DNC board Meeting
June 20, 2011
Chair: paul
Minutes: Wendy
Attending: Harold, Dave M, Dave H, Ann, Ping, Ron
Next meeting definitely next Monday at 6:30 pm. Carnegie 3rd floor is an awful room. Maybe we can get another location and someone can phone all the board members on the weekend to let them know??
1. Committee reports:
a. 10 sites update by Wendy. Come to meeting at Aboriginal Front Door on Thursday June 23 6 pm to finalize statement and action plans. Wonder and Palace Hotel organizing that Ivan is doing will be tied into the need to replace the hotels with social housing. 334 Carrall Street action postponed. Someone from 10 sites campaign needs to go to the street market committee meeting on Friday at 2 pm to let folks know what is happening.
b. Lapp: Ann prefers “resident or member driven groups” to peer groups. Do groups like PACE or women’s memorial committee fit into definition of peer driven? Need a term to describe groups that the planning committee proposes to invite to join a coalition around the lapp. Motion: Lap committee explores the possibility of forming a low income caucus of resident and member driven groups as a basis for an ongoing LAPP strategy group. Carried.
c. DNC newspaper – tabled
d. Street market – got funded by Central City Foundation. Lyn is doing a good job says Dave. Wendy explained need for monthly activity report so that we can all know what is happening, speak about it when needed, helps with funders etc. Last week it cost $170 to run the market with stipends. The 50/50 draw makes about half of that every week. Not sure what to do with the proceeds yet. Come to the Street market committee meeting every Friday at VANDU 2 pm. Dave counted 101 vendors last weekend.
e. End Prohibition – in the fall, we may have some decisions to make about how to proceed and how the DNC is connected to this little group that is trying to start a campaign.
2. Board issues
a. 3 seats are open, maybe 4 if Robert Rachel resigns. Seats open: 1 market, 1 member at large, 1 homeless. Ping concerned that we haven’t used legal processes. Ann: we have sent letter and 2 wrote letters of resignation and 1 resigned, we could get in trouble for keeping open seats.
Motion: strike a nomination committee made up of Wendy, Ann and Paul to call for nominations to fill the vacant board seats, receive applications, bring applications to the board and assist the board to recommend new board members at the next general membership meeting.
b. Cel phones – tabled
c. Weekly meetings – tabled
3. General Meeting: next date is Saturday, July 2nd
a. Focus – 10 sites campaign is our major summer campaign. We could highlight the Palace/Wonder standards of maintenance fight and need for replacement with the Pantages fight.
b. Agenda – Ann, Harold and Wendy to bring proposal to next board meeting
c. MC and Notetaker – same as item b above
d. Outreach – same as item b above
4. New businesses
a. Finance report: we have $2154.47 in the bank
b. Need for someone to operate a petty cash. Wendy suggesting set up process for someone to have $200 petty cash, keep receipts, submit an accounting sheet to the board before replacement etc. Dave Murray offers and can keep money in the safe at VANDU and make it available for expenses as needed. Issue tabled until next meeting.
c. Summer plans – tabled
d. Report on Guardian Angels - tabled
Wendy
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