Collective Meeting Minutes November 29th

Collective Minutes.
November 29th, 2005

Present: Erin, Erica, Monica, Jeff, Wynde, Terry, Jenn, Bobae, Mallory, Veronique, Andrea, Eric and a bunch of other people who came in later.

1. Rounds: Why we love Sharky.
2. Committee updates:
-Website - are working on it: design stuff, resource links, and OOC info. Stay tuned.
-T-shirt – no longer waiting for other groups to do shirt order with. Wanli has agreed to work on the design.
-Secret Friends – NOT HAPPENING THIS SEMESTER. (Obviously.) …but Jeff has been able to scrounge a few shoe boxes and will try to get more. Everyone who wants to participate bring more boxes.
3. CJSF: Rotunda radio show. Everyone who wants to participate on the OOC Radio Show, get training ASAP. Our show will happen once a month. Jeff will be responsible for coordinating it, but is not responsible for everything. Allow me to reiterate myself: Jeff is not responsible for the whole thing. Everyone is welcome to join.
4. Montreal Massacre Memorial: Important that we all participate. We’ve twinkled on (up to) $100 to be donated to the Women’s Center to help pay for the hot chocolate for the event.
5. Book buy: December 02 (this Friday). Meet at 3pm at Little Sisters. They’ve agreed to give us 10% off. RSVP. We have a whole butt load of suggestions, but only two or three book requests, the rest are DVD. Jeff has suggested a limit on the amount of DVDs we buy. We’re lacking resources on several issues, so we should work on that such as positive relationships, recent HIV information, coming out, etc. After the Book Buy is the Volunteer appreciation party! RSVP!
6. CLEAN UP YOUR MESS. ..Jeff is very disappointed in those patrons of the Space who have not been too good with cleaning up the messes they’ve made. (Including those of us *cough* who have been playing One Thousand Blank White Cards) The old food has become quite the biohazard. A safe space is a clean space guys. It was suggested that at the end of the day, if you’re here please help to clean up the space so Jeff doesn’t have to spend the first fifteen minutes of his day cleaning. Volunteers are encouraged to help clean up (or make other people clean up.. nicely)during their office hours.
7. Spring 2006 Programming: (these are just some bits and pieces of what we talked about)
-Most of the training should be done in January (earlier workshops are much better)
-New programs will be more challenging and fun.
-E-mail Erica (moocow) regarding After Hours.
-Having After Hours once a month might be a better idea.
-Andrea is thinking of starting a yoga class and everyone cheered! She will rent a space on campus through OOC. She is also thinking of starting a spiritual discussion group. STAY TUNED!
-Jeff wants to so a coming out discussion group at least once a month.
8. Peer Support Training: 4:30- 6:30 this Thursday
-More skills based and personal care
-How is peer support different than counseling?
-Jeff worked super hard on the package and they are exciting and informative!
(the PST actually happened this afternoon and was a success! Jeff indeed did a great job on the package!)
9. BAD BAD BAD BAD NEWS!! The button maker costs 900 bucks! CRAZY!
-Jeff will not give up yet. He will use whatever we have left in our budget this semester and will find a cheaper kick ass button maker.
10. HCCC has asked Jeff to do a queer awareness workshop with them! Yay!