Meeting Minutes for July 18, 2011

Meeting Minutes for July 18th
Present: Eric, Celia, Jen, Kate T, Karen, Ginny, and Laura
Absent: Katey TT. Fined 2 points and she missed out on great guacamole and wine.

1. Michael has agreed to be blogmeister, yay! Laura and he will coordinate the handoff of power offline.
2. The new continuous updating point system is working well but it is incumbent on sit loggers not to put non-numerical information in any of the fields or it messes up the system.
3. In a long-term effort to reduce administrative costs, we discussed various options for eliminating a position, or re-jiggering current roles and responsibilities and reducing points accordingly. We determined to think about this over the next few months and come up with some concrete proposals for consideration and the next meeting. One valuable suggestion was that before we adopt anything, we try it out on a one or two month trial basis before adopting it. Next meeting I will have at least two options for your study; please feel free to come up with your own. It may be useful to refer to our core rules.
http://thebabysittersclub3000.blogspot.com/2011/02/core-rules-draft.html
After the meeting, it occurred to me that if we make any changes to point payments, not everyone will have had a chance to earn points under the old system. If we decide to opt for self-secretarying, we should consider letting the current system cycle through all the members so that it will have been fair to everyone.
5. When you are hedging on a sit request, please leave a little clarifying info in the comments section indicating how interested you are in the sit, or when you will be able to give a firm answer... stuff like that.
4. We decided that non-babysitting actions, like cat sitting, schlepping, driving, etc would best be handled off-line.
5. Karen suggested a great, low-cost way to get everyone to a farm for our semi-annual outing, so planning for that is in the works.

I lost the notes I took, which, despite their chickenscratchy appearance, are usually pretty helpful to me, so if I forgot anything please let me know.