Process minutes: 2004-12-08

Minutes:

'''[[Process[[Committee]]ShortcutBar]]''': [http://www.gocoho.org/wiki/index.php?page=[[Process[[Committee]]HomePage]] Process Home] [http://boa.willienorthway.com/ Book Of Agreements] [http://www.gocoho.org/wiki/index.php?page=[[ProcessMinutesArchives]] Minutes Archives] [http://www.gocoho.org/wiki/index.php?page=[[PolicyClearinghouse]] Policy Clearinghouse] [http://www.gocoho.org/wiki/index.php?page=[[Process[[JobDescription]]s]] Process Job Descriptions] [http://www.gocoho.org/wiki/index.php?page=[[ImportantProcessDocs]] Important Process Documents][http://www.gocoho.org/wiki/index.php?page=[[LibraryWishList]] Library Wish List]

Present: Debbi, Sarah, Gail, Amy H., Jim Sw.

Agenda:

Check-ins

Monkeys

[[Committee]] mandate--finalize

Review 2005 budget request and response to budget questions;
-------who will present on Jan 5 2005?

-----------------------------

[Debbi has never seen a wireless thermometer; ...]

Budget discussion (handouts: feedback from community, amended process
-budget request spreadsheet);

Spreadsheet includes differences between 1st and 2nd 2005 requests and differences from '04 budget;

Look through community feedback

Feedback from Debbi: I'm here because email is a bad form for communications,
especially wrt budget issues: easy to misread intent of email, recipients may take things personally, etc. So, I'm here to be clear in your presence.

Debbi's input:

... emergency facilitation funds should come out of general contingency funds--we should be able to deal with most situations without outside facilitation; (Jim, Gail, Amy support this as well.)


... cut out the workshop food budget: make workshop meals potluck, e.g. (all agree--suggestion is to use meal billing system for workshop food);


... make workshops "voluntary" so that participants pay a fee if they wish to come;


Discussion: workshops are very valuable and feel that whole community benefits, even those who choose not to attend.

What if we funded weekend or full-day trainings and bring the information back to us. [The line item "member resources" is intended to support this very idea; three community members are going to some non-violent communications training soon, and we could cover some of their expenses, in exchange for their commitment to sharing their learnings with the community.]

Loose the $1K in Emergency Facilitation budget, eliminate the food budget, keep the childcare, presenters, travel expenses, and add $200 to member resources. Effect is to keep one workshop per year, and begin to support community members to go to and share workshops.
Changes to Process Budget:

under Training:- delete $400 food budget
---------------- increase "Member Resources" to $500
---------------- [net reduction is $200]

delete "Emergency Facilitation" budget [net reduction $1,000]

Total reduction: $1,200

[Need to better define "member resources".]

Next we discussed the Process [[Committee]] Description. We made several changes which Sarah marked on her copy, but since I didn't retain my copy I can't detail what those changes were, but I'll know them when I see them...