The Greensboro HIVE

The Organizing Committee (OC) meets once a week to manage the operation of The HIVE, review space reservation requests, and handle any business that arises during the operation of the space. All decisions are made by consensus. The OC is open to anyone who wants to come and get involved.

Present: Liz, Linsey, Stephen, Jonathan, Fahiym, Eric, Dave, Susan, Fred

Events (Linsey)

• FLOC dinner as part of Peace Pilgrimage, Tues, 3/18, 5:30-9:00, Point person: Eric
• Peace and Justice Expo on Wed, 3/19, 10-2:30
• Addressing Conflict in Collective Living, panel and discussion, Helena Saunders, Sun, 4/27, 2:00-5:00; Point person: Jonathan
• Dinner and discussion re: homeless day center, Sat, 3/22, 6:00-8:00, Point person: Liz
• MobookMobikeMobile, Fri, 3/7, 3:00-6:00, Scott Trent w/ BikeMe
• Reminder: Grove St. Revitalization Committee of the Glenwood Neighborhood Assoc., first Monday of every month, 7:00-9:00
• Grove St. Revitalization Comm. is sponsoring a multi-cultural fair on Grove St., Sat, 5/31. We’ll want to plan something for the fair.

Partners (Jonathan for Ricky)

• Partners meeting will be held end of March - Ricky scheduling this
• Cleaning schedule discussion

  The OC will clean after its Sun. meetings until Partners Meeting

  • At the Partners Meeting the idea will be presented for a weekly cleaning task sign-up sheet which will be posted outside the HIVE office door. Folks from the HIVE OC and partner organizations will take initiative to do the tasks and sign and date clean-up sheet when tasks are done. This informal system will be assessed a couple months in and revised as needed.
  • The long-term goal is to have a check list that includes cleaning tasks that open hours volunteers will check and sign off on, thus relieving both OC and partners of these tasks.
  • Susan will draft a weekly cleaning tasks sheet and a check list for clean-up/close-up for orgs using the meeting space for next weeks OC meeting.

Following up with people (Jonathan)

• A plug from Jon. to follow up when someone expresses interest in being involved with the HIVE. Which led to discussion of…
  An Interest Gathering
  • Sat, 4/12, 6-8, dinner (am I right??) and discussion for those interested in getting involved with the HIVE. OC will need to generate a list of how volunteers can plug in, what folks can do to help out.
  • Can we find/recruit a VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR by this meeting?? If not, perhaps someone(s) at the meeting will step up. But it would be great to have someone ready to take this task on before the meeting.

Brochures

• Jonathan and Ricky will follow through on getting more brochures printed up this week.

Kitchen (Fred)

• Fred has drawn up an acquisitions wish list for the kitchen (not to mention his totally cool kitchen plans). Flooring is on the top of the list due to the sequence in which to do things.
• Liz will serve as donations solicitor and use this as an outreach opportunity as well. Know of potential donations? Contact Liz.
• Jonathan will contact David Bowers to set up a meeting with Jon., Fred and David re: kitchen plans
• Fred will draw up a “letter of understanding” (in lieu of a lease) to also have ready for the meeting with David with an 18-month rent agreement included. We’d like to have this because of investment in the kitchen and security for the partners.