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: Linsey, Jonathan, Ricky, Fahiym, Susan, Liz, Kammaleahthah, Larkin, Henry, Pankaj, Fred

Opened the meeting with a brief discussion on the need for “in-reach”, for attention toward our relationships with one another. Moved on to business..

Events and event procedure

• Linsey, Larkin and Catherine met, went through events this past week:

• Bike Me! show on calendar for Thur, 5/15
• Out-of-town band turned down
• Larkin and Catherine are ready to take over for Linsey this summer. Hooray and thanks to L. and C. and we’ll miss Linsey while she’s in Portland.
• We’re needing more detailed descriptions of the events on the online calendar so when people visit it they’ll have more info. Larkin will see to this.
• Point people for events need to be assertive and hand the clean-up check list (on clipboard on HIVE office wall) to users of the space to make sure space is being put back. This expectation also needs to go out in the “approval” email sent to groups.
• A reiteration that partners also need to submit a reservation form for use of the meeting space.

Partners

• NCOSH should be moving into the HIVE by June 1st. Ricky and Jonathan will handle the lease with them and will also make sure all of the partner lease files are up to date.
• Jonathan will call Sue regarding a couple of BikeMe! issues: keys, cleaning bathrooms after their work days/events.
• Ricky got an email from Them 5 and they’re hoping to start being around and getting involved more now that their big festival is over.

Storage Space/Conference Room

• Consensus is that we definitely need the conference room for storage right now during the kitchen project; the long-term hope/goal is to return it to a conference room and figure out storage by utilizing the space outside the bathrooms and the HIVE office for storage. Other possible ideas for storage: another shed in back, seeing if Joanna has some space to spare next door since we share a door.

Kitchen workdays

• Will be moved to Sunday dates so that there’s no conflict with Kammaleahthah’s appointments on Saturdays.

Air conditioning

• When the AC is needed, we’re asking partners to set the thermostat at 75.
• Whoever is last out of the building, we’re asking them to move it up to 80.

Volunteers

• Susan will be in contact with Elizabeth.

Glenwood Multicultural Fair, Saturday, May 31

• Someone (Jonathan? Liz?) will check with Mark about having the drum machine at the HIVE for the fair.
• Susan will check with the neighborhood association to see if they have specific needs for using the HIVE during the festival.

Keys, power, ownership, close-up procedure, safety

• A good discussion that I’m afraid I can’t begin to summarize and that will be on-going.