Wednesday, October 3, 2012

OCP Workshop 10/03/2012



     Meeting time change in order to accommodate kitchen crew
o   Sadie:  bag lunch idea wouldn’t work
o   Khaleel:  Friday before the music workshop
o   Daniel:  1:30 – 3 would be a good time
o   Mike:  there will always be a reason to change the meeting day/time;  it is working now;  lets leave it and figure out ways to work around it;  would like to see it go back to 10am, we should quit at 11:45;  not sure it is worth all this time to figure out how to get the kitchen there
o   Ron:  the focus should be on finding someone to make the meal – the community members made it clear it was a problem – don’t really like to 10am meeting but maybe 10:15; 
o   Kris:  no one brought up this in the beginning – maybe there is a way to put a mic and speaker in the kitchen
o   Daneen:  another cooking group should be able to do what needs to be done if we have someone come in
o   Daniel:  proposes that we go with 10:15-11:45 would be the meeting and we could take turns rotating in and out of who is cooking – and we would begin looking for groups to cook the meal instead of Sadie
o   Ron:  suggests that we don’t use this proposal since this is basically what we are already doing – lets just try to figure out the kitchen problem
-       Ron:  we are beginning a process to meet in small groups to have some more intimate discussion;  ron suggests that we focus less on controlling the negative and more about exploring the positive – less rules to enforce, but a dynamic process to capture great ideas so that this is a place that we like;  we will spend 3-4 minutes discussing things in small groups and then come back to the whole to discuss ideas
o   Some potential aspects of a “system that captures volunteer energy to better individuals, OCP, and the surrounding community”
o   Aspects could include:  ideas/complaints, qualifications/expectations, privileges/rewards, governance/adjudication, power/control
o   Ideas/complaints – what does one do with an idea or a complaint
o   Qualifications/expectations – if there were something like a membership, what does one have to do to be a part of it and what would be expected of this type of system
o   Privileges/rewards – are there certain privileges that some gets from being a part of this group
o   Governance/adjudication – how do we run ourselves, rules, a code of behavior, if someone is way out of line
o   Power/control – thinking about what/how people might deal with the new power that could come along with some sort of membership
o   Also, how do we manage the grounds and the physical plant and open hours and when we can play volleyball
o   Jonathan would like to see a notetaker in each group
o   Mike:  worries that there will be some bleeding from one idea to another
o   Anna, Kris, Heather, Mike, Sarah:  talked a lot about qualifications – people who are routinely contributing to OCP in a positive way – figure out a certain amount of volunteer time, people who are participating in work days, night out, lawn jam;  maybe people who are part of early church;  after you have met the benchmarks, do you automatically become a member or do you have to be voted in somehow – no real consensus on this;  once you are a member, you are expected to follow the norms or you could be suspended from membership;  time spent on qualitative properties and less quantitative
o   Mike, Jamie, Gary:  there was a feeling of maybe forgetting the idea of membership and move on;  one issue that keeps coming up is behavior – drinking on the property, people being here on off hours;  did discuss what it will take to become a member – actually doing something, participate in Tuesday workdays, food prep, Friends of OCP meetings;  lets rotate jobs;  is the person a helpful person to begin with might be some sort of qualification – when food gets donated out back, who jumps up? – this might be difficult to measure, but people will know it when they see it
o   Jonathan, Daneen, Daniel, Philip:  something separate from Friends – some requirement for volunteer work;  Members should present themselves clean and shaven – what about people who have trouble getting showers or washing clothes, maybe a persons team would depend on their talents, looks, etc;  Teams could be created and members would be responsible for volunteer for their team;  team leaders, are people on 1 or more teams;  how long can you be gone for before getting taken off the membership,  teams could have non-members;  what would privileges for membership be;  members would have no more power or control but would be a part of something – extra responsibilities
o   Ron, Christina, Amy, Sadie, Khaleel:  control should be held to staff, not membership;  volunteer time is important to be a member;  privileges are that you get to be a part of meetings and have your ideas heard; privilege might be access to the property;  some sort of judiciary that might hear a case if something wrong was done – you could lose your membership privileges; 
o   Heather:  is there going to be favoritism with members by staff?
o   Kris:  would really like to see some amount of time given instead of a membership fee/dues – volunteering would be the dues;
o   Ron:  what did you hear that was repeated?, what did you hear that you liked?, what did you hear that you didn’t like?
o   Daneen:  likes that members might be called Friends – choose the people to be members based on who volunteers;  if there are more people that want to become members, then maybe there is a waiting list that is created – this will help with a strong base
o   Mike:  there is a proposal on the table to vote up or down right now;  right now we are discussing – trying to find a friendly way to everyone;  not hearing a lot of overall objection to the idea of membership – this seems to suggest that we could come up with an ocp friendly way to do something like this;  make OCP drama free – behavior – this is one of our deliverables
o   Khaleel:  thinks there should be cameras inside and outside ocp
o   Sarah:  seconds Khaleel about cameras, and feels like people who are highly trusted could come on the property after hours
o   Ron:  likes the idea of team leaders and people on the outside can be on teams – if you are a member you do have to be on teams;  would disagree with Daneen about having a set number of people as members – we should have as many people that want to be;  anyone who comes to meetings and volunteers time;  within the membership, there could be red, blue, yellow, green teams for fun activities
o   Daneen:  feels strongly for how many members;  also wonders about not being around for a certain amount of time and still being a member;  write down the date that people became a member;  do we really need two theater times in one week?
o   Sarah:  doesn’t think there should be an expire date on membership – what if someone gets a job and can’t come around as much
o   Sadie:  thinks membership should expire at some point
o   Daniel:  even if you can’t plug in as much, you should still be able to plug in some if you want to stay a member
o   Ron:  it might be interesting to figure out the details about what membership might look like and then vote with some sort of proposal
o   Philip:  really likes the idea of teams and going ahead with flushing it out

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