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=== Real-estate decisions decided by board ratified by 24 hour notice special member consensus === ''Modified from 2018-03-06 consensus which worked to get a lease. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Consensus_Items_History)'' Adds "building improvement decisions" to the list of decisions which board can initiate. Real-estate decisions are time-sensitive and require an accelerated consensus process: # The board officers of Noisebridge may enter into loan agreements, building purchase negotiations, lease negotiations and building improvement decisions in the interest of acquiring a suitable building to be our permanent home. This authorization lasts until a permanent home has been secured, or until Noisebridge has either renewed the 2169 Mission St lease or signed a new lease and any related building improvement decisions are completed at which time the measure will be ended by a 24 hour Consensus. # The Board Officers shall keep a log of non-sensitive information stemming from the authorizations above to be published as a βnoteβ on the #the-board, a Noisebridge wiki page, and the Noisebridge discuss mailing list, at a minimum interval of every 2 weeks. # In the event that a purchase, lease or building improvement decision is required in under two weeks, a special meeting may be called with at minimum 24 hours notice to form a special consensus on the lease, building improvement or purchase decision. The meeting will occur at Noisebridge and provide a mechanism (e.g. Google Hangout) for remote participation. A link will be provided to remote in the 4 channels described above and the pad.riseup.net/p/nbmeeting notes. </blockquote> Ryan: Authorization should last a bit longer than the moment of a new lease so that building improvements probably done after lease is finalized can be decided. Some form of small C consensus or big C consensus should decide when the item has ended in effect since it likely will take 3-4 months before we become comfortable in the new space. Also, add in more things related to each building improvement so all will trigger a 24 hour special consensus period. Since we are at this meeting, we can give the board regular access, but then we would need to call a meeting tomorrow if we want to sign it Thursday pretty much, but then we also need to get into building approvals, with big M member approval with the quick consensus process. ... Please read through this silently, then we will discuss it. We can consensus on this right now if we want. Then the memebers present could call a meeting or the board could. James: Question: Are there more than 2 members on this call? Tyler: Most of the board is on this call. James: Not a regular member, or on the board, etc... Tyler: How? What? Tim: How? James: I dropped out, in 2014, 2015... have not been one since. Ryan: Did you cancel? James: I didn't cancel I just faded out like. Everyone: Um.... you are still a member. Every time you try to get out, Noisebridge pull you back in. Ryan: REmember how difficult it was for Jarrod to quit? Ryan: He came to a meeting to be sure he was no longer a member. Tim: Legend.We have 4 members here now Tyler: Can we make consensus a 24 hour process. Make quick turnaround choices. James: One more Q: Is there anyone in terms of the membership or board who is not aware of the new building? Tyler: I don't know...it is very possible, but ppl are gnerally aware of the moving process. But I will still @everyone tonight. *Everyone stunned by @ everyone proposal* Thanks Tyler! Ryan: I just pinged slack to try get more ppl here. This is kind of a big deal. Giving the board power to move quickly... Tyler: What is the expiration? Ryan: Like before, whenever we get a new lease. Whenever the building improvements are completed. Will be ended by 24 hour consensus. Tyler: We use consensus to destroy the consensus. Ryan: Exactly. Tim: How it happens with thunderous applause. Ryan: Yeah. David: Ppl will complain no matter what. What then? ........ *Censored talk... *Spicy** Dave: What about possible complaints? General: We will move on. Tyler: Speaking of alternate opinions... Alice suggested going back to renegotiate sprinklers with the current landlord. I don't think that's what people are interested in doing, since it involves spending $$$ on sprinkler system. David: We didn't get the grant for the sprinklers today. Tyler: It owuld have been different if we got that cash for sprinklers... Should we try it to get leverage. Paul's sayin' : Japanese no... ask for an extreme case till they back down. *Discuss around grants, and our options with staying or moving* *Discussion around centralizing our tax info, org info, and stuff for writing grants!* Thanks to all ppl pushing for those! :) Ryan: Arts grant is part of a higher level commission that has running on an annual/monthly basis. Tyler: Guild system might be really good for applying to grants. People who win the grants have very, very specific goals. Small group of people with singular project/goal. Ryan: We have gotten small project grants in the past. Ruth has a grant for stupid hackathon... Tyler: Project grants are good. Ryan: They help with classes, etc... Once you create the application you can submit it to more than one place. I don't remember if I ever uploaded to the wiki, my item ask form... I made with the consultants... only used a couple times but pretty well written. James: I am going to... We are unique because we pay $0 to do anything...we are like a charity where 100% goes to the stated purpose.... we have almost no overhead... We could apply for a grant to get like $50k for CHM. Tim: We could pay Robert. James: We have less fees than other non-profits and that is unique...so that can strengthen our ask. Tim: That would be awesome. James: Others say 60% go to staff, etc... David: We might pay some overhead...so someone will take the lead to make sure the grant actually gets completed. James: Well, we might pay, but still make our low overhead a selling point. Matt: I also got the grant for stupid hackathon, but I have yet to get the check...that said, not being an employee...or super offical rep...makes it, a bit hard to know who to say the money would exactly go to...so not having employees can give the grantees hesitation...but it is also good we are not paying out to a lot of fancy non-profit employees. Ryan: That is why we have been trying to create positions. Mark: *cough*GUILDS*cough* Ryan: Right so if you can say you are a guild master... and having emails would help.. so when you sign up for these forms with contact info that is unrelated...that is a flag that a lot of grant systems don't like... that is why using the .org will also be good. *cheers* Ryan: Yeah. I have a noisebridge business card...and there are others too...that just say whatever ppl want... but right now...it is like ok: How do you prove it? Usually the proof that grant systems like is an offical email. or some sort of offical looking letter head. Here is the letter head: FYI: https://www.noisebridge.net/images/9/94/Letterhead.pdf Tim: Yeah. Cool. I think that strategy works. *Grant hacking. Yay!* Tim: Can we put Noisebridge.net on the noisebrdige.org then set up an email server with the .org James: Yeah, I think I have control of the .org. Oh no, I have .io Tyler: I have .org and .net for noiserbdige. It has Tyler, Naomi, and Super Q on it. (Ghandi account) Ryan: Can you set up a gsuit account with the .org? Tech soup is free for non-profits, so we can use that. Attach to the .org domain, they we can create forwards and what not. Tyler: I can do that. It is just that...I am in the asking for permission stage. But emails that exist ...are out there...like av@noisebridge.net... So we need to be careful of this legacy stuff. There is also an email list...that might get in trouble with a new server. Tim: Is there any Noisebridge.org legacy? Tyler: No. Tim: Then let's do that. *More talk around setting up the .org email. Just have it forward to .net <- Tim's good suggestion Ryan: Would that let us send as .org too? *Yes, and that is good. Tim: You can set all this up tonight. I call dibs on tim@noisebridge.net! Also want wetguild. *More email tech talk (fingers tired) More tech talk around email server and server and backing up mail server. James: We don't know how it works. Ryan: Can't we... (something about backups) Tyler: I think it was intentionally designed so we didn't have permanent records of email conversations. Ryan: I understand...but maybe non-profits should legally back stuff up as a non-profit... James: Issue is that anything you do for NB is for NB...So if we rescind that stuff, that is against the spirit. Ryan: More on emails..and backing up emails...it is a trail, but you would think more about how you use the email and what it means to use a Noisebridge email. You'd be speaking on behalf on Noisebridge, which makes you think a bit more before saying crazy things. https://www.noisebridge.net/images/9/94/Letterhead.pdf Ryan: We're going to have to update the address if we move! Tyler: We'll just add a "+2 meters." Tyler: So on this consensus item. Do we say that it goes through? Ryan: No one has said anything on Slack. Robert: Let's say it moves forward. Ryan: Okay, so members present - does anyone block the consensus item? Tyler: I do not block it. Ryan: I do not block it. *no one blocks it* Yay! A consensus happened. Ryan: lxpk said last week that he wouldn't block it, if we want a 3rd member. We should let people know about this. There are no consensus proposals for this week and next week. On to discussion.
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