Present: Paul (minutes), Cory, Kate, Bella, Graham, Frog (facilitator), Russ, Ivy, Beryl, Reyna, Dao, Chinhae, Joy, Leah, Jill, Yarrow

Jenn K. (second meeting, approved)

Minutes approved.

Board meeting this Thursday.

We had a rules meeting workgroup this weekend. It was productive.

Sasona is updating their wiki to match ours and we may need to have technical conversations with them.

(Frog) I was chatting with a member of the board for a local homeless organization (I forget the name as of writing this agenda item, but I might have it by meeting time) and she was interested in having me talk to them about housing cooperatives at one of their meetings. I wanted to see if anyone else would be interested so I can get a group together to share info and coordinate stuff with.

Frog: I still don’t have the name. This was on Friday. Their organization meets on Mondays. She has my number. Regardless if we connect with her, maybe this is something we should do in general. ACBA work supports co-ops but not people in need of housing.

Point of information: You might still reach out to the ACBA. They might want to have that kind of outreach.

POI: The co-op has pre-existing rules that prioritize anyone coming in with housing assistance support. We haven’t been using them recently but they do exist. We also accept Section 8 housing vouchers, although we’d have to reconnect with HACA, the local Austin housing authority.

Dao: I want to help prevent a behavior that’s happened in the past. Back around Halloween, Beryl left a message that threatened me, that yelled and used profanity. Since then we’ve talked about it and resolved it and it’s been great. I just wanted to note the incident.

POI: There have definitely been tensions between Food Not Bombs and La Reunion members. A lot of that comes down to not enough communication. We don’t have good rules for how people should act when they’re here. Better communication is something we need to work on. Non-members are also welcome to come talk to us.

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Frog, maintenance: We’re trying to get ChemFree to come out for pest control. They’ve been not coming out when scheduled. I need to set up things with the new pest control contractor.

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Treasurer’s going to get a card for the grounds team. It’s also possible for maintenance to get a card.

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Point of information: The rats are in another building as well. 110, 206, 207. We need a general inspection to rat them all out.

Point of information: We have a contractor to patch the holes in the commons. They’ve got solid online reviews.

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Joy, labor: We talked in the kitchen meeting about labor credit for kitchen meeting and workgroup meetings, which I can implement if there are no objections. <There are no objections.> We also want a labor orientation with credit for that.

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Russ: Requesting labor for quarter duty.

Joy: Granted.