DNC Board
Minutes - June 3, 2014
Attendees: 13 board
members present + 2 guests
X reads minutes,
motion to pass minutes passes
Agenda:
Gastown
Gazette
Board
Development
Update on
Legal Club
Update on
Mental Health/VPD
Other
business (McGuire, StMkt, GG, Tenants)
Gastown
Gazette
X reads
summary on Gastown Gazette
Board
Development
X discusses
conflict resolution processes. In the past with the DNC, external parties have misused
conflict resolution as a weapon with no real desire to have the conflict
resolved. Discusses ground rules for beginning a process. Discussing ground
rules for ensuring that parties are honest about wishing to resolve the
conflict.
Ideas to
make meetings work: Chair rotations to create fairness, decision items vs. non
decision items
Bring copies
of conflict resolution process for next meeting so decision can be made
Legal
Club
June 5th
1pm on second floor is the legal club meeting. Idea is to educate people on the
law and their rights, can be tenant issues, drug issues. There is a lawyer that
will talk to us via skype.
Mental
Health/VPD
ARA training.
People that come there are diverse. If anyone wants to get on disability, there
are resources. Darcy was going to come and give classes on getting disability. ARA
also says that police cannot commit without assessment from a doctor and there
has been no change to the law. They do admit that there may have been
administrative changes to the way the police are intending to interpret. We may
have to figure out whether this is a disagreement between ARA and VPD, or
whether this will be an opportunity to defend and release a mal application by
VPD after the fact.
30
assessment of person has in the past neutralized the complaint, due to the fact
that person is mentally ill.
Discussion
of inviting ARA person to give presentation and invite X to meeting to
discuss and rebut.
BC
Independent complaints office is having trouble locating persons suffering from
injuries, deaths, etc…
Decision to
meet with the executive and these people and report back to board.
Discussion
of Street Market updates in terms of upcoming changes and grants, etc…
Motion to
adjourn
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