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Omni Delegates' Meeting - 21 September 2017 7pm-9pm

=== Agenda ===
* Introductions, Meeting Roles, and Delegates Count [10 minutes]
* Announcements [5 minutes]
* Bans [5 minutes]
* Working Group Report-Backs [15 minutes]
* Member Collective Updates (10 minutes)
* Proposal X: [15 minutes]
* Discussion Z: [10 minutes]

=== Introductions ===
Introduce yourself:
Name; Preferred Pronoun; Affiliation
* Julian - current pronoun 'Julian' - BAPS - Communiations & Challenging Dominant Cultures (CDC)
* Almaz - GCEA - Commons & CDC & Fundraising
* Ken - CCL & Building Work
* Robb - he, him - Sudo, Building & Commons
* Mary Ann - she/her - Chiapas / Fundraising
* Jenny - she/her - sudo / comms / finance / building / occasional commons
* Steve - he/him - BAPS
* Alpha - here to see what OC is about, part of the Social Labs (alt economics)
* Helen - she/her - FNB delegate
* Phil - FNB / Invisible Labor Committee

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

=== Delegates ===
* ABDC:
* BAPS: Julian
* CCL: Ken
* CSC: Mary Ann
* FNB: Helen
* GWS: inactive after this meeting
* LL: inactive
* Sudo: Robb
* TIL: inactive
* GCEA:Almaz
* Quorum: 6/8 active collectives

== Announcements ==
* Bookfair wuz awesome!
* Soon will have local notepad
* Jenny: Build Your Own Internet Workshop (PeoplesOpen.net) 2pm-5pm w/snacks on Saturday - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your-own-internet-workshop-v3-tickets-36134206384
* Mary Ann: Waffles & Zapatisimo (Chiapas Support Committee) from 10am-1pm this Saturday
* Ken: Counter Culture Labs having a Beginner's Mushroom Identification Class - Demystifying Mushrooms - at 10:30am-12:30pm on Saturday (this Saturday) - as well as an all-day mushroom event on Sunday (Sep 24)
* Almaz - GCEA event on Sept 29 - Hate Will Not Replace Us featuring Arnaldo from Chiapas & ?? - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hate-will-not-replace-us-tickets-38105625953?aff=efbneb

== Bans ==
* Running Wolf update - Phil - RW has been able to get alternative access to computers & food. RW's request for mediation has not proceeded due to RW's prefered mediator is not able to participate. Ken is still willing.
** Ken: Check in with campaign manager, if he left contact info?
*** Robb: Should send response
**** Mary Ann: Did that, sent to Jenny
***** Jenny: oh, thought was sent to mediation@
****** Phil - will talk to Michael Delecroix
******* Julian: Have been talking about this & banning for awhile in Challenging Dominant Cultures. Will report more in the CDC reportback
******** Steve: Just curious if you have his current email?
********* Jenny & Mary Ann - just RunningWolf4Mayor@gmail.com
* Add to list of people [https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Asked_to_Leave asked to leave]

== Working Group Report-Backs ==

=== Building & permits ===
Meetings: 1st & 3rd Mondays @ 6pm
* No meeting transpired this Monday - all probably too wiped out from the work party & bookfair prep
* Robb & Gerald installed fixture in FNB pantry
* Almaz: Lighting needed in Library/Conference room in basement
* Phil: Touchy area is the bathrooms
* Jenny - Patrik, Ken & Robb have been maintaining rat traps. We need people maintaining traps in the basement.
** Helen: Are they set up already or do they need to be set up?
*** Jenny: CCL has some we can set up; Omni can also buy some... I'm too squeamish to deal with the trapped rats
**** Ken: If others can keep an eye, they can ask me and I can remove the rats
** Almaz: Also need one near the bar, v important
* This group needs help; https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/building

=== Commons ===
Meetings: Second and Fourth Thursdays at 6pm
* Almaz - last meeting cancelled due to several members being out of town. Sometimes events fall through
** several last minunte cancellations
* This group needs help:
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/commons
** https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking

=== Communications ===
Meetings: 2nd and 4th Sundays at 5pm
* New Omni Brochures printed! Many thanks to Grant from BAPS for revamping the beautiful ones made by Niki & Libbie in 2015!
** Almaz: is this online
*** Julian: yes, the webiste
*** Robb: pdf on google drive [link?]
* We haz buttonmaker! Talk to Jenny or Abe (co-owners) if you'd like to use it.
* Meeting this Sunday! Come and participate in crafting our internal and outward-facing communications!
* Julian - 45 newsletter sign ups at Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, including 10 folx expressing interest in working group involvement
* Jenny - meetings moved to 2nd & 4th Sundays

=== Finance ===
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Fundraising, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm
* Jenny: we're not broke! projected to only lose $175 this month, which is good cuz we're still repaying community loans. our loan repayments will not exceed $4000/mo here on out
* Phil: Turned off the freezer in the basement that kept running and is no longer necessary
* Discussion of freezer behind ballroom bar & monitoring its power usage
* Almaz: Before winter, how is heat going to work in the building?
** Robb: Furnace for the ballroom, furnace into entrance hall, furnace in sudo/ccl, furnace in Disco Room. Another might feed the basement
*** Jenny: We should turn on the heating this year. Just need to make sure they get turned off
**** Robb: All the heaters are time-outable
***** Ken: Auto-shutoff at a certain time?
****** Robb: Refer to Patrik, he bought one last year but was too late in the season to use it
******* Jenny - may be asking delegates to waive one or more months of rent for GWS.
* Budget Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheetsn/d/1rvkMc5lmd8PovoViNLdvlrv0tSyvrH7iB0SmGqaFec8/edit?usp=drive_web

=== Fundraising ===
Meetings: Currently conjoined with Finance,, 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6pm
* Jenny: we're vary likely to get a chunk of money soon; we applied fo $40,000 that we can spend directly on the building. Property Tax Exemption approved. Should get $5400 back from tax board. PG&E went down. Still at $1500/month
* Julian: Alternative Exposure grant deadline is coming up soon
* List of Possible Grants to add to: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BDtC9oNxsU0nOJXA8IoBsxW_7whS9-UKRMhEu1Gd7Sg/edit#gid=0

== 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 ===
* Julian - classes on the calendar
* Steve - Jerico has not been meeting

=== CCL ===
* Ken: cleaning up so can look remotely like Sudo
** trying to finish organizing fermentation station

=== CSC ===
* Mary Ann: people are likely aware from the news about the disater for Mexico. CSC is collecting funds for the disaster & Mary Anne is a the agent doing that. Wire transfers direct from CSC to a Zapatista Human Rights organization. national indigenous organization has identified 5 responsible organizations to send money to. an inquiry that came across one of our lists, from UCB. if you get that kind of question, you can
** Julian: is there publicity we can point people to?
*** Mary Ann: I can put the link of on Omni's FB page
**** the whole call is on the blog

=== FNB ===
* Helene: no particular updates so

===GCEA===
* Almaz - need to cleanup kids rooms
** still looking for laptop
*** perhaps not cleaned since the Bookfair?
* also the earlier mentioned announcement for Sept 29th
* 4 volunteers helping w/ 4 youths

=== GWS ===
* Benefit for Haiti in honor of Lori on Sep 30th - check the calendar

=== LL ===
* Eisenstein's October films screening

=== Sudo ===
* sudo room is clean af!! check it out!
* workshop on Sat

=== TIL ===
* Jenny: a book release party soon, "like a solid to a shadow" - possibly Oct 21st

== Discussion: Cleaning ==
* Phil - hard part is bathrooms
* Julian - last meeting there was discussion of a women's bathroom proposal, any proposal?
* Jenny - Laura said she would inform Cathy on how to submit proposal for women's bathroom
* Phil - sign will create awareness that there is no staff here.
* Almaz - we discussed having an Omni cleaning day once or twice a month
* Julian: If we could formalize mandatory collective participation in cleaning days, that would be optimal -
** Mary Ann: Discussed this with CSC - Arnaldo spent $95 on cleaning supplies to get things ready for CompArte, was very upset. Reported on it at last meeting. Unanimous rejection of mandatory cleaning day with loss of voting rights. We have 3 people - I'm disabled. Few things I'm willing to do, if specified. The other two often work on weekends, and work all week long. Already holding the group together - in fact resigning from it right now. We're very clear that it won't work for us.
*** Almaz: We can come up with a different proposal... eg donate money, or sthg. different... if it affects the collective
**** Helen: Think we should stick to making it voluntary - if it's a regular thing, people will come to it
***** Julian: Skeptical that that's true, not sure there's a bet thter way to deal with it. People say the same thing about working groups but it's a relatively stable crew that comes there
****** Mary Ann: Group thinks an outside cleaning service should be hired for events due to different standards of cleanliness
******* Jenny: COuld add cleaning service orgs to the Event Rental packet
******** Julian: Important problem to solve, but if we can't DIY this, that says a lot. We should figure out a way to do this ourselves
********* Ken: Would be fine with me if you did the enforcement thing, but not initially... eg Mary Ann has limited personnell, some group does way more but has the personell. Have a more organized set of cleaning duties. I'd like CCL's work on setting rat traps to be recognized and not be docked because not doing other cleaning duties.
********** Helen: We're talking about 3 different things: 1) events cleaning up, 2) duties needed on the everyday (eg toilets) and 3) large-scale periodic cleaning
*********** Jenny - met someone who is involved in a community space & they rotate which collective cleans bathrooms/floors/outside
************ Almaz - Events are doing great work. They clean up before & make sure the event cleans up afterwards. Maybe Commons group needs to have a discussion about how cleanliness is going with events. Make sure to separate the events from the collectives.
******* Need tuo focus on everyday duties and large-scale periodic cleaning. Can focus on those 2 topics on the next meeting, or someone(s) work on a proposal for the next meeting.
******** Helen: When would be a good time to have a general cleaning day? Pick 2 times and send back to the collectives

* Can do a weekday
* 2 a month - one a weekday, one a weekend
* Take back to collective with proposed weekday and weekend time
* This is a voluntary practice -
* Mention of karaoke setup ^_^ combine Friday

= Action Items =
* Follow up with ____ from London Crossroads space re: chore distribution - [jenny]

== Last Meeting Notes ==
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2017/09/07_Delegates

= End of Meeting =
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