2023-01-26 Meeting

Meeting came to order on Zoom at about 6:45

Board Members

• Present: Kevin, Lynn, Barend, Erick, Pauline, Dan (notes)
• Regrets: Richard
• Missing: Anita, Stephanie

Bylaws Update Steps

• Dan updates the Bylaws and publishes a .pdf on line
• We float them by the whole membership for their input.
• At our Special General Meeting on March 12th we pass the bylaws.
• That done, we close that meeting. THEN we have our AGM to elect our new Board.
• Then we can submit the rewritten bylaws to the NS Registry of Joint Stocks

Bank

• Signing Authority: Dan, Barend and Stephanie will meet at the TD Bank on Quinpool Rd. to officially allow Stephanie to write checks.
• We three all have to be at the bank all at the same time, possibly with some kind of letter.
• BAREND will arrange a time

Book Sale

• We started with about 600 books; we sold 300; Venus Envy took the remainder to be distributed to the Glitter Bean Library and Books Behind Bars.
• We had about 72 people through during the afternoon
• We had $375 in sales. We gave 30% of that, $112, to Radstorm.
• We had $76 in donations (discussed later)
• We need to pay Venus Envy $25.00 for 250 bookmarks

Money from mug sales

• Kevin has $120 from our mug sales.
• Kevin will get it to Dan to deposit

AGM on March 12th

• Chair's Report - highlights of the year + support letters we've written: I think only one: supporting the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia's application for funding through the TD Group’s Proud of our Pride Program.
• Treasurer's Report - Stephanie
• Membership Report - Dan

Unison Festival Involvement

• From May 18th to the 21st Queer Choirs from all over will be in Halifax's downtown. We can decide what we want to do to make ourselves known and help out. The schedule is already being built so we should decide now what we want to do. Possible events:
• Bookmarks in delegate bags
• Take our banner to some event, possibly a dance
• Invite our members to the events
• DAN will suggest these at the next Unison Festival Social committee

Donation money from Book Sale

• The box was labelled "Donations for Queer Groups"
• Motion by Dan to donate the $150 to McPhee House in Dartmouth. McPhee House is an active effective outreach to queer youth. They organized the Youth & Elders Storytelling last Pride.
• Seconded by Barend
• Discussion: What about the Hfx Youth Project? What about $150.
• $76 came from the Donations box at the book sale, the rest from the proceeds.
• Motion passed unanimously.

More Discussion:

• Q: What is our February Meeting? A: Talk about / bring your favourite craft / hobby.
• Q: Event after the AGM? Lynette Richards & Bruce Bishop. DAN will invite them.

The meeting closed at 7:45

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