Thursday 14 February 2013

DNC Board Meeting February 14th, 2013

DNC Board Meeting February 14th, 2013

Attendees: DJ Joe, Boomer B, Leo Mayo, Ludvik Skalicky, Jacek Lorek, 
Roland Clarke, Richard Cunningham, Kelvin Bee, James Oickle, Debbie Krull, 
Diane Johnston, Bill Beauregarde, Dave Murray

Richard cooks a delicious meal
Roland Chairs, takes minutes
Kelvin does the opening
James reads the minutes from Feb 7

Motion to accept or amend minutes
Debbie - there was a discussion of creating a conflict resolution committee
Richard motions to accept minutes, DJ seconds

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Proposed Agenda
-Housekeeping
-DTES LAPP
-Feb 14 March
-Bottle Depot
-Housing Committee + Shelter
-Community Announcements

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LAPP Discussion

Kelvin - AFD is out of the LAPP. They are playing god with people's lives.
Jacek - we have no report on what is going on at the LAPP. I went to a meeting and they are talking about specifics and we need to know what is going on. Jacek motions to replace the DNC representative

Jenn came to meeting, asked James to Leave
Decision was made by the room that James would stay 

Richard - discusses that the DNC seat is really a CCAP seat
Debbie wanted to know how many groups have pulled out of the LAPP
Kelvin - LAPP is complicated and DNC will not be able to get up to speed
Constitution for LAPP is falling apart, LAPP will effect 18,000 people's lives
Roland - we should shake things up and find out what is going on before we make any moves to leave
James - if co-chair is getting money, we should be getting a report from the co-chair
Jacek - we should find out what is going on at the very least. I went to a meeting, and real issues were being discussed
Richard - I agree.We should find out what is going on and we should come in with our own agenda. What would be the process?
Roland - We would just notify them of our decision to change the co-chairs
Debbie - reads some of the agenda and attendees of the LAPP meetings from her email

Bill motions to appoint Richard C as Co-Chair and Debbie as Alternate and James O as Alternate for the DNC. This would replace the current co-chair of Herb Varley and alternate of Wendy Pedersen. DJ seconds. Motion Passes.

Richard proposes that a letter be written to the city regarding the change in Co-Chair position for the LAPP. Roland volunteers to write the letter and work with Richard before sending it.

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New Quick Business

Appointing Hank as new board member
Hank gives a brief introduction to himself and his issues
Richard motions to appoint Hank as a board member at large, Jacek seconds. Motion passes

Dave Murray brings SALOME issue to the DNC
Testing of dilaud and heroine treatment by Providence Health Care to end. Letter to urge them to continue program.

Richard motions to support the letter to continue the SALOME research study, James seconds. Motion passes unanimously.

Bill motions to add a letter from the DNC to the Providence Health Care
Roland volunteers to get Dave to help him write the letter

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Feb 14th Women's March

DJ - is very tired and gives summary of March. It was an awesome march. Lots of people came out. Lots of comments on the March and how the tragedy continues in the DTES

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Bottle Depot

It was not proposed before the LAPP, so it has to go through the LAPP
If the developer waits until after the LAPP, they can do anything they want
Atira bought the site and is supposedly building social housing
Decision to find out details on the project so we can call them on it if they
are saying it is social housing and it is not really social housing

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Housing Committee

Debbie talks of developing a model ending segregation in social housing and wants to advance the interest of social housing.
Dave suggests contacting Jean Swanson regarding housing.
Debbie talks of the housing societies that are not responsive and only take care of certain cultural or racial groups, and that sometimes people do not have accountability or responsiveness in their housing.

Decision to strike a housing committee and work closely with the shelter committee

Announcements:
ALIVE community celebration May 5, meet up on Thursday 1-3pm at woodwards
Homeground is coming up, the week after welfare, DNC should participate and have a table
We will contact Andrea at Lifeskills to set this up

Motion to adjourn
Closing, and moment of silence

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