DNC Board Meeting, March 24^th, 2015, Location: Area #62, East Hastings.

Agenda

Legal Committee

Bottle Drive

Survey 

Developer / Community Consultation

Other Business

Legal Committee

Complaint was sent Friday via registered mail, March 20^th. Motion for board to reimburse Amanda for the money spent for registered mail.  Motion passed.  Ann has made power point and will come back with dates for general meeting.  Group discusses expressions of support from community.

Bottle Drive

Discussion that bottle drive dates should be changed to a later date as details such as permission to use lot not confirmed. Bottle drive organizers oppose this as press releases already sent out regarding bottle drive. Group concedes that bottle drive will take place on planned date. Members will attend Street Market board meeting on March 28^th to ask permission for group to use lot for bottle drive.

Survey

Roland will post online survey March 24^th.

Developers / Community Consultation

Group discusses that developers want to meet with community groups, March 25^th 1 – 2 pm.

Other Business

Ann states that Vancouver Coalition of Neighborhood Councils wants to gain support for challenging what BC Housing is proposing to redefine social housing. Motion to sign to oppose BC Housing redefining the definition of social housing.  Motion passed.

Moment of Silence.

Adjourn.

DNC Board Meeting Minutes, March 17^th, 2015. Location: Area #62, East Hastings.

Agenda

Legal Committee

Bottle Drive

The West Hotel

Street Market

Other Business

Minutes passed.

Legal Committee

Complaint is ready. Ann will book a room for submission of complaint: 2-4 @ Vandu on Thursday, March 19^th.

Bottle Drive

Signs are made. Truck can be booked for $19.95 per day plus $15 insurance and 69 cents per kilometer. Can be booked for 4 pm Saturday March 28^th – 5 pm Sunday. Amanda will make press release and give press release to Bottle Drive committee.

The West Hotel

Rob talks about an incident of crime at West Hotel that is managed by Community Builders Association. Group discussion that a building resident’s association could better assist to prevent any further incidents given the failure of security provided by Community Builders Association.

Street Market

Scheduled shifts available at Street Market.  Residents can sign up for the shifts on Monday morning @ 9 a.m.  $10 stipend for 60 shifts.  Discussion that city has bought 501 Powell street and plans to relocate Street Market.  New structure donated from architectural firm is going to be placed there.

Other Business

Discussion that members of “Edge” are looking for non-residential places for illicit drinkers lounge. Discussion that some illicit drinkers have drinks per day prescribed by doctor. Motion for letter to Vancouver Coastal Health to have such a place provided. Letter to be written by Ann. Rob seconds motion.  Rob will bring letter to next meeting.

Web Page needs to be updated. Amanda will update web page this week with notice about Bottle Drive.

Motion to adjourn. Passed.

Moment of Silence.

DNC Board Meeting Minutes, March 10^th, 2015. Location: #62 East Hastings Street.

Agenda

Legal Committee

Bottle Drive

Aboriginal Committee

Street Market Update

Legal Committee

Complaint is still in progress. The group discusses parts of work yet to be completed. 

         

Bottle Drive/ Funding

Aaron will check with U-Haul regarding truck rental.

Mike will make signs for bottle drive.

Committee will attend Friday 13^th @ area #62 @ 1:00 o’clock to make signs.  The bottle drive will take place on March 28^th 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Amanda will make press release.

Come sign up for two hour shifts.

Chris will make sandwiches.

Aboriginal Committee

Discussion that Vandu/Wars/DNC could meet at Area #62 for general meeting. General discussion of proposal to educate public via posters, etc.

Street Market Update

City has bought a lot on Jackson and Powell with the idea of moving the Street Market there. Next meeting is Thursday March 12^th regarding city to pay for advertising for Street Market move.

Adjourn

Moment of silence

DNC Board Meeting Minutes, March 3^rd, 2015. Location: Area #62, East Hastings.

Agenda

Bottle Drive/Funding

Legal Committee

Raise the Rates

Street Market

Other Business

Bottle Drive/Funding

X proposes initiating a street toll drive to raise funds. Mike suggests having signs asking for bottles from drivers.  X says bottle drive is put on hold until we hear back from Matt re depot proposal.  X proposes a $5 stipend and sandwich.  Jamie asks for more specific details re who will work and get a stipend.

X proposes info booth at area #62 during bottle drive. Jacek doesn’t think the back alley would work and proposes blocking a number of parking spots out front. 

Chris proposes signs asking for empties in front of area #62.

Jamie: I’ll take care of the flyers. We need a ream of paper to poster the neighborhood.

X proposes contacting media.

Jules suggests making a notice to pass to various meetings.

Roland proposes bottle drive sub-committee.

Jamie, Marla, Mike and X to meet Friday, March 6^th, 10:00 a.m. at area #62.

Legal Committee

Amanda:  There was a case in UK where a shop was selling bongs with mj leaf on the bong and the owners of the shop were charged because this was seen as selling pipes for so-called illicit use. Darryl Bickler argued in court that this was censorship, and he won the case.  

Raise the Rates

There is a meeting at Friday at noon at the London Hotel.  Jamie and Marla will attend and report back to DNC.

Street Market Update

No news to report.

Other Business

Roland will look into AGM filing information.

Motion to Adjourn

Moment of Silence

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

DNC Board Meeting, February 20^th, 2015, location: 2^nd floor, Ray Cam Centre,  920 East Hastings.

Agenda

Scott Clark

Bottle Drive

Survey

CBC

Funding

Scott Clark

Scott: February 26^th at 7 pm at SFU Housing forum. Stamps Tenant Council recommends that we attend with a bunch of recommendations.  Scott explains possible next steps for Stamps Tenant Council to group.

Bottle Drive

X: I went to the United We Can depot on Industrial Street. It takes 20 minutes to walk. We have to put in a proposal. Shawn will give email address to Matt. Suggests we ask people to bring their bottles on a Saturday.

Aaron:  We should give the funds to the group. And people who do the bottle drive get a stipend.

X: I think 28^th should be the bottle drive. We also need a media spokesperson.

Jacek: Will people take the time to come with bottles on Saturday? I think Thursday and Friday they might want to give their bottles when they go to work. Instead of plastic bags in bin they can drop it off at the corner.

X: I think community bars will give them to us. So do we want to go forward?

Group agrees.

Survey

Roland put it on credit card. We have it up. Roland will send Matt the account info. Matt will post questions. There are 10 questions and 2 questions per each category. We want to let people know we’re alive.

CBC

Discussion group has interest from CBC.  Group discusses who will be spokesperson. Aaron: nominates Amanda .  Motion seconded that Amanda will be the spokesperson for that particular show. Motion passed.  Matt asks Amanda for strong commitment. Amanda agrees. Discussion that three power statements are needed. Amanda agrees to work on the three power statements and report back.

Funding

X: They have a fund raising programme and it’s for selling chocolates. The only other thing is that tour thing.

Matt: Once this national broadcaster picks up Amanda, we could get funding.

Jacek: Brenda Proskin (sp) said the city will not fund a resident’s association.

Aaron: We don’t fit into anyone’s criteria for funding.

X: If we go media with the bottle drive we can use that for a request for funding.

Matt: If we go into this CBC thing we can plug the bottle drive of the dtes. If we can tighten up Amanda’s document we can use that to ask for money.

Roland: Cupe used to give money.

Ann: Cupe gave money to Jean Swanson.

Roland: We can’t criticize the non profits if we’re in bed with them. 

Ann: They’ll either say yes or they’ll say no, we have to keep asking. There’s an Addiction Task Force. They’re going to be talking about a report called Phase I: Caring for All. It came out September of last year.  So now they’re going to create a peer leadership table: low barrier services. There’s $80 million going to St. Paul’s, Act teams and cops. That’s $32,000 per person and the person gets to live outside because they’re homeless. Bloom Group is to oversee the Mental Health and Addictions services.

The questions I’ve raised before this meeting were who is sectioning clients, which badge numbers do the most sectioning, how long were they held? How many ask for a review? Clasbc does the review.  Client says it takes longer to get out if you ask for a review because the lawyer needs to do whatever the lawyers do. So they won’t ask for a review. How many complaints have been filed for being sectioned for the Mental Health Act?

Aaron: It’s starting to happen to more and more people. We should be aware.

Ann: I wrote letters to ask for the evaluations of Act teams but there’s no evaluations being done. It’s been five years but no evaluation. Karen says there are evaluations but I’ve never seen them.

Moment of Silence

Adjourn

DNC Board Meeting minutes, February 13^th, 2015. Location: Ray Cam, 2^nd floor.

Agenda

Funding

Legal Committee

Movie Business

Ray Cam

Street Market

Business Cards

Survey

Adrianne Carr

Housing

Funding:

Group discusses that political work does not result in funding.  Discussion that DNC could provide tours of neighborhood.  Group discusses that UGM does tours. Matt: We could talk to Tourism Vancouver and get an approved vendors list.

Group discusses proposal to do a bottle drive. 

Jamie: The bottle drive will come and pick up from #62. We can’t store bottles at #62.

Aaron: We could ask restaurants to donate, and other places that have empties.

Amanda: Who would be willing to take charge of the project?

Leo: We ran that program in the ‘60’s and ‘80’s. We’d buy them 80 cents on the dollar. People in the liquor stores loved that. We’d make $500 in two hours. But we don’t have a van now.

Roland nominates X to be in charge of the bottle drive.

Jamie: We should pay whoever does it.

Roland: Discuss at next meeting.

Legal Committee

Aaron is going through Privacy Guidelines. Will report back.

Movie Business

Matt:  At meeting at Creative BC staff person started off by saying: “I don’t know why you’re here. Go find a producer to use your services”. Staff person said government cannot refer services.  The person I met knew DERA and Ed. It’s up to us to call each producer listed on the website. They don’t need street cleaners. They just need ‘special liaison’.

Matt:  Announcement that CBC wants a one page document on what’s going on. The Stamps, Movie Business, Housing, etc.

Amanda: Proposes that each person or committee working on issue put a paragraph together based on the issue we know the most about. Bring to next meeting to be condensed into one page document. 

Amanda: Legal Committee/Stamps

Aaron: Supportive Housing

Roland: Street Market  “The Truth.”

Jamie: Atira

Ray Cam

Meet at Ray Cam while space available. It’s not definite that we can meet here over long term.

Business Cards

Matt says he’s waiting for template.

Adrianne Carr

Email sent re tour.

Street Market

Street Market is starting to apply for grant. The city wants to create a plan around street disorder. DNC could participate and possibly gain some funding.

Also the Street Market is applying for a grant for wifi with other organizations in a coalition. DNC could be part of this. Requires DNC to participate in surveys.

Suggestion Box:

Group discusses ways to encourage people to submit to suggestion box.

Housing

President of Stamp’s Tenant’s Council was to attend but is not here. Group hears that the Stamp Tenant’s Council continues to meet.  Last meeting there was a discussion of plans for concert or other benefit event. Stamp’s Tenant’s Council  meets on Mondays at Ray Cam at 3:00 pm and Thursday 6:00 pm.

Moment of Silence.

Adjourn.