2011-02-28 Meeting

LAEV Community Meeting 02/28/11

Room Request: 109 (George) -1 year short stay -willing to live there without it being totally renovated

Lailye Dance Class Intro (Josey) -hopes to have it on the 2nd and 4th meeting of every month, from 7-8:30pm starting on March 8th -Yoga meets modern dance -$5 donation go to RACK -CRT meeting might clash (meets 2nd Tuesday every month). Need to figure that out
RACK intro to use LAEV space (Bex and Karen) -use a LAEV space on Wednesdays -give produce to families at MacArthur? pack -Currently an immigrant led organization -meet to work out details, use to meet at church but that fell apart -7-9 pm meeting, around 10 people attend.

A possibility of joining forces with Food Co-op and start a store front. -Ann is offering to be a point person for the RACK meetings.
Security concerns with the gate being open for long periods of time. -Also concerned with clashing with potential events, which goes back to flexibility of the group’s meetings. -More specific proposal with details coming next week

Birthday Space request (JM) -Grand Sleep over (6-7people) -March 3rd but it’s going to be on a Saturday -starts at 6pm -everyone welcome -Should have phone numbers of parents and they know where they are at all times -Consensus!
Kids Place (JM, Zev, Joaquin)

Work party this Saturday at 10am -clean up and use the space to use it as a kid friendly space -at the outside windows of the bike room -concern with if it’ll actually be used -maybe ask people living there about noise levels -would be great to make it multi-use (occasionally for events with kids permission, as a stage, etc) -would be great to have a map with specific details of how they would use the space -would like it to be a deck for a while, concerned about disorganization, preferred it to be a temporary space. -in 2 weeks there will be a more detailed plan on how to use the space -Jimmy will work with kids to work on details -Consensus for zone of that area for kids space!

CRA (Yuki) -finance committee met and came up with proposal: USTU apply for an acquisition loan for CRA ($248K) -second part is to give finance committee green light to work with Ryan Lehman to develop pro formas ( how we can afford it? What cash flow with be like?, etc) -3rd part is to sign a covenant, reserve 6 units for “very low income renters” -that way we can tell CRA we are interested right away. -can we pay off loan? Will ask -How can we building up working reserves and cash fast enough: you start out without too many reserves, then you build that up -How do we ought to commit to sustainable employment: not sure yet, if we get employees they should get workers’ comp. -On a sustainable employment, decision is an USTU decision since we’ll be working on the budget -too broad right now, might be agreement when there’s specificity -need public money for state to approve us as a cooperative, might even need a plan B since CRA is not a guarantee -Yuki will bring concerns to future finance conversations -concern with transparency of this process, important to be very clear from now on. -next steps is to develop something with numbers and bring it up next week. -Consensus to do the 4 things presented by Yuki -For transparency talk to Lois about drafts for the loan -there is POG quorum

Coop Rules (Leslie and Ianne) -Will continue to go down the list of Renter Agreement items during community meetings

Announcements

Manager meeting next week -Dave and Yuki are next week facilitation team -Dwight turns 80 on Thursday, March 10th : Irma is asking for $5 each for b-day dinner -Ciclavia is having party on Saturday (river tour, dodge ball, etc) at Atwater Crossing at March 5th 2-7pm. Kid friendly -JM’s b-day is on Saturday at Moonlight Roller Way at 12noon, 1-4:30pm. -Anna is doing the AIDS ride in June, asking for donation. Also need help searching thru -Work party at 10am at Saturday, Ianne is making -Volunteer for bike vale to get in for free -Memorial semporium for Yuki’s father last week, very cool and nerdy -Lara will be at New Orleans next week -sat 3/12 noon : An Introduction to the Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust with Lara and others -Sat. 5/7 from 10am to 1pm: How to Start an Ecological Revolving Loan Fund in your Neighborhood with Lois -4-5 large upcoming conferences: National Cohousing conference in Washington DC June 17-19 Global Ecovillage Network Conference at Tamara ecovillage in Portugal July 7-11 Ecocity World Summit in Montreal August 23-26 Art of Community in Occidental CA Sept. 23-25 International Permaculture Conference in Jordan in September

Evaluations -Super -efficient -great job staying calm