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Event:2015/09/10 Delegates Council Meeting

2015-09-11T21:39:38Z

Libbie: Created page with "Omni Commons Delegates Meeting - 10 Sep 2015 == Who's Here? == *Libbie, she/her, Becoming Omni/BAPS * Laura, she/her/ BAPS * Robb, he, SUDO, CCL, FNB * Helen, she, FnB * Andr..."

Omni Commons Delegates Meeting - 10 Sep 2015

== Who's Here? ==
*Libbie, she/her, Becoming Omni/BAPS
* Laura, she/her/ BAPS
* Robb, he, SUDO, CCL, FNB
* Helen, she, FnB
* Andrew, he, building WG
* Alex, she/her/they, BAPS
* Matt, he, Sudo
* Simona, she/her/they/them, MPM
* Rachel, she/her, GWS, also has to leave for work meeting
* Lori, she/her, GWS

=== Meeting Roles ===
* Facilitator/s: Lori and Libbie
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.
* Stack-taker: Matt Senate
* Timekeeper: Simona
* Notetaker/s: Libbie, Laura
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom
* Vibe Reader: Andrew
* Next weeks facilitator(s): Matt Senate + Rachel (GWS)

=== Delegates ===
* BAPS: Alex
* CCL: Jacob (remote)
* FNB: Helen
* MPM: Simona
* OpAl: (inactive, no?)
* Sudo: Matt
* TIL: n/a (active)
* GWS: Lori
* Quorum: YES 6/7

=== Introductions ===
Introduce yourself: Name; Prefered Pronoun; Affiliation
*Libbie, she/her, Becoming Omni/BAPS
* Laura, she/her/ BAPS
* Robb, he, SUDO, CCL, FNB
* Helen, she, FnB
* Andrew, he, building WG
* Alex, she/her/they, BAPS
* Matt, he, Sudo
* Simona, she/her/they/them, MPM
* Rachel, she/her, GWS, also has to leave for work meeting
* Lori, she/her, GWS

== Announcements ==
* New Posters
** Libbie, Joel and Gabby developed new OMni brochures that can also be posted on bullentin boards.
* Caucuses
**Libbie also has made a poster for the racial justice caucuses that will take place the next 3 Sundays 12-3pm. Please invite your collective.
* Matt: Rent Party poster
* Simona: Material Print Machine is hosting a workshop this Sunday: an Image Transfer Workshop starts at 7pm

== Bans ==
* Manual (also goes by 'Manny') was asked to leave and never return for repeatedly stealing from sudo room after being repeatedly told not to. May assert that 'Jake told me I can take e-waste'.
** See https://sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/2015-September/011054.html for more context
** Manuel is on the SUDO room ban list
** he has stolen several things from Sudo Room in the past.
** Robb caught him leaving from the 48th St door with several monitors.
**Alex: Is there a sign?
** Libbie: yes, i made a sign, just got derailed
** Laura: has it been made clear that people need to be present at the door when they are hosting events until all of your attendees are here? And then make sure everyone leaves at the end. For example, for classes with BAPS.
** Robb: that seems to be an issue for most of the collectives that have public meet-ups.
** Robb: Maybe there could be an intercom system at the front of the building that could direct a speaker to different rooms, i.e. you could ring the buzzer for each collective. Or even a two way conversations.
** Andrew: if we're serious about the doors being closed, we could have an alarm that would go off after it was open after a certain amount of time, if that is the policy and we want to enforce it.
** Matt: you can make one at SUDO ROOM any Tuesday evening. a noise-maker!
** Helen: how easy is that to do and how expensive is it?
** Robb: we should come back with a proposal with costs.
** Andrew: I can take responsbility for that project for the meantime.

== Working Group Report-Backs ==

=== Building & permits ===
Meetings: Mondays at 8pm
*This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building

** Matt: every Saturday at noon, we have work parties. Tell your friends and frenemies!
** Laura: we will have a new front door within a week and a half.
** Robb: talked to the permit office today, will hear back from them tomorrow.
** Jeremy: there are two things that might be needed for the permit, screw pattern and caulking. The wall is almost done, very close to finishing. And then we have to do a second layer after we get the first section permitted/approved. And then we'll be done.

=== Becoming Omni ===
* Laura: We're having a little bit of a hold-up because we have to decide when are going to be the actual dates of the planning meetings in early October, so we really need people to fill out the scheduling survey we sent out. There are 3-4 options for how to spread the time out in October, so please do that.
**We are also going to have the next meeting of the design team on Sunday the 20th from 3-6pm. If you are part of the design team or would like to get involved, come!

PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CWWY5YZ

=== Commons ===
Meetings: Sundays at 7pm
* Laura: September 20th is going to be super busy. If you are having something happening that day, chances are you will be, we just have to be flexible about rubbing elbows.
* Jeremy: Laura mentioned that there is an opporutnity to manage the front-door. Welcoming.
* Laura: it would be good if people could sign up for a door shift.
* Libbie: you can do it anytime--set up a table in front of the door

=== Communications ===
* Matt: we had some issues with the calendar. We finally figured it out and recieved a patch. The calendar should sync properly now, and I'll talk to the commons working group this Sunday. There may need to be some pruning but we can figure it out now. If there's any discrepancies in the calendar, email the commons WG--commons@lists.omnicommons.org
* Reserving space, any time anybody wants to use common space at the OMNI, they should get online to request/reserve the space at www.Omnicommons.org/occupy
* Matt: I will change the front page of the website to include the link to the /occupy page -- "bookings/reservations"

=== Finance ===
Meetings: Every other Thursday at 7pm
* Matt S: Matt Griffin settled on a budget shortfall: $5k. This is also how much we need to pay rent for October. Most of the collectives have outstanding invoices from the collectives. Paying the bills we already owe and paying rent on-time will save us a lot of migraines. Maybe we can ask finance to ask for rent 1 or 2 weeks before rent is due.
* Matt S: Jenny just emailed out a list of grants that we could apply to--that are $1k-2k. We need people to come to the Fundraising WG which meets at Monday at 6:30pm.

=== Buy the Building/Fundraising ===
Meetings: Mondays at 6:30pm
* Laura: we have to answer a lot of questions and provide a lot of deatils for our 501(c)3 application, and we are also working on negotiating a ground lease with the Bay Area Community Land Trust, which is actually having their board meeting right now. Jesse it there right now. We'll hear back from them.

== Example Proposal ==

==Liberation Ministries Proposal to Join the Omni As an Active non-Member==

This proposal is being sent out so that it can be discussed for consensus at next week's (9/17) delegates meeting. Please take it back to your collectives and discuss so we can move forward--draft pending.
---
= Discussion=
* Matt: the proposal seems ambiguous in terms of the structure of the relationship. Are you proposing a tenent type of relationship or a cmpletely new kind of relationship
* Laura: One way to reslve this is just to negotiate a contract with the commons wg about when they want to reserve space and for how much, like other groups that have regular meetings here.
* Alex: What space was she planning on using as an office?
* Libbie: Probably one of the rooms next to Phat Beets' office. We can figure that out before the proposal next week if that would be helpful.
* Helen: How do we negotiate the contract?
* Matt: We have rental agreement contracts for groups who have regular meetings and also templates from other orgs that use the space in differenmt ways such as Phat Beets.
* Robb: there is stil concern about the alignment of their mission compared to other tenants.
* LIbbie: Cheryl has addressed these concerns in previous meetings. She has had to restate these things over and over to various groups within the Omni.
*Libbie: We talked with LM about the concerns folk were raising last week and she answered questions and addressed concerns. She has reiterated these answers many times. Very different from GWS which was accepted as a collective recently with a lot less resistence.
* Laura: This is a chance for us to
* Matt: we had a discussion that we found very productive at SUDO room. This conversations has a potential to be very divisive and corrosive, which has to do with how we hand-off relationships about. We should have some dates before we marry them as Yar has said. I want to express totally bluntly that it would benefit everyone to do some revisions on the proposal and make it incredbly clear what is being asked of all of the member collectives- I think that would make this proposal process easier and less emotionally taxing.
* Jeremy: I'm confused. I dont' see how this would be any way different than if there are a group of people to learn about the bible in a BAPS class.
* Matt: We should talk about it more next week.
* Alex: In the effort of clarifying things, it would be great if the proposal specifies if this is a trial session for permanent membership.
* Matt: There will be some arbitrary allotment of time. We have a 3 year lease.
* Laura: in what way do you think a tenant agreement wouldn't work for them? You can write any terms into the agreement about what they get to do in the building and where, the rent, and for how long.
*

== Berkeley Restorative Justice Council Proposal ==

Proposal for OMNI Collective and Restorative Justice Center

The Restorative Justice Center at the University of California at Berkeley would like to develop a partnership with the OMNI Collective and other Bay Area RJ organizations to offer Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices to Oakland/Berkeley communities.

We propose the following design for the collaboration:

Julie Shackford-Bradley of the RJ Center will facilitate / co-facilitate circles at OMNI for anyone who would like to participate, two nights a month.

Julie Shackford-Bradley will also facilitate / co-facilitate circle processes for OMNI as needed in cases of conflict.

The OMNI collective will provide spaces (the Disco Room and the Mural Room aka "the Den") for RJ organizations to offer trainings for the Bay Area community. Some trainings will be offered free of charge and others will be organized as fundraisers for Bay Area organizations, including the UC Berkeley RJ Center. The organizations will charge a sliding scale fee to collect funds for service provision in other contexts.

Together, volunteers from the RJ Center, other local RJ organizations, and the OMNI Collective will begin to brainstorm ways to bring community-based justice processes and conflict resolution processes to Oakland residents. This process will have multiple steps and could take 2-3 years to implement:

1. education and outreach on what is RJ and how it works
2. training in RJ and community-based justice processes
3. outreach to other Oakland organizations with aligned missions
4. the development of an infrastructure to provide RJ processes for the community (in collaboration with other organizations) and monitor people’s successful movement through these processes.
5. funding sources identified to support the program.

-- wtf is up w/ 4-5? I don't understand -- Matt

Background: what is RJ?

Restorative Justice has its roots in the global phenomenon of “community-based justice,” whereby groups that have experienced a crime or a violation of the law come together to focus on harms, accountability, and the needs of all involved, rather than on punishments. Restorative Justice engages not just the person who committed the crime or harm and the victim, but the larger community in examining what happened and what can be done to repair harms and restore relationships.

RJ is considered a possible option for underrepresented or marginalized communities that have been mistreated by the criminal justice system and have lost trust in the police. These include both African American and other communities of color, and LGBT communities, as well as intersection points between them. For these communities, RJ can offer an alternative to the criminal justice system that draws the community together and empowers people to decide how to address crime and violence within their own groups.

Currently, RJ is utilized in schools throughout the Bay Area, including Oakland Unified School District, as well as to divert youth from the juvenile justice system and to offer people in prison a chance to be accountable for their crimes in supportive environments. There are some community-based RJ programs, most of which work directly with the criminal justice system but adjudicate cases through volunteer-led Restorative Justice Panels or Restorative Boards. Building the structure from scratch presents unique, but not insurmountable challenges.

For more information:
Center for Court Innovation
http://www.courtinnovation.org/topic/restorative-justice

RedHook Peacemaking program
http://www.courtinnovation.org/research/red-hook-peacemaking-program

“Justice for All: An Indigenous Community-Based Approach to Restorative Justice in Alaska,” Jarrett and Hyslop, March 2015

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2572274
Thanks for your consideration!

Julie Shackford-Bradley
RJ Center, Berkeley
jsbradley@berkeley.edu
rjcenterberkeley.org

=discussion=

Robb: Shouldn't the Commons scheduling group do this?
Alex: I think they want to form an ongoing relationship.
Matt: When somebody wants to do a new project with the Omni, i communicate how having more communication is better. I see that in the positive light. So this is a positive signal. I see a huge opportunity which is immediately: it has been sunk by labor costs. We have a group interested in helping us in our community. This is amazing. Friendly amendment: pending conversations with the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council (NORJC), and pending sorting the details with the commons wg. we should say thank you.
Libbie: I don't think that partnering with RJ is mutually exclusive or prevents us from partnering with any other restorative justice groups. i did hear that after the circle Julie led some participants felt that they had attended circles that had been better facilitated. There are different styles.
Robb: Doesn't say how often they are going to use the space.
Matt: Asked for 2 nights a week plus additional ad hock usage of space.
Robb: Question about funding.
Laura: No money will be given to Omni. They will lead circles at the Omni instead of monetary compensation.

Proposal passed unanimously with Matt's friendly amendments

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Event:2015/09/03 Delegates Meeting

2015-09-04T03:37:25Z

Libbie: Created page with "jWeekly Omni Delegates' Meeting - September 3 , 2015 == Who's Here? == ben was here virtually === Meeting Roles === * Facilitator/s: Libbie * Explanation of hand signals:..."

jWeekly Omni Delegates' Meeting - September 3 , 2015

== Who's Here? ==
ben was here virtually

=== Meeting Roles ===
* Facilitator/s: Libbie
* Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "directresponse"(wildcard), etc.
* Stacktaker: Sadie
* Timekeeper: Ben
* Notetaker/s: Libbie, Laura, Matt, jenny, sigma, Alex
** URL of this pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom
* Vibe Reader: Sadie
* Next weeks facilitator(s): Lori & Libbie

=== Delegates ===
* BAPS: Sadie
* CCL: Cere
* FNB: Helen
* MPM: no delegate (inactive)
* OpAl: no delegate (inactive)
* Sudo: Matt Senate
* TIL: no delegate
* GWS: Lori
* Quorum: YES ;)

=== Introductions ===
Introduce yourself: Name; Prefered Pronoun; Affiliation
* Libbie, she/her/ they, BAPS, Becoming Omni
* Sadie, she/her, BAPs
* Lori, she/her, GWS
* Matt, he/him/ Sudo
* Benji, he/him
* Helen, she her, FNB
* Alex, she/her, BAPS, Becoming Omni
* Cere, she/her, ccl / sudo / whatevah
* Sigma, they/them, Sudo ruum
* Laura, she/her, BAPS, Becoming Omni
* Max, he/him, Phat beets
* Robb, he/him, LulzLux
* Troy, he/him, Omnibrarian
* Jeremy, he/him, Sudo
* Jenny, she/her, Sudo
* remote yar, she/her, sudoroom
* Steve, he/him, La Commune
* jeremy

== Announcements ==

* La Commune: we're going to be open every saturday
* Cere: CCL is hoping to do a once a month art and science thing, and it can be Omni arts and science thing, to support the Omni. On the last Monday of the month.
* Laura: the Ligure Club is having their monthly meeting here -- on Tuesday, around 7:30pm, Tuesday the 8th.
* Max: Plant Sale at Dover Park from 11-2pm -- Phat Beets.
* Libbie: Been to the last few delegates meetings -- want to make an appeal that we start on time at 7pm! Would be great if we can do that. If any delegate has an issue at getting here at 7, we should talk about it and deal with it.

** We [sudo room] are going to hold a rent party for Omni Commons on the 13th, TBD time -- rummage sale, food, and cleaning ;) . And bring music and hang out, and we can do it to support our shortfall. We might do another one at the end of the month.

== Bans ==

* Max: for last three months, has been working on the Kwik ban, and I can bring something next week
* Also working on the conversation with Ranette, and we may be making some progress.
* Steve: Quickness was in the building on Tuesday morning, not sure how he got in.
* Libbie: Any update on the ian moon / james moon conflict?
** Rob: yar is acting as conflict mediator--she has talked to matt stewart, brendan and rob> I just gave my account, which was just the end of it.

== Working Group Report-Backs ==

=== Finance ===
Meetings: Every other Thursday at 7pm
* see announcements for info on Omni rent party
* Matt: Matt Griffin, our OOC Treasurer on the finance working group -- talked about our shortfall which will prevent us from paying our rent on time, whether or not . Please pay rent early this month. We will find out from Matt Griffin what the shortfall will be, so that we can make it up. If your collective can pay rent for several months upfront, if you are going to be here for more than a month, then think of it as a rent credit.

=== Building & permits ===
Meetings: Mondays at 8pm
* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building
* This Saturday, we will be having a work party! Starting at Noon.

=== Becoming Omni ===
* Updates on what's happening! WOrking groups within the Design Team have been meeting. A list of the groups and who to contact will be sent out for anyone to join. Doodle will also be coming out about the next full design team meeting
** First week of October will kick off the visioning / planning process, will send out a Doodle shortly to plan the exact schedule (full weekend, vs 2 weekends, vs 3 sundays) It will start the 1st weekend in October
* We are reviewing the feedback form the first 2 design team meetings
* Libbie will be holding a series of caucuses to discuss racism at the Omni over the next couple of Sundays

=== Commons ===
Meetings: Sundays at 7pm
Ben reports:
* Sunday morning during the time from 9-11ish am when Liberation Ministries would have service has seen six events since last november 2014 when the omni global calender started being used.
** This info is from there and may be inaccurate.
** Two of these were all day sort of things, Capoeira stuff and a "Fundraiser for Legal Fees".
** Of the other four, three were short two hour rehearsals and one was something called "Love Chapel"
** Three of the six events actually started at 11am.
** There were a few more events that were in the ballroom starting at noon on sundays.
** This would conflict with an event currently planned, Bicycle Music Festival which wants to set up saturday and then play on sunday.

Other news: Is the OMNI global calendar syncing? I am offering to take whoever fixes it sailing on lake merrit, if they want. I can't promise that you will stay dry.
* Jenny: New wordpress update doesn't work for update syncing, and this is a problem with the BAPS calendar as well. yar, Matt and myself are working on it. Not sure when! We need to fix the bug in the plug-in

* Final thing: The SPAZ party tomorrow night (Friday 9/4?) in the basement is likely to Laura: Commons wg had a serious discussion with the SPAZ people about alcohol, so as much as possible they are keeping it as a private event and people are bringing their own, so it's a little bit of a gray area, but considering they are a related oragnization, that's what we agreed with them. They are not selling alcohol.
* Matt: As a private event, they are only inviting members of their group?
* Laura: i don't know how they are inviting people, but we explained it should be an invitation only event.
Rob: they are good at handing out invitiation cards.
*Helen: has there been a problem?
* Steve: one time after a SPAZ party, our space was pretty messed up.
* Laura: and then we have
* Max: do they have raves in the basement?
* Semi-Permenant Autonomous Zone -- they've donated a lot of equipemtn annd they've donated a lot, and we have shared members between so that's the conneciton with that group.

=== Buy the Building ===

Meetings: Mondays at 6:30pm
* Met this week with BACLT and our lawyer
** BACLT
* proposal to give the land to BACLT specifically(see below)
* preparing to take on debt - a proposal with details will come soon
* Libby, Matt And Yar met with Rick from BACLT.
* BACLT held their annual board of directors meeting here, and several times since we moved in, we discussed explicitly with them the possibility of working with them.
* They are willing to work on our timescale of 10/1 timeline (which is quick for them) to close the purchase by then.
* We are hauling ass to dot i's and cross-t's
* There aren't that many options to choose from when looking at land trusts.
* BACLT has their monthly board meeting next week, so we want to try to get things ready for them. We have to agree on terms of the ground lease.
* Can engage in a contract as a ground lease, can take out loans and risk it, but with two organizations, as long as can come to an agreement with the other party, it can be changed in the future.
* Option on the table is move forward with something more basic and boilerplate and then augment it later over time.
* Cere: what do you mean by the terms and conditions of the lease?
** One section of the contract would be how the land trust would enforce the contract and evaluate whether Omni was upholding its values. Basically a support relationship
* Cere: it seems that would be hard to do without for example, someone attending our meetings
** Matt: There is a boilerplate in place, but it comes down to what we want and what terms should be in place.
* Not that many land trusts, so while there are some alternatives, there aren't many other options and the fundraising / buy-the-building working group is establishing a strong relationship with BACLT so far.

* Extensive notes on the wiki, if you're interested you are encouraged to read them.
* Jesse is also the lawyer for the Community Land Trust so we have signed a conflict of interest waiver.
* Meeting with lawyer -- mainly talked about 501(c)3 tax-exempt application & purchase of 4799 Shattuck.
* Getting our 501c3 tax exempt stuff in-- hopefully before October 1.
* Next steps: figuring out the terms of the ground lease.
** If you're on the Board of directors email your physical address to tunabananas@gmail.com (Jenny Ryan).
** Need to maintain that 33% of income is (publicly) charitable based on IRS standards, precedence (court cases), etc.
** Way we hold events might be the perfect way of ensuring we bring in donations to Omni Commons rather than requiring rental fees. Basically through co-sponsorship.
* Addresses for the board of directors: we need your addresses, please email Jenny directly.
* How do we maintain that our 33% of our income, as the Omni, is considered chartiable income.
* One option is to fiscally sponsor organizations that are part of the Omni, like BAPA.
* Biggest challenge is getting a firm commitment from the lender who has been a bit hard to pin down- has been out of town recently.
* Haven't yet figured out whether are actually under or over the 33% threshold currently.

== New Lawyer Liaison ==
* Proposal that Helen Finkelstein and Libbie Cohn be allowed to talk to our lawyer(s)
* Helen: My reason for wishing to do that is becasue I'm interested in working on the 501c3 application. But it seems like Jesse is covering it, so I guess i don't need to do it.
* Matt: It would also be relevant considering the previous financial sponsorship from Food Not Bombs.
* Vote passed: 4 in favor, 0 opposed, 1 abstain (Sudo)

== Giving Land To BACLT ==
PROPOSAL: give land beneath Omni to Bay Area Community Land Trust

This proposal is from the Fundraising working group, aka the "Buy the Building" wg, aka "Buy the Land", aka "Until the Revolution". Our meetings are Mondays at 6:30pm and open to everybody! Notes are posted here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Calendar

After buying the building, and the land beneath it, we propose giving the land to the Bay Area Community Land Trust, pending negotiation of acceptable terms in a ground lease. Omni would then lease the land back for a small fee(ex. $1 + minor expenses /99 years perhaps). We'd still own the building, but the land lease would have specific terms designed to ensure the use of the building into the future. Those are TBD, will be part of a future proposal (not this one). They can also be renegotiated at any point.

BACLT has many community ties with us. They held their annual meeting at Omni last fall. Their mission is to steward properties and take them off the speculative market. We feel this path best represents our values, and is also a great opportunity for our work to dovetail with regional affordable housing activism.

=== discussion ===
* Laura: This relationship has alot of possibilities for us. They have relationships with affordible housing, which many of us have been interested in. They have 3 openings on their board, so people should consider whether they are interested in participating. They are especially interested in younger people participating.
* Cere: What does that mean for us in the context of affordible housing.
** When there is an opportunity to buy for a low price, it gets split into the land and the property on the land and residents pay a low monthly rent to live in these places, which are often co-ops. Unsure how involvement would go, but an opportunity to shape that.
* Are there practical reasons for involvement with affordible housing?
** Strong preference from lender was for Omni to make relationship with another organization to prevent future takeover by gentrifiers or other distortion of values.
* somthing that came up when talking to Rick from BALT is that they already have thier 5013cp? status so this organization has worked withthe same title company and has gone through the same process as we will need to do to gain this status.
* There is also the benefit of having another organization that at some point in the future can offer assistence so this project keeps going.
* Area of research is in the scale of the Omni around affordible housing, providing community, (missed others?) and perform a sort of hack to counter the housing and real estate issues that are arising.
* Cere: I was wondering about strategic advantages because the BACLT has credibility. We have people here who are really interested in the gill track and was wondering about using our relationship with BACLT to leverage our values/perspectives.
** Existing organizations are around affordible housing and farmland, so this is an opportunity to also focus on community and business-ish communal projects.
* Has anyone read the fine print?
** We have to write the fine print ourselves
** (Missed Matt's cogent-sounding response)
* Will be more than $1/99 years, will be monthly fee but should be fine
* Robb: Weird to agree to this without terms, don't even know what they are yet.
*Jeremy: How does this change the autonomy of the collectives?
* Robb: it gives the BACLT the power to take the land from us if we do not meet the terms of our lease... it's kind of like a landlord.
* Jeremy: What are the terms associated with other groups working with BACLT?
* It is up to us to define terms, we can empower them to be able to take corrective actions or we can set them up to be hands-off.
* Jeremy: Does the donor have any other requirements?
* Laura: It's the lender who prefers having a contract with another non-profit org to ensure we don't go off the rails.
* Troy: Can we get this in writing?
* Matt: Yes, it's a process. Their board will be meeting next week and deciding how they want to proceed. Rick can't make that decision himself.
* Jenny: Unique scenario, doing the research now.
* Cere: Change the proposal to be less binding, more around intention (missed exact phrasings)
* Unanimous consensus (5/5), passes

== Liberation Ministries ==
* ongoing discussion of concerns? - Stephen Novotny is the point-person for a working group to discuss alternative partnerships with Liberation Ministries. We are awaiting an update.

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