Common House minutes: 2003-09-20

Minutes:

Facilitator: Rod Minute Taker: Becky Present: Mel, Debbi, Rod, Becky

Agenda: Room Use Policy Color for remaining rooms Office lease length Plan agenda for next few meetings


Room Use Policy We focused on alcohol use paragraph, in light of the last business meeting. We all agreed that we should remove the 1st sentence "Alcohol use in the CH will follow the alcohol statement policy....". Instead, start the paragraph with "No alcohol will be stored in the Common House. We are ready to present this to the community meeting, need a presenter. Can Melisa present? If not, who would like to? Color For Remaining Rooms Exercise Room - Gusto Gold SW6904 Same as the Game Room in order to be more economical. Want more people present at meeting to decide hall colors

Question: Melisa, have you chosen the kids room colors yet?

Discussion on the office colors. Do renters get to choose any color, or from a 'pre-selected' palate? Question: who has a sample of the carpeting? That would be helpful. Rod will try to get one and bring to next meeting.

GENERAL PLEA: we need more people to come to the next meeting so we can finalize the colors. Office lease length: none of us feel comfortable telling someone they have to vacate an office after a year, but we acknowledge that it can be frustrating to those on the waiting list. We 3 agreed that current renters should get first option of renewing. We could let renters decide if they want to sign 1, 3 or 5 year lease to start with. We want people to have an 'out' if their financial situation changes and they need to get out early. We want to be a kinder, gentler landlord. However, we all strongly feel we need more CH committee members to decide on this. Future Agenda Items We need, ASAP, to start processing donation offers, and temporary storage of accepted ones. Finalize Office rental, specifically length of lease and how/if we rotate.