Present: Serenity, Jennifer, Leah, Jeb (minutes), Bernard (facilitator), Reyna, Lorenzo, Diana

No one present for meet and greet.

12/14 Minutes were not posted, and so they will be reviewed on the 12/28 meeting.

Member review posted for Leah Holleran for:

1) Violating CHEA harassment policy

-harassment of members

-sexual harrassment of an associate member

-creating a hostile living environment

-bullying members

2) Uncooperative behavior

-disrupting a member review

Leah: Specifics of violations were not stated would appreciate if specifics were posted and then member review posted to collect signatures.

Serenity: I will do that.

Jeb: Magic Pest and Lawn will begin rodent extermination tomorrow, Monday 12/21 between 3-5pm. The quote was for $1096, and is good for 12 months to seal exterior entry points, set and maintain outside bait stations, set and maintain 15 interior snap traps. If you have specific scheduling needs regarding setting interior traps, please contact Serenity.

(standing) rat updates (see above)

(Jeb) bring back tech officer house position

Jeb: Sometimes the printer doesn't work, and after talking to people I thought to suggest bringing back this officer position. After hearing from some long-standing members, I heard that this is not a consistent amount of labor, and so I was thinking this could be a maintenance assignment.

Leah: This was something discussed at CHEA level, since we share web services.

Richard: This officer position was dissolved and we decided to make it a maintenance assignment.

Jeb: Could also help with Google Fiber installation, staying on top of things.

Bernard: Is the proposal to vote on it, or just discuss?

Jeb: Just discuss - now that I'm hearing it's a maintenance assignment, it makes more sense to assign someone to that.

Richard: I have some recollection of when this position was dissolved. The point was raised that if two people run, we don't know how to pick the best option. This position requires general co-op aptittude.

No further discussion.

(Serenity) Member Review for Leah Holleran has been posted

Serenity: Seeing as Leah doesn't think it's specific enough, I'm going to be re-writing it and announcing it at the next meeting.

Leah: Understood. It's been clear in the rules to be specific about the incidents alleged that are in breach of contract. Just stating the rules is not sufficient. Would have to explain how I'm breaking the rules, and how I'm creating a hostile environment, and put that in writing for 3 people to sign.

Lorenzo: Is this something that will have to be explained? This is serious, and something that people frown upon.

Leah: The way it's conducted, they should present the allegations in full, and only those that are posted will be discussed, and then I will have a chance to respond to the allegations. Then, the people who stay for that discussion will then vote on next steps. May I ask person-to-person what the specific, inciting incident is? I'm curious about the urgency of it, and now that it's the holidays and I'm recovering from surgery.

Serenity: I wrote the member review in the hopes that we could discuss -

Leah: It's a pretty loaded way to discuss this, given that we have talked about it.

Serenity: I don't think it's the appropriate time to discuss it.

Leah: I would hope that it's apparent in the re-write itself why this is now a co-op issue and not simply an interpersonal matter between people who live at the co-op.

(Richard) Identify cases of non-members and associates living at coop and suggest courses of action to appropriate house officers.