2010-06-14 steering committee meeting minutes

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Minutes from Meeting June 14, 2010

Attendees: David W., Maria C, Cassie P., Andrew E., Alison F., MaryBeth H, Marsha S, Rose M. W., John R, Jaime L., Julia K

Agenda items:

Roles and Responsibilities of Steering Committee elected positions

Vice-Chairs responsibility of developing 6-10 topics would be forsteering committee educational purposes only

some meetings can be business-oriented & some education-oriented (professional development)

remain flexible

change to Chairperson roleset agenda rather than create &publish. All items for agenda must be approved by Chairperson

Members are comfortable with roles as defined

Length of term at this point is 6 months for each position

For leadership, steering committee members will step up to takeon roles without a formal election unless needed

Committee elected persons:

o Alison-----Chairperson

o Andrew----Outreach ICL

o Cassie---Legal ICL

o Maria---Vice Chairperson

o Mary Beth---Secretary

Mission and Vision

rethinking the wording of the Vision: South Philly Food Co-op

serves as a hub for healthy eating.

can we be a hub if we reference other co-ops nationwide?

hold off on revising Vision statement until January/first Boardelections (first assignment of newly-elected Board)

Mission statement is ratified by the steering committee and


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ready to be shared by Andrew to Outreach Committee

Presentation of Census Data

Rose: Southeastern PA Household Health Survey

o data cant be used in any documentation w/out fee of $25

o data is self-reported by phone

o Linguistic Isolation Data----all zip codes show a large

number of ESL

o 62.1% do not participate in groups, 17.7% feel like they

dont belong in neighborhood---good to think of whenmarketing the co-op

o Can we get income distributionspecific to ward

perhaps?

Jaime: Health Statistics for South Philadelphia

o 2006 data shows that largest health concerns are Heart

Disease and Cancer

o in 2006 --24% of South Philly were at 100% of the Poverty

line

o large birthrateshould we think about carrying babyproducts/outreach and education for new mothers/pre-natal health?

o maybe talk to Food Trust on how people spend money on

food ------Julia will talk to them

o can we get a sample Feasibility Study? What are

the specific questions that we want to know?

Update communication to general email list

all emails should come from Gmail address forward emails toanother account to keep up easily

add a tell a friend aspect to the first email

Alison will send out draft revision of email to Google Group onThursday for Steering Committee to approve by Monday


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Legal/Finance Committee Update

Cassie: for next timeset up structure for committee similar toSteering Committee

committee will begin to educate themselves on what they needto do and come up with a timeline

meetings are every 4th Tuesday

Outreach Committee Update

they have a brochure put together---will need to update websiteand Mission Statement to reflect new wording

MAFCA (Mid-Atlantic Food Co-op Alliance) meeting

3 members of our co-op can attendif we need people to attend,

open it to other committee members

Park Slope is members-only---hard to get in

Flatbush co-op is more open

Other notes:

David brought CDS webinar archives

Very important to stay open and tolerant of membership & keeppolitics out of it

Mayors Office of Sustainability meetingreport on Sustainability atAcademy of Natural Sciences---RSVP only on Thursday, June 17th

6:30pm

Next steps:

Alison---email draft

For next meeting, get ready to discuss:

o Feasibility study

o Key milestones to plan for?

o Communication exercise

Next meeting:


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o 1119 Snyder Ave

o June 28th

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