Common House minutes: 2015-11-28

Agenda:

Standing item - do one question from the Committee Mandate template per
meeting.
Hanging the Bell

Minutes:

Thanksgiving Weekend Edition, ie, no one came to the meeting but me.


1. Standing item - do one question from the Committee Mandate template per
meeting.

DRAFT
*Our Mandate: What did the community ask us to do?*
The basic scope of the Common House Committee is everything to do with the
common house except those things that fall to Buildings Committee (mainly
exterior maintenance and fire suppression maintenance.) There are three
major areas of focus: 1) design (and redesign), 2) maintenance, 3)
oversight.

Areas of responsibility within maintenance may include: Cleaning; Interior
maintenance (painting, floors, furnishings, kitchen, etc.); Equipment
maintenance (furnace, a/c, water heaters, fans, appliances, fire system,...-);
Replenishing supplies (bathrooms, kitchen, guest room); Security: lock &
unlock, check windows; Repair and replacement of long term items such as
flooring and counters and remodeling of rooms.

Areas of responsibility within oversight may include: setting policies for
use of the common house, reviewing proposals for changes and spending, and
possibly doing some programming (events, activities, etc.).

2. Hanging the Bell

It would be good to hang the bell in some temporary yet secure fashion in
the location of the current bell and test for a week or so to see how the
sound carries from there.