Meals minutes: 2013-07-30

Agenda:

Meals Payments Concerns
Endangered Meals in August
Next Work Season
No Show Workers
TS Participation in Go Meals System
Other Business

Minutes:

Present:'-'-'-'- Debbi, Gail, Kathy, Mary (for a short time)

Meals Payments Concerns.'-'-There has been a concern raised about GO & TS renters who move out without paying their meals bill.'-One suggested remedy is to charge all renters a deposit before they can be added to the meal signup system.'-While we know who are the GO renters, we do not always know who are renters at TS. We continue to try to get this information from TS.

Gail and Kathy (meals billers) will meet with Adi to explore how a deposit system might work.'-Any proposal would be brought to the community for agreement.

Endangered Meals in August. The Monday, August 26, meal has been cancelled due to a lack of workers.'-Meals on Tuesday, August 27, and Wednesday, August 28, have a full contingent of workers and will take place.

Next Work Season. Most meals assignments were filled.'-We are still short one meeting night takeout orderer and one meeting night cleaner, as well as a few meal cleaner slots. We will wait until after the meals scheduling survey is complete to decide how to fill these slots. We are also missing a Steering Committee representative for the next season.'-The new committee will decide how to fill this position once the new season has begun. '-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-

No Show Workers. The meals committee would like to be notified when an assigned assistant cook or cleaner does not show up to do the job. Workers who find that they cannot fulfill their assignment are responsible for finding a replacement or, if it is a last minute emergency, notifying the head cook.'-There is a concern that some folks may not be reading email regularly and thus are not aware of their assignments. A print copy of the season's assignments could be given to such persons.


TS participation in GO meal system. At the present time there is no plan for including TS workers in GO meals work on a regular basis. All requests for volunteer assistance go to both the GO and TS email lists. We have had one TS member offer to help on one of the endangered meals.'-'-'-'-

Other Business.'-The small refrigerator is still not functioning well. Debbi will investigate purchasing a new one.


Next Meals Committee meeting.'- The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 21.