Meeting Minutes: October 28, 2008

1) TRIP

Major problems (Columbia Transportation scheduled us for the wrong destination, location we went to closed, bus broke down on return). On the upside, we continued to get to know Grant Houses youth and some parents. Becky is battling with transportation/club administration to get our bus expenditures reimbursed.

2) COMMUNAL MEAL
Planning Lunch

Becky, Sarah, Leah, and Gracie are hosting Grant Houses women + Lesley Woodward for another planning lunch at noon, at Sarah's suite. Each person will bring a dish for the meal.

Donations
Laura will email everyone with a list of places already contacted and then assign people other places (or types of places) to contact. Andrew is pursuing Westside to ask for donations. Julia offered to call farms from the Columbia Greenmarket. Katie volunteered to also inquire about donations. Hannah is contacting Columbia catering to ask for either flatware/plates we could borrow for the event, or utensil donations, or resources for ordering utensils. Sarah will ask Alison Powell to ask Barnard Dining Services about possible use of their supplies.

Sarah volunteered to coordinate a handout of some sort for the event, including recipes and Greeenmarket information. Sarah will re-send the menu for the event as a guide to what sorts of things we'd like donated (though we'll take nearly anything!). Whitney is contact the Peer Health Exchange to find out if they would be willing to do nutrition education outreach at the Grant Houses, which we could advertise at the communal meal. We decided to wait on inviting other groups to come until we are sure about Grant Houses attendance. We also decided to invite people through the women at the planning meeting and through the day care/senior centers rather than at the Tenants Association meeting so that we have more confirmed commitments from attendees. Possibly we'll give out tickets and flyer for the event.

The task list we created for this event can be found here!

3) DESIGN
Professor Richard Alomar would like group members to attend a design workshop November 20th, 6-9pm or so. Sarah volunteered to attend. Can anyone else? Possibly Rickie or Jawad, since they had an interest in design?

4) MATERIALS
If you have NOT been assigned materials research, please email Leah to receive a piece. It's really not that hard, but we need everyone to help out!

5) BUDGET
Julia (and Tabitha?) is working on the Home Depot Grant due Saturday. Becky is providing the supplementary documents, including the letter of support from NYCHA/Grant Houses.

6) OTHER
Becky is trying to figure out how the Grant Houses project can be something other than an SGB group to solve bureaucratic problems. Andrew is checking to see how much money we have in the account (i.e. how much of the $1500 was spent on trips). We decided to postpone discussion of Grant afterschool involvement until after the communal meal.