January 10th, 2013

Decide that Board Development Meeting will be at Neighbourhood House

at 10:30 -> 1:30pm on Saturday Jan 12, 2013

Minutes:

January 10th, 2013

Board Development Meeting Planning Meeting 

Attendees: Jamie R, James O, Jacek L, Roland C, Richard C, Bill B,

Garvin S, DJ, Ludvik

6:15pm

Beginning of discussion of goals at Board Dev. Meeting

Garvin - my priorities are: 

DTEast Paper

Keeping monthly general meetings going

Keeping board functioning

Maintaining other coalitions where DNC belongs

Helesia is not here yet

All agreed to go to neighbourhood house for board development meeting on 

Saturday, January 12   10:30am - 1:30pm (573 E. Hastings)

6:20 - Rob Morgan arrives

Bill B - neighbourhood house will donate food for the Saturday Board Dev. Meeting

Rob M - it was brought up at the VANDU board meeting 

that Ivan D has all

the passwords for the DNC email lists and the website

Garvin - on Saturday we can decide a procedure for taking control of the online

messaging. Suggests that we strike a 3 person committee for determining what 

goes on the websites and gets broadcast to the membership, and also to coordinate

the messaging with the DTEast newspaper committee.

Garvin - questionaire for the membership?

Jacek - Helesia is not here yet, we as a group need to suggest things and 

ok it for distribution to general members

Roland - questions on housing

Garvin - something around safety issues in neighbourhood

Jacek - we can get all the questions at the board dev meeting

Bill - access to food

Garvin - speed and traffic issues

Ludvik - single parent issues, visitation rights

Jamie - lamplighter rules mean parents have to go in one at a time

Decisions about election rules

Elect officers sequentially in this order

1) Elect a president

2) Elect another co-president

3) Elect a Treasurer

4) Elect a Secretary

Elections will be preceded by a short (3min) speach

Elections will be by secret ballot

All officer positions will be separately held by different people

Before election of second co-president, decision will be made if any 

requirements of bylaws need to be met by the second co-president (woman, or person of color)

Next part will be decision to pick new signers of the bank accounts

(CCEC, and VanCity)

Next, we will do a round of goal setting and priorities to report to general membership

We decide to do lunch after the elections and financial stuff, and then to the goal setting work

Meeting ends with moment of silence