12/12/06 1:30 Staff Conference Call
Facilitator: Will
Notetaker: Sarah
I. Check-In’s
II. Notes from last meeting
III. $$$
-Fundraising
-Jeff Aaron
-Madigan and Ash yesterday, went over proposal, good meeting.
-Jeff is not giving us a “list” of people to contact, doesn’t really exist.
-Us meeting w/ board of FH? Jeff pursuing, hoping for first week in Jan. Ash will post when these will be. Have Madigan concert?
-Van Am
-Looks like April 1st, but looks good for us. A bit of a relief
-Funder letters went out
-Send holiday fundraising letter out to members
-FJC
-More $$ than we though we have. $17,000
-Madigan went to FJC, good to meet Nicole
-Online “banking”
-Wellness fund
-Schedule time to talk to Janine
-FJC
-Fundraising crisis over, enjoy holidays!
-Pay people on vacation?/ Reimbursements, travel expenses
-Precedence=Madigan, $200/mo.
-Sascha-wants to get reimbursed for travel costs, not get paid
-Sascha will send list of things he want to be paid back for
-Table for now.
IV. Website troubles
-Search not working for new content
-Will has volunteer through Drupple web site, also put notice for paid people
-Set time limit on volunteer (maybe 2 weeks), if she doesn’t come through, pay someone
V. Work Priorities/Job descriptions
-Table for some other time, not enough time today.
-Basically, create sense of priorities as a group.
-Maybe do this next week together
VI. Sarah’s work
-See Open Plans
VII. NYU
-What’s going to happen in January when Sascha’s gone?
-Liz planning to be coordinator next semester, ind. Study
-Brad Lewis, going on sebat., new professor going to take his role with us.
-Liz will be in direct communication with us re: working on peer ed. Program
-Sascha will send us an email
VIII. Feminist Health Gathering
-London radical medic training right after
-No funding for transportation
-If we have our own funding, we could be a part of this, would have to be a female-identified person
-Get someone to donate plane ticket for Ashley and Sarah to go
-Housing taken care of, we need to get $ for transportation to and from London and Leeds.
IX. Holiday parties
-Sascha’s birthday on Saturday, welcome to come up this weekend to German Town.
-New Year’s community art project in Red Hook.
X. Scheduling
-Ashley won’t come in this Friday.
-Sascha gone 12/31-1/31
XI. Collective calendar
-Will will set up on Google.
XII. National collective call
-Prepare agenda?
-Let folks know?
-Madigan put on discussion forum
-Delegate note-taker, facilitator at beginning of meeting
-1 or 2 agenda items, open up for support, using staff as resource.
-Madigan will send an email on Saturday and on discussion forum