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: Fred, Kathryn, Fahiym, DJ Hardy, Liz

Events
Kathryn and Larkin had approved a number of events that came in during the week. The group agreed that this was the right procedure: the events coordinators should feel free to respond positively to anything that is clearly consistent with the HIVE Vision Statement and fits the schedule. The Organizing Committee would like to hear about upcoming events every week, and will help with assigning point people and working out other details.

Kathryn has discovered a glitch with Google Calendar—events appear as an hour later than they are posted as being. She’s working with Dave to correct it.

Upcoming events:
• June 10, 6:00 to 7:30 pm (ongoing every Tuesday), Marxist study group. Point Person: Fahiym.
• June 12, 8:00 pm, 1968: Year of Revolutionary Hope discussion. Point Person: DJ
• June 14, 11-1:00, Information session for job applicants. Point Person: F4DC
• June 16, 6-8:00 Meeting to discuss the feasibility of establishing workers’ collectives in Greensboro. Point Person: Kathryn
• July 19, (time?) Community Organizing 101 with Cynthia Brown. Point Person: F4DC
• July 26, (time?) Raise the Wage discussion. Point Person: Fahiym
• August 9, 11- 6:00, Circus of Poetry. Point Person: Fahiym
• August 15, 8:00 pm to 1:00 am, African Culture Night. Point Person: We still need one.

Kitchen
The kitchen construction is on schedule; this Sunday we hung a cabinet, started finishing the counter cabinets, and put up lighting in the pantry. In addition, we now have two new electric stoves, donated by someone who found out about the HIVE through the BikeMe! Collective. We hope to have the kitchen certified so it can be used by people who want to prepare food to sell; DJ will look into certification requirements.

Current kitchen wish list:
• Electrical wiring, 8 gauge and 12 gauge
• Scraps of ¾ inch plywood, 14” by 26” or larger

Drop-in hours
The drop-in hours are off to a good start. We discussed ways to share the responsibility of responding to and scheduling volunteers so it doesn’t all fall on Elizabeth and agreed that that should be an ongoing discussion.

We agreed that we will ask people to listen to the computer through headphones, or find some other way to control the sound so it doesn’t interfere with other things in the room.