Meeting minutes for Monday Nov 15 2010

There was one issue on the table: recruiting new members, Katey (mother of Adela, currently 1) and Ginny (mother of Owen, age 3)
We explained how we work in detail, fielded questions, and got to know each other. I think we liked them and they liked us, let's work on next steps!
Celia, do you want to follow up with Ginny to confirm that she would like to join, and I can follow up w/ Katey, or do you want to do both at once? Or would you like someone else to do it?

Assuming their answer is yes, we need to perform a safety check of their homes (to check for meth labs, guns, etc), get a medical authorization forms from them, and I'll need to rejigger the back end (stfu eric!) of the forms and blogs to add them in. THis will take a little time so I would prefer to not do the safety check.

Item: Karen is considering re-entering the co-op (yay!)

Also, because we've had a fairly dramatic past 6 months, we've never had a chance to review some bookkeeping changes I am proposing. Instead of a leader book, we'd have a participant info sheet (which I will password protect once I build it for real)
and we'd enter new members via the new member form, that feeds the participant info sheet. I have medical authorization forms on my computer and will figure out how to incorporate them into the blog while still keeping our info private.

Jen, sorry for the all caps, but PLEASE VERIFY THE OCTOBER SITS BY THIS WEEKEND. It will take you five minutes and it will lower my blood pressure.

I think we should remain hunkered down in hibernation mode until the new members are on board and in the system. We can assign roles and responsibilities for the year ahead at our next meeting in January, and I will continue to function as unpaid secretary until then. Hibernation mode includes not worrying about the non-use rule, ignoring social events, and not having an official leader.

Reminder that I will be paid blogmeister points in December. Karen was to have been paid leader points in December, too. Since basically Celia and I have been sharing that role and driving recruitment, I think we should split those points, but we could do it at a discount. Any thoughts on that?

Finally, we have an open house playdate on the Friday at 3:30. It's supposed to be cold but sunny so we'll probably be okay on the playground. I have a different new recruit, Houda, with a 4 yo daughter named Hajar - friends of Jojo's from 70. I'd say chances are fairly low that she'll want to join, as she already has an extensive network here, but you never know, and Houda's a hoot.

Would be so nice if we could carry on a discussion in the comments section instead of cluttering up our emails!

PS Update: Yet *another* potential member, Kate! She's not far from BG. We'll let you know.
PPSS: Kate#2 is interested! (Obviously I need to get people's names figured out.)