12/19/06 Staff Conference Call
Ashley: Facilitator
Sarah: Recorder
*Check-In’s
*Follow-up from last week:
*FJC Wellness Fund follow-up after the holidays
-put on January call agenda
*Work descriptions/priorities
-Think about during the holidays
*Holiday donation letter to affiliates
-Madigan will start formulating with Ashley
*Travel budget/Other Reimbursements
-Sarah and Ash in England
-Tickets were $340pp round-trip, purchased yesterday!!!
-Pre-approve amount for spending in England?
-Per diem travel, food, etc. stipend
-All expenses above and beyond normal every-day expenses
-Make sure we’re consistent with policy for everyone
-Ashley and Sarah will bring proposal to next meeting
-Reimbursements
-What’s the policy? What needs to be pre-approved?
-Everything should be subject to same standard, policy
-Cell phone bills
-Should everyone be reimbursed for a portion?
-We talked about this in August-because we have small salaries, this might provide compensation.
-Retroactively reimburse everyone since August?
-Set an amount per month and reimburse
-Set for September 1st as date for
-Monthly allowance with receipts/documentation
**Decision: $40 per month, with receipts for everyone. Have FJC add to salary check as reimbursement. We will send receipts to FJC.**
-Travel re-imbursement policy?
-Reimburse for Metro-North travel
-Buy pre-paid calling card to keep in office?
Online phone card we can all use? Ashley will investigate.
*NYU update
-Students stressed out about end of semester, unable to think about next semester.
-Sascha will put Madigan in touch with Liz.
-Issue of having professional counselors required to be at meetings
-Challenge to what we consider “safe space”…
-Next semester, call meetings “discussion groups”, not “support meetings”
*Website- hiring someone
-Volunteer seems to be a no-go, Jonah’s really busy…
-$30-35/hr. for man in England to fix problems with search, etc.?
-Let’s do it.
-Ash and Will take a look and see exactly what we need done.
*”Navigating…” publishing offer by New Harbinger
-Last collective call mentioned piece of writing by person in Bay Area, saying that reader is pro-meds.
-Work with New Harbinger on publishing as an actual book?
-Re-work reader to reflect other voices, visions, new info about meds, less
emphasis on bipolar specifically.
-Create map of all the things we want to publish in 2007, bigger strategy.
-We might want to look out for other publishers, too.
*Info account
-2 strategies have been suggested
-switching to new account
-“icaristas” as main email account
-have auto-response telling emailers that we have switched
-then, don’t order anything online with new account, use old one.
-spam filter service
-creates an obstacle to emailing us
-let’s not do this.
*Jed foundation
-Consider all of us meeting with them…
*Pay Pal donations?
-Talk about this week, out of time…
*12/17/06 collective call processing
-Talk about this week, out of time…
*Ann Arbor area folks interested in Icarus
-Talk about this week, out of time…
Happy holidays!!