Common House minutes: 2007-08-31

Agenda:

Agenda:

*Hobart
*Night lock up
*Locks
*Budget
*fall work day
*Alternative meeting this week - CH
*Guest Room fees
*Game Room

Minutes:

Present: Rachel, Sarah, Nancy, Heather, Becky

Alternative meeting
Rod is excited about doing a common house visioning piece. It will
focus people on what we can do to improve the CH.


Hobart. Eric reported that the hobart has been have intermittent
problems again, but he hasn't called. Time to call for service.
Need someone who can be around during the day during the week. Sarah
could be here weds afternoon, heather tues afternoon. Becky will
place call and give their phone numbers as contacts. *NOTE:
Serviceman came on Weds, and says the error was caused by the hobart
being pushed too far back to the wall, which crips the drainage
hose. The E5 error means it can't drain right. He moved it, seemed
to correct the problem, and left us with a copy of common error codes.


Budget
waiting for confirmation about whether the media room blinds every
got recorded. If not, we have about $200 left for media room....if
so, we have about $600. Maia is going to use her teen hours to help
with CH decorating. *NOTE, the blinds were not reimbursed yet, so
we'll have about $200 left for media room budget.

We have $400 for misc improvements and $270 left for play room. Do
we want to use some of this money for the toys that Katie emailed us
about? We looked online, and they are very nice, but it is a lot of
small pieces. We are going to pass right now, because we want to
invest in some bigger climbing blocks.

Media Room
the slip cover just isn't working. We are going to get another that
fits this style of couch better. Becky and Maia will get one.

Guff Stuff
discussion about the table being used for junk and guff. Nancy will
get a nice basket and we will try that. And the basket will have
instructions that guff needs to be labeled, and can only be left for
3 days. nancy will also add to the hall cleaning positions that they
will empty the basket.

Budgeting for 2008
Becky just wanted to pass on to the new committee members that they
will need to start planning for the 2008 budget. The main line item
to focus on is the "improvements". Most everything else is just a
percentage increase for utilities. Supply line item is usually kept
the same (paper products, cleaning supplies, maintenance stuff)



Heather will print all the job descriptions for the cleaning ones for
Nancy.
Monkey Tom/Rachel to make sure the doorknob on the craft closet gets
re-installed.

Locks
Rachel is going to take over research for locks. We want locks that
we can set to automatically lock at a certain time.

Game Room
Brainstorming for making it better, especially for the winter
*soft climbing blocks - heather will research
*banners to soften the sound - heather and Sarah
*curtains for windows that are heavy and light blocking - on tension
rods - will decide on once the banner colors are chosen.


Guest Room
The CH committee has been discussing for some time raising the rates
- starting January 1, 2008. This is what we have decided to try
GO people = $10 per night starting in 2008
Passer-through = $25 per night, cash or check when you check in.

CH Committee wants to keep the guest room reservations in the book.
We do NOT want this to go on the computer at this point.

Steering Update
Nancy gave an update of the most recent steering meeting.

New CH meeting schedule Every other weds noon-1 starting 9/12/07