Event:2020/05/07 Delegates

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Omni Delegates' Meeting - 7 May 2020 7pm-9pm

Agenda

  • Introductions [15 minutes]
    • Meeting Roles
    • Delegates Count
    • Access Check-in
  • Check-ins, Updates & Report-Backs [30 minutes]
    • Brief Announcements
    • Working Groups
    • Member Collectives
    • Conflicts, Mediation & Safe Space
  • Proposals & Discussions

= Introductions

Jenny: sudoroom/sudomesh, she/her, former Treasurer access needs are met Eve: sudomesh, she/her, access is fine Mai: sudomesh, she/they, access needs are met Benny: sudo mesh, he/him, access needs are met but hearing lag

Access Check In

Is everybody able to participate fully in this meeting? Do people have unmet needs or concerns?

Meeting Roles

  • Facilitator/s: Mai
  • Explanation of hand signals: "deaf applause", "raised hand", "point of process", "direct response"(wildcard), etc.
  • Stacktaker:
  • Timekeeper:
  • Notetaker/s: Jenny
  • Vibe Reader:
  • Who will out next meeting's agenda beforehand:
  • Next meeting's facilitator(s):

Delegates

  • CCL: Michael
  • CSC: mary ann
  • FNB:joe
  • FYE: shido
  • GWS: john
  • LL:
  • Phat Beets:
  • Sudo Room: Jenny
  • Sudo Mesh: Mai
  • Quorum:

Brief Announcements

Working Group Report-Backs

Building & permits

Commons

Communications

Finance

Fundraising

  • Meetings: Ad hoc
  • Join! https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/fundraising
  • Jane and Mary Ann have been working on grants
    • Mary Ann to 2 different community foundations
    • Jenny submitted a grant app for $5K yesterday to #YouAreEssential
    • Jane working on SFF and United Way opps

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?

CCL

  • Michael - recently receive swabs from metasub, collects data in urban environments, biological data from environment, ie, virus, bacteria, etc, will be collecting samples/data for their database. narwhal (unicorn whales) phylogenetics project

CSC

  • In about a week, we'll be startin to work on the first online class (Zapatismo & Waffles)

FNB

  • Rolling along pretty well - Casa Zimbabwe cooking for FNB on Fridays
  • threw some of their leftovers into the meal, got rave reviews about the brand new presence of meat ;P had to shut that down as we serve vegan!

FYE

GWS

LL

  • Had an Aftereffects class last Sunday(?), previous to that a DaVinci Resolv class
    • first class a bit of a shitshow. we got Zoom-bombed by Trumpsters. Turn off annotations when sharing screen!
    • Also filmstorming on a covid-19 documentary
  • Paying Omni rent in advance!

Phat Beets

Sudo Room

  • Not much in the way of updates

Sudo Mesh

  • Mai: previously discussed progress on disaster.radio - ordered boards to prep for june testing
    • Laptops For All received 11 laptops from KPFA, working on those
    • Currently experimenting with some services to run on our local internet - discourse forum set up by Seth for Golden Gate neighborhood
    • Looking into purchasing more WiFi hotspots for lending program
    • Tons of disaster readiness preparedness guides being dropped at Jenny's place.. adventures in gov't funding!

Conflicts, Mediation & Safe Space

  • Updates for any ongoing issues
  • Has anybody been asked to leave? asked to leave

Proposals

Example Proposal Title

  • Name of person, and/or, collective. and/or working group making this proposal; Date the proposal was sent to the consensus email list
  • Text of proposal

Discussions

Donating Omni's 501c3 to PLACE

  • grant-based fiscal sponsorship if they just want to be eligible for nonprofit grants
  • any relationship allowing a passthrough should have some percentage cut for omni
    • previous grant-based fiscal sponsorships we had a 7% admin fee (Safer DIY, The Village, Musick Creek)

Kitchen Project

  • Mary Ann: Where does the kitchen project stand right now? There's potential donors to support it given that it's a timely time for us to have a kitchen to prepare food for those in need
    • Jenny: No bids yet, we do have some recommended contractors.
  • possibility of getting a fire suppression system donated ($5K) by mary ann's son for kitchen if we pick him as a General Contractor
  • might put in a bid if there's definite interest
  • demand for this right now - pressure to turnaround response < 1 month
  • jenny suggests Joe and Jim (our architect) as leads on this

Update on Insurance

  • Our General Liability insurance was renewed!

Last Meeting Notes

https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2020/04/23_Delegates_Meeting

End of Meeting

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