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Omni Delegates' Meeting - 07 September 2017 7pm-9pm

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

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

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

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

== Announcements ==
*

== Bans ==
*
* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]

== Working Group Report-Backs ==

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== ABDC ===
*

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

=== CCL ===
*

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

=== FNB ===
* call for volunteers
* bycicle blender for the Anarchist Bookfair

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

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

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

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

=== TIL ===
* Contraverse book event, check out their instagram

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

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

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

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