Present: Paul (minutes), Reina, Gardenia, Beryl (facilitator), Logan, Bernard, Philip, Jennifer, Leah, Joy, Jill, Dao, Ken

Monica (first meeting), Criss (second meeting, approved), Sam (first meeting)

Minutes approved.

Bernard, kitchen manager: The first kitchen-labor meeting this evening was a success, we talked about a lot of things and made some progress.

Gardenia: I took minutes, which I will email out soon, and will try to make this a monthly thing.

(Frog) A handful of folks were chatting and there seems to be interest in a co-op zine (like Taos and 21st Street have) so I wanted to ask the house about how much general interest there would be in this, and possibly lay down ground rules for content or figure out in what way this is organized.

Frog: Just floating the idea. I’m sure other folks have insight. 21st just has a submission box in the commons. I think the harassment rules could apply to the zine.

Point of information: We’ve got a distribution box here already, and a printer. Does it need to be the official co-op zine? The major difference between official and unofficial would be whether people get hours for doing the work.

POI: it’s a lot of work.

POI: Maybe we could wait to assign labor hours until after we try it and make a test zine to see what the process looks like.

Frog: It’s early November now - we could shoot for December or January. If everyone is informed and down for it I’m going to put a suggestion box in the commons.

Discussion item closed.

(Steward) As there have been many miscommunications with FnB over the course of our relationship, we should discuss codifying boundaries that they need to follow in order to make use of our kitchen moving forward.

Beryl: I feel like we’ve been having miscommunications between FNB and La Reunion. Last week we set up a Dia de los Muertos altar and it was disrupted.

Ken, FNB: I didn’t see frames or candles when I was there.

Point of information: It felt racist and disrespectful to some people here. I understand there wasn’t a sign the first week, but I want clearer boundaries on these things. We know there have been miscommunications on our part as well, so we just wanted to have that conversation. We’ve never sat down and had that conversation about what is and is not allowed.

Dao, FNB: We do want to respect the space. I agree that seems racist and horrifying.

Frog: Maybe we can get more people from La Reunion on the FNB Slack, so we can communicate on those issues.

Dao: I would request that we get notice about stuff like that.

POI: There was an email sent.

Ken: If it would be helpful for me to get on the email list, I’ll do that.

Dao: Is there a way to avoid putting shrines on the big tables?

POI: We could try to set up the altar in another place next year. It got pretty big and that was a solid location otherwise.

POI: I’d rather see FNB use the smaller or folding tables in a situation like that.

POI: More stuff in the space should be respected, like the air purifier, which is always supposed to be on, and I have seen turned off.

Ken: I apologize if I’ve been rude to any of you. I don’t always know members when they come into the commons.

POI: I appreciate that you see people you don’t recognize and check in - I see that effort.

Ken: There has been concern about the food use. We definitely use our own foods. We use some spices from the cabinet. If that’s a problem we can stop. We’ve also used potatoes from the bin and bought more in - we’ve probably brought more potatoes in than we’ve used.

POI: Food buyer has said we run through some spices quickly, but I don’t know how much of that is FNB and how much is us. It’s probably fine.

POI: Please just make sure you seal the spices afterwards.

Bernard, kitchen manager: We’re actually trying to avoid an excess of potatoes from donations. Just let us know if you use potatoes and we can adjust as necessary. Maybe you could email the food buyer.

Jill: We have two baby trees! We’ve got a baby of our resident tree and a hackberry. I’d like to move the baby over to where Victor’s tree is. We need to clear that with the city, and I’ve started that process.

Point of information: I just want to make sure the hackberry is safe for the foundation.

Jill: I’ll do the necessary research beforehand. If we don’t move it, it will die.

POI: We can make an agenda item for next week.

Clarifying question: Does it need to be an agenda item? I don’t seen any objections.

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Philip: I feel like there’s animosity towards me.

Point of information: I don’t think there is.