Disco Room. So far the neighbors have been neutral
** Need to improve soundproofing in that room. Loud events take up way more space than just the room
** Shake: More cultural events and women-centric events good for the community
** DK: Has been working constantly on the soundproofing plan - materials, architecht consult, etc
** Dragon: Maybe the class could take place at TAC
** Shake: Trial on a month to month basis
** Kwe: Policy of allowance; Asset-based Community Development workshop / discussion - viewing possibilities over obstacles; lots of assets available to us
** Jenny: Perhaps we could do a trial starting April, see if Leyya can host them in TAC for March?
** Niki: Put the language studies folks in contact with them as well to coordinate with each other
** Niki and Dragon to follow up with them
*** Kwe will follow up with Dragon

==Events This Week==
* Structure, Sign, Play - Public School Class; published
* Sharefest - Jenny will follow up
* This is what i want - Sarah P following up
* West African Dance Class - Niki will follow up
* Black Womyn's Brunch - Jenny will follow up
* Women's Variety Show - Jenny will follow up with Marina about moving to another date
* Film Screening: Tales of the Grim Sleeper - Niki following up
* Space Apps - Jenny following up
* Anti Drug War Benefit - Niki
* Dance rehearsal request - Sarah
* Kristin & Slim's wedding reception - DK following w/Stan
* HAXAN - Niki emailed, no resonse yet

=Action Items=
* Jenny to add locations to the BAPS calendar
* Put up do-ocracy signs in the space (Shorter Ryan)
* Work on form to highlight rental rates granulated by need (Jenny)
** What are you charging for your event?
** Transparency about our (Omni's) financials
** Forefront expectations - "we are a volunteer-run group"
* Charge for A/V needs?
* Volunteer orientation - David and Jenny
* Make a pamphlet for onboarding new commons/booking volunteers

Event:2015/02/14 Commons Working Group Mtg

2025-09-14T03:53:55Z

Ceremona: /* Last Week Check In */

Commons WG 2/14

=Attendees=
* Niki, David, Jenny, Kaldari, Sarah P, Kwe, Ryan

=Agenda=
* Kaldari presenting on roller disco

=Events=

==Last Week Check In==

* Isaura’s Brazilian Workshop of Dance, Rhythm, Chant with Live Percussion - Kwe following up. Need to add to spreadsheet, get signed contract
* Parent’s Liberation Workshopping - Kwic will follow up - Niki followed up. Event is on the calendar. Working to organize childcare
* San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Art Festival - Judy following up. On the calendar, need signed contract
* International Capoeira Encounter and Graduation - xxxx following up - niki pinging xxxx. Not happening
* American Library Association Unconference - Robert following up (Jenny to ping Robert). No response from ALA

===Niki===
* El Grillo Bus - Niki. happened, yay!
* rehearsal for sound performance - niki following up with kevin. Not happening
* Magnolias All At Once : A Talk with Norman Fischer - niki following up. On the calendar.
* 2 π r – dance and music production - Niki following up. On the calendar
* HAXAN Film Festival - Niki / Nick / Dragon. Emailed, no response yet.
** Need to cleanse the space after this

===Jenny===
* Practice debate - jenny will follow up. No response

===Sarah===
* Ziji Collective Small Council Meeting and Potluck - Sarah following up - niki pinging xxxx. Happened already
* Second Annual Pi/e Festival - Sarah following up. Not happening

===Taller Ryan===
* East Bay ShareFest Organizing Meeting - Taller Ryan? On the calendar
* RootsKeeper Meeting - Taller Ryan following up On the calendar
* East Bay Gift Circle - Taller Ryan? On the calendar
* Occupythefarm fundraiser and screening - Taller Ryan following up Not happening

===Rachel===
* we are the future - Rachel is following up (cancelled, I believe)

===David===
* Work Party & Sound Testing - DK following up with Stan Not happening. Cant find on calendar anymore.
* Kommunity FK anniversary show (pushed back to April) - DK
* Kristin & Slim’s Wedding Reception & Party - David K following up (waiting to hear back from Stan who made the req.)

===Drum Sunday=== (postponed til april?)
** Would need to move Kristen's yoga class, she's flexible
** Problematic of ongoing in-perpetuity events
** DK: Need to dial down loud events in the Disco Room. So far the neighbors have been neutral
** Need to improve soundproofing in that room. Loud events take up way more space than just the room
** Shake: More cultural events and women-centric events good for the community
** DK: Has been working constantly on the soundproofing plan - materials, architecht consult, etc
** Dragon: Maybe the class could take place at TAC
** Shake: Trial on a month to month basis
** Kwe: Policy of allowance; Asset-based Community Development workshop / discussion - viewing possibilities over obstacles; lots of assets available to us
** Jenny: Perhaps we could do a trial starting April, see if Leyya can host them in TAC for March?
** Niki: Put the language studies folks in contact with them as well to coordinate with each other
** Niki and Dragon to follow up with them
*** Kwe will follow up with Dragon

==Events This Week==
* Structure, Sign, Play - Public School Class; published
* Sharefest - Jenny will follow up
* This is what i want - Sarah P following up
* West African Dance Class - Niki will follow up w/Cere
* Black Womyn's Brunch - Jenny will follow up
* Women's Variety Show - Jenny will follow up with Marina about moving to another date
* Film Screening: Tales of the Grim Sleeper - Niki following up
* Space Apps - Jenny following up
* Anti Drug War Benefit - Niki
* Dance rehearsal request - Sarah
* Kristin & Slim's wedding reception - DK following w/Stan
* HAXAN - Niki emailed, no resonse yet

=Action Items=
* Jenny to add locations to the BAPS calendar
* Put up do-ocracy signs in the space (Shorter Ryan)
* Work on form to highlight rental rates granulated by need (Jenny)
** What are you charging for your event?
** Transparency about our (Omni's) financials
** Forefront expectations - "we are a volunteer-run group"
* Charge for A/V needs?
* Volunteer orientation - David and Jenny
* Make a pamphlet for onboarding new commons/booking volunteers

Event:2015/02/14 Commons Working Group Mtg

2025-09-14T03:53:10Z

Ceremona: /* Sarah */

Commons WG 2/14

=Attendees=
* Niki, David, Jenny, Kaldari, Sarah P, Kwe, Ryan

=Agenda=
* Kaldari presenting on roller disco

=Events=

==Last Week Check In==

* Isaura’s Brazilian Workshop of Dance, Rhythm, Chant with Live Percussion - Kwe following up. Need to add to spreadsheet, get signed contract
* Parent’s Liberation Workshopping - Kwic will follow up - Niki followed up. Event is on the calendar. Working to organize childcare
* San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Art Festival - Judy following up. On the calendar, need signed contract
* International Capoeira Encounter and Graduation - Cere following up - niki pinging cere. Not happening
* American Library Association Unconference - Robert following up (Jenny to ping Robert). No response from ALA

===Niki===
* El Grillo Bus - Niki. happened, yay!
* rehearsal for sound performance - niki following up with kevin. Not happening
* Magnolias All At Once : A Talk with Norman Fischer - niki following up. On the calendar.
* 2 π r – dance and music production - Niki following up. On the calendar
* HAXAN Film Festival - Niki / Nick / Dragon. Emailed, no response yet.
** Need to cleanse the space after this

===Jenny===
* Practice debate - jenny will follow up. No response

===Sarah===
* Ziji Collective Small Council Meeting and Potluck - Sarah following up - niki pinging xxxx. Happened already
* Second Annual Pi/e Festival - Sarah following up. Not happening

===Taller Ryan===
* East Bay ShareFest Organizing Meeting - Taller Ryan? On the calendar
* RootsKeeper Meeting - Taller Ryan following up On the calendar
* East Bay Gift Circle - Taller Ryan? On the calendar
* Occupythefarm fundraiser and screening - Taller Ryan following up Not happening

===Rachel===
* we are the future - Rachel is following up (cancelled, I believe)

===David===
* Work Party & Sound Testing - DK following up with Stan Not happening. Cant find on calendar anymore.
* Kommunity FK anniversary show (pushed back to April) - DK
* Kristin & Slim’s Wedding Reception & Party - David K following up (waiting to hear back from Stan who made the req.)

===Drum Sunday=== (postponed til april?)
** Would need to move Kristen's yoga class, she's flexible
** Problematic of ongoing in-perpetuity events
** DK: Need to dial down loud events in the Disco Room. So far the neighbors have been neutral
** Need to improve soundproofing in that room. Loud events take up way more space than just the room
** Shake: More cultural events and women-centric events good for the community
** DK: Has been working constantly on the soundproofing plan - materials, architecht consult, etc
** Dragon: Maybe the class could take place at TAC
** Shake: Trial on a month to month basis
** Kwe: Policy of allowance; Asset-based Community Development workshop / discussion - viewing possibilities over obstacles; lots of assets available to us
** Jenny: Perhaps we could do a trial starting April, see if Leyya can host them in TAC for March?
** Niki: Put the language studies folks in contact with them as well to coordinate with each other
** Niki and Dragon to follow up with them
*** Kwe will follow up with Dragon

==Events This Week==
* Structure, Sign, Play - Public School Class; published
* Sharefest - Jenny will follow up
* This is what i want - Sarah P following up
* West African Dance Class - Niki will follow up w/Cere
* Black Womyn's Brunch - Jenny will follow up
* Women's Variety Show - Jenny will follow up with Marina about moving to another date
* Film Screening: Tales of the Grim Sleeper - Niki following up
* Space Apps - Jenny following up
* Anti Drug War Benefit - Niki
* Dance rehearsal request - Sarah
* Kristin & Slim's wedding reception - DK following w/Stan
* HAXAN - Niki emailed, no resonse yet

=Action Items=
* Jenny to add locations to the BAPS calendar
* Put up do-ocracy signs in the space (Shorter Ryan)
* Work on form to highlight rental rates granulated by need (Jenny)
** What are you charging for your event?
** Transparency about our (Omni's) financials
** Forefront expectations - "we are a volunteer-run group"
* Charge for A/V needs?
* Volunteer orientation - David and Jenny
* Make a pamphlet for onboarding new commons/booking volunteers

Event:2014/12/06 Commons WG meeting

2025-09-14T03:52:34Z

Ceremona: /* Events */

Commons WG Mtg 12/06
=Attendees=
* Jenny, Niki, David, Don
=Events=
* Review of Event Request Spreadsheet
** Digital Detox - Not happening, DK reached out to Levi 2014-12-06 afternoon re: possible future events
** Queer Astrology - (Niki will follow up)
** Fatty Winter Wonderland - Niki emailed, Natasha responded. They found another place but were grateful for the response.
** Megapolis - Marina/Shani (Jenny will follow up)
** Sno Ball - Kwic (Niki will follow up)
** Bay Area Experimental Filmmakers (Stephen is stewarding)
** Self Documenting / Local Activist History - Vicky (on the calendar!)
** Bonfire Makers - Niki emailed, they responded asking about possibly doing a performance in the Spring. Niki will follow up.
** Jewish Voice for Peace - Stephen (Jenny will follow up)
** Solar Luxuriants - David B. (this is happening!)
** Moy Tung Ving Tsun - Niki (on the calender)
** Traditional Congalese Dance - Niki (on the calendar)
** Bay Area Art Worker's Alliance - Ian? (on the calendar, Niki will follow up)
** Destiny Arts Center Annual Benefit - Cere (they want confirmtion by Monday, DK will follow up)
** East Bay Sharefest - Jenny asking Marina to coordinate which date they want
** Devil-ettes - Jenny will be here to receive contract & payment
** Palestine Comedy show - Jenny will ping Danny, $300-400 payment

=Action Items=
* Thank you screen after form is submitted - jenny will ping yar
* Need to make sure that we're invoicing people - use the Wave app
* Let's all work on this: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/How_to_book_events
* A/V inventory update: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/A/V_equipment_and_setup
* Soundproofing wiki page: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Soundproofing
* ADA lift:
* One-sheeter refining processes for people who join commons/booking:
** Contract to be signed
** Deposit: 50% of the fee 3 weeks prior to the event
==Party Proposal==
* Friends of Danny
** Concert series
** Already doing one called Sunday Mass at Public Works
*** highlights local musicians, other artists (mostly electronic)
** Wouldn't start until after the New Year
** Discussion of insurance, alcohol and liability
* PRO license - license to play covers etc; mostly(?) for DJ's / playing recorded music (not live music)
* Special event permit - reach out 30 days prior

Event:2014/08/19 Finance Meeting

2025-09-14T03:51:48Z

Ceremona: /* Action Items: */

=Agenda=

==Quarterly Reporting from Collectives==
* Sign new subleases (should they be quarterly?)
** Should include requirements for:
*** Report of past quarter's finances
**** Revenue
**** Rental Costs
**** Non-Rental Costs
**** Investment in Capital Improvements
***** Hol to investigate depreciation schedules / Repayment on a Case by case basis to be approved w/in 30 days of expenditure
*** Financial projection for next quarter
** Collectives should provide quarterly update of their projected solvency

==Rent Commitment==
*6 month check-in?
*How to handle collectives who fail to meet their commitments? (Legal / Governance should address)

==Loan Protocol==
*All loans (no-interest only) over 10k w/a monthly repayment amount over $1,000/mo to be brought before the collective for approval.
*Debt cap of $100k

==Fundraising?==
*Danny will continue to spearhead fundraising proposals

==Event Space Rental==
*Maryanna to spearhead group to draft proposal for renting ballroom.

==Build Out Costs==
* We will tracks investments made by individual collectives.

==Accounting==
*Judy to ask friend for accounting help
** Setting up books
** Annual taxes

==Monthly Expenses==
*We would like to work towards having 3 months of reserve in the bank at all times.
*Costs which will be invoiced w/out consensus (all collectives will split these expenses equally unless otherwise agreed upon at the General Meeting)
** Rent
** Utilities
** Internet
** Insurance
** Taxes
** Basic Supplies (not to exceed $50/mo - tbd by facilities working group)
*Costs which require consensus from the collectives
*Invoicing John?

==Action Items:==

* Hol will translate xxxx's build out costs email into a beautiful Gant chart
* Maryanna will draft proposal for rental of ballroom
* Niki will request a quote from Jesse for preparing 1023
* Niki will set up a Finance Committee email

Event:2015/01/10 Commons WG Meeting

2025-09-14T03:51:17Z

Ceremona:

Commons WG 1/10
=Attendees=
Jenny, Darin, Joe, Sarah P, Niki, Don, Brixby, David K, Elisa, Stephen, Naomi, Sue, David
=Notes=
* Elisa: Discussion about Mardi Gras event, might want to look into alcohol insurance - Jenny/Jake bottomlining
* Brixby: Filmscreening, fundraiser for a reproductive health workshop- 'From Danger to Dignity' on February 1st - Sarah P bottomlining
* Jote: Ecstatic Dance / clowning / dance event, every Sunday 2-5:30. Charging for the event, recruiting volunteers, possibly applying to become a member collective. Scholarships / artist residencies. Starting the first week of April. Offers to help with beautifying the ballroom. Need sound, willing to help us out - Sarah/Donbottomlining
* David: Birthday party on the 20th for $3K, wants to go til midnight, loud music til 11.
* Sarah: Yoga classes - dedicate a certain # of hours per month
* Darin: Food Not Bombs benefit on February 22nd - 4 confirms, 3 maybes - Jenny/Darin bottomlining
* Don: Backspace proposal to steward the eyeball room (scheduling treatments etc) and the upstairs den (?), renovating the den, clinic days - not applying as a collective - funds would go to Omni
** Lock may need to be changed, definitely needs to be locked
** Would take responsibility for putting things on the calendar, creating invoices, etc;
** Setting intention of the room as a healing space, open to scheduled things such as mediation sessions
** Upcoming Tuesday workday
** Water damage up there, roof needs to be repaired
=Events=
* ANNAH ANTI-PALINDROME + DOLL PARTS + LE HOMO - Jenny will follow up about sound restrictions and what they're able to pay
* Kommunity FK - $13 admission, approved pending us working out the door split (min 30%) - Don to follow up with David re: permits
* Make sure someone follows up with 350.org
* David follow up with Habitat for Humanity
* Film screening of "After Tiller" and dinner: Brixby - Sarah P. - Niki to email to resched for Jan 31
* Board meeting - Jenny to ping Harjit again
* Reading group meetings - Niki
* EBOC retreat - Jenny will follow up
* Anti Repression Committee benefit - David and Ian to follow up and ensure it's on the calendar
* DAWI Worker Cooperative retreat - Niki to follow up with Michaela (mholmes@institute.usworker.coop)
* We Go Boom - Niki to follow up with Sonia
* Sacred Harp singing - xxxx to follow up with Shani (shaniaviram@gmail.com)
* Capoeira graduation - xxxx to follow up with Marcelo
=Action Items=
* Event followups above
* Darin to connect us to Gilman folks re: sound
* xxx to add in term limits to the contract
* xxx to help onboard David
* Jenny to onboard Robert to our systems

Event:2014/11/09 Gather Social in Ballroom

2014-11-09T18:14:26Z

Ceremona: Created page with "***** CELEBRATE LIFE AND COMMUNITY! ***** *** OMNI GATHER *** For many years Oakland has displayed beautifully, a combined group of nations into one small melting pot. We, UN..."

***** CELEBRATE LIFE AND COMMUNITY! *****
*** OMNI GATHER ***

For many years Oakland has displayed beautifully, a combined group of nations into one small melting pot. We, UNIT 1 ( Universal Network Into 1 ) thrive to build and assist the ‘communification’ in and around the OMNI, to perpetuate a cohesive vibration with collectives, supporters and surrounding neighborhood. So we're launching this monthly ‘Gather’ to assure cohesive continuity in our community.

* Creating a welcoming and inspiring container of *

*Food (Potluck Setting, w/a healthy main dish provided by UNIT 1)
Music (OMNI Music groups, local bands, featured Artists)
Dance (Free dance, contact improv, flash mob and other forms of interactive activities will be guided and provided courtesy of UNIT 1)
Media (UNIT 1 will create an opportunity for ‘the people’ to speak to the world on your “Freedom Hour Radio” station)

Event hours: 7-11a

Doors open: 7p

DJ / I pod M&M(Meet&Mingle): 7-8

OM-nourish 8-9

( This is a time when we come together, synergize and innergize with a vocal warm up (OM, a music scale an/or harmonies..this should only take 3-5mins.) Share some positive words of light to charge the food we’r about to receive, also gives respect to ‘Source/Universe’ for giving us the opportunity to gather in peace and solidarity.
Following our collective calibration will be a music & dance performance sending good vibes, true and through the building for our constant spiritual and mental elevation.)

BE FUN 9-11a

(We’l close the evening with giving the opportunity to dance the food in, make connections, learn an perhaps participate in some of the OMNI area’s. The idea is to have a semi-open house / show and tell.)
(UNIT 1 will clean up with the help of collectives and community)

I look forward to our build and collaboration
Peace and Blessings!

*** TOGETHER WE STAND UNITED WE RISE! ***

Event:2014/11/09, 7p-11p: OMNI GATHER

2014-11-09T02:52:29Z

Ceremona: Created page with "GATHER... To assure the cohesive continuity in our community. Creating a welcoming and inspiring container of Food (Potluck Setting, w/a healthy main dish provided by UNIT..."

GATHER...

To assure the cohesive continuity in our community.
Creating a welcoming and inspiring container of

Food (Potluck Setting, w/a healthy main dish provided by UNIT 1)
Music (OMNI Music groups, local bands, featured Artists)
Dance (Free dance, contact improv, flash mob and other forms of interactive activities will be guided and provided courtesy of UNIT 1)
Media (UNIT 1 will create an opportunity for 'the people' to speak to the world on your “Freedom Hour Radio” station)

Event:2014/10/30 Weekly Delegate's Meeting

2014-10-31T04:19:49Z

Ceremona:

7pm in the basement!

[[Category:Delegates Meeting]]

October 30 Delegates Meeting
* Facilitators: Mary
* explain hand signals: deaf applause, raised hand, point of process, direct response
* Stack:
* Timekeeper:
* Notes:
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom
* Vibe Reader:
* Next weeks facilitator(s):
** encourage someone who hasn't facilitated before. If they'd like support, someone who has facilitated join them to facilitate together! If they'd like to know how the agenda works here's a page outlining the different parts of our agenda https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Facilitating_General_Meetings_Tips_and_Info
* Delegates: Sarah p. (OmniDance), David B. (La Commune), Judi B. (TIL), Andrew L. (Backspace), Helen (FNB), Kathleen F. (CAMO), Mary W. (CCL), Danny (Peek Agency), Brenden (Sudo Room)
* Quorum: 9 Present, Yes.
*facilitatos for next week: Laura T.

== intros ==

== announcements ==
* David: hosted classs from CCA, CCA has volunteered an hour of labor and cleaned the bathrooms
* David: Julian Marc wants to do a full story on The Omni
* David: La Commune will open mid november (Sunday Nov. 16th). What does it mean to be open?
* Helen: how do I link to the notes? Jenny: Notes are on the calendar event.
* Sara: Shower room is locked? Why is that? Anyone know? Ask Ben Burke about keys.
* Mary: Sudo Room and CCL are hosting space (like Outer Space) hackathon. Your projects could be luanched in to space. (November 7th - November 9th)
* Danny: Wants to play video for event coming up (48 hour, TheDeconstruction.org)
* David: Director of the Berkeley Art Museum said we should have more spaces like Omni... that's what CAMO does - Kathleen (of CAMO) and Scott is working to reach out to various art groups!

== working groups reportbacks ==

===commons===
Status of the locked shower room upstairs: why it has been locked?
Answer: Ben Burke is corraling Omni bldg keys
* Sent draft of rental agreement and process (disscuss list)
* List of avitivies and groups we are interested in renting to
* David: What are quoted figures and what is the process to vet events?
* Answer: Process, people are directed to google form, which can be acceesed via wiki, email is sent to booking list, point person is identified. Not enough people involved in the Booking list.
* Pricing: case by case, factors (ateendnce, ability to pay, etc..), base price is $300 - $1000 per 4 hours (weekdays), $400 - $1200 (weekends), Disco $10 - $12 an hours. Could we compinsate people for working events?
* Meet 10:00am on Saturday
* More people are encouraged to attend, there are many booking requests that need to be answered and discussed.

** https://omnicommons.org/wiki/How_to_book_events
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking
* yar & jenny are still working on new calendar

===collectivity (How We Organize)===
* Talked about how to change culture in meetings.
* Subjects on the meeting could be better sereved with com styles other than a stack.
* Talked about how to split up chores.
* Talked aobut how to deal with ballroom cleaning.
* Working on Omni Ballroom Cleaning Guide.
* Talked about having a shepard for new collecives.

===communications=== How We Organize:
===cdc===
===finance===
* After paying rent, we are going to be at $12000, $1000 below reserve. But there is a grant comming thorugh. We are about $7000 in the red every month, we bring in $9500 in rent. Events brought in $4300 this month.
* Pay your invoices
* If you using creditcards, keep reciepts and give them back to CC holders
* If you are bottomlining a construction project, submit a budget before hand
* It would be nice to know what categories your expenses come from, eg: maintainance, repairs, etc.
* Insurance costs that we havent been spliting up (general liability, and officers) ($898)
* With two new collectives costs would be about the same with the added insurance
* Good to have a list of all the insurance that omni and each collective is required to have and (roughly) what is covered to see if we can leverage a "bulk" deal.

* vote to split new insurance ( 7 Yes , 2 abstain), PASS

===fundraising===
Follow up from last weeks' request for FR support from collectives
Activity to generate lists of contacts outside the Omni who we can approach for donations and other FR support
Will need about 30 minutes if possible!+ some time to show the FR video

===kitchen===
* walkins are coming, but needs to be transplanted
* What is the status of Phatbeats (interested in sharing the fridge)

===permits===

== building modifications and bans ==
Sudo Room consented on a 1 month ban of person who was using a knife to attempt to open the omni door and when confronted was super rude, calling one of our members a bitch. Person was drunk. Juul and others kicked this person out Wednesday and told him that him he was banned until it could be brought up at todays meeting where he could show up. He looked disheveled and was holding a can of beer but seemed otherwise reasonable and attempted to defend his attempt at opening the door as trying to demonstrate a security problem and said he wished to apologize to the person he was rude to.
Sudo Room consented that any further sleeping by ChrisB at Omni will result in an immediate temporary ban.

==cleaning==
* Temporary arrangement to clean bathrooms and dispose of trash properly and clean the refrigerators
*Experiment proposed by the Facilitating Collectivies working group: Assign the responsibility of completing each of the following tasks to a member collective for one month. Let's see how it goes!
* one collective per task
**Trash
**Bathrooms (upstairs + ballroom)
**Sweep ballroom
**Sweep outside and pick up trash
**Tidy common areas in basement
**Second floor
**Clean refrigerators and tidy common kitchen

*Sudo takes Trash
*BAPS takes basement
*CCL bathrooms
*Basement - FNB
*2nd Floor - La Commune
*3rd Floor - TIL

* More clarity on what it means to "take care of", groups could take notes and figure it what works
* Brenden: Sudoroom wants to establish a protacal for trash
* Steven: People don't feel liberated to do the work, we want to you to figure it out and take responsibility
* David: We should build a chore wheel, we are all strewards of the commons, we should have a budget for cleaning supplies, we should clean garfiti, for dump runs, we can take the red truck when ever we want to! Use that truck!
* Cere: Two bins have been ordered, if there is an overflow with the recycling, must be in the bin or bailed together.

**Todo: Need to sort out official omni stance on casual drug use.
**Omni discussion on paying labor for event management, etc

** Laura Turiano stack taker for next week.

Event:2014/11/02 Fet Gede , Haiti's Day of the Dead

2014-10-30T00:31:39Z

Ceremona:

In celebration of the Harvest Season, Our Ancestors and our thriving OAK/SF dance community, Rara Tou Limen Haitian Dance Company will celebrate with our 11th annual Fet Gede - Haitian Dance + Song Workshop, with a community Potluck to follow.

Fet Gede , Haiti's Day of the Dead is a national holiday (November 2) in Haiti that honors and revitalizes Ancestral Spirits.

2p-7p, in Ballroom

Rara Tou Limen - Portsha Jefferson

Event:2014/10/22 Omni Sound Recording Jam - Ballroom

2014-10-22T23:22:17Z

Ceremona: Created page with "8pm Omni Recording Sound Jam. Come jam with us!"

8pm Omni Recording Sound Jam. Come jam with us!

2014/10/14 Finance Meeting Minutes

2014-10-15T03:48:32Z

Ceremona: Created page with "Finance Meeting Notes 10/14 7pm ==Agenda== Niki's current Finance todo's: * Making deposits to the bank account * Writing checks (for bills, loan repayments, etc.) * Maintai..."

Finance Meeting Notes 10/14 7pm

==Agenda==

Niki's current Finance todo's:
* Making deposits to the bank account
* Writing checks (for bills, loan repayments, etc.)
* Maintaining a schedule for loan repayments
* Monitoring and reporting back on our debt, making sure we do not go below our month's reserve
* Making sure that spending does not exceed amount that has been allocated (ie: for specific repairs / improvements)
* Scanning and logging all receipts into our accounting software
* Meeting with our bookkeeper to produce reports
* Updating our financial projections w/ actuals
* Paying all bills and overseeing accounts such as utilities, etc.
* Creating and distributing invoices for shared expenses
* Creating and distributing invoices for rent
* Chasing people down every month to ensure that they pay these things
* Finding a non-profit accountant to figure out what will be needed for our taxes & working with this accountant at tax time

Current invoicing is done with Wave.

Division of labor (volunteers):
* Person to scan and log reciepts (currently using Wave for this waveapps.com)
* Person as an accountant (Jen)
* High level finance person (CFO), Amgo stepped up for this role.
* Person doing invoicing (Sarah Pritchard)

Finance ideas to solve difficulties with tracking expense reimbursment requests:
* Possible budget submittal before expenses reimbursment
* Possible expense submission form

Working Groups

2014-10-15T03:47:47Z

Ceremona: /* Meeting Notes */

=Working Groups=

Working groups are made up of members from all different collectives as well as individuals who are not affiliated with any collectives but want to join the collective effort of the Omni. These groups function as a way to collectivize the labor required to operate the space. Working groups are a great way to get involved, share skills, ideas, opinions and learn from each other how collective action takes place. If you'd like to be a part of one of the working groups, please join one of the mailing lists below to receive information on meetings and actions to be done.

See the [[Calendar]] for information on upcoming working group meetings, and to find past meeting notes!

==[[Communications Working Group]]==
We work on public-facing communications (messaging, outreach, press and public relations) as well as internal communications (inter-group collaboration tools, wiki, mailing list and other tools for communication and collaboration).
*See: '''[[Internal Communications]]''' for an intro to our communications resources.
*[[Bottom-line|Bottom-liners]]: [[User:Tunabananas|Jenny]], [[User:Elaine|Elaine]]
===Mailing List===
https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/omnicomms
===Meeting Notes===
We keep our notes on a Riseup Pad named [https://pad.riseup.net/p/omnicomms OmniComms].
* [[Event:2014/05/05 Communications Committee Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/05/12 Communications Committee Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/05/19 Communications Committee Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/05/26 Communications Committee Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/06/02 Communications Working Group Meeting]]

==[[Challenging Dominant Culture Working Group]]==
Exploring bias and issues of difference and inclusion in the space. Challenging dominant cultural influences and developing projects and relationships more in line with the values of the Omni, as stated in the founding document and statement of solidarity.
*Bottom-liner: Sarah P. and Niki S.
===Mailing List===
https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/omni-cdc
===Meeting Notes===
*[[Event:2014/04/28_Inclusion_Task_Force_Meeting]]
*[[Event:2014/05/12_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting]]
*[[Event:2014/05/15_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting]]
*[[Event:2014/05/19_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting]]
*[[Event:2014/05/26_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting]]
*[[Event:2014/06/25_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting]]

==[[Facilitating Collectivity]]==
Coordinating logistics around legal consultations, permitting, and governance/decision-making, as well as helping to coordinate concrete proposals around collectivizing and encouraging collectivization of group members in the space. We meet every Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm at the Omni.
*[[Bottom-line|Bottom-liners]]: Stephen (novotny[dot]stephen[at]gmail[dot]com)
'''Outstanding resource: [http://calnonprofits.org/resources/starting-nonprofit/15-launch-articles/65-first-steps-articl Step-by-Step Guide for Starting a California Nonprofit ]'''
===Mailing List===
https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/omnicollectivity
===Meeting Notes===
* [[Event:2014/06/19 Legal Governance Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/06/02 Legal Governance Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/06/01 Legal / Governance Hackathon]]

==[[Finances Working Group]]==
Ensuring the continued financial health of the Omni Oakland Commons.
*[[Bottom-line|Bottom-liner]]: Hol
===Quarterly Financial Health Questionaire===
* [[http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/File:FinancialHealthSustainabilityforOOC.pdf#filelinks|Quarterly Financial Health Questionaire]]

===Mailing List===

https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/omnifinance

*This is a private list. If you would like to join, please send a request to omnifinance@lists.riseup.net or attend a Finance working group meeting

===Meeting Notes===
*[[Event:2014/08/11_Fundraising_Conversation!!|Fundraising Conversation 8/11]]
*[[2014/08/19 Finance Meeting Minutes]]
*[[2014/09/2 Finance Meeting Minutes]]
*[[2014/10/14 Finance Meeting Minutes]]

==[[Ballroom Working Group]]==
Focusing on scheduling and coordinating use of the ballroom.
*[[Bottom-line|Bottom-liners]]: Maryanna (maryannalachman@gmail.com) and Jeremy (jdalmas@gmail.com)
===Meeting Notes===

*[[Event:2014/09/03_Ballroom_Working_Group]]

==[[Building Construction and Maintenance Working Group]]==
Focusing on physical construction, maintenance and alteration projects. Including organizing work parties, sharing skills
*[[Bottom-line|Bottom-liners]]: Korl is willing to co-bottomline; '''LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO HELP''', especially someone with construction skills and/or who can commit to organizing regularly scheduled working times.
===Mailing List===
https://groups.google.com/group/omni-building
===Meeting Notes===
===[[Construction Projects]]===

=Working Group Protocols=
''(NOTE: For help creating correct wiki pages and adding events to the calendar, contact Vicky (vknoxsironi at gmail dot com], Jenny [jenny at sudomesh dot org] or Matt [mattsenate at gmail dot com])''

In order to make progress on many different aspects of this project, please use the following protocols. The intention is to support horizontal, consent-based, transparent, good-faith collaboration.

==Start a Working Group==
* The Omni encourages the establishment of new working groups as necessary to collectivize the labor of the project.
* A list of current working groups is maintained on the wiki here: http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Working_Groups.
* If you see a need for a new working group, propose its purpose and scope at a delegate’s meeting.
* Once approved by the delegates, work with fellow group members to compose a vision statement and scope for the working group. Create a working group page on the wiki and post your vision there.

==Bottomlining Established Working Groups==
* Work with fellow group members to determine convenient meeting dates and times.
* Help to administer working group email list.
* Announce your meeting times via email to the omni-logistics list and by adding them to the Omni calendar (http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Calendar).
* Publish meeting notes on the Omni calendar, and send a direct link to the notes to the omni-logistics list after every meeting.
* Help to facilitate a positive and fun working group culture by:
** Designating a facilitator and scribe to take notes at the beginning of the meeting
** Concluding each meeting with "action items"
* Be present for meetings as much as possible. If not able to attend a meeting, arrange in advance who will distribute notes.
* Forward any major announcements or questions for discussion from your working group to the omni-logistics list and/or to the delegates’ meeting as necessary.
* Ensure proposals that need the approval of the delegates are added to the riseup pad (https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom). Include the date the proposal was added to the pad.
* The most basic rules for bottomlining a working group are autonomy and good judgment (i.e. common sense)!

==Join a Working Group==
* Check the [[Calendar]] and attend the next meeting of the working group.
* Directly contact the individual(s) bottom-lining the group.
* Show up to a meeting, or use the communication channel specified for that group to stay in touch.

==Make Progress in a Working Group==
* Set goals that aspire to deliver on the working group's "mission" or purpose.
* If necessary, outline tasks in order to reach each goal.
* Make progress on and seek to accomplish any tasks that contribute to the working group's goals.
* When a working group's goals require '''feedback''', '''formal approval''', or simply '''consent''' from the Omni delegates, create a proposal:
** Present this proposal to the Omni delegates meeting to ensure each member-group can build consent in their respective community as necessary.
* When a working group has several divergent options or ideas and cannot come to resolution on them alone, then create proposals that represent these options and present these in some way to the whole collective:
** Present proposals at an Omni delegates meeting for feedback
** Ask for feedback on the omnilogistics@lists.riseup.net email list
** Ask for feedback from other working groups, member-groups, or individuals that are not involved with your working group.
** Rinse, repeat until you have garnered improvements to your proposal from the invaluable experiences and contributions of everyone involved with the Omni Commons, ultimately building consensus among the entire community.

Event:2014/11/02 Fet Gede , Haiti's Day of the Dead

2014-10-10T04:29:24Z

Ceremona:

In celebration of the Harvest Season, Our Ancestors and our thriving OAK/SF dance community, Rara Tou Limen Haitian Dance Company will celebrate with our 11th annual Fet Gede - Haitian Dance + Song Workshop, with a community Potluck to follow.

Fet Gede , Haiti's Day of the Dead is a national holiday (November 2) in Haiti that honors and revitalizes Ancestral Spirits.

1p-7p, in Ballroom

Rara Tou Limen - Portsha Jefferson

Event:2014/11/02 Fet Gede , Haiti's Day of the Dead

2014-10-10T04:28:09Z

Ceremona: Created page with "stub"

stub

List of building repairs/improvements in no particular order

2014-07-24T03:14:37Z

Ceremona:

===General===
*Ceiling tiles
*Plumbing
**Lab plumbing for CCL
**Clogged sinks (John's budget)
**Plumbing for photography development room
**Plumbing for fire-sprinkler system.
*Fixing skylights (John's budget)
*Painting
**Ballroom
*Re-opening sound-proofed windows?
*Fixing lights/Installing working lights
*Electrical modification/improvements
**Extending plug sockets in Bocci area
**Extensions for fire alarm system?
**Replacing crappy breakers/breaker box system.
**Fixing broken power outlets

===Permits===
*??
*??

===Fire compliance===
*Recharging sprinklers
*Installing sprinkler system
*Installing alarm system
*Fire exit compliance

===ADA compliance===
*Cafe bathroom modifications
*Ramp/lift to ballroom from cafe
*Lift into ballroom from outside

List of building repairs/improvements in no particular order

2014-07-23T23:36:32Z

Ceremona:

===General===
*Ceiling tiles
*Plumbing
**Lab plumbing for CCL
**Clogged sinks (John's budget)
**Plumbing for photography development room
**Plumbing for fire-sprinkler system.
*Fixing skylights (John's budget)
*Painting
**Ballroom
*Re-opening sound-proofed windows?
*Fixing lights/Installing working lights
*Electrical modification/improvements
**Extending plug sockets in Bocci area
**Extensions for fire alarm system?
**Replacing crappy breakers/breaker box system.
**Fixing broken power outlets
===Permits===
*??
*??

===Fire compliance===
*Recharging sprinklers
*Installing sprinkler system
*Fire exit compliance

===ADA compliance===
*Cafe bathroom modifications
*Ramp/lift to ballroom from cafe
*Lift into ballroom from outside

List of building repairs/improvements in no particular order

2014-07-23T23:26:21Z

Ceremona:

===General===
*Plumbing
**Lab plumbing for CCL
**Clogged sinks (John's budget)
**Plumbing for photography development room
**Plumbing for fire-sprinkler system.
*Fixing skylights (John's budget)
*Painting
**Ballroom
*Re-opening sound-proofed windows?
*Fixing lights/Installing working lights
*Electrical modification/improvements
**Extending plug sockets in Bocci area
**Extensions for fire alarm system?
**Replacing crappy breakers/breaker box system.

===Permits===
*??
*??

===Fire compliance===
*Recharging sprinklers
*Installing sprinkler system
*Fire exit compliance

===ADA compliance===
*Cafe bathroom modifications
*Ramp/lift to ballroom from cafe
*Lift into ballroom from outside

List of building repairs/improvements in no particular order

2014-07-23T23:25:14Z

Ceremona:

===General===
*Plumbing
**Lab plumbing for CCL
**Clogged sinks (John's budget)
**Plumbing for photography development room
**Plumbing for fire-sprinkler system.
*Fixing skylights (John's budget)
*Painting
**Ballroom
*Re-opening sound-proofed windows?
*Fixing lights/Installing working lights
*Electrical modification/improvements
**Extending plug sockets in Bocci area
**Extensions for fire alarm system?

===Permits===
*??
*??

===Fire compliance===
*Recharging sprinklers
*Installing sprinkler system
*Fire exit compliance

===ADA compliance===
*Cafe bathroom modifications
*Ramp/lift to ballroom from cafe
*Lift into ballroom from outside

List of building repairs/improvements in no particular order

2014-07-23T23:22:45Z

Ceremona:

===General===
*Plumbing
**Lab plumbing for CCL
**Clogged sinks
**Plumbing for photography development room
**Plumbing for fire-sprinkler system.
*Fixing skylights
*Painting
**Ballroom
*Re-opening sound-proofed windows?
*Fixing lights/Installing working lights
*Electrical modification/improvements
**Extending plug sockets in Bocci area
**Extensions for fire alarm system?

===Permits===
*Alcohol license??
*Assembly??

===Fire compliance===
*Recharging sprinklers
*Installing sprinkler system
*Fire exit compliance

===ADA compliance===
*Cafe bathroom modifications
*Ramp/lift to ballroom from cafe
*Lift into ballroom from outside

List of building repairs/improvements in no particular order

2014-07-23T23:20:41Z

Ceremona:

===General===
*Plumbing
**Lab plumbing for CCL
**Clogged sinks
**Plumbing for photography development room
**Plumbing for fire-sprinkler system.
*Fixing skylights
*Painting
**Ballroom
*Re-opening sound-proofed windows?
*Fixing lights/Installing working lights
*Electrical modification/improvements
**Extending plug sockets in Bocci area
**Extensions for fire alarm system?

===Permits===
*Alcohol license??
*Assembly??

===Fire compliance===
*Recharging sprinklers
*Installing sprinkler system
*Exit compliance

===ADA compliance===
*Cafe bathroom modifications
*Ramp/lift to ballroom from cafe
*Lift into ballroom from outside

List of building repairs/improvements in no particular order

2014-07-23T23:18:58Z

Ceremona: Created page with "===General=== *Plumbing **Lab plumbing for CCL **Clogged sinks **Plumbing for photography development room **Plumbing for fire-sprinkler system. *Fixing skylights *Painting *R..."

===General===
*Plumbing
**Lab plumbing for CCL
**Clogged sinks
**Plumbing for photography development room
**Plumbing for fire-sprinkler system.
*Fixing skylights
*Painting
*Re-opening sound-proofed windows?
*Fixing lights/Installing lights
*Electrical modification
**Extending plug sockets in Bocci area

===Permits===
*Alcohol license??
*Assembly??

===Fire compliance===
*Recharging sprinklers
*Installing sprinkler system
*Exit compliance

===ADA compliance===
*Cafe bathroom modificiations
*Ramp/lift to ballroom from cafe
*Lift into ballroom from outside

Working Groups

2014-07-23T23:07:01Z

Ceremona: /* Capitol Projects */

=Working Groups=

See the [[Calendar]] for information on upcoming working group meetings, and to find past meeting notes!

==[[Communications Working Group]]==
We work on public-facing communications (messaging, outreach, press and public relations) as well as internal communications (inter-group collaboration tools, wiki, mailing list and other tools for communication and collaboration). Currently, we meet at Bay Area Public School (2141 Broadway) every Monday from 7-8:30pm.
*See: '''[[Internal Communications]]''' for an intro to our communications resources.
*Bottom-liners: [[User:Tunabananas|Jenny]], [[User:Elaine|Elaine]]
===Meeting Notes===
We keep our notes on a Riseup Pad named [https://pad.riseup.net/p/omnicomms OmniComms].
* [[Event:2014/05/05 Communications Committee Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/05/12 Communications Committee Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/05/19 Communications Committee Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/05/26 Communications Committee Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/06/02 Communications Working Group Meeting]]

==[[Challenging Dominant Culture Working Group]]==
Exploring bias and issues of diversity and inclusion in the space. Challenging dominant cultural influences and developing projects and relationships more in line with values of social justice, safe space, radical commoning, and anticapitalism.
*Bottom-liner: Kazoo (lovekazoo AT gmail DOT com) and Margit (margitgal AT gmail DOT com)
===Meeting Notes===
*[[Event:2014/04/28_Inclusion_Task_Force_Meeting]]
*[[Event:2014/05/12_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting]]
*[[Event:2014/05/15_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting]]
*[[Event:2014/05/19_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting]]
*[[Event:2014/05/26_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting]]
*[[Event:2014/06/25_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting]]

==[[Legal and Governance Working Group]]==
Coordinating logistics around legal consultations, permitting, and governance/decision-making, as well as helping to coordinate concrete proposals around governance and guidelines for group members in the space.
*Bottom-liner: Niki (niki.shelley AT gmail DOT com)
'''Outstanding resource: [http://calnonprofits.org/resources/starting-nonprofit/15-launch-articles/65-first-steps-articl Step-by-Step Guide for Starting a California Nonprofit ]'''
===Meeting Notes===
* [[Event:2014/06/02 Legal Governance Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/06/01 Legal / Governance Hackathon]]

==[[Finances Working Group]]==
Coordinates accounting systems, bills and other external costs, helps coordinate collective expenditure proposals and fundraising.
*Bottom-liner: Danny (stationery AT gmail DOT com)
===Meeting Notes===

==[[Space Operations Working Group]]==
Focusing on allocation and governance of space in the building, bringing ideas for space usage to concrete proposals and cultivating a team of "Space Stewards" for maintaining the space.
*Bottom-liner: Seeking new bottom-liner
===Meeting Notes===

===Capitol Projects===
*[[List of building repairs/improvements in no particular order]]

=Working Group Protocols=
''(NOTE: For help creating correct wiki pages and adding events to the calendar, contact Vicky (vknoxsironi at gmail dot com], Jenny [jenny at sudomesh dot org] or Matt [mattsenate at gmail dot com])''

In order to make progress on many different aspects of this project, please use the following protocols. The intention is to support horizontal, consent-based, transparent, good-faith collaboration.

==Start a Working Group==
* Create Working Group wiki page and link to it here: http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Working_Groups
** Articulate "mission" or purpose, goals, and any tasks you already know.
* Schedule regular meetings and add them to the Calendar: http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Calendar
* Announce upcoming meetings on the omni-announce list at least 24 hours prior to meeting: omni-announce@lists.riseup.net

==Hold Working Group Meetings==
* Before the meeting begins, designate a facilitator and a scribe to take notes
* Conclude the meeting with '''Outcomes''' or '''Action Items''' and schedule next meeting
* Post meeting notes to the wiki on the Event page (making it discoverable through the calendar)
* Prepare report-back for weekly Omni Collective meeting.

==Join a Working Group==
* Check the [[Calendar]] and attend the next meeting of the working group.
* Directly contact the individual(s) bottom-lining the group.
* Show up to a meeting, or use the communication channel specified for that group to stay in touch.

==Make Progress in a Working Group==
* Set goals that aspire to deliver on the working group's "mission" or purpose.
* If necessary, outline tasks in order to reach each goal.
* Make progress on and seek to accomplish any tasks that contribute to the working group's goals.
* When a working group's goals require '''feedback''', '''formal approval''', or simply '''consent''' from the Omni Collective, create a proposal:
** Present this proposal to the Omni Collective delegates meeting to ensure each member-group can build consent in their respective community as necessary.
* When a working group has several divergent options or ideas and cannot come to resolution on them alone, then create proposals that represent these options and present these in some way to the whole collective:
** Present proposals at an Omni Collective meeting for feedback
** Ask for feedback on the omnilogistics@lists.riseup.net email list
** Ask for feedback from other working groups, member-groups, or individuals that are not involved with your working group.
** Rinse, repeat until you have garnered improvements to your proposal from the invaluable experiences and contributions of everyone involved with the omni collective, ultimately building consensus among the entire collective.

Working Groups

2014-07-23T22:59:02Z

Ceremona: /* Space Operations Working Group */

=Working Groups=

See the [[Calendar]] for information on upcoming working group meetings, and to find past meeting notes!

==[[Communications Working Group]]==
We work on public-facing communications (messaging, outreach, press and public relations) as well as internal communications (inter-group collaboration tools, wiki, mailing list and other tools for communication and collaboration). Currently, we meet at Bay Area Public School (2141 Broadway) every Monday from 7-8:30pm.
*See: '''[[Internal Communications]]''' for an intro to our communications resources.
*Bottom-liners: [[User:Tunabananas|Jenny]], [[User:Elaine|Elaine]]
===Meeting Notes===
We keep our notes on a Riseup Pad named [https://pad.riseup.net/p/omnicomms OmniComms].
* [[Event:2014/05/05 Communications Committee Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/05/12 Communications Committee Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/05/19 Communications Committee Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/05/26 Communications Committee Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/06/02 Communications Working Group Meeting]]

==[[Challenging Dominant Culture Working Group]]==
Exploring bias and issues of diversity and inclusion in the space. Challenging dominant cultural influences and developing projects and relationships more in line with values of social justice, safe space, radical commoning, and anticapitalism.
*Bottom-liner: Kazoo and Margit
===Meeting Notes===
*[[Event:2014/04/28_Inclusion_Task_Force_Meeting]]
*[[Event:2014/05/12_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting]]
*[[Event:2014/05/15_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting]]
*[[Event:2014/05/19_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting]]
*[[Event:2014/05/26_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting]]
*[[Event:2014/06/25_Challenging_Dominant_Culture_Meeting]]

==[[Legal and Governance Working Group]]==
Coordinating logistics around legal consultations, permitting, and governance/decision-making, as well as helping to coordinate concrete proposals around governance and guidelines for group members in the space.
*Bottom-liner: Niki
'''Outstanding resource: [http://calnonprofits.org/resources/starting-nonprofit/15-launch-articles/65-first-steps-articl Step-by-Step Guide for Starting a California Nonprofit ]'''
===Meeting Notes===
* [[Event:2014/06/02 Legal Governance Meeting]]
* [[Event:2014/06/01 Legal / Governance Hackathon]]

==[[Finances Working Group]]==
Coordinates accounting systems, bills and other external costs, helps coordinate collective expenditure proposals and fundraising.
*Bottom-liner: Danny
===Meeting Notes===

==[[Space Operations Working Group]]==
Focusing on allocation and governance of space in the building, bringing ideas for space usage to concrete proposals and cultivating a team of "Space Stewards" for maintaining the space.
*Bottom-liner: Seeking new bottom-liner
===Meeting Notes===

===Capitol Projects===

=Working Group Protocols=
''(NOTE: For help creating correct wiki pages and adding events to the calendar, contact Vicky (vknoxsironi at gmail dot com], Jenny [jenny at sudomesh dot org] or Matt [mattsenate at gmail dot com])''

In order to make progress on many different aspects of this project, please use the following protocols. The intention is to support horizontal, consent-based, transparent, good-faith collaboration.

==Start a Working Group==
* Create Working Group wiki page and link to it here: http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Working_Groups
** Articulate "mission" or purpose, goals, and any tasks you already know.
* Schedule regular meetings and add them to the Calendar: http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Calendar
* Announce upcoming meetings on the omni-announce list at least 24 hours prior to meeting: omni-announce@lists.riseup.net

==Hold Working Group Meetings==
* Before the meeting begins, designate a facilitator and a scribe to take notes
* Conclude the meeting with '''Outcomes''' or '''Action Items''' and schedule next meeting
* Post meeting notes to the wiki on the Event page (making it discoverable through the calendar)
* Prepare report-back for weekly Omni Collective meeting.

==Join a Working Group==
* Check the [[Calendar]] and attend the next meeting of the working group.
* Directly contact the individual(s) bottom-lining the group.
* Show up to a meeting, or use the communication channel specified for that group to stay in touch.

==Make Progress in a Working Group==
* Set goals that aspire to deliver on the working group's "mission" or purpose.
* If necessary, outline tasks in order to reach each goal.
* Make progress on and seek to accomplish any tasks that contribute to the working group's goals.
* When a working group's goals require '''feedback''', '''formal approval''', or simply '''consent''' from the Omni Collective, create a proposal:
** Present this proposal to the Omni Collective delegates meeting to ensure each member-group can build consent in their respective community as necessary.
* When a working group has several divergent options or ideas and cannot come to resolution on them alone, then create proposals that represent these options and present these in some way to the whole collective:
** Present proposals at an Omni Collective meeting for feedback
** Ask for feedback on the omnilogistics@lists.riseup.net email list
** Ask for feedback from other working groups, member-groups, or individuals that are not involved with your working group.
** Rinse, repeat until you have garnered improvements to your proposal from the invaluable experiences and contributions of everyone involved with the omni collective, ultimately building consensus among the entire collective.

Event:2014/07/22 Governance Meeting

2014-07-22T22:07:08Z

Ceremona:

=Details=
* 7pm at Omni (ballroom)

=Agenda=
We will be drafting an Internal Governance document to bring to the group for deliberation / edits / addenda.

For discussion:
*Use policy/schedule for common shared space
*Revisit revised bylaws
*Working groups: What is their function, scope, etc?
*Decision making model: Consensus? Modified consensus?
*Safe space and conflict resolution policies
=Notes=

Welcome to the Omni Commons

2014-07-02T22:13:07Z

Ceremona:

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=Omni Collective=

A Collective of Collectives in Oakland, California. See [[Founding Document]] for governance.

''From Latin omni-, "all, every, the whole, of every kind,"''

OMNI Oakland Collective is comprised of several Bay Area collectives. Its express purpose is to build consensus among member collectives with minimal possible bureaucracy for the administration of a common space and sharing of resources for the use and stewardship of the greater community.

The point of the OMNI Oakland Collective is NOT to function as any sort of governing body for the groups involved in any general sense. There are no senators. Its only and sole point is to administer the space, pay bills, make group decisions about the shared space, resolve any conflicts between the groups in the space, interface with the state, banks, authorities, etc. Logistics and bureaucracy: That's it.

* What kind of groups? Mainly:
** Non-profit
** Volunteer-led
** Donation-based
** Worker Owned
** Offer value to the public for free or sliding scale

* What core values do groups share?
** Removing barriers to technical innovation and scientific inquiry by providing needed equipment and space for individual and group learning.
** Fostering radical discourse and education
** Maintaining an active, publicly accessible commons
** Providing a venue for innovative cultural production
** Striving for social, economic & environmental justice
** Standing in solidarity with all oppressed people
** Cultures of consent, against rape, violence & exploitation
** The survival & thrival of our communities and neighborhoods

=Questions for Collectives=
* [[Timeline]]
* [[Space Requirements]]
* [[Finances]]
* [[Loans]]
* [[Naming]]
* [[Questions]]

=To-Do List=
* [[ToDo]]
* [[draft business model brief]]
* Build Consensus of Member Collectives
* Review Contract (agreement) and sign

=important stuff=

notes from our [[Meetings|meetings]]

=Other stuff =
*[[Parked ideas about the Omni]]

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Event:2014/08/11 Fundraising Conversation

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Crowdfunding

Ballroom

Event:2014/09/15 Communications Committe Meeting

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Event:2014/12/06 Commons WG meeting

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Event:2014/11/09 Gather Social in Ballroom

Event:2014/11/09, 7p-11p: *OMNI GATHER*

Event:2014/10/30 Weekly Delegate's Meeting

Event:2014/11/02 Fet Gede , Haiti's Day of the Dead

Event:2014/10/22 Omni Sound Recording Jam - Ballroom

2014/10/14 Finance Meeting Minutes

Working Groups

Event:2014/11/02 Fet Gede , Haiti's Day of the Dead

Event:2014/11/02 Fet Gede , Haiti's Day of the Dead

List of building repairs/improvements in no particular order

List of building repairs/improvements in no particular order

List of building repairs/improvements in no particular order

List of building repairs/improvements in no particular order

List of building repairs/improvements in no particular order

List of building repairs/improvements in no particular order

List of building repairs/improvements in no particular order

Working Groups

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Event:2014/07/22 Governance Meeting

Welcome to the Omni Commons

Event:2014/11/09, 7p-11p: OMNI GATHER