DNC board meeting minutes, June 17th, 2014.

Discussion of ideas for community forum to take place at #62 Hastings: equipment required includes P.A. system and banners.  X suggests we must contact/invite speakers from non-profits and political representatives. X suggests that security can be provided by Street Market.

X motions to vote for X as new DNC board member. Motion accepted. X is voted in as board member, unanimous.

Street Market report:  Market is getting another container. The containers are scheduled to be painted by end of August.

Members are aware that X may have vacated seat. Motion: If X does not attend next meeting X will send a letter. Motion accepted.

Legal committee report: Members working with legal expert to learn argument concerning the human rights of persons engaged with harmful drugs.

Discussion re: donations wish list. X suggests we can put such a list on website. Items required are tools, computers, vehicle, printer, coffee pot.  X states he will talk to other society about a vehicle. X states he will approach X for donations of computers.

X will research crowd sourcing and bring a report to the board.

Adjourn.

DNC Board Meeting Minutes - June 10, 2014

DNC Meeting Minutes - June 10, 2014

Attendees: 11 board members in attendance, 2 guests:

X reads the constitution

Agenda

Updates: mental health TF, brochure

Street Market Report

Outreach Report

Gastown Gazette

City of Vancouver

Endorsement: Housing March

Importance of Agenda Setting

X, X, motion to accept agenda – motion passes

Xread minutes (add word ‘day’ to minutes after ‘30’)

Update on Mental Health

X of West Coast Mental Health Network, may come and speak to board on same day as X to discuss. Discussion of having an invitational board meeting and poster it to invite people. Discussion to hold tenants’ rights meeting at 62, and meet with board only and then decide to press these issues. Discussion of having Ron only at meeting so that we clearly hear one side, others argue that X should provide alternate view.

Vote on X and X wins over X only meeting

Brochure

Coming soon. Firm will donate time to produce professionally for us.

Street Market

X gives report. VPD were very helpful this last Sunday. Break in on our container, also getting help from VPD on this. Container painting going ahead. Find out about major grant on Thursday.

Outreach Report

X will work with conflict resolution process, will bring copies to board soon. Arts poster co-sponsored by Street Market. X will produce a list of grants for the DNC. Gastown Gazette did not come, but may come next week.

Discussion of X calling Penny Ballem and setting up a meeting to introduce and advocate for the new DNC.

Housing March

New housing group at VANDU. Asking for DNC to support the march.

Agenda Setting

X gives summary of work on good meeting practices. Agendas, minute reading, parts of meetings that are not strictly chaired. Agenda items where specific people have responsibilities, or agenda items where motions are necessary. Also discussion of important ways to set the right atmosphere and disarm people.

Motion to adjourn, moment of silence

DNC Board Meeting Minutes - June 3, 2014

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 5^th 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

DNC Board Meeting Minutes: May 27th 2014

DNC Board Meeting Minutes: May 27^th 2014

Minutes

X reads constitution

Motion to accept agenda

Introduction (three new members)

Guest presentation re: tenant safety issues/ privacy/ people need to protect themselves - cameras help people to protect themselves from theft, intrusion of privacy.

Guest presentation leads to discussion that this problem with theft/privacy is part of tenant’s rights issues.

X makes a motion for a committee to deal with tenant’s rights issues.

Motion accepted.

X reads email re: finance/ fundraising committee.

X makes a motion to approve finance/fundraising committee/stipend for fundraising to be provided

Motion accepted.

Membership secretary elected

Motion to accept X as new membership secretary

Motion accepted.

Motion to accept Legal Club/Advocacy committee to meet June 5^th, 1:30 pm Location TBA

Motion accepted

Conflict resolution proposal: Tabled.

X gives Street Market report re: funding for security guards

Motion to adjourn

DNC Board Minutes - May 20, 2014

DNC Board Meeting Minutes - May 20, 2014

Attendees: 

12 board members in attendance, 2 guests.

X reads the constitution

X reads previous minutes, minutes approved with friendly amendment to give $5 honorarium to X for addressing the board.

Round of introductions

MOTION: X, Xto approve the agenda. Motion passes.

Presentation on mayor’s mental health task force:

Summary of materials , Declaration of mental health crisis, task force comprises 45 members, mostly from service providers, 8 from VPD, 1-VANDU, 1-GG, 1-At Home Chez Soi, Chaired by Penny Ballem, Sessions on variety of topics: stigma, systems, eliminating barriers – to sharing information among non-profits.

Add 300 secure mental health beds, now 150 beds in DTES, rest outside. More staffing at BC housing sites, more significant support through ACT teams etc…, visits regularly, enhanced crisis care, funding for 9 beds at StPauls, creation of joint VPD/ACT teams, police can decide if you are mentally ill.

(Section 28 of mental health act)

June 11 is session on addictions

SAMI – Severely addicted and mentally ill

6 points of agreement or discussion.

Issues discussed surrounding Charter of Rights.

Consuming illicit alcohol and crystal meth leads to brain damage, therefor can now be classified as mentally ill. Mental health act will be used against addicts.

Agreement has been made on information sharing between agencies.

Discussion of civil forfeiture laws starting as something sold as reasonable and then clearly getting out of hand.

Discussion of voluntary community crisis centre that would remove necessity for committal of at risk persons.

Finance Committee

Meeting on Friday, May 23^rd at 9:30am

PHS:

Street Market advisory

Background Re: PHS and neighbourhood

Dominic Flanagan – believes in forced treatment

Princess will not be taken back, but possibility of VCH or others coming in and running it like an institution

Discussion of Trauma informed services as an alternative narrative to the forced treatment model

VCH is under pressure to turn away from harm reduction

Alternatives to Detox centres should be a priority

Brochure

Delayed due to the long weekend

Phone Tree

Divide up an old copy of the membership list

Need to meet regarding the website – X, X, X, X perhaps

X visited an advocacy workshop, there may be positions available.

Motion to adjourn, moment of silence

DNC Board Minutes - May 13, 2014

DNC Board Minutes - May 13, 2014

Agenda

1)      Proposal – Art project

2)      Website

3)      X: Process for changing the constitution

4)      Ad hoc committee for changing constitution

5)      Voice mail script

6)      Rule about attendance

7)      Statement, Re: guests

8)      Other business

X reads the constitution

X reads previous minutes, minutes approved

Art Project

X presents the DNC Women’s Community based Art Project

Discussion of making it a gender neutral Arts group

MOTION: X, X motions for $20 budget for a poster to promote the Women’s Art group times at 62 East Hastings. Motion passes.

Website

X will give X’ contact info to X so they can set up a meeting

Constitution

X obtained the real constitution that is significantly different than the one we were led to believe, or the one that the previous board put up on our website. No changes to constitution are now being proposed.

Attendance

MOTION: X, X motions that after three consecutive missed meetings the board will start the process to declare the seat vacant. Motion passes.

Program through VCH – training people to be disability advocates

Discussion of fundraising committee

Discussion of task force on mental health

Brochure is now ready to go, facts about our neighbourhood

Meeting to adjourn – 11am

DNC Board Meeting Minutes - May 6th, 2014

DNC Board Meeting Minutes - May 6, 2014

9 board members in attendance, 10 total attendees

Agenda

Brochure

Constitution

Website

Membership List

Gazette

Code of Conduct

Other business – minutes

X reads the constitution

Round of introductions

Postpone reading and approval of minutes

Brochure

Discussion of brochure – should be welcoming, should encourage all residents to take part

MOTION: X, X motions to take everyone’s input and do a revised brochure. Motion passes.

Constitution

Discussion of updating the constitution

Website

Will contact X about maintaining website

Will grant board members with FB admin access to the DNC FB page

Membership List

Next week do outreach to members, phone list party

Gastown Gazette

We now have a sponsorship from GG to list our minutes.

MOTION: X, X will write a short summary of our meetings for the GG. Motion passes.

Code of Conduct

X discusses some examples of basic conduct rules such as someone cannot be a member and have as their goal the destruction of the organization. Discussion of writing a common sense list which will serve as a guide for board members and meetings.

Motion to adjourn, moment of silence