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: Kathryn, Fahiym, Susan, Elizabeth, Ivan, Ricky, Jonathan, Fred, Liz, Clement

Glenwood Neighborhood Multicultural Festival
Grove Street will be blocked off for the festival, which will be held from 11:00 to 5:00, Saturday, May 31. Everyone is encouraged to come!

• We decided against holding a Really Really Free Market during the festival. Kathryn will contact the organizers of past RRFMs to see if they are interested in holding one on the day after the festival (Sunday, June 1).
• We wondered if BikeMe! would be interested in holding its open hours on Saturday during the festival instead of on Sunday that weekend.
• Jonathan and possibly Ricky will go to the festival planning meeting on Monday and will ask if we can set up a table outside the HIVE, and will find out how the GGNA would like to use the HIVE space; Jonathan also said he would make sure we have brochures in time for the festival. Partners are encouraged to put brochures on the table as well.
• We will ask Gigi if she would be willing to put together a display about the HIVE for the bulletin board inside the front door.
• We will need volunteers to sit at a table and to give tours of the HIVE. We will set that up at next weeks meeting after we know more from the GGNA.

Open Hours & Volunteers

• Regular drop-in hours will begin Monday, June 2; the exact hours are still to be determined.
• We discussed making a clear distinction between open hours and non-open hours so that the HIVE is only open to the public when someone is accountable for the way the space is used. Two concerns prompted the discussion: the burden placed on partners when no one has been designated to manage the space; and the unexplained disappearance of some supplies and equipment.
• Once we have open hours in place we will ask partners to keep the front door locked during non-open hours. Fred volunteered to build a panel of individual doorbells for partners.
• The current volunteers will meet next Sunday at 3:00 to come up with a draft of volunteer protocols and to solidify the drop-in schedule.

Kitchen

• Doors to the pantry and the partners’ hallway have been hung and more work has been done on the framing for the counters. We will be holding workdays every Sunday from now until the kitchen is done (the kitchen is scheduled to be done the end of June).
• We will put a utility sink in the hallway between the bathrooms.
• The kitchen project is finished with the linoleum tiles; the leftovers will be stored in the conference room temporarily, but everyone should be thinking about how best to use them.
• Current kitchen project needs:
  • 2×4s any length
  • Ceramic tile for counters and backsplash (any size, color and quantity)
  • Three-canister pole lamps
  • Free-standing utility sink

Finances
Susan reported that we currently have $400 in the checking account; we’re doing fine.

Events
Kathryn reported that there are no new events this week.

Odds and ends

• Some of the Art’s Cool supplies have disappeared; Jona will be storing her art supplies in the HIVE office from now on. Donations of more art supplies would be very welcome.
• The big copier in the office will be moved to the side of the road.
• NCOSH has taken over the former Word & World office; Ricky reported that NCOSH has been given the lease and welcome packet.
• We agreed that we would like to return the conference room to general use; we need to keep thinking about storage solutions.
• Susan will work on a HIVE contact list for partners; we also need a partner contact list for the Organizing Committee, and a contact list of HIVE activities that could be posted for the public.
• Jonathan will pick up phone messages and answer HIVE emails