Total of 13 Board Members in Attendance
Attendees: DJ Joe, Kelvin Bee, Jamie Richardson, Rob Morgan, John
Skulch*, Ludvik Skalicky, Bill Beauregarde, James Oickle, Jacek Lorek,
Diane Johnston, Leo Mayo*, Roland Clarke, Richard Cunningham, Tami
Starlight, Herb Varley
*non board members
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Agenda
Opening, Housekeeping, minutes, agenda, etc...
Media/Phones/Internet - Jamie
Committee Reports
General Meeting
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Kelvin does the opening
The board accepts Kelvin as the chair for this meeting
Kelvin makes a declaration that those board members that have been appointed do not do not have the right to vote tonight. No one objects.
Housekeeping - Herb, James, Leo, Roland volunteer
Roland volunteers to take minutes, Tami objects to Roland taking the minutes
James Oickle motions for Roland to take the minutes
4 votes for Roland, Rob M abstains, Tami votes against
Motion passes
Reading of the minutes
Kelvin asks if anyone has any comments or objections to the minutes
Rob M comments about the LAPP safety committee. Rob was sitting right next to Tracy, and he agreed with Tracy that Richard has not been ratified as co-chair. He denies that it was lateral violence and Tracy just said what she believed. Rob objects to the DNC board of directors sending out a message like this. This is why he abstained from voting for Roland to take the minutes.
Herb states that the co-chair committee agreed that Richard was not the co-chair and told the DNC that they could not change the co-chair.
Jacek objects that these statements were not about the minutes. He re-states that this conversation is about the minutes.
Roland offers to correct any inaccuracies in the minutes made by anyone who was actually at the meeting.
Debbie speaks to the difficult transition of the new board. She said that Richard did share that he was disappointed that he was made to sit down. Debbie says that the interaction was described as hurtful, and that this was the first report back from the LAPP that we have received, and it was hurtful for everyone that was present at the meeting.
Rob speaks again that he believes that it was not lateral violence.
Roland speaks again and says that all of these issues can be discussed later during the LAPP discussion, but would like the comments to be confined to issues related to the accuracy of the minutes.
DJ moves to accept the minutes, Jacek seconds. 4 votes in favor. Herb abstains. Tami votes against. Motion passes.
Herb motions to accept the agenda
Jacek says that we should add an agenda item to talk about what Tracy did.
Rob says that Tracy doesn't want to come to the meeting because she feels unsafe.
Kelvin volunteers himself and Jacek to talk to her about the incident.
Jamie seconds the motion. motion passes.
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Jamie begins a presentation on media/phone/internet wants to give a presentation to the membership at the GM to instruct people how to follow the DNC tweets. Tells everyone to send START to 21212
Jamie suggests that the board should tweet out the location and details of the of the general meeting, and everyone should be involved in receiving the twitter feed.
FOLLOW @dtescouncil, or FOLLOW @VanCopWATCH
MOTION: Roland motions that Jamie do this at the general meeting, motion carries
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Committee Reports
Housing Committee
Debbie - invited Jean Swanson to be on the committee, she said that her time is all full. Debbie says that she has gotten a lot of interest in doing a squat for housing. She designed a plan for a squat team by a single parent. Need a child care team, lots of teams to be put together. Need to tie issues to homelessness and more social
housing also child apprehension issues. Also advance the issues with paramedics and firefighters. There is a big imbalance in the city budget. Mentions fear inhirent in a squat, wants volunteer firefighters involved in the squat to raise the level of safety. Wants paramedics perspective as well. Issues like black mold as a health threat due to inadequate housing. Wants to run a squat in one of the BC housing units that are empty or vacated.
Kelvin - summarizes that we should call on the membership to support a squat. He expresses doubt that we could do it in a BC housing building.
Richard - #1 it should be a vacant building. #2 VANDU is also planning that strategy and we could form an alliance with VANDU. Something has to be done before the election. We need to do something to get some
movement on the housing issue
LAPP Report
Herb - thinks it is a good idea but thinks that we should hash it out some more.
Kelvin - there is a lot of conflict in the LAPP issue, and we all need
to respect each other
Rob - Tracy said that she had nothing against Richard personally.
There is still a conflict and we can only solve it at a general
meeting
Kelvin - it is under the constitution of the DNC that everything has
to go to the general membership
Roland states that he will immediately offer a motion to reverse the
previous decision to change co-chairs if Herb agrees to come to board
meetings and give reports on the LAPP, and perhaps Richard could
assist, or some other solution could be found.
Richard says that he never wanted to take Herb's seat
Herb says that Michael is waiting for ratification, so what Tracy said
was not out of line. He says that he would be happy to have a shadow
and would accept
Richard to help him.
Debbie says that the LAPP has so many meetings that it takes a lot,
and we are building capacity and we need to help each other.
Tami - thinks that it is quite interesting about the LAPP. She has
mixed views on the LAPP. A lot of stuff is being watered down. Very
bitter about how this board has gone about to change the process.
Feels that the board undermined Herb, and went directly to the City of
Vancouver. If we truly want to work with our community we need to
examine how we deal with our community. She objects to the minutes
that keep slamming CCAP. CCAP has nothing to do with it. It is the
elephant in the room and the board has to deal with it. She remembers
postering in the snow and rain to make sure that a general meeting
happened. We need to not become a top heavy board and meet with the
general membership whenever we want.
James - the decision to remove Herb was a tough one. At week three or
four we decided that we were not getting anything back. At some point
we need to have the discussion that Tami wants to have.
Jacek - Actually everyone knows why we did not have a general meeting
for the last few months. Everyone knows why and they are just not
saying it. I can say that my part of the conflict, it was a conflict
with CCAP. The people that were supposed to make the conflict go away,
they did not. He dropped the conflict because he did not want to
continue it. Can anyone actually say what the conflict is?
Richard - we did not have the funds, and we did not have access to the
membership lists. Now we can do it, and we have enough money to pay
Dodson for some of the past bills, and hopefully we can have meetings
every month.
Debbie - When I came in and joined this process, I did not intend to
become a board member, I just wanted to observe. I have always been in
the loop.
Tami defers to Herb
Herb - submits a report and describes the report on the LAPP. Report
will be added to the minutes. We have been gathering a tremendous
amount of information on these round tables. May 29 we will read a
report from these round tables. He has been pushing for rent controls,
social housing, and other issues. The city has been translating what
we say into very neutral and non-politicized language that can mean
anything. We are getting a lot of lip service. He agrees that it is a
soul sucking vampire, to quote roland. ALIVE has initiated a dispute
resolution with the two co-chairs. He admits that he is not pro-Scott,
but that he does give him more allowance than he deserves. In the
caucus group, we are developing a plan to push for a social justice
zone in the Opp District. We are also pushing for a post LAPP watch
dog group. The LAPP is not going well, but we never set a firm walking
point, so now we are stuck.
In regards to the co-chair stuff, this isn't the first time I've
floated away from the DNC. Last summer, Ivan, or Wendy or Tami would
pull me back in. This time, no one did this.
Herb says that he would be happy to have a shadow. He says that he has
been attacked by many parties already, and felt that changing
co-chairs was a humiliation. He felt that it was very disrespectful to
notify the City that he was replaced. Feels that he has very little
respect from the city to start with.
Wendy has said that she is not coming back, so he is stuck with the
position until November.
Kelvin calls out asking whether the board accepts this report. The
board accepts the report.
Herb gives his regrets that he has an UNYA meeting next week and will
not be able to attend.
DJ motions to make Richard Herb's shadow at the LAPP, Lu seconds,
motion passes. Richard and Tami abstains.
Monday at VANDU at 5pm for a special DNC board meeting to plan the
general meeting
Motion to adjourn, Herb does the closing.
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