Wednesday 4 June 2014

DNC Board Meeting Minutes - June 3, 2014

DNC Board Minutes - June 3, 2014

Attendees: 13 board members present + 2 guests

X reads minutes, motion to pass minutes passes

Agenda:
Gastown Gazette
Board Development
Update on Legal Club
Update on Mental Health/VPD
Other business (McGuire, StMkt, GG, Tenants)

Gastown Gazette
X reads summary on Gastown Gazette

Board Development
X discusses conflict resolution processes. In the past with the DNC, external parties have misused conflict resolution as a weapon with no real desire to have the conflict resolved. Discusses ground rules for beginning a process. Discussing ground rules for ensuring that parties are honest about wishing to resolve the conflict.

Ideas to make meetings work: Chair rotations to create fairness, decision items vs. non decision items
Bring copies of conflict resolution process for next meeting so decision can be made

Legal Club
June 5th 1pm on second floor is the legal club meeting. Idea is to educate people on the law and their rights, can be tenant issues, drug issues. There is a lawyer that will talk to us via skype.

Mental Health/VPD
ARA training. People that come there are diverse. If anyone wants to get on disability, there are resources. Darcy was going to come and give classes on getting disability. ARA also says that police cannot commit without assessment from a doctor and there has been no change to the law. They do admit that there may have been administrative changes to the way the police are intending to interpret. We may have to figure out whether this is a disagreement between ARA and VPD, or whether this will be an opportunity to defend and release a mal application by VPD after the fact.
30 assessment of person has in the past neutralized the complaint, due to the fact that person is mentally ill.
Discussion of inviting ARA person to give presentation and invite X to meeting to discuss and rebut.

BC Independent complaints office is having trouble locating persons suffering from injuries, deaths, etc…
Decision to meet with the executive and these people and report back to board.

Discussion of Street Market updates in terms of upcoming changes and grants, etc…

Motion to adjourn

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