DNC Board meeting - November 1, 2011

DNC Board meeting
November 1, 2011

Present:
Board: Fraser, Wendy, Ann, Harold, Ping, Richard, Paul, Ivan
Guests: Charles, Dave D, Steven, James, Susan

Agenda: AGM planning

1) Board report on 2012 vision
Ivan: Suggestion to plan a vision for 2012 based on our experiences in 2011
Wendy: Shouldn't push on the future board
Ping: Cannot direct the next board
Harold: Should provide some guidance
Ann: I would want to arrive at the board with a plan from the past board
Wendy: I'd like to hear from Ivan what he thinks about how this could go
Steven: I think the board has insight about what has gone on in
organizing. But I think the general meetings are always too dominated
by board members telling members what to do. That should change. One
of the successes of the DNC has been becoming an alternative
government.
Richard: I want to see us fighting for the 10 sites. We also have been
talking about raise the rates.
Paul: I don't think our goal is to create a binding direction. We
should bring a vision forward based on our experiences.
Dave D: The overall plan could have to do with: Secure adequate
housing; Empower residents (women's safety and tenants' union);
Community control and direction of planning processes.
Ping: We should have at least a small office.
Ivan: We are fighting an impossible battle, need to provide leadership
for a vision.
(Notes from Tami: Our strengths are the diversity of our community,
the valuing of life experience, the connections to the community. Our
weaknesses were that we did not well organize capacity building and
skill sharing. And we have work to do to build our communication
networks stronger.)
Tami's notes continued:
Ivan: Beneath Dave's program of which campaigns we should focus on, we
should talk about how we do that work. I think in 2012 our emphasis
should be more on capacity building.
Harold: Maybe we should have two board reports: One on campaigns and
one on organizational structure and work.
Ann: We don't have good ways to measure the capacity building we have
done. We can't measure it as well as a middle-class group where we can
show the writing work board members have done or whatever. We value
our community for what it accomplishes from its own standards. So who
are we comparing ourselves to when we talk about capacity building.
Wendy: How are we going to do this?
Ping: The board members made the street market great.
Susan: I have board documents I'd like to share that might be helpful.
Fraser: Should be recommendations not rules
Ivan: I suggest we follow what Harold said and break it down into 2
parts: 1) What we have done, and 2) How we have done it. And each will
end in recommendations for next steps.
Paul: Should be focused on celebrating the successes of the last year.
Harold: The edits to the constitution and bylaws will take six hours.
DECISION: Ivan will write a presentation with Tami and Paul for a
board / co-presidents presentation on the board vision and
recommendations. Less than 5 minute presentation and a half hour
discussion.

2) Constitution and bylaws
Harold: It'll be 6 hours for us to deal with the constitution and bylaws
Fraser: Can't we put the edits over to the next board?
Wendy: We have to spend a bunch of time on the constitution and bylaws
Paul: I don't think the edits to the constitution and bylaws are going
to take a long time. Most of the constitution edits will be easy.
Ivan: We should ask for principled differences with the constitution
and bylaws, but if there's major problems then we should just leave it
as-is, put it off.
Ann: Could move through the edits quickly and do straw polls to
measure relative opposition.
Wendy: Should have a couple people look at the edits and prioritize them.
Harold: Agreed.
Ann: We should do a rehearsal to see how long it takes to get through.
Make two plans: One with the visioning and the other without... in
case the edits will take too long.
Wendy: We could leave the constitution to the end and ask people to
stay in order to squeak through the edits...
James: Somebody should stand up and explain what the whole thing is,
and I think it'll be okay with everyone.
Ann: Make sure it goes up on the projector
Ivan: Let's just go through it by straw poll.
Dave: 1:10 min for elections, 30 for bylaw and constitutional
amendments, 20 for visioning.
Steven: These bylaws are not legally sound.
DECISION: To meet at the Balmoral at 7pm to do last minutes planning.

3) Outreach
- Postering tonight: Ivan, Roland
- Calling: Wendy coordinating. All board members expected to call.

4) Logistics
- Chairs: Paul and Tami
- Opening: Ivan to ask Kelvin
- Layout of chairs to be facing
- Food: Teresa Diewert (Wendy to ask Carnegie to make)
- Food servers instead of line-ups.
- Slideshow: Wendy and Tami
- Poster display: Ivan
- Notetaker: Letitzia (Wendy to ask)
- Photographer: Ivan to ask Murray to volunteer for this

5) Elections
a. Nominations
- Make a nominations committee
- Wendy, Ann, and Paul (MOTION Richard, second Harold. PASSED: Ping 
opposed)
- Committee will make forms and cover all of details
b. Ballot counter
MOTION: To ask Rider, Mona, and Claudia Li to be ballot counters
(Passed unanimous)
c. Voting problems
- Give the ballots out just before the elections speeches
- No voting cards, it'll be okay.
d. Elections results
DECISION: To post results with names only at VANDU, Carnegie, AFD,
DEWC, plus 30 on poles.

6) Door prizes
a. Door prizes
- Wendy has three door prizes for the meeting
b. Resolutions
- no time for resolutions unfortunately.

SPECIAL RECOMMENDATION TO NEXT BOARD:
Ann: That if the families of the missing and murdered women have not
left yet then we should have them come to the December meeting and
recognize them.

7) Agenda
1) Opening (2 min)
2) Protocols (2 min)
- Approve agenda
- Approve minutes
- Ballot counters
3) Vision (20 min)
4) Election (1:10 min)
5) Constitution and bylaws edits (30 min)
6) Food and door prizes and open mic with quiet music


Meeting adjourned 8:10pm.

DNC Board Meeting - Monday August 15, 2011

DNC Board Meeting
Monday August 15
6:30pm
Jacob’s Well (239 Main St)
*Note: A light dinner will be provided, thanks to Ann

See minutes from last board meeting (attached and pasted below), there
will be many points that carry over from that meeting to this week’s
meeting.

DRAFT AGENDA POINTS:

1) Communications with other groups
a. DTES Women’s Centre letter and response
b. Discussion about the denial of funding to the Missing and Murdered
Women Inquiry
c. Jen’s Kitchen tour support

2) Board business
a. Honorariums evaluation
b. Natural community members
c. Food at board meetings

2) Committee reports
a. LAPP and low-income caucus update
b. Wonder and Palace hotel struggle update
c. Street market report


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DNC Board meeting minutes
August 8, 2011

Present: Ivan, Ann Marie, Dave M, Harold, Fraser, Richard C, Ann, Jen,
Dave H, Lorna, Paul M
Guest: Lyn
Chair: Paul
Minutes: Ivan

Agenda:
1) Committee reports and work
a. Street market
b. LAPP
c. Pantages

2) Women’s safety in the DTES and the letter from DTES Women’s Centre

3) Board business
a. Board seats
b. Honorariums evaluation (TABLED)
c. Natural community members (TABLED)
d. Food at board meetings (TABLED)

4) Other reports
a. Jen’s Kitchen
b. Amicus for missing and murdered women’s inquiry (TABLED)
c. Request for point from DNC member (TABLED)

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OPENING: Tami

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1) Committee reports and work

a. Street market
DECISION: To set aside a half hour for discussion about the street
market at the end of the next meeting

b. LAPP
Ivan
- reports on the formation of the low-income caucus. Seems like the
meeting this week will be important for communications about our
negotiated TOR
Ann
- points out that there is an agency section for the LAPP committee
and that we should put agencies there; keep the low-income caucus for
low-income resident groups

c. Pantages
Harold:
- reports that the development permit application could be delayed
because of troubles with the project within the existing zoning
- There are divergent ideas in the coalition about whether to take
this issue on through city staff and council or through direct action
- Next meeting to focus on the boycott campaign and other actions
- Hope to get more residents there
Dave H:
- Should take the Pantages to the province and demand that they
collect the outstanding taxes and fines from Worthington properties by
seizing Pantages
Ivan:
- Concerned that there are not enough residents involved in the coalition
DECISION: For DNC to focus on organizing a 100-block resident meeting
and action campaign
- Will try to involve folks through the VANDU Tuesday group meeting
and the Political Action group at Lifeskills
- Also working on putting together a meeting about this issue with
city staff, based on the model of point 9 in the LAPP terms of
reference

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2) Board business

a. Board seats
DECISION: To send a letter to Ron checking if he wants to stay on the
board, if we can support him to come to meetings, or if he wants to
stand aside and open his seat for others
DECISION: To leave other partially vacant seats as-are for the time
being and wait for the AGM to make further board seat adjustments

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3) Other reports

a. Jen’s kitchen
Jen:
- Will be away from October 12 to November 5th on a tour to advocate
for sex workers’ safety and rights
DECISION: To get information on the tour to discuss DNC support for the tour

b. Letter from DTES Women’s Centre
Ivan:
- Distributed the letter received from Alice, coordinator of the
women’s centre, opposing our decision to invite Ric Matthews from 1st
United Church to speak at our general meeting
- Explained discussions with Alice and others about this issue
throughout all of last week in the lead up to the meeting
Ann:
- Ric embarrassed himself at the meeting, continued to speak with his
foot in his mouth
- FUC can’t pull off a non-exclusion space because they don’t work
with people who use the space
- Angela did a great job at the meeting. It should have been filmed
and put online
Harold:
- Agree with Ann that Angela did a great job explaining what’s wrong
with FUC’s policies and practice
- If we respond to DEWC’s letter I think we should avoid a fight. We
should not respond this week, cool off and work on a response next
week.
Fraser:
- If we’re going to respond we should recognize that we agree
completely with their points about FUC, especially the 3rd paragraph
Dave H:
- If DNC or VANDU wrote a letter like this it would have been
discussed, written, edited by the boards, not signed by a single
person
Ann:
- Concerned that the letter does not represent the views of the women
at the centre, just 2 or three people
DECISION: To continue discussion next week and work on a response then
DECISION: Jen to work on a first draft as a point of discussion and
send it for edits to Ivan before the meeting

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4) Anti-Violence workshop
DECISION: To pursue an anti-violence workshop in line with the
principles of the motion drafted by Angela and Ivan (see below)
SUB-CTTE: Ann Marie, Ivan, Jen, Angela

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CLOSING: Moment of silence led by Paul

DNC Board meeting minutes - August 8, 2011

DNC Board meeting minutes
August 8, 2011

Present: Ivan, Ann Marie, Dave M, Harold, Fraser, Richard C, Ann, Jen, Dave H, Lorna, Paul M
Guest: Lyn
Chair: Paul
Minutes: Ivan

Agenda:
1) Committee reports and work
a. Street market
b. LAPP
c. Pantages
2) Women’s safety in the DTES and the letter from DTES Women’s Centre
3) Board business
a. Board seats
b. Honorariums evaluation (TABLED)
c. Natural community members (TABLED)
d. Food at board meetings (TABLED)
4) Other reports
a. Jen’s Kitchen
b. Amicus for missing and murdered women’s inquiry (TABLED)
c. Request for point from DNC member (TABLED)

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OPENING: Tami

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1) Committee reports and work

a. Street market
DECISION: To set aside a half hour for discussion about the street market at the end of the next meeting

b. LAPP
Ivan
- reports on the formation of the low-income caucus. Seems like the meeting this week will be important for communications about our negotiated TOR
Ann
- points out that there is an agency section for the LAPP committee and that we should put agencies there; keep the low-income caucus for low-income resident groups

c. Pantages
Harold:
- reports that the development permit application could be delayed because of troubles with the project within the existing zoning
- There are divergent ideas in the coalition about whether to take this issue on through city staff and council or through direct action
- Next meeting to focus on the boycott campaign and other actions
- Hope to get more residents there
Dave H:
- Should take the Pantages to the province and demand that they collect the outstanding taxes and fines from Worthington properties by seizing Pantages
Ivan:
- Concerned that there are not enough residents involved in the coalition
DECISION: For DNC to focus on organizing a 100-block resident meeting and action campaign
- Will try to involve folks through the VANDU Tuesday group meeting and the Political Action group at Lifeskills
- Also working on putting together a meeting about this issue with city staff, based on the model of point 9 in the LAPP terms of reference

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2) Board business

a. Board seats
DECISION: To send a letter to Ron checking if he wants to stay on the board, if we can support him to come to meetings, or if he wants to stand aside and open his seat for others
DECISION: To leave other partially vacant seats as-are for the time being and wait for the AGM to make further board seat adjustments

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3) Other reports

a. Jen’s kitchen
Jen:
- Will be away from October 12 to November 5th on a tour to advocate for sex workers’ safety and rights
DECISION: To get information on the tour to discuss DNC support for the tour

b. Letter from DTES Women’s Centre
Ivan:
- Distributed the letter received from Alice, coordinator of the women’s centre, opposing our decision to invite Ric Matthews from 1st United Church to speak at our general meeting
- Explained discussions with Alice and others about this issue throughout all of last week in the lead up to the meeting
Ann:
- Ric embarrassed himself at the meeting, continued to speak with his foot in his mouth
- FUC can’t pull off a non-exclusion space because they don’t work with people who use the space
- Angela did a great job at the meeting. It should have been filmed and put online
Harold:
- Agree with Ann that Angela did a great job explaining what’s wrong with FUC’s policies and practice
- If we respond to DEWC’s letter I think we should avoid a fight. We should not respond this week, cool off and work on a response next week.
Fraser:
- If we’re going to respond we should recognize that we agree completely with their points about FUC, especially the 3rd paragraph
Dave H:
- If DNC or VANDU wrote a letter like this it would have been discussed, written, edited by the boards, not signed by a single person
Ann:
- Concerned that the letter does not represent the views of the women at the centre, just 2 or three people
DECISION: To continue discussion next week and work on a response then
DECISION: Jen to work on a first draft as a point of discussion and send it for edits to Ivan before the meeting

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4) Anti-Violence workshop
DECISION: To pursue an anti-violence workshop in line with the principles of the motion drafted by Angela and Ivan (see below)
SUB-CTTE: Ann Marie, Ivan, Jen, Angela

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CLOSING: Moment of silence led by Paul




Proposal for a DNC anti-violence workshop
August 8, 2011

Drafted by Angela MacDougall, BWSS and presented to the DNC board by Ivan Drury

Time frame
• Early September or mid-November
• This ideally would be over two days 10 hours total minimum.

Who would do this work?
• Ask DNC board to organize it, partnering with BWSS specifically and also with other groups in the women serving organizations coalition
• Workshop would be for DNC board, members, and allied organizations like VANDU

How would the workshops work?
• Could we do one big workshop that we outreach for or a series of workshops in different settings?
• Need to consider specific safety issues for participants & trigger issues & build in support.
• Would not be the end rather part of a process, so consider making connections and building relationships for ongoing leadership building and supports on the issues of women’s safety and violence in the DTES

Theoretical framework
Oriented towards understanding violence against women from an anti-colonial, anti-imperialist and anti-oppression feminist analysis.
1. Definition of violence against women
2. Contributing factors
3. Power & control
4. Sexual violence
5. Intimate partner violence
6. Safety & lethality
7. Men & masculinity

Policy and practice
Developing policy & practice that contributes to women's safety while holding perpetrators accountable
1. Laws & law enforcement personnel – issues
2. Legal system
3. The role of advocacy
4. Risks & resources

DNC Board meeting. - July 25, 2011

DNC Board meeting.

July 25, 2011

Present: Al, Nathan, Wendy, Ann, Paul, Angela, Jen, Tami, Fraser, Dave M, Harold, Dave H, Richard and Anne Marie.

(community member guests)

Regrets: Sid & Ivan.

No regrets:  Ping, Ron, Earl

Chair:  Paul; Minutes:  Tami

Protocols:

1)    Acknowledgment Paul

2)    DNC Constitution read by Fraser

3)    Motion to accept agenda. Moved by Tami and seconded by Fraser.  Carried

Guest:

4)    Alive:  Scott from Aboriginal Life in Vancouver Enhancement Society talked about this group.  Not a service agency. Very low budget.  Keeping it small and grassroots.  Located in Raycam.  400 members and looking for 1000 more members. AGM on July 26, 2011 at 4:30 at Raycam.  Child Welfare Forum at W2 from 7-9 pm on Thursday, July 28, 2011.   Goal is to partner with mainstream societies to bring forward Aboriginal voice.  Policies that help organizations expand to welcome and incorporate aboriginal involvement because aboriginal people want to be involved.  Paul: does this include harm reduction? Somewhat of a problem with some elders that are anti harm reduction.   Scott: no charge and they are open to anyone 100%.

Active Campaigns:

5)    Pantages:  Add Solidarity Notes Choir and Lifeskills Political Action Group to the list of endorsers.  Consider trying to get Provincial government to appropriate the project because Worthington properties in arrears.  Protest at architect office was good but they said they have no power to do anything.  Police showed up and we offered them date squares.   44 groups endorse the community statement.  Next step go to the site of owner and demand he sell for only 200% instead of 700% profit!  City has attempted to buy the property before and could do it again if the price came down.   The city’s housing strategy coming up on Thursday.  Only promise 100 SRO replacement a year which means it will take 50 years to housing units proposed by the recent city housing strategy.   Speaking at City Hall Thursday, July 28, 2011 9:30am.  Al, Fraser, Richard and Harold, and Wendy want to speak to this at council. 

6)    Pedestrian campaign:  VANDU did one of the best statistical projects in the world.  Can only be accessed on the city website and apparently the city is taking credit for it.  It has short, medium and long term objectives.  VPD is not supporting the 30 KM zone and blames pedestrian deaths on pedestrians.  Here is the link to the report:

Crosswalks for tourists, for tinseltown, for police but none for poor, drug users etc.  Action in the works to do an art project to draw a crosswalk across 100 block of Hastings.  Likely to create body outlines and other creative endeavors.   VANDU to keep us posted so we can be involved as a partner.  Dave H. We need to push for more pedestrian signs and reduce the speed limit.

Active Committees

7)    LAPP Committee:  The city accepted us as partners and we still need to push them on market development.  We’ve had some other victories in this like the city agreed that the focus will be to protect the assets and tenure of the LIC plus to put LI people in the centre, to have 50% women and 50% people of colour on the committee.  We had our first meeting to start a low income caucus.  It was rocky with some of the Power of Women.  One thing we learned was to have coast salish representatives.  Groups invited to be in this caucus are:  DNC, Carnegie, VANDU, DEWC/Power, AFD, Gallery Gachet, WHARS.  We could consider reaching out to the PAC at STrathcona school (or crabtree parents?)  Need an easy terms of reference for this group.  Next steps:  meet at 11:30 LAPP committee.  Sometime the week after we’ll plan the second coalition meeting. Things are moving quickly with Terms of Reference and city and they asked us to set up the city committee.  Wendy to send Scott/Alive some stuff about the LAPP.

8)    DNC Street Market & Fair – Applied for Vancouver Foundation funding.  Costs $70,000 to run the street market the way it is run right now at 1 day a week.  If we want to expand it will cost more.  Discussion about whether PHS or the city are in control of Pigeon bank site (the site that the city wants us to expand or “move” to).  DNC Street Market & Fair Suggestion to expand at our own pace, not worry about PHS and city and to expand to a location that we really want.  Suggestion to open street market & fair open at 9 a.m. as stated in the permit.  Get Lyn to check permit in park and use that to stop ticketing in the mornings before market opens.  Angela will help get Lyn in touch with new district 2 police force to talk about ticketing.  Inspector: Macie Flammand & Ian Upton.   Tami:  This Sunday, July 31, 2011 the DNC Street Market & Fair will hold it’s own LGBT2IQ extravaganza!   Dave and Ann to get Lyn to write thank you letters to BCPWA and CCF.  Tami and Wendy to coordinate to get more membership forms and honorarium evaluations to the market for next Sunday.  Tami there with LGBTI2Q festival!  

DNC operations:

9)    New Board members: 

a.      Welcome Angela McDougall (market) and Jen Allen (at Large)!

b.     Motion:  Remove Eilleen Pigeon (homeless) from the board because she has been inactive.  Moved:  Paul; Second:  Nathan.  Carried. 

c.      Motion:  Al Fowler to fill the homeless seat.  Moved:  Nathan.  Dave H Seconds.  Carried.

d.     Lorna Bird and Raquel Daniels will be encouraged to come to the next meeting and fill the other 2 empty homeless seats.

e.      Stacey, Tracey, Rose and DJ will be encouraged to come in case other board seats become available.

f.       Motion:  To send Ron Kuelke and Ping Chan a letter requesting they step down and free up a space.  Moved:  Paul.  Tami Seconds.  Carried.  Ann to write letter and Paul to send.

g.      TABLED:  Sending notice to Victoria about new board members

10)TABLED:   Honorarium evaluation

11)Beattie letter:  decision to hold discussion to 10 minutes.  2 minutes for Beattie, 2 minutes for DNC board and 5 minutes of discussion before asking general membership to vote.  Harold, Ivan and Fraser on this short terms task group to organize our response.

12)Theme for next general meeting – Decision to do 2 themes:  1) pedestrian safety and 2) closing of First United (Angela and Ric or Stephen Gray to be speakers – with discussion)

Discussion about FUC: 

-        Angela: first united is losing funding from BC housing due to their lack of willingness to change how they operate and the ongoing violence to women.  Sanctuary to stay open but problematic because unstructured, no names, no assigned beds and staff are not well trained.  BC Housing will not fund it anymore.  So 200 people will be relocated to other shelters, hotels, rent sups and maybe social housing.

-        Women’s groups got women’s only shelter extended hours.  Lifeskills relocating.  A woman was sexually assaulted last week at FUC.  WISH may get funding to be open 24 hours.  We need to promote our goals at this meeting – maybe a big sign with our constitution on it.

-        Ann, Tami and Ivan to work on organizing the next GM agenda

13)TABLED:  DNC staff person and funding

14)FUC closure – dealt with it above

15)Endorsement of Curtis Action.  Motion:  Wendy; Second Paul;  Carried. Tami against.

16)LGBT12Q committee:  Tami wants to start this and will come next week with a proposal for who will be on the committee, the purpose and who will be the liaison to the board.

17)TABLED:  Next GM preparations

18)TABLED:  10 sites strategy meeting

19)TABLED:  MLA welfare campaign

20)TABLED:   Need to send thank you letter to Jacob’s Well for use of space.

21)TABLED:  Treasurer report

22)Motion to close the meeting.  Dave H moved; Richard second.  Unanimous!

Closing with a moment of silence.

8:35pm

DNC Board Meeting - July 18, 2011

Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council Board Meeting

July 18, 2011

Jacob’s Well

(I don’t know if I got these minutes right, please check)

Protocols:

1. Acknowledgement and constitution
2. Attendance: Harold, Paul, Fraser, Dave M, Richard, Wendy, Ann
3. Regrets: Sid, Ivan, Tami
4. No regrets:  Dave H, Earl, Ping, Ron
5. Chair: Paul, Notes: Wendy
6. Review of agenda

Admin:

7. DNC GM
1. Space is booked for Aug 6 AGM 2 pm this time, not 3 pm!
2. Next board meeting work out theme
8. Board vacancies to be ratified at the next GM.  Paul and Wendy to follow up with new board members. 
1. Motion:  Angela McDougal will take the one market seat.  Paul/Second Harold; carried
2. Motion:  Jen Allen will take the one At Large seat.  Wendy/Second  Ann; carried
3. Motion:  Invite Raquel, Lorna and Al to come to the next board meeting and see which 2 can take board seats under the homeless category.  Wendy/Second:  Fraser; carried.
4. Motion:  Invite Stacey, Tracey and other interested members to attend board meetings and possibly fill future vacancies.  Wendy/Second Ann; carried.
9. Honorarium Evaluations – Anne Marie to take forms to Power of women to get filled. 
10. Beattie letter – Deal with this in August GM; set a time limit; nominate Ivan, Harold and Fraser to meet ahead of time to organize for this.
11. Cel phone minutes for active board members
1. Motion:  Fraser to get a plan for cel phone and submit receipts up to $30 a month Paul/Second Wendy; carried.

Active Campaigns:

12. Pantages
1. action on Thursday at 9 a.m. for breakfast – going to architect’s office.
2. DNC needs to write a letter to city hall against Pantages before Aug 12.
13. Ped safety
1. Meeting with Kerry Jang Tues at 2 at VANDU

Active Committees:

14. LAPP
1. First potential coalition meeting on Tuesday night at 6 pm
15. Street Market
1. Application to Vancouver Foundation going to pay for ½ the project for 1 day a week in 2012-2014.
2. Thank you letters needed for Central City Foundation and COV
3. Letter to city about expansion needed – to say that we want to operate it.

Tabled:

- Future 10 sites strategy meeting

- Newsletter committee elections

- Outreach and agenda for August GM

Wendy

CCAP/604-839-0379

DNC Board meeting - June 27, 2011

DNC Board meeting

Attending:  Dave M, Harold, Nathan, Dave H, Fraser, Tami, Paul, Wendy, Ivan, Nathan, Richard, Ann, Sid and Dave H.

1) Committee Meetings

a. Pantages -- coalition forming:  WAHRS, VANDU, AFD, POWER, DEWC, Gachet, CCAP and DNC.  Decision making space.  Come to the next meeting Thursday night at 6 pm at AFD.  Draft statement and campaign strategy plans are almost done.  City and owner are ignoring worker and pedestrian safety violations.  Discussion about whether to take action on this.  Some worry that workers will be mad at us.  We have to do what’s right and not popular sometime.  Collective interests of the community are more important than the wages of a few people.  Safety and health as a whole first.  Walk into the job site and they would have to shut it down.  Permit on the outside of the building is not there.  Motion:  Shut down the Pantages site until the health and safety of pedestrian and neighbours is ensured.  Unanimous.

b. 334 Carrall – during street market 2 pm Paint In spontaneous. 

c.  LAPP Committee --- Come to the rock in the road.  Motion:  The LAPP committee to make a recommendation at the General Membership.  Vote:  4 against/7 for.  Discussion:  The LAPP committee maybe are too close and the board could remain more neutral.  This could be a divide and conquer move and waste our time on the 10 sites.  Get feedback also from potential community allies.  We’re prepared to make this recommendation to our board and our general members and allies.  Motion:   Board to meet to discussion the decision by the LAPP committee on Thursday at 8 pm at 118 Alexander Street.  Nobody opposed. 

d.  DT East Newspaper --- Funding of $200 a month secured from a professor.  Next meeting to elect editorial positions.

e.  Street Market Committee --- Meeting with COV 11 to noon.  Urban Health Project toilets, binners market mentioned by COV.  Toilets are related because not working.  Drug users won’t use toilets if we put in 10 more, says Grant Woff of COV.  DNC could take on a campaign for toilets.  Getting a report back on street market committee on negotiating for porta potty and a recommendation for action.

f.  chinatown Committee – Discussion about revitalization plan.  Ivan will get tickets for Richard and Paul.  Meet at 4:30 pm at Carnegie in CCAP office.  Terms of reference are bad.  Nothing about low-income people in it.  Decision to write a letter denouncing and say it is not acceptable consultation and to let the Solheim reps know. 

g.  Arts and culture – Meeting on Canada day 4 pm at Oppenheimer Park in the field house.  Someone needs to put it

2.  Board reports

a.  Treasurer reports – Motion:  Dave Murray to hold $200 petty cash.  Unanimous. 

b.  Vacant board seats  -- Motion:  To replace Robert Rachel with a new board member for a total of 4 vacant seats.  Carried.  Motion:  Interpret homelessness to mean Having experienced homelessness in the last couple of years but a preference for those who are currently homeless.  Carried.  Motion:  Through the month of July, accept applications, meet with board members and bring recommendations for board members at the August General Meeting.  Carried.  Unanimous. 

c.  Weekly meetings – Jacob’s Well…Pastor Beth Malena.  Monday evenings they aren’t using it. 

d.  Natural Community membership application – David Beattie.  Ivan was supposed to write.

e.  Honorarium Evaluations – ongoing

f.   Conduct of Board members – Dave Hamm reports that Ping was upset at the Street Market.  Dave is worried that he is confused about vacant board seats about process.  Someone who has good conflict resolution skills should check in with him.  Fraser and Paul will check in.

3.  New Business

a.  Palace and Wonder Hotels – Class action lawsuit started.  Media on Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. in front of the RTB at Main and Hastings.  Specific demands will be taken to city hall on Thursday.  50 people are going on Thursday.  We should work to bring people up.  Identity of speakers will be protected.  Lawyer is helping.  Vandu to take people too.  Owner paid $20K to 2 owners who illegally evicted them.  We may get all SRO maintenance reports on line if the privacy commissioner writes a proposal for this.  

b.  DNC Forum Series – Prison Justice in August, Hogan’s Alley about racial displacement and housing injustice, Aboriginal Child Apprehensions – Sharon Russell, DERA:  what happened to it?  Do we have a plan and resources to make it happen?  We shouldn’t just do it.  Go ahead to investigate it.

c.  Summer Plans – general meeting in August. 

d.  Gaurdian angels – tabled.

e.  Pedestrian Safety -  Suggestion to get a pedestrian crosswalk on the 100 block of Hastings.  Looking at reducing the speed limit and Trans Link is opposed.  Motion:  endorse the VANDU report on Pedestrian Saturday.  Carried.  March out of Carnegie at paint a crosswalk and have our 2 minutes of silent.  Paint the lines. 

4)  Work with Others

a.  Raise the Rates No MLA

b.  Letter in response to shelter arrestees -- Harold

5) General Meeting Plan

a. agenda - edited

b. outreach – Wendy phone list; Ivan poster

c. focus – Lap to be focus. 

Wendy to ask Scott from Raycam to come to our board meeting. 

Wendy

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DNC board Meeting - June 20, 2011

DNC board Meeting

June 20, 2011

Chair:  paul

Minutes:  Wendy

Attending:  Harold, Dave M, Dave H, Ann, Ping, Ron

Next meeting definitely next Monday at 6:30 pm.  Carnegie 3^rd floor is an awful room.  Maybe we can get another location and someone can phone all the board members on the weekend to let them know??

1.      Committee reports:

a.      10 sites update by Wendy.  Come to meeting at Aboriginal Front Door on Thursday June 23 6 pm to finalize statement and action plans.  Wonder and Palace Hotel organizing that Ivan is doing will be tied into the need to replace the hotels with social housing.  334 Carrall Street action postponed.  Someone from 10 sites campaign needs to go to the street market committee meeting on Friday at 2 pm to let folks know what is happening.

b.      Lapp:  Ann prefers “resident or member driven groups” to peer groups.  Do groups like PACE or women’s memorial committee fit into definition of peer driven?  Need a term to describe groups that the planning committee proposes to invite to join a coalition around the lapp.  Motion:  Lap committee explores the possibility of forming a low income caucus of resident and member driven groups as a basis for an ongoing LAPP strategy group.  Carried.

c.      DNC newspaper – tabled

d.      Street market – got funded by Central City Foundation.  Lyn is doing a good job says Dave.  Wendy explained need for monthly activity report so that we can all know what is happening, speak about it when needed, helps with funders etc.  Last week it cost $170 to run the market with stipends.  The 50/50 draw makes about half of that every week.  Not sure what to do with the proceeds yet.  Come to the Street market committee meeting every Friday at VANDU 2 pm.  Dave counted 101 vendors last weekend.

e.      End Prohibition – in the fall, we may have some decisions to make about how to proceed and how the DNC is connected to this little group that is trying to start a campaign.

2.      Board issues

a.      3 seats are open, maybe 4 if Robert Rachel resigns.  Seats open:  1 market, 1 member at large, 1 homeless.  Ping concerned that we haven’t used legal processes.  Ann:  we have sent letter and 2 wrote letters of resignation and 1 resigned, we could get in trouble for keeping open seats. 

Motion:  strike a nomination committee made up of Wendy, Ann and Paul to call for  nominations to fill the vacant board seats, receive applications, bring applications to the board and assist the board to recommend new board members at the next general membership meeting.

b.      Cel phones – tabled

c.      Weekly meetings – tabled

3.      General Meeting:  next date is Saturday, July 2^nd

a.      Focus – 10 sites campaign is our major summer campaign.  We could highlight the Palace/Wonder standards of maintenance fight and need for replacement with the Pantages fight. 

b.      Agenda – Ann, Harold and Wendy to bring proposal to next board meeting

c.      MC and Notetaker – same as item b above

d.      Outreach – same as item b above

4.      New businesses

a.      Finance report:  we have $2154.47 in the bank

b.      Need for someone to operate a petty cash.  Wendy suggesting set up process for someone to have $200 petty cash, keep receipts, submit an accounting sheet to the board before replacement etc.  Dave Murray offers and can keep money in the safe at VANDU and make it available for expenses as needed.  Issue tabled until next meeting.

c.      Summer plans – tabled

d.      Report on Guardian Angels - tabled

Wendy

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