Event:2015/09/21 Until the Revolution Working Group
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Omni "Buy the Building" working group meeting - Monday September 21, 2015
Attendees
- Laura, Yar, Robb, Jenny, Fred
Update on Lender
- see laura's email - lender is afraid of being the bad guy, and wants a shorter term. impressed by $1M donor, thinks we should find another one
- won't donate himself, but says "not my project"
- rob: sounds like maybe he doesn't want to loan. telling you to do something else...
- laura: i think we can meet his terms
- need to clearly outline what happens in case of default and how loan is secured, in order to protect him & his reputation
- 10 years max, but we could propose a lower interest rate
- not keen on grace period - made him curious about our cashflow
- matt's going to write up projections of loan terms, interest rates, etc
- need to show how omni is related to internet archive
- robb: what if sudo was the fiscal sponsor of the omni?
- need to show him a business plan
- jenny: maybe ask the berkeley business students to help us?
- need to account for potentially 2 years of paying property taxes before we get refunded w/ welfare tax exemption
New Donors
- Laura has an outreach plan a couple weeks from now
Owner Financing?
- $750,000 down payment was discussed before the lease was signed bit there is nothing in the lase or option to purchase.
- much talk around the subject of the owners' personal qualities
501c3 App
- Fiscal Sponsorship Resolutions:
- we can imminently sign one with sudo mesh (jenny was delegated the decision by the board)
- awaiting replies from Fermentation Station, MPM, OpAl/LLC, Real Vegan Cheese & BAPS
- would have to get delegates consent on Thursday once we get confirmation from interested projects
- Financial Statements
- All collectives poked today by Matt G
- We have enough $ for October
- One of our awesome volunteer accountants was sick last week, got less work done than predicted.
Last Week's Action Items
- Digitize and send sublease agreements [Jenny]
- DK is looking for Phat Beets', need a sig from FNB
- Finish bios for BoD [Jenny] - just need Dragons!
- Print, sign and send updated Bylaws [Jenny] - sent 9/14, may need to edit OpAl's name
- Ping lender again [Jenny] - pinged 9/14`
- Edit Charitable Activities response: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omniactivities
Action Items
- Contact Media Alliance & SchoolFactory re: overhead for being a fiscal sponsor of multiple projects [Jenny]
- Arrange meeting with BACLT, Jesse, & Lender
- Next Tuesday at meeting with Berkeley business law bring up idea of helping us with writng business plan (laura)
Previously
- https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2015/09/14_Until_the_Revolution_Working_Group
- https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2015/09/07_Until_the_Revolution_Working_Group
- https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2015/09/02_Meeting_with_Jesse_Palmer
- https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2015/08/31_Until_the_Revolution_Working_Group