====== November 24, 2024 ====== Present: Beryl (facilitator), Gardenia, Lorenzo, Frog, Bernard, Reyna, Paul (minutes), Dwain, Leah, Joy, Graham ===== Meet and Greet ===== Evan (first meeting) ===== Review of Minutes ===== Minutes approved. ===== Wiki Updates & Announcements ===== Steward: Officer reports should’ve happened this week. Postponed one week. Nynke is assigned to be wiki maintainer. Gardenia: Next Sunday will be the kitchen meeting as well. Feel free to contact me however or on the email list. I’ll be facilitating the meeting, 5:30 pm. ===== Agenda Item 1 ===== (kate) direct people on our wait list towards hardy house/santa clara coop. Reyna, membership coordinator: I thought about doing this, given their situation. But we don’t have a waitlist at the moment.
 ===== Agenda Item 2 ===== (joy) Discuss DCU reassignment. Solidify which days of the week dinner should happen to ensure dishes get cleaned that night. Joy, labor czar: We’ve talked about not cooking on nights when there’s not a cleaner. Right now we have Russ, Robbie, Quinn & Caitlyn, and Richard as cooks. People are being no-showed for not cooking. POI: It would be good to keep getting the cooks on the same page at the kitchen meetings. POI: I’d like as many cooks as possible, as long as it’s not stressful for them. Joy: We’re going to set up a new labor survey to get people’s labor preferences and availability. I want to create a workgroup with more members for labor description clarity and establishing processes for labor coordination and accountability. Keep your eyes peeled for emails about that. **Discussion item closed.** ===== Agenda Item 3 ===== (Steward) CORRECTION: A member review has been posted for Phillip McCain for violating harrassment policy, on the grounds of repeated migendering and separately mocking of a trans coop member that has been repeatedly addressed in multiple conversations with coop officers. Chinhae, Beryl, Nynke, Gardenia, and Frog signed the member review. Clarifying question: Can we organize a meeting with his caseworker? Point of information: It’s a pretty short timeframe to organize, coordinate with him to the caseworker, get everyone interested there at the same time. POI: We can try, but we can’t change the member review timeframe in our current process. POI: We can meet with her but I’m not sure what that will do. POI: There are fair housing concerns here. If we need an advocate for him maybe we can do that through the NASCO level. **Posting discussion closed.** ===== New business ===== POI: Food’s still going bad in the commons. Gardenia: I plan to bring that up in the kitchen meeting next week. We need to discuss containers and other issues with the current setup. — We still need to fill two rooms. — POI: There was another incident the day the membership review happened. If someone offends or disrespects you, you can’t chase, grab, or threaten them afterwards. That’s a violation of our rules. POI: Oh, I know what you’re talking about. It was misinterpreted. That was an attempt at deescalation. — Philip: I don’t do it on purpose. I respect everyone. I tried to get my caseworker to talk to you. People are overlooking my status. I’m going through a lot of stuff. — Clarifying question: Labor holiday? In January? POI: Ideally not too cold. POI: Let’s solicit ideas about labor holiday projects before we nail down a date. POI: Let’s get people excited about labor holiday. POI: Ideas: Commons deep clean, doing more fixing of the balconies, pressure washing, painting, building benches to replace our rotting ones?