2023-01-26 Meeting

Board Members

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

Bylaws Update

• Dan updates the Bylaws and publishes a .pdf on line
• First we float them by the whole membership for their input.
• At our Special General 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, I and Stephanie will soon go to the TD Bank on Quinpool Rd. to officially allow Stephanie to write checks.
• BAREND will

Book Sale

• We need to pay Venus Envy $25.00 for bookmarks
• We have about 250 bookmarks on hand

Money from mug sales

• Kevin has $120.00(?) from our mug sales.
• Kevin will hang onto it and get it to Dan to deposit

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.

Radstorm charge. We already decided to pay Radstorm 30% of donations/income for each use of their space.

Donation money from Book Sale

• Donations for Queer Groups
• Motion by Dan to donate the $76 to McPhee House in Dartmouth. McPhee House is an active effective outreach to queer youth. They organised the Youth & Elders Storytelling last Pride.
• Seconded by Barend
• Discussion: What about the Hfx Youth Project?