3/14/07 Food Coop MTG
Attending: Irina, Camryn, Budge, Thiago, Lara, Ron, Dave, Andrea, Randy, Claire
Agenda
Process for Distribution
Extra Funds
Onions and Garlic
Work Requirement & Tracking & Enforcement
New Fridge
Plastic Bag Collection
$20 Min
$20 min? We’ll try dropping $10 1/2 shares; requiring people to split themselves
Pricing of produce-Lara will e-mail farmer about pricing options
Visit to farm? We want to make it happen. Need to contact farmer to arrange. Volunteer?
$ Collection? Do we need a phone tree?
Need a wiki/web page showing who is paid to when
Can we do paypal? Thiago will take paypall payments as a last minute contingency
Ideally, folks will pay on sunday
Definitely need to pay by thursday
Try three options of payment for april
Pay/reserve whole month in advance
arrange for 1/2 month in advance
pay week to week
Randy will be permanent cash collector
Thiago will collect paypal and pass on to Randy
Randy will communicate totals
Contact for non-residents
Call 100 on call box wil let Lara buzz you in
Work Requirements
Groups? Split up work?
More work (like office work) being made
how to divide up the work?
-produce splitting
-calling
-spreadsheet
-$ handling
one shift per month-agreed, as long as we are flexible in how to apply that
Split up call list- let know:
-Can you sign up for a work shift
-can you sign up for a month or 2 weeks in advance
Bulk goods
-Try a sample $500 order?
Budge will talk to bulk sources
Do we need a scale? not yet; michelle has one
Publicity-for now, keep to narrow word of mouth
re-evaluate at $300-$400
Next meeting-April 4, 7:30 pm at LAEV