Fwd: september CEC meeting notes

[Ashley R. Todd]

Hey Everybody,

Here are the notes from our September meeting. If anyone is interested in creating the agenda/facilitating our upcoming meeting, that would be awesome -- so please let us know. 

See you all Thursday at 630 in the Break Haus!

Ashley

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: jamilah bourdon <electlu...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:00 AM
Subject: september CEC meeting notes
To: ashle...@gmail.com

i wanted to attach the e mail you sent to this, but wasn't sure how much to post in these notes.  so i could either just forward it to everyone, or paste the whole thing here.  i just put 'see e mail attachment', but you can edit this in whatever way you need to.  i would send a general PDF file, but i'm not sure which part of the e mail thread is should include.  so i'm just sending it to you.

peace,
jamilah
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CEC meeting, September 2013

It was Scott's last meeting for the foreseeable future, due to time constraints. The food map project is 'going to sleep' by default; Richard has not returned from Spain. Nick is not able to take it on either.

If there can be a list of unfinished projects, then the food map project should be there. A lot has been done with this. Mostly, promotion and participation need to happen. The foundation and content are already there. It also needs software maintenance. It's currently using USHAHIDI, which is open source. Scott notes that the map should also be embedded in the coop site.

There is a crowd map at foo...@albertagrocery.coop. We need to provide a base level of static. The base order is evaporated due to staff departures. We could get funding from the NE Coalition of Neighborhoods.

The food map needs to go to what is known as the 'bike corral': the action items abandoned as projects.

The 7th principle:

(See e mail attachment)

CARE FOR COMMUNITY:

The donations budget is ran by the marketing coordinator. Scott stated that we should address article one of the bylaws. That cannot be addressed by store operations. The coop's 'gentrifying force' needs to be addressed. Devoting hours to marketing would be a good thing, as you cannot run it as well with volunteers. The association with marketing is incidental to history. The only way it's going to stick is if the board says to staff to allocate money to the 7th principle. The key is to focus on everything but the store. The CEC should be a resource for the staff. There needs to be a focus on reforming and managing hours where working owners work under them. Theresa should be here for this; it would be better to have a general idea from her perspective.

Diversity/Equity/Inclusion:

Ashley contacted PCC, SEI and Jefferson to discuss what they could offer to the coop in terms of supporting internships: job skills training, learning about healthy shopping on a budget, store tours, mediation; giving high school students elective credits and incentive... The SEI connect (Jackie) was excited about internship idea, as younger people feel alienated. Eli, Nick G. and Nick N. said they would be willing to take this on. Ashley is finding out how to start.

Scott suggests that staff consider a process that any collective member give a task not about store operations to make a request for Rachel to recruit that person, or jamilah as a liaison to the CEC.

Listening Project:

The listening phase is wrapping up; the discernment phase begun on the 29th of September, using ideas from the Leaven Project. The plan is to talk about what people heard, who they met with, and what issues people had, as well as finding out what we need to find out versus what steps need to be taken. There's a conversation about what people who are involved in the project are willing and able to do.

Restructuring Discussion:

Scott mentioned that owner linkage consistently gets left out at the board level. Where does the structure and focus come from? How does the priority get decided? Who decides? He notes that the staff has to buy into what the CEC is doing. With that, the staff recruits more effectively. Decision-making has to be professionalized and more disciplined.

Ashley is not in support of the CEC being part of the board. Both the board and the CEC are behind the scenes. We need to unify around projects.

Francesca looked at having staff at the registers introduce the food maps to customers.

New Structure: Focusing on single projects in order to gain participation.

Also: SEI

There was a proposal to decide whether to create a format to prioritize projects for everyone to work on. All were in favor.

For the next meeting we will decide what projects to prioritize on, and where to go.

[Theresa Hilinski]

Out of town yet again (ridiculous), but I'll cover November's meeting - preparing agenda based on October's notes and bringing grub.  Thanks for keeping the troops rallied, Ashley!

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