2016-01-14 Meeting

Present: Lynn, Dan (interim chair & notes) & Hugo (by phone)

We now have three empty Board positions - Chair and two others. We need to fill the finance / fundraising / treasurer position.

Lynn was doing chair, and newsletter, and programs, which is untenable.

Hugo and Dan and Anita can probably continue with the newsletter.

FYI: we have three trans women, which is wonderful in such a small organization.

Newsletter Supplement Topic

The sentencing hearing of André Denny will be coming up on the 25th and 26 of January. This will be stressful for everyone in our community. Hugo is writing an open letter to the Dept of Health and provincial government.

We can use this in Wayves or in our newsletter - or both. For example we could have an intro paragraph and a link to the Wayves article.

Finances

Re: Patricia and strong feelings on monetary contributions for the Elderberries. Patricia really feels that we should be collecting money - regularly or ir, so that the Elderberries has some resources to do even modest things. For example, we have loaned Anita $100 last year which we have no ability to repay. Discussion:

More Boardmembers

We have a new guy, Robert Green, who might be on the Activities Committee.

DAN will write a note to the membership encouraging new boardmembers.

We can also send out notes to tell people about our committee meetings and boardmeetings.

Program

February
HUGO will ask Robin if he could do his Pink Triangle lecture on Sunday, February 14th. If he says yes - we will invite the Youth Project, and everyone, to the event.
March
DAN will arrange someone to talk about suicide

Future:

Possible Future Program Ideas