July 17, 2024

Jul 17, 2024 | A2 Board Meeting

Attendees: Joe Wight (Artisans Asylum Secretary) A2 Board Libby Masek Seger, Scott

Alice

Michael

Nick

Peter

Geoff

Dan

Ariel

Tom

Notes

• Approve MArch 13th 2024 minutes
• Approve the May Budget meeting
• Reviewing committee reports
  • Finance committee
    • Geoff gave an overview
    • Mike asks how much money is for repayment, how much is for new stuff
    • Robust discussion about stuff
    • We have submitted the audit
    • We have a 990 filed
  • Development committee
    • Director candidates stat interviews tomorrow
    • Karin is taking over what Kat’s been doing, admin and tracking of development
      • She will help in the transition and hopefully train the new dev director
  • Strategic planning - Alice
    • Brand survey
      • Created a messaging document, key messaging document
      • The caliber of people responding was high, thoughtful responses
    • Donnor party at the Quin
      • Good fellowship
    • Strategic planning
      • Looking for consultant, they may have a candidate
      • Alice would like candidate by aug 12th
      • Rep Honan did not grant us money
      • Geoff thinks 25k is still doable
  • DEI Training
    • Geoff says it was terrific, great team building experience
    • He encourages everyone to go when it happens again
  • REPORT Thus Far
    • Rate increase was overall a success
    • Only issue with one person
    • A member’s position as lead was terminated
    • They have spoke to and provided intonation to an attorney
    • There is no direct communication with this member
    • Over 100 members have not signed the membership agreement
      • ED wants to update the member agreement before tracking down folks that have not signed the current agreement
      • People have not signed to a combination of issues including objections to the document
      • If people don’t sign the agreement, their building access will remain off
      • The board generally would would like a short time table to get membership agreements signed
    • Dev Candidate
      • There’s a couple good candidates
      • Robust conversation
    • More REPORT Thus Far
      • Working on engagement focusing on kindness
      • Formal moderation is on the table but not a priority at the moment as we do not have the resources for this
      • Bikes racks installed at both buildings
      • We’re increasing the IT consultant relationship. They’re cleaning up and fixing systems. It’s going well.
      • Making a ticketing system for submitting issues
      • Change of branding need to be prioritized
    • Assault on Ron on the premises
      • July 3rd, around 10:30 pm
      • Ron was inside at the kitchen, some person walked up across the parking lot
      • They spoke for almost 2 hours
      • Ron lost interest in the conversation after this person began to antagonize Ron
      • Ron left this person outside. This person came to the door and waited for Ron to open the door slightly, this person hit Ron in the face and continued to hit Ron on the ground.
      • This person attempted to take Ron down again.
      • The police were notified and showed up.
      • Ron and Libby are frustrated by the lack of follow up by the police.
      • Ron has sustained significant injuries
      • What is the responsibility of Harvard and the police?
  • Governance from Tom
    • Tom mentions that we have several candidates for board nominated positions.
    • Puppy explained a potential strategy for members having an opportunity to decide and run as members for the board nominated positions. Ranked choice voting etc.
    • Pace was elected as election commissioner
    • Send more names for the board nominated positions