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, Lyle, Linsay, Jonathan, Fred, Fayhim

Go round of things going right
Liz: “Free Food Friday’s” are “going gangbuster.” Lots of new people. All the food is being taken. Opportunity for outreach.

Lyle: The bike project is gaining lots of community interest. Local folks are really interested in getting involved.

Linsay: Inspired by diversity of events, diversity of communities making use of the space. Amazed by how far we’ve come. Interested in starting health awareness days.

Jonathan: Neighborhood folks, especially kids, seem to be taking a sense of ownership over the space.

Fred: Learning how to work with a group of volunteers. They managed to get the trench dug through the concrete (for kitchen). It’s all set and ready to get the plumbing installed. They also got the white boards up. Much of the work was done by volunteers from the homeless community. Folks are really taking ownership over the space.

Fayhim: Feels like the word is starting to spread about the place.

Events
None submitted this week. Kammaleathahh’s event was taken care of last week (Network of Spiritual Progressives).

Fred has broken down major work for the kitchen that needs to get done. It’s the last page in the document on the table in the main room and on the board by the HIVE office. We need to keep these work days in mind when scheduling events. When we book an event we should mark it out on the chart.

Kitchen Project

• They’ve got a good schedule. Are still collecting lots of stuff. Habitat for Humanity is donating tile. The drain is in.
• Tons of work got done. The trench is dug.
• There is a pancake breakfast at 10am on Saturdays in the neighborhood. After that meal could be a good time for workdays.
• The rear room needs to get cleared out this week. If there’s anything back there that you want, take it! That stuff is going to the trash by Sunday.
• There will be a Tuesday work day to haul this stuff away.

Partners

• Invite partners to open house to open offices.
• Let them know about the kitchen work schedule, provide scheduling input.
• Is there a phone list for all partners and organizing committee members?
• Talk about keys at partner meeting.

Bike Me!

• Aiming for grand opening May 4th.
• They want to get a list serve going. They wonder about hosting the list through the HIVE server. DAVE!!!! will you think about this possibility?

Volunteer open house: the 26th

• Got the new flyers from Elizabeth! We’ll start putting them up.
• What do we need to get done before the meeting:
  • The library should be up by then.
  • The kitchen needs to get cleaned.
  • We could make a display: pictures, timeline.
• Ricky needs to invite all the partners to be here for the open house on the 26th.
• We’ll spend time talking about the open house next week.
• Liz will make the email release, press release

Keys
We need to talk about this next Sunday. Its kind of a big question.