DNC Board Meeting Minutes, January 19^th, 2015. Location: #62 East Hastings

Agenda

Constitution

Meeting Place

Film Liaison

Housing  (Stamps)

Street Market

Meeting Place

Aaron went to Jacob’s Ladder. Possible meeting space, waiting to hear back. Jacek will call to try to book First United.  Amanda will call to see if space available at Resource Center.

Film Liaison

Meeting with Penny and Matt on February 5^th.

Housing Stamps

Discussion about external transfer policies.  Roland will write DNC position on it with Amanda for press release.

Street  Market

Market helps to regulate sales of items. If there is no regulation through a market then there is more opportunity that stolen items will be sold. We need due process when police take items from vendors.

 

Survey

Agreement to share cost of survey with Street Market.

Moment of Silence

Adjourn

DNC Board minutes, January 13^th, 2015, Location: #62 East Hastings Street.

Agenda

Stamps Place

Aboriginal Committee

Film Liaison

Meeting Space

Legal Committee

Survey

Other Business

Chair: Amanda

Stamps Place

Group discusses that non-profits are placing bid on Stamp’s Place. Stamp's Tenant's Council has no input. The non-profits have lower standards than BC Housing.  Group discusses that the non profits have issues related to insecure housing, illegal rental agreements, lack of maintenance, and violations of tenant’s privacy, as well as discriminatory policies. Group discusses that we should circulate the list of rules and policies that most people would find unacceptable. Non profit's rules found to be a violation of RTB twice and they’re still appealing.

Aboriginal Committee

Group discusses that DTES has highest demographic of Aboriginal people, and it seems is the only resident’s association that city does not help to facilitate funding from film industry for.  Issue tabled until Matt has meeting at city hall.

Meeting Space

Amanda will try to book room at Carnegie.

Legal Committee

Tabled.

Survey

Tabled.

Other Business

Jules:  Explains that table is required at Street Market to provide information on methadone program. Roland:  Table is available.

Moment of Silence

Adjourn

DNC Board Meeting Minutes, January 06, 2015, Location: #62 East Hastings, Vancouver.

Agenda

Constitution

Stamps Place

Legal Committee

Survey

Film Liaison

Other Business

Chair: Matt

Stamps Place

BC Housing is selling off all BC housing throughout the province to non-profits and P3 agreements. Group discusses concern about transfer policies and how this impacts on tenants. Group is concerned about how transfer policies relate to family status for tenants.  Group discusses concern about non-profits and illegal rental agreements, general lack of proper maintenance and accountability. Stamps Tenant’s Council meets every Monday at 6 p.m. at Ray Cam Senior’s lounge.

Motion by Matt for Chris to join the board. Seconded:  Aaron.  Passed.

Legal Committee:

Amanda: Meeting with academic person was useful. We learned valid objections. We can find a way to use the valid objections to strengthen the argument.  We learned from criticism what was possible in terms of how to go forward with a complaint.

Shawn motions to note in the minutes that Solstice Celebration meeting of December 23^rd was cancelled.  Seconded:  Aaron. Passed.

Survey

Matt: Survey will include 20 questions.  2 questions in each category. Everyone picks their top two. We wittle in down through a vote. Roland: Need to find right program. Survey Monkey requires money at some point. He will check costs.

Group discusses a report that there is a lack of doctors in neighborhood available to update methadone prescriptions. Ann will bring information.

Film Liaison

Matt: It is now January and we still have no meeting with city on our proposal. We met last October with the city. Time to bring the issue back. I’ll print up the emails with promises from city. We’re the only residents group that doesn’t receive funding from film industry.  We submitted a proposal.  We can’t even get a place to meet. Roland: They say we’re doing it the wrong way. They won’t tell us what they want. They initially said we could submit a bid. Now they deny the power to give it. Matt: I will prepare a file, members can add to it.

Group discusses DNC board meeting time. Group prefers 5 p.m. Matt motions to change time of meeting as of Friday, February 6^th. Seconded: Aaron. Passed.

Shawn: We need to do a review the 1^st of every month.

Moment of silence

Adjourn

DNC board meeting minutes, December 30^th, 2014, Area #62, East Hastings street.

Agenda

Reading of Constitution

Minutes
Legal Committee

Survey

Bannock Competition

2 Year Planning Committee

Area #62

Methadone Issue

Housing

Chair: Amanda

Legal Committee

Possible constitutional argument. Amanda will report back. 

Survey

Group agrees survey committee to meet at Vandu on Saturday morning at 9:45 a.m.

Bannock Competition

Discussion that bannock competition should be held on July 1st and this can run similarly to the chili competition held each year in Gastown. Group discusses that question could be added to survey regarding this matter.

Jamie will report back in 1 month.

2 Year Planning Committee

Jamie proposes event re Bannock Competition be held for Canada's birthday. Jamie will report back on possible sources of funding. 

Area #62

Discussion that use of Area #62 is limited to hours extending to 5 p.m.

Methadone Issue

Jamie: There is an issue that when prescriptions expire there is no doctor available to renew. This is possibly a human rights violation. Ann: We could write a policy position paper. Jamie: I will speak to local expert on methadone dispensaries and report back.  Amanda: I will talk to legal advisor and report back.

Housing

Next meeting re Stamps is January 5th at 6 p.m. at Ray Cam. General discussion that group members commit to being at meeting. 

Other Business

Charitable Status – May not fit with goals of non-profit. We may have to start separately.

Moment of Silence

Adjourn