Monday 1/16 General meeting
7PM – 9PM
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7 – Report back from the financial planning meeting, our decision about the Alizee cafe space (Kayla/ Amanda/ Silvia/ Laura)
bottom line is that we just don’t have enough money to make this happen right now, even if Alizee were to accept a payment plan of half upfront and half later – we still need enough money to put down rent and security, and money to operate buying clubs. And a reliable way to raise 6K in 6 months. While changing our membership investment policy is probably the way to raise that cash, thats a decision that merits more time and discussion, and should not be something that we rush through or take lightly. Without having a sound fiscal policy in place to fund a storefront now, we feel it would be irresponsible to take the risk and possibly bankrupt the coop.
7:30 – What we can afford to do: Restart buying clubs asap, proposals for temporary spaces (Silvia)
theres still the Loom space, and possibility of a good garage-food-distribution partnership. Most important thing is that we start operating in some limited capacity again.
8 – Timeline for a building a strategic plan (timeline for board elections, bylaws revisions, membership and financial goals, revising our fiscal policy)
This isn’t time to discuss the actual details in the goals or policy or bylaws now, just to set a clear timeline for when we are discussing what important matters in the next 3 months so that we can all research and prepare. Goal of this discussion is to have a schedule we can publish on the website and stick to.
If you have a good idea, write it down and do your homework, figure out a good way to present it to the coop. (later)
8:30 – update on the film series
OR, depending on who shows up when, we can do the update on the film series first.
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Thanks all, and please pass on the word, we are not sending this one out via Mailchimp in order to conserve our email blasts for the film series and voting decisions.
-Laura
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