DNC Board Meeting Jan 24, 2013

DNC Board Meeting Jan 24, 2013

Board Attendees: Garvin Snider, Richard Cunningham, Roland Clarke, 

Jacek Lorek, James Oickle, Kelvin Bee

Other Attendees: Ludvik S, Sandra P, Debbie K, Bill B, Krista-Dawn

Richard cooks a delicious meal.

Kelvin does the opening

Mistakes in minutes, some spelling mistakes in peoples names were corrected

Jacek gives an update on the Pigeon Park Street Market.

New lot at 62 E Hastings within two weeks we will have access

We are still short of money, $500 in stipends per week is spent.

there are plans to make 3, maybe more extra days of market at 62 E Hastings

Roland - we are applying for two more grants, one for capital equipment

from CCF, and one for coordinator salary from Vancouver Foundation, in addition to looking for more private sponsorship, and we are getting help from HXBIA.

Richard - City and VPD in meeting was very impressed by art corner

They were sympathetic, and want to help us

Bill - Neighbourhood House would need a proposal to allow the market to use their space on Saturday

Jacek - Jacob's Well is kicking us out of the space, and doing this to all of the sub-committees

Krista - when did the street market start taking money from the City of Vancouver?

Roland - City of Vancouver has given the street market over $30,000 over the years, including the original grant that was used to hire Lyn Black that was written by Wendy Pedersen in early 2011.

Kelvin - was the money from SaveOnMeats approved by the DNC board? and is AFD going to be on the hook for this money?

Roland - The Street Market Committee approved the sponsorship, and the Street Market is autonomous. The Street Market has a legal agreement with VANDU, and their accountant is informed of all financial issues. Maggie Geiser is her name, please contact her. AFD does not to my knowledge have any formal relationship with the street market and therefore would never be held responsible for any financial decisions by the market. 

Sandra - is it true that people are selling at the market that are from Surrey?

Richard - we are collecting names of people that are vendors, and we are dealing with complaints about out of town vendors.

Roland - it is a low barrier market where anyone can set up if they want, therefore it is difficult to control who vends. If we get a complaint, we ask people to identify the vendors and we ask them for ID. It is important to have a process because we got many complaints against Chinese vendors and they turned out not to be from Richmond but actually were from Chinatown.

James - I did not know about the SaveOnMeats deal, but I have not been going to street market meetings.

Dates and times for the Street Market Meetings are announced, and everyone is invited to participate.

Street Market Meetings: 

--Saturday Meeting - 9am @ Jacob's Well (239 Main) for 1 hour

--Street Market Committee - 2nd and 4th Monday of every month @ VANDU at 4:30pm for 1 hour. 

Richard - the next meeting of the DTEast is Friday at 1:30pm for the DTEast. I am planning on going. 

Richard - we should figure out what is going on with the LAPP. Herb is not coming to board meetings, we should get a report from someone on what is going on since the DNC is the co-chair of the process

Kelvin - AFD pulled its members out of the LAPP. City gave $28 million to the new condo developer and we need to stop this.

Bill - how many board meetings can someone miss before being replaced?

Richard - we have a three meeting rule. If they do not notify us.

Meeting ends with moment of silence. No motions were made due to lack of quorum. 

DNC Board Meeting January 17th, 2013

DNC Board Meeting January 17th, 2013

Board Attendees: Roland Clarke, James Oickle, Jacek Lorek, DJ Joe, Garvin Snider, Richard Cunningham, Kelvin Bee

Bill B, Helesia Luke, Ludvik S, Krista-Dianne

Meeting begins at about 5:45pm

DJ does the opening

Agenda discussion

Discuss results of DNC board development meeting with Helesia

Helesia - boiled down our discussion to three goals

Goal #1 - Social Housing

Goal #2 - Quality of Life in Neighbourhood

Goal #3 - The DNC activities are sustainable over 1-3 years

Advocating for higher welfare, better sources of food, illicit drinkers, exploitative labor practices

Helesia - also seems like there are lots of other activities that I don't know about

Discussion of Shelter Committee

Administration of medication by untrained staff

Roland - Udo was refused to help find him housing unless he agreed to have third party management of money

Kelvin - we have 8 members now homeless, last two weeks we had 12

We need to make sure we are united with the community on this issue

I've been told by AFD that I must be accountable when I work with the DNC

Garvin - lets pose this question to the membership. Poll the members on how many are homeless

Richard - many members of the illicit drinkers are now dead because of first united closing

Helesia - coroners report came out in October states numbers that were homeless

at the time of death

Helesia suggests contacting the ombudsman regarding shelter issues

Mary Ellen ???

Child and Youth Advocate for BC - located in Victoria

Garvin - visiting ottawa, might be able to visit Libby Davies

Helesia - maybe we could bring in politicians to discuss advocacy around shelters

Affordable housing

Kelvin - we should make sure that these issues get on the MLA radar for the election

We could overload Carnegie with people to ask them our questions.

I've been to two funerals in the last few days. We need to wake up.

Signatures collected for letters to CCEC bank and VanCity bank

Voter ID or Voter outreach strategy

Form alliance for better food strategy and nutrition

Helesia - there is a pot of money for coops if you wanted to start a coop

Kelvin - for the past two years we have been running a food bank

If you have a society, you can become a food bank.

Garvin - the door is open used to run a food bank, DNC could act as a food bank

Richard - could we have a community garden?

Garvin - we could try and start a DNC farmers market with the street market

Illicit Drinkers Issues

Garvin - MAP program

I was involved in a program where the city gave us money for a brew your own wine.

drop in program. 2L of wine given out.

DNC could help facilitate an illicit drinkers lounge

Decide to meet with Helesia on Monday night at 6pm to discuss planning goals and

subcommittee work. Everyone is invited. 

6:45pm - Helesia leaves, begin doing some post-AGM housekeeping motions

Motion that Garvin as secretary is authorized by the board 

to request all DNC documents from Ivan, Wendy, Leticia, and anyone else who may possess DNC documents.

Documents may include membership lists, phone lists, board minutes, AGM minutes, or any other

documents owned by the DNC. Also that Garvin cooperate with Leticia to file our legal papers with the

province in an appropriate time. 

Richard motions, Jacek Seconds, Motion carries

DJ Joe says that Tami Starlight and Tracy Morrison want to resign from board

Motion to send a letter to Tami Starlight, and Tracy Morrison asking whether they wish to resign

from the DNC board, and if so, please tell the board promptly.

Richard Motions, Jacek seconds, motion carries

Motion to request financial report from all subcommittees. These include the Street Market, 

the Shelter Committee, the DTEast, and any other subcommittee of the DNC that has any funding

or spending. 

Roland motions, Richard seconds, motion carries

Motion to have all passwords from DNC povnet email list, DNC websites, DNC facebook page, and all electronic

media associated with DNC to be given to Garvin.

Richard motions, Garvin seconds, motion carries

Motion to ask for records, receipts, invoices, etc... on how money was spent from VanCity 

account during the time that Tami Starlight was DNC treasurer

Roland motions, Jacek seconds, motion carries

How do we approach the at-large seats?

Garvin - we should do this at a general meeting

Jacek - board is actually who picks the at large members not the general meeting according to the constitution

Roland - give me a list of people to contact who we know wants to join the board

Ludvik Skaliky

Bill Beauregard

Krista-dianne kinsey

Diane Johnston

Debbie Kroll

Sandra Pronto

Hank Bee

Louise

Jamie Richardson

Roland - I will contact all the people who we know want to be board members

General agreement to invite all DNC members to the next board meeting and we will begin the process of 

appointing the at-large seats to the board

Motion to adjourn at 7pm, Kelvin does the closing

DNC Board Development Meeting - January 12, 2013

Summary of Officer Elections: 

DNC Co-President: Richard Cunningham

DNC Co-President: Kelvin Bee

DNC Treasurer: Roland Clarke

DNC Secretary: Garvin Snider

The New DNC Signers are: Jacek Lorek, Richard Cunningham, Kelvin Bee, Rob Morgan

Previous signers are now no longer signers

Minutes of Meeting are as follows (for elections portion):

(for those in attendance, please let me know of any corrections or omissions)

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DNC Board Development Meeting - January 12, 2013

Location: DTES Neighbourhood House

Starting time - 10:45am

Expected end time - 1:30pm

DNC Board Attendees: Kelvin B, Roland C, Jacek L, DJ Joe, Garvin S, Rob M, Richard C

Both Tami Starlight and Herb Varley were called shortly after 10am to remind them of 

the time and location of the meeting. All board members were emailed and texted about

this meeting on Thursday night, and previously.

Other Attendees: Helesia Luke - will facilitate

Prospective Atlarge Board Member attendees: 

Debbie Kroll, Ben Smith, Diane Johnson, Nick A, Bill B, Dean, Sheri, Sandra Pronto

Kelvin Does the opening

Garvin reads the constitution

Round of introductions

Richard, housekeeping - bathrooms, wash hands before food, respect the space

Richard passes meeting to Helesia

Roland - reviews what was decided at the last Thursday planning meeting regarding a planned agenda

Motion to approve agenda

Motion carries unanimously

Discussion of requirements in bylaws for officers

Helesia - interpretation of person of color should be how they identify themselves

Duties of President and Co-presidents

1) Represent the Board, Talk to Media, Sign letters on behalf of board

2) Time commitment?

Helesia - call for nominations for President and Co-chair

Richard Cunningham

Garvin Snider

Kelvin Bee

DJ Joe 

Rob Morgan

We all agree that there are 7 board members present and eligible to vote, this meets quorum requirement.

Short Speeches by everyone to explain why they are running for president

Miles Bruce counts the votes - Helesia's son

We generally agree that this is an acceptable protocol

We agree to announce just the winner and not the number of votes

Richard Cunningham is now one of the Co-Presidents of the DNC

Nominations for Vice-Chair, or other Co-President

Kelvin Bee

DJ Joe

Rob Morgan

Garvin Snider 

The first ballot, 3 votes was the winner, not a majority

We make a decision that the vote winner should be elected by a majority, not just a plurality

We will hold another vote

New nominations - after Garvin withdraws

DJ Joe

Kelvin Bee

Rob Morgan 

New vote - Kelvin and DJ tied for the win

Run off election now between the two of them

Kelvin is now elected as the Co-chair and other Co-President of the DNC

Richard and DJ nominate Roland as Treasurer

Roland Accepts nomination

No one else is nominated and no one else comes forward wishing to be treasurer.

Resolution to acclaim Roland as treasurer of the DNC

Mover - DJ, seconder - Kelvin

Motion passes

Nominations for secretary

Garvin Snider

Rob Morgan

Both accept their nominations

Garvin Snider is elected as the secretary of the DNC

Nominations for list of DNC signers

Jacek Lorek

Richard Cunningham

Kelvin Bee

Rob Morgan

All accept their new role as signers.

Motion to accept these signers for all DNC bank accounts, and that any previous signers are no longer signers.

These accounts include the CCEC account and the VanCity account. 

Rob M motions, Garvin S seconds

Motion carries

We eat the delicious lunch prepared by Bill, and offered by the neighbourhood house

12:00 noon

We invite everyone to the table to participate in the goal setting and planning section

of the meeting

1) What are you proud of?

2) What do you want to do in 2013? What does success look like?

3) What goals? What Strategies?

Miles will note take in this piece, I will join his notes with these for full minutes at a later time

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

DNC Board Development Meeting Planning Meeting on January 3rd, 2013

Sorry for not getting this out sooner. 

Let me know if you guys have any additions or corrections.

I will try and print out copies of this before our next meeting for those that did not attend.

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DNC Board Development Meeting Planning Meeting on January 3rd, 2013

Attendees: Tracy Morrison, Jacek Lorek, Roland Clarke, Garvin Snider, DJ Joe

James Oickle, Kelvin Bee, Dave Murray

Garvin brings Helesia Luke from Ethos who may facilitate our board development meeting

Round of introductions

Helesia tells about herself, cofounder of ethos, also on RSCH 

(regional steering committee on homelessness), works with environmental groups

Garvin reviews our last meeting where we talked about planning a board development meeting

Helesia asks a number of questions about the DNC

DJ Joe leaves at about 5:50pm

Helesia talks about setting priorities for the development meeting, and can not possibly 

do all the things that we want in one meeting... ie) set priorities, build board processes,

and elect officers, how committees report back, etc...

6:10pm Herb Varley, Shannon Bundock, Louise arrives

New round of introductions

Helesia asks questions again to figure out what we can accomplish during the board development meeting.

Discusses teaching some best practices around how to conduct meetings.

Forming, Storming, and Norming stages of groups

Helps to be aware of where we are in the cycle

Environmental movement calls this the inside outside strategy. 

Inside - negotiation, Outside - blocking roads, etc...

Herb discusses the conflict resolution recommendations that were voted on at the Pre-AGM

We need to now discuss how we are going to impliment some of the recommendations

Garvin - part of the development process could be to set some of these recommendations as

goals, and then the board could impliment this over time

Helesia - there are two ways to go in terms of structuring Saturday, 

structure first, governance and then later go into the planning and visioning

or 

Blue Sky - one to two year plan, and decide on what organization we need to build to get there

Kelvin - the goals have to be presented to the AGM because this is in our constitution,

also, there is an action at the border on Saturday for Idle No More, and this conflicts 

with our planned board development meeting

Garvin - we can delay the board development meeting if the date conflicts

Helesia - do we need to do a poll of members?

Kelvin - this should be examined

Tracy - last meeting was just a list of things that we've done. It would be good 

to ask the membership what the priorities should be. Not that the priorities were

not good, but we should ask the membership.

Garvin - I also support a survey to the general membership

Herb - Could this be the focus of our next general meeting?

Helesia - many strategic planning sessions begin with a member survey

maybe 5 questions at the most, with multiple choice

Helesia - set a goal for the survey

Herb - we need to develop the capacity of some of the board members because

last year most of the work was done by only a few members. We need to figure

out who can mentor who, etc...

Helesia - doing membership survey would put us in great position to look for

money for claricle support

city of Vancouver and vancouver foundation supports this kind of thing

Richard Cunningham joins at around 6:45

Herb - perhaps we could do quarterly planning meetings to try and accomplish 

all of this stuff

Helesia - city of vancouver has capacity building grants, they can do workshops

on legal, other things to build capacity

Herb - great idea to hand out the survey at the general meetings

Helesia - I use survey monkey

Herb - another organization I sit on does board evaluations before the AGM

Garvin - could we put it in DTEast?

Shannon - we've tried surveys in past without much success, but we could try it. 

Hand out at the meetings still seems like the best idea

Richard - I know at VANDU when we did board evaluations, we did a 1-4 scale for

rating people anonymously

Herb - 12, 19, 26 are the Saturdays coming up

Garvin - Saturday, the 12th of January

Helesia - I can do a draft agenda for next week

We agree to come together next week on Thursday, Jan 10th, to finalize the planning for the board development meeting

DNC Board meeting minutes - November 15 2012

DNC Board meeting minutes
November 15 2012

Present: Richard, Tami, Jamie, Kelvin, Jenn, Herb, DJ, Harold, Ivan
Guests: Richard from West, Leanne, Jacek, Dave D

Agenda
 Copwatch
 LAPP
 AGM
 DT East
 Finances and banking
 Social Housing Coalition

COPWATCH
Jenn
 Last week Copwatch was in Toronto for the Right to Resist conference. It went very well.
 We have five new complaints going against cops who have attacked people in the DTES
 Aiyanas is helping us create a strategy to get in the way of the Beat enforcement team
Kelvin
 We have a new investigations group that is a civilian oversight group over police brutality. So we can refer things to the new office.
Jenn
 We went to a forum about the new Independent Investigations Office (IIO) and heard the inspector, Richard Rosenthal, speak about the new process. It was bad because they won't investigate anything in the DTES. Only will investigate if someone dies
Ivan
 There has been a long demand for an independent, civilian oversight body to deal with police brutality and harassment. The IIO comes from that demand.
 But the mandate of the IIO is so narrow that it will only deal with the embarrassing cases that delegitimize the system. Won't affect the daily police brutality and harassment problems.
Harold
 There has been intense criticism. First that they are coming at police complaints from the wrong end. If they dealt with small stuff it would help everything but it is dealing only with the most extreme. Also a terrible problem that rape and sexual assault is not covered in their mandate.
 We were going to ask for an office in the DTES but the way it is there's no use.
Kelvin
 This office is working under the existing laws and those laws are made to protect people not to protect the police, but they're not working.
 A lot of the stuff you're talking about is very important but we're just one group and we need to get all our communities together with a bigger voice. We need new laws
Jenn
 I want to move a motion that we flood the complaints process
Ivan
 I agree we need a campaign to deal with the complaints process and
Richard
 We should also include the security guards in a campaign
Jenn
 Also Canadian Border Services Agency
Jacek
 There is a complaints process and if we don't follow it then then don't know there's anything wrong
Richard
 A major problem is that we don't follow up on our complaints.
AGREED: To set up a meeting with other groups to strategize a police complaints campaign.

Jenn
 Information: if you have been strip searched in custody in the past 6 years then you might qualify for compensation. Go see Doug King at Pivot to seek such compensation
 Also: Copwatch wants to organize a protest against Michelle Davey as inspector for the district because she won't meet with copwatch and she refuses to do anything about attacks on native men by BET squad
Harold
 Could we put this problem in a bigger context and identify and address the systemic problems
Ivan
 I agree. Need to deal with the police accountability crisis.
Tami
 We should do more than replace figureheads, need systemic change.
Jenn
 I'll withdraw the motion for now and bring it back when it's better worked out.

LAPP
Herb
 We're trying to get ready for the round tables but there's not much to report on that yet. But Ivan drafted a letter to the city.
Ivan
 Drafted a letter from DNC proper, as the group behind the co-chair.
(We read the letter)
Kelvin
 This has happened because the city has its own agenda. The white government has really pushed us to the limit and they're really doing it to our people
 This table has to come united with all its people and defend the community.
 The rents in the SROs down by the 900 block of East Hastings are going to jump twice over.
 We need to come united with all the communities down here. But we're fragmented. We're falling apart even after all this work.
 In the LAPP I see the system not working. We make good contracts and they're not followed.
Harold
 There's lots of good stuff in the letter that I agree with and people are feeling.
 The question is who is it addressed to and what is its purpose. It can work to expose the role of city hall and show how the process is not working. But some of it is more addressed to our own community.
 One is a criticism of what city hall is doing and the image of strike-one is okay but I'm not sure what it accomplishes exactly. We're not ready to come to a conclusion yet.
Herb
 I also think we won't get the BIAs, or Alive to sign on to this but maybe we can get some more people to sign on to it.
 For the conclusion: I have only been co-chair for a month but there are already bad signs like that the committee is starting to police itself.
Tami
 I like the point that there's a vested interest in the LAPP of people who are seeking profits
 Getting other members of the LAPP to sign on would be important.
Herb
 Could get others on the LAPP committee to write a character reference letter.
Richard
 I agree with getting more people to support this letter.
 The DNC elected Ivan. As a member of DNC I won't tolerate Ivan being removed from the committee.
Kelvin
 This committee should send a request to other organizations and get their views on what's happened since this LAPP has come together. Also the slanderous remarks towards the previous chair and the ousting of that chair need to be responded to.
 It's not to say Herb's not doing a good job or that we want to go back to Ivan, but to look at what's happened and have the LAPP look at it again.
 Go back and look at the policies of governance again.
 We need to nip this in the bud or its going to be worse
Ivan
 I think we should send this just as DNC and write a separate statement with the LAPP Committee
 The purpose for the public letter I think is to expose what's going on in the LAPP and help mobilize our community to fight for a plan that works for the community
 I agree with Harold that the “Strike One” metaphor doesn't quite work because it binds us to three strikes and also maybe is too severe
Herb
 We could go deliver it to council ourselves in a delegation
Richard
 We should demand a letter from council explaining why our co-chair was removed.

DT EAST
Harold
 We have a financial committee working on fundraising and have a letter drafted looking for funds. We should read the letter here.
Jacek
 Will DNC still not know what's going on in the DT East account?
Harold
 The DT East asked me to report to the board regularly about DT East finances and there will be regular financial reports.
 We decided that we were not as transparent as we should have been.
 All the money is being spent on is the printing cost, which is $705 a month, or per issue
 The board should know what's going on.
Jacek
 So the DNC has two treasurers?
Herb
 The DT East finances are only for the printing of the paper and it was decided that it be worked on in the past.
Jacek
 It says here that the DT East is the newspaper of the DNC. Why is it not under the control of the treasurer.
MOTION: To accept and send out the DT East finance letter. Moved: Harold. Second: Richard. Passed, unanimous.

STREET MARKET
Jacek
 Will be a vendors meeting on Saturday and we hope Jenn will come to talk to vendors about vending tickets

AGM
Herb
 We're booked for a pre-AGM on December 1 and AGM December 8
Ivan
 (Distributes package for AGM)
 The question I think we have to answer is whether we will have honorariums at the AGM. We should put it on the poster so that people know.
Kelvin
 The stipends have caused a lot of grief for us lately. There has been bad blood with the honorariums at this last meeting and the one before.
 I think we should stop having honorariums
Harold
 The thing that's bad is not knowing if it is available. Not everyone takes it but those who do need it.
 Unless we know for certain that the money is available then we should not put it on the poster
Herb
 We didn't find out until the day before that there was not going to be an honorarium at this last meeting and it was partly that reason that many people were pissed off.
 Should put it on the poster one way or another. Need to find out how we can streamline the process before we bring it back
Tami
 I feel that the honorarium's time has come and gone. Nothing more evident than how it has been mismanaged and abused. The dynamic of the last general meeting was different because of that.
 I find it distasteful that our membership finds out through 3rd hand sources that there's no money for that meeting
 The two main things are that I think the honorariums have been mismanaged and even abused. And also I think it has been a failure.
Richard
 I made it clear that there would be no stipend to VANDU and Political Action Group
 I think we had a good showing for a meeting without
MOTION: To use honorariums at the AGM if it is available. The co-presidents to approach Ann and seek the release of $300 for the AGM and have the money deposited to the DNC Bank account. If this is not possible then we will announce that we will not have honorariums available at the AGM. (Moved: Tami. Second: Harold. PASSED unanimous)

FINANCES AND BANKING
Harold
 Tami, Ivan and I went to Van City and got the account activated finally. We sorted it out.
Ivan
 We got some cheques and wrote and signed a cheque to Streams of Justice to pay for the Dodson Hall rental for the October meeting. Need to write a cheque to Dodson Hall when we get that invoice.
 Tami has also written me a cheque for $55 for board meeting food for the past couple weeks but I have not cashed it because I worry about the process we're in.
 Tami has tried to contact the treasurer  and has not been able to reach him and he is not coming to these meetings so we have no way to deal properly with our finances. But we need to deal with money. We have to spend money to do our work and it is not acceptable for us to just have individuals pay for things and keep receipts forever.
Tami
 I would be willing to take over as treasurer for the time being.
Kelvin
 We need to deal with these problems or we will hand over a sinking ship to the next board.
MOTION: To ask Tami Starlight to manage up to $1000 from the VanCity account for necessesary DNC expenses including board food, printing, and space rental until the AGM on December 10. (Moved: Herb. Second: Richard. PASSED unanimous)

STREET MARKET 2
Kelvin
 Which are the organizations that are accountable for the street market? We are accountable to the community and right now it is not clear.
Richard
 The Street Market is not VANDU's project, it is DNC's market.
Tami
 It started as a protest. And it is DNC's project.
Jacek
 We followed the motion just over a year ago from the DNC board for money for the market and to negotiate with the city about 62 E Hastings. Me and Roland did that not VANDU
Harold
 There is a memorandum of understanding between DNC and VANDU about the way the market is to be run.
 Roland is saying that the process now is that the money comes from VANDU even though the MoU says that it is a project of DNC, under the control of DNC.
 The street market committee sometimes reports to us directly and a lot of times it seems like it is being run autonomously. We have not been setting the budget.
 When Lynn was working as the coordinator and we ran low on money the market committee recommended and the board agreed that she be laid off.
Ivan
 There is a crisis in the market because the way we are operating structurally is not consistent with the Memorandum of Understanding. We need to have a structure that is consistent with how we operate.
 I don't think we can answer that here. We need to meet between the board and the street market committee and create an official structure that matches with our practice.
Richard
 DJ and I are both on the street market committee and on this board and we can bring reports back each week.
Kelvin
 I do not intend any disrespect to the people who are on the market committee they are doing great work and the market is running great.
Jacek
 We have permits from the city and we have money from the city so it is not a protest.

MOTION to close (Passed, unanimous)

DNC Board meeting - November 1, 2012

DNC Board meeting and discussion on 2012 in review
November 1 2012

Present: Tami, Herb, Kelvin, Jamie, Ivan, Harold, DJ, Jenn
Guests: Daeshawna, Colleen, Victoria, James, Richard from the West, Jacek, Dave D

AGENDA
 Opening and introductions
 Urgent issues for decision
 LAPP
 Copwatch
 General meeting / AGM
 Discussion: Year 2012 in review

OPENING
 Kelvin acknowledged Squamish, Musqueam, Tsleil Waututh territory
 Round of introductions
 Tami outlines agenda. Motion to approve agenda: Passed unanimous

LAPP
Herb
 I presented at council for the first time a couple weeks ago, about the rezoning application for 955 E Hastings. The councilors cross examined me pretty harshly. Then at the next day of the public hearing Scott Clark came and undermined the co-chairs and presented different vote outcomes. Ivan said that was a lie, and then Scott yelled at Ivan.
 At the
Ivan
 We discussed this at the co-chairs meeting and have a suggestion about how to resolve it
 I want DNC's support for Herb not to apologize because we never agreed to not protest
Kelvin
 I had someone from LAPP call me this week and tell me that I should keep people beneath me in line. That was completely unreasonable.
 I'm really pissed off that they called me, that someone gave them my number
 I support what Herb did, I don't care what happens up at city hall.
 I am under a lot of stress from family issues and getting that call was more stressful
 I am speaking with a lawyer to see if I can get support to stop these calls.
 I used to get calls about Ivan and the LAPP which I used to just ignore.
 I'm hurting inside and I need support.
 I am asking for support from the DNC board to send a letter to the LAPP and ask for them to not call me on my personal phone.
Tami
 I responded to some of the emails going out criticizing Herb.
 I spoke with Kathy from the Powell St Festival asking for her support of us through this conflict.
 I replied with a fairly distinct email to everyone who received Joji's complaint letter, naming Joji's position of privilege
Colleen
 I don't believe in engaging in these discussions over email
 I think that Scott Clark is bullying the committee and especially Herb and Ivan, at the governance committee.
 The city is not listening to us. I see some joining of forces and some bullying happening. I saw some real smugness between Wes and the city at the meeting today
Tami
 I feel we're really losing our edginess. We're being too polite.
 There's a danger of the DNC within the LAPP playing too much of their game and not pushing our own game.
Herb
- When I say I'm a sovereign Nisga'a and Nuu-Chah-Nulth man it's because
MOTIONS:
 For DNC to send a letter to the LAPP asking that Kelvin not be harassed about the conduct of others on the LAPP committee and that no one call him on his cell phone without his permission, that his number has gotten out somehow. (Moved, Herb. Second, DJ. Passed unan)
 For DNC board to support Herb in his decision to not apologize for protesting at city hall. (Moved, DJ. Second: Victoria and Kelvin. Passed, 1 abstention for conflict of interest)

COPWATCH
Jenn
 It's been an emotional week for copwatch and me.
 Rob Morgan, who we have been supporting in a complaint for police brutality, just got an email from the Office of the Police Complaints Commission saying that the officer he has launched a complaint against was not working that night. We are trying to verify that and to figure out what to do next.
 Earlier this week I witnessed a heavy attack on a woman on the street; two cops handcuffed her too hard and she was crying, was forced to drop a tissue, and then they gave her a ticket for littering.
 I called the staff sgt and he dismissed my complaint. He said that it was only my opinion that the person was assaulted and they he would not meet with me because even the district inspector Michelle Davie would not meet with me.
 Jamie and I are discussing that we should not meet with the police any more. We need a special branch of the Independent Inspections Office (IIO) in the DTES to take complaints.
 The sgt also said that if I don't like the way police function I should get my MLA and MP to change the police act. So I have approached Jenny Kwan and Libby Davies to work on this.
DJ
 I made a report and filed a complaint against the cops for coming into my room with the Beat TV show and they are not saying they want me to drop the case because they can't substantiate the date.
 I have a lawyer to work on it and I don't want to drop it
Jenn
 Copwatch is in the Georgia Straight because Charlie Smith went along on a ride along with the BET team. His story glorifies the BET. We want to invite him to do a walk along.
Ivan
 I agree that Jenn should not meet with the cops any more. I think there's a political opportunity here with the beginning of the Independent Investigations Office. They have to prove they're actually effective and that's a lot to prove.
 I think we should arrange a meeting with the new Investigations Officer Rosenthal and Doug King and David Eby and push for a special investigations office in the DTES.
 If they're not willing then we should organize a delegation to go to the forum they are organizing about policing on November 19 and deliver a statement.
Herb
 We have to make this a human rights issue. All aspects of our condition in the DTES are human rights violations. We need to make it a bigger issue and to take it to the UN if we can.
 The very constitution of Canada is racist against Native people. And now it's becoming more of a crime to be poor, to be a sex worker.
 In the LAPP we're wasting a tremendous amount of energy spinning our wheels and we should be organizing.
Jamie
 In the early summer I had a complaint that Cst Sean Shipper was harassing me and they dropped it.
Jacek
 When I made my complaints, the only result I got from the police was that they received my complaint. That's all.
DECISION: To pursue the following actions
 Jenn to contact Jenny Kwan and Libby Davies about the Police Act
 Ivan to set up a meeting between Copwatch, Pivot, BCCLA, and the IIO to ask for a special complaints office in the DTES
 To organize a delegation to the forum at WW about policing on November 19

GENERAL MEETING AND AGM
Herb
- The special committee requested that we push back the AGM one month, so we had a motion last week to reorganize the general and AGM meetings but didn’t have quorum. I contacted some other board members and they agreed. We had to move ahead.
CONSENSUS DECISION: To support the reorganizing of general meeting and AGM as follows:
- November general meeting: Saturday November 10, 2:30pm at Dodson Hall
- Pre-AGM: Saturday December 1, 3pm at Carnegie Theatre
- AGM and board elections: Saturday December 8, 2:30pm at Dodson Hall

DISCUSSION: 2012 IN REVIEW
(Recorded on flip chart. Ivan went through DNC’s actions month-by-month. Go-round of all present to state their “favorite actions” of the year.)
CONSENSUS DECISION: To have a “best of 2012” discussion at the November general meeting, with comparisons between our work in 2011 and in 2012 (under the pressure of the LAPP).

(Closing)