DNC Board Meeting Minutes, February 27^th, 2015. Location: 2^nd floor, Ray Cam, East Hastings St.

Agenda

Meeting Time Change and Location

Legal Committee

Street Market Report

Bottle Drive

Other Business

Meeting Time Change and Location

Mike:  I think that Friday night is too late in the week and the time is too late in the day. Also this location is too far outside the dtes core.

Roland:  Tuesday at 10:00 am is better.  If it suites people better we could move it earlier, say 8:00 am or 9:00 am.

Jamie:  Jamie motions that we resume meeting at Tuesday, 10:00 am at #62, beginning March 3^rd. Roland 2^nd the motion. Motion passes unanimously.

Group agrees Street Market will take responsibility for the coffee.

Legal Committee

Group agrees that Amanda will send some power statements to Ann after document is finished. Ann will put the statements into power point.

Discussion that people are not being allowed to have visitors.

Mike: People being forced to put a sign on their door with a string attached. Is that legal?

Amanda: I think the duty to accommodate is supposed to be individualized.  It’s not to burden the person with rights violations.

Roland: It’s similar to the issue of administration of drugs at the shelters. Everyone is treated the same, to the point where even your vitamins are taken away and administrated back to you.

Amanda: The document will be ready in about a week, at the latest.

Roland: We should call a general meeting on this issue. This is a really big deal. We need to do it in April. Mid to late April would be best, possibly on the 18^th. We have time to do posters.

Amanda asks group to think of hard questions to ask her to help her prepare. Group agrees. 

Street Market Update

Roland: The Street Market is looking at two grants. One is to do wifi outreach. The Street Market is trying to do outreach for wifi. People will put repeaters in their windows. We want to do an informal survey. We’ll know about both grants in about a month or so.  Also, the Street Market just set up a camera that looks over the bottle depot. We’re trying to put it online. It looks over our gate.

Bottle Drive

Group discusses stipends for volunteering re bottle drive.

X: It’s going to be March 28^th, and we start at 10:00 am.  We’ll do it on a Saturday. We need more information from Matt on the details though.

Other Business

Ann will email Amanda re Mental Health Task Force.

Moment of Silence

Adjourn