Minutes:20060603-1

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Member's meeting minutes, Saturday, June 3, 2006

Present: Shannon Binns, James Cowan, Jan Steinman, Carol Wagner.

Meeting brought to order at 1042.
- Facilitator: Jan
- Recorder: Jan
Check-in:
- Carol: 8, haven't quite shifted from being at OUR Ecovillage yet
- Jan: 7, distracted by pulling out of OUR Permaculture Design Certification for a day
- James: 10, "choc'd up" for this weekend
- Shannon: 12, feeling much better in the past two weeks, super-present
Agenda discussion:
- move budget to end
- add planning for coming Advisory Council meeting
- add work party planning
Old Business:
- modified agenda approved
- first Annual General Meeting minutes approved
- Financial Report: printed wrong report; Carol will have correct report by next members' meeting
New Business:
- AGREED: we will join ING
- ACTION: Shannon will investigate organic certification process (Shannon Cowan)
- Food Discussion:
  - west cabinets to be private, for members' food, along with freezer, lower cabinet beside fridge, and labeled shelf in fridge
  - other cabinets are for work party and community food
- AGREED: personal items that are freely used by the community will be "purchased" by the coop via Class B investment shares
  - procedure: items for Class B shares are to be listed on the wiki
- James suggested the Dodge could be licensed as a farm vehicle for cheaper registration/insurance
  - Sunshine could be the same, as it will normally not be used except for ferry pickup/dropoff of work party folks
  - "artisans' insurance" is available for certain vehicles
- Advisory Council meeting planning
  - food production activity exercise:
    - What would you want to grow for community use or consumption?
      - anything goes!
    - What would you want to grow for sale?
      - must be practical, money-making enterprise
    - several minutes to assemble personal lists, then put up on flip-chart
    - vote for favorites by putting tick-marks on list
- house stuff (ad hoc agenda item)
  - mount white board next to front door
  - mount speakers near ceiling to free up floor space
  - mount projection screen over dining room window
- work party
  - weed, weed, weed
  - plant seedlings
  - James & Sean fix leaking irrigation system by cottage carport (James Cowan)
- budget general discussion
  - excess income (should we be so lucky) to be distributed via share dividends, according to coop rules
  - excess expenses to be distributed proportional to use
    - by house area
    - by time resident
- Carol to facilitate next meeting
Check out and appreciation:
- Carol: 9, feeling more settled
- Jan: 8.5, glad that money issues are being dealt with
- James: 9.75, working together is great!
- Shannon: 9, nice to be last and hear "it will work out," but even better, that we create it together -- we can do anything!