Jonathan: are staff members automatically part of the membership
Ron: maybe board members would also be members
People who have declared: Michelle Diehl, Mat Johnson, David Myers, James Rhodes, Greigh Vandevander, Heather Kilburn, Charles Harrelson, Anna Mendez, Jonathan Schrag, Ron Copeland, Sadie Brannon
Ron: would like a list of current workshop members who might want to be part of the initial membership
Mark: how does someone get removed from membership
Ron: How do people get things onto agenda? What about governance? Would membership talk about this or would this Friends of OCP group
Ron: assume that we are talking about staff of OCP building being a part of membership; there are paid staff and volunteer staff – mark, Sharon m, larry
Michelle: don’t think that everyone part of the staff would want to be part of membership; maybe ron, jonathan, anna, Sadie; seems like having ALL ocp staff part of the membership seems like it wouldn’t make that much sense;
Anna: memory of the conversation about staff automatically being members – when we were talking about volunteer hours being part of membership, we realized someone like Sadie could never be a member because she is always here working and never has time to volunteer
Ron: moved by Michelle’s speech; Alex might want to be a member, but someone else might not want to be a member – at a membership meeting, it would be about the members not who is staff and who is; anyone – board or staff – would need to declare their desire to be a member and follow the membership protocol;
Anna: seems easy now, but when we hire a new staff person in the future, would they need to go through a trial period; when we get new staff and new board members, what is the process for this?
Ron: would the ideal be that staff would come from the membership? But what if we had a counselor come in and we didn’t have a counselor in our membership; still seems like someone should be around for a few months before being part of a membership vote; what if being a member somehow becomes prohibitive; would like to be able to go to the board and ask about having them become members
Michelle: anyone coming in for any reason needing to go through the trial period; Rachel Farrell came in and had something in mind she wanted to do for us; in order to be a member, would one have to
Mark: kind of assumed that staff members would be automatically part of the membership; also, if a new hire; to me it is satisfactory if a staff member now or in the future declares they should be able to skip the trial period
Ron: we talked about making the volunteer orientation serve also for the new member orientation, and then this week at the board meeting, we talked about board members coming to an orientation, and we have nothing like orientation for new staff; if we could develop something that could work for these orientation needs; also, the checks and balances of the US system, these groups all work together and various bodies can block certain things that other groups work on; there is not necessarily any reason for a board member to be part of the membership;
Michelle: really good idea that we have a board, a staff; we have these things in place for membership, but we haven’t seen it work yet; Philip is coming up with a brochure about ocp – everybody connected with ocp could benefit from info about OCP’s past even if one doesn’t become a member; who would object to sitting down for one hour to here about OCP
Jonathan: maybe people working as staff in the ocp building would be required to be part of the membership
Ron: interesting idea – we could pass this idea on to Philip; like that anyone at ocp has to go through the process to become a member so that if a staff person takes a new job or board member leaves the board, they would still be a member if they wanted to be;
Michelle: like that we came back around to this; if you don’t care about being a member – like the idea that working at OCP – volunteer or paid – you are here because you believe in ocp, the community, why we started ocp; think that someone who has never been in our building wouldn’t automatically be a member – if you don’t even know people in the community; the reason most of us are here is because we want to make this community a better place to work and live; I’m here because I love this community; if you work here, you should be here because you want to do it;
Mark: out of appreciation for staff, trust that any new staff would be appropriate – don’t have any problem with them automatically being a member, but if the staff feels like people would need to go through then ok; board of directors and executive director doesn’t have the authority to require someone to be a member; if it is decided that a future staff person would have to go through trial period then ok, but it might not be necessary
Heather: these meetings need to be more adhd friendly, sometimes I need to go outside and sit;
Ron: how do we make sure our meetings are welcoming to all people – not just white people – who seem to be the majority of the current group;
Anna: Anna agrees with mark; not really sure where the body is that would require staff to be members; would love for there to be a professional counselor, and this counselor might need to maintain professional boundaries and cant be a member
Charles: do I need to announce that I have a desire to be a member
Ron: seems like if anyone wants the staff or board to have some exception, then that would have to be a motion
Michelle: liked what Jonathan said about the people who work in this building – they should be asked;
James: Jonathan said something that made sense – like a resolution that would say that resident OCP staff would be strongly encouraged to become part of the membership
Jonathan: maybe Philip would say something like this during a hiring process – that we would strongly encourage ocp staff to be members
Anna: hearing the list makes me think about people who might be in jail; what about people who are currently banned from the property; if you are eligible but banned from ocp or in jail, what should we do
Charles: would like to disagree because there are some people who are wrongly in prison
Ron: feel like if you are a member of the workshop, like Kris Elzey, - there would be a set of criteria for how you would lose your membership; getting kicked out of ocp seems like a different case, but doesn’t mean someone should lose their membership
Michelle: someone would have to do something really bad to be banned for long enough to lose membership; someone could come back
Mark: a year deadline might not fix the problem because they might be gone longer than one year; why would we extend the deadline for people who we be of no benefit to ocp, no discussions, no decision making,
Charles: in the case of Kris, he is gone, but he could be hearing info about the content of meetings
David: if someone is locked up and can’t be here; when you get out, probation, get a job could keep someone away from ocp;
Michelle: one of the things that we seem to be overlooking is that you have to be able to volunteer – if you can’t be here, why would you consider it your right to become a member; when you can be here, come back, declare, and you will be a member in three months;
Ron: disagree with Mark or Michelle, this is a one-time only thing – someone who has been with the friends group; what if someone has been through the trial period, goes to jail or what if anna; when there are extenuating circumstances; anyone in prison or banned who declares they want to be a member before July 17, should be able to be a member
Anna: if the people in jail want to be members they would be here if they could; the reason that someone is banned, the reason they are banned because they haven’t come to talk to us, and mediation is part of the deal of being a member
Michelle: agree with Anna 100%; as we start to talk about how someone loses membership, we should be more lenient about people who get opportunities that keep them away; think that people who have been banned have done something that is already no cool at ocp, and they shouldn’t be extended the same kind of courtesy
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