Event:2023/03/02 Delegates

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Omni Delegates' Meeting - March 2, 2023 7pm-9pm

Meeting Details

Roles

  • Facilitator/s: joe
  • Stacktaker:
  • Timekeeper:
  • Notetaker/s:
  • Next meeting's facilitator(s):

Delegates

  • inactive groups: ANV, CSC, GWS, SM
  • BOGSS: active Geraldo
  • CCL: active Patrik
  • CLP: active Silvia
  • FNB: active Joe
  • LL: active John
  • MOP: depends Jacqi
  • SR: active Jake
  • Quorum (2/3 of active groups): need 4 or 5

intros

BRIEF INTROS MAY INCLUDE: name, pronouns, groups you're in, land you're on, if you're a delegate, unmet access needs, meeting roles you'd like to help with, discussion topics or proposals to add to agenda, announcements/updates/report-backs from your groups, safe space issues or updates

Joe: he/him, delegate for food not bombs, excited about court ruling about CEQA in berkeley silver: supposed to leave for chicago but storms, excited about building working group and finding volunteers, media lab downstairs, YVA won't be here until April or May, "United Us" will move into Omni Office (and share the space with us). Also, Susan has proposed to be our grantwriter Jacqi: MOP delegate, dealing with health stuff but will jump in when needed Silvia: CLP delegate, Geraldo: he/they BOGSS delegate, Jake: any, Sudoroom delegate Yar: she/her, grateful for others facilitating/notes, wants to clarify sudoroom debt because delegates decisions were ambiguous about how much was forgiven. Since we move from passpack to 1pass, want to know structure of how to know who to add, I dont want to make unilateral decisions. Also see Labor Issues proposal, and something about entrance hall floor John: he/him, Liberated Lens delegate, it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

rooms

  • Silver: the Den is still a commons space, but there's a shared calendar so the three youth programs can use it, and they want to share the locked office, and Unite Us wants to pay $200/mo and YVA wants to negotiate, and Silver will forward a proposal soon.
  • Silver: Media lab needs a steward and so I brought someone on to help organize and activate it in a lucrative way, maybe as a collective or something at some point. Sarah: can we think about making the "J&J Farms" crates go away that are in the basement? Silver: the crates are ANV responsibility and I can try to follow up. It's ANV job to return the crates, not the farmers. Joe: Let Silver work it out, 2-3 weeks maybe?

susan silber

  • Silver: i just sent a proposal that Susan Silber who has a lot of contacts use omni commons for a grant as a resiliancy hub, where they get paid, and I get paid for working with them. Sorry for not sending it before the meeting. I know we've been screwing up with hiring people and I wanted that to be solidified, I wrote up a proposal on the #labor slack channel.. Jacqi: I know that Susan was helping with resources for the shelter and has contacts all over california and i would love to get more from them. John: I think it would be fantastic to have someone aboard who has the capacity to help us coordinate the fundraising work, for example the Community Resilience Center program is quite ambitious for us, but it's also potentially capable of funding a number of projects that we've been talking about for years, like solar energy for example, or helping us come up to code with a sprinkler system, or an ADA elevator so that all 3 floors are accessible, it's a twopart grant, 1. planning and 2. construction. We might want an air filtration system for times when there are wildfires, storms, but part of it requires collaboration with other community groups in our area, and when I was at the SFLC years ago, they were talking to all the Unions about going for this in conjunction with community organizations. It's ambitious but potentially could establish us on a firm footing for the next 10-20 years. I have a question about Susan Silber, have we started talking about the terms of working with her yet? Yar: this is not about the community resilience grants specifically, it's ...about hiring her for general fundraising. ...
  • Silver: proposal to hire someone for grantwriting for $10k , SS is $50/hour, which is very generous for someone like her, I sent the proposal at the beginning of the meeting

Sarah: It's a well-written proposal and should answer most peoples questions and collectives should be able to look at it for the next two weeks

  • Yar: I feel like trying to talk her into a lower rate would be foolish

John: this is a very good schedule, i will get this to my fellow collective members, I will endorse this to them. Patrik: what are the issues with having bonuses incorporated with grants? Sarah: there are groups of nonprofit fundraising professionals who don't think it's ethical to write bonuses into the grants and instead just want to be paid for their work. But the hourly rate based on what her experience looks like, looks like a really good deal. So we shouldn't try to negotiate around that. Silver: ok i guess we'll talk about it in 2 weeks

sudo debt

  • we need to clarify last year's decision to forgive sudo debt https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2022/01/20_Delegates#Sudo_rent_mitigation_proposal
  • yar: my interpretation was that delegates were forgiving all of sudo's debt in exchange for whatever they had in the bank. sudo promptly emptied its account of 10k, 5 weeks later made its first payment of 2k, and then stayed mostly current (it's now 2 months behind). sarah's interpretation, presumably based on the notes, is that sudo owed 28k, of which 12k was forgiven and another 10k transferred, missed february entirely, remained 8k in debt after their very next payment, and are now 5.5 months behind. which is it?
    • yar: also, we should clarify whether sudo owed 3k or 2k for november. sudo pledged to raise its payments because a donor offered monthly help, but they only ever made one payment and sudo had to quickly reverse its pledge.
    • Jake: i don't think it matters because sudoroom gives all its money to omni and they're the same thing, so lets not talk about it now
    • Yar: it's important that we establish concrete numbers so that other collectives can see that we have a structure. People might care. I'm not gonna press the issue.

passwords

  • yar: omni is moving from passpack to 1password. who gets what permissions?
  • Silver: not everyone needs access to paypal for example
  • Yar: today I moved certain things to the "omni money" vault, because 1password works that way. But who's doing that granting? 1password has "owners" (me, jake, jacqi, silver) can decide who gets access, and I think the delegates should be deciding who gets to be that set of owners.
  • Silver: there are lots of old people who had access and we should do refreshes on passwords?
  • Yar: i have been doing that but once it's shared then anyone can do that
  • Jake; says some gibberish, everyone agrees that its fine like it is

labor issues

  • SL: sensitive topic that should have consensus; likely need legal input
  • SL: proposal: pay Silver $25/hr for collections/finance tracking for Events; this would be something that would be part of the Event Manager job, but Omni hasn't hired an Event Manager yet, and Silver is doing this work.

Entrance Hall Floor

  • SL: should we get a pro contractor to look at/quote on fixing portion(s) of floor that aren't a simple patch job? It would be really great to have the floor fixed soon ...it would be worth paying someone to do it so it gets done in the next month

End of Meeting

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