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

7pm in the basement!

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.

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:

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)

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.