====== July 9, 2023 ====== Present: Bernard, Frog, Nynka, Philip, Cory, Leah, Chin-Hae, Len, Joshua, Graham, Radish, Stormie, Paul (minutes), Richard, Jennifer ===== Meet and Greet ===== No one for meet & greet. ===== Review of Minutes ===== Minutes approved. ===== Wiki Updates & Announcements ===== A few people still need to sign lease addendums. Get with the MemCo! ===== Agenda Item 1 ===== (Cory) Waive any current late fees for Phillip and consider preemptively waiving future months' fees. Cory: Basically, whenever someone is receiving assistance, that tends to come later in the month, and then we accrue late fees to that. Philip: The rent's going to get paid, it just takes a while. Clarifying question: Could we change the due date of the rent instead of waiving the late fees? **Concerns/amendments** \\ Cory: We could push the deadline back to the end of the month. I just don't want to have to keep coming to the house. Paul: It could be more of a burden on finance officers. A generic version of this might look like: no late fees for people receiving financial assistance. **Amendment**: Waive Philip's late fees while waiting on assistance to arrive. **Amendment accepted.** **Passed as amended.** ===== New business ===== Bernard: The mailboxes are still broken.\\ Our previous mailman used to report our mailbox. He suggested new mailboxes\\ Stormie: Those boxes aren't going to be fixed for many months. We could install our own mailboxes on our units.\\ Philip: David & I went to the post office.\\ David: They said there was a work order put in.\\ Graham: The morning the post office boxes got busted Bernard let me know, and I spoke to a federal investigator. He told me it's not going to get fixed soon. – Radish: I think we should have a new agreement with Food Not Bombs about using our pantry food. Maybe a new labor position - someone who sorts some about-to-expire food into a box for FNB.\\ Bernard: There's definitely some people here hoarding food immediately.\\ Cory: We've talked about limiting food supplies to cooks. There are pros & cons.\\ Stormie: Yeah, food about to expire should be fair game, but maybe the frozen meats should be kept for cooks.\\ Bernard: Can we just make a "just for cooks" section?\\ Cory: Plus the "for FNB shelf"?\\ Chin-Hae: I can sort some food to FNB on Friday since I've been cataloging the incoming Keep Austin Fed food anyway.\\ –\\ Cory: CHEA board meeting this Thursday.\\ –\\ Dwayne fell yesterday but he wants people to know he's OK.\\ –\\ Frog: Got a second quote on AC for #111, $3000 cheaper than the first.\\ Cory: The #207 AC is also funky in a way I don't know to fix.\\ –\\ Cory: I want to get a drain cam for the sewage lines. We've had multiple plumbers tell us we need to look into replacing our trunk lines.\\ David: I'll mention that to Daniel Miller too.