DNC Board Meeting Minutes - Jan 14, 2014
Attendees:
Board Members: Roland C., Jacek L., Leo M., Jezz M., James
O., Jewels C., Jamie R.,
Non-board members: Ian R., April S., Richard Cz., Ann L., Carl,
Mark
Agenda
Women’s
Committee
Budget/Financial
Update
LAPP Update
Translink
Membership/Meetings
Harm
Reduction
Agenda adopted by motion
Women’s Committee and Budget
Jewels begins the discussion by describing a budget to be
used to buy supplies to make crafts. Dream catchers, bracelets, things branded
with the DNC logo. These things can be sold at the Street Market.
Jezz describes preliminary budget (11 months of $909 per
month)
Items on budget are phones, roughly $30 for food and coffee
for board meetings
Goal is to preserve $3k-$4k as a buffer.
Roland gives general summary of how the $5k was spent
Approx: 63% spent on food at board meetings, 23% spent on
phones, and 14% on misc items (printing, Dodson rental, post office box, etc…)
Ann discusses the way that phones work at VANDU – people must
answer their phones during certain hours, must keep the phone, etc…
James sets a time for the budget meeting this Thursday 11am
WAVES
MOTION: James motions,
Leo seconds to approve the budget of $200 for crafts for the Women’s group.
motion passes.
LAPP Update
Jacek summarizes the DNC survey responses
Tomorrow there is a co-chair’s meeting to discuss how to run
the LAPP meeting on Friday.
This is the last LAPP meeting before the Council meeting on
March 12th.
Discussion of the Swanson email that said that they did not want
to participate in the survey.
Discussion that policing is not mentioned in the report
Discussion of the fact that Carnegie Centre gets $20M but Woodwards
space gets no support
Harm Reduction
Ann presents the history of what has happened recently with
VCH and the injection room closure.
VIDUS has concluded that IV users that needed assistance had
the highest rates of aids and HEPC.
Insite said that nurses could not help people inject that
are able to inject themselves.
VANDU started the program
Thomas Kerr studied the project “assisted injections”.
In new VANDU office about five years now, two years later
started the assisted IR.
No one has ever died in the VANDU injection room
New federal law regarding injection sites will allow police
to veto any site
Suspicion is that VPD said that they would permit Insite if
VANDU was shut down
50-100 people injecting in VANDU everyday
VCH said that they would “monitor the overdoses” ie. They are
expecting a spike in deaths. This is not acceptable to the neighbourhood.
Van will start running tonight
DNC can make a stand on this issue and demand to have a say
in responsive health care for the community
Plan is to start at 3pm in the afternoon and operate near
Dunlevy
Discussion of liability, and risks
MOTION: James O
motions, Jamie R seconds, that this project be backed by DNC and that DNC be
the agency of reckoning for the mobile van IR project. Motion passes.
Jewels wants a copy of C2 law
Membership/General Meeting discussion
Decision to meet at Waves at 11am
Translink
Free Loop
Need to follow up with Translink and push at the LAPP
