DNC Board Meeting Jan 24, 2013

DNC Board Meeting Jan 24, 2013

Board Attendees: Garvin Snider, Richard Cunningham, Roland Clarke, 

Jacek Lorek, James Oickle, Kelvin Bee

Other Attendees: Ludvik S, Sandra P, Debbie K, Bill B, Krista-Dawn

Richard cooks a delicious meal.

Kelvin does the opening

Mistakes in minutes, some spelling mistakes in peoples names were corrected

Jacek gives an update on the Pigeon Park Street Market.

New lot at 62 E Hastings within two weeks we will have access

We are still short of money, $500 in stipends per week is spent.

there are plans to make 3, maybe more extra days of market at 62 E Hastings

Roland - we are applying for two more grants, one for capital equipment

from CCF, and one for coordinator salary from Vancouver Foundation, in addition to looking for more private sponsorship, and we are getting help from HXBIA.

Richard - City and VPD in meeting was very impressed by art corner

They were sympathetic, and want to help us

Bill - Neighbourhood House would need a proposal to allow the market to use their space on Saturday

Jacek - Jacob's Well is kicking us out of the space, and doing this to all of the sub-committees

Krista - when did the street market start taking money from the City of Vancouver?

Roland - City of Vancouver has given the street market over $30,000 over the years, including the original grant that was used to hire Lyn Black that was written by Wendy Pedersen in early 2011.

Kelvin - was the money from SaveOnMeats approved by the DNC board? and is AFD going to be on the hook for this money?

Roland - The Street Market Committee approved the sponsorship, and the Street Market is autonomous. The Street Market has a legal agreement with VANDU, and their accountant is informed of all financial issues. Maggie Geiser is her name, please contact her. AFD does not to my knowledge have any formal relationship with the street market and therefore would never be held responsible for any financial decisions by the market. 

Sandra - is it true that people are selling at the market that are from Surrey?

Richard - we are collecting names of people that are vendors, and we are dealing with complaints about out of town vendors.

Roland - it is a low barrier market where anyone can set up if they want, therefore it is difficult to control who vends. If we get a complaint, we ask people to identify the vendors and we ask them for ID. It is important to have a process because we got many complaints against Chinese vendors and they turned out not to be from Richmond but actually were from Chinatown.

James - I did not know about the SaveOnMeats deal, but I have not been going to street market meetings.

Dates and times for the Street Market Meetings are announced, and everyone is invited to participate.

Street Market Meetings: 

--Saturday Meeting - 9am @ Jacob's Well (239 Main) for 1 hour

--Street Market Committee - 2nd and 4th Monday of every month @ VANDU at 4:30pm for 1 hour. 

Richard - the next meeting of the DTEast is Friday at 1:30pm for the DTEast. I am planning on going. 

Richard - we should figure out what is going on with the LAPP. Herb is not coming to board meetings, we should get a report from someone on what is going on since the DNC is the co-chair of the process

Kelvin - AFD pulled its members out of the LAPP. City gave $28 million to the new condo developer and we need to stop this.

Bill - how many board meetings can someone miss before being replaced?

Richard - we have a three meeting rule. If they do not notify us.

Meeting ends with moment of silence. No motions were made due to lack of quorum.