Board Minutes for October 6th, 2014
- Drama House event
- What can we provide?
- We can provide experience and volunteering:
- Kyle, June, and Hannah all have experience
- We’ll also offer use of our lab
- Caitlin will send out an email to members asking if anyone has experience and/or wants to help teach
- Email people about t-shirts once we get an actual price
- Alan will check out the past sites and talk to Tim about it
- We can’t actually sell food we make apparently
- Crafts might not happen as people don’t look too interested in it
- Possibly just table and let people make crafts to raise interest in CIF
- Talk about it next floor meeting
- Frank will talk to IT people about getting posters on rotation in ITS
- He’ll get back to us by next meeting
- Caitlin will figure out renting out the Wilder Rec Room
- Anika hasn’t responded to Caitlin’s questions on noise complaints with setting up a screen outside
- Caitlin has also talked to AIF about the fireplace event
- Progress in the lab
- Admin accounts can now authenticate on the machines in the lab
- Two of the Linux machines have been down – one is now up
- The Minecraft event at game night didn’t happen but we’re now more prepared for it
- Claire has permission to edit on the website now
- Board members may or may not be given network admin privs in the future
- We have a stockpile of hard drives in the lab
- Unfortunately these are no longer compatible
- Possibly recycle these hard drives as an event with GreenSpace
- Or use them as art
- Or etc.
- Nate and Frank will look for prices of new ones
- Constitutional Amendments
- Alan will find the job descriptions we will be adding and email it to the position holders to ask for their thoughts on how it should change
- Also the better defined participation point breakdown
- Explore changes related to committees vs. quest board next semester
- We need feedback about job descriptions in by the end of fall break
- We also need to agree on a passing vote as the constitution technically doesn’t have one
- We agree on at least 4 members being present and at least 3 of those agree – only if the 5th member willingly abstains
- Otherwise it must have all 5 members present and have at least 4 of those agree
- Caitlin will email Molly about getting people set up to clean the lab
- Kyle went to talk to the people in Wilson Commons about getting a general game night table thing going
- We just need to go to the CCC page and reserve it in advance
- We’ll bring up our making it a quest at the next floor meeting
- For Halloween Game Night
- People can do it in costume
- Kyle will book the table
- Postering
- Kyle’s going to try the Weekly Buzz thing again
- We need more people postering in the Res Quad
- Possibly do it as a group
- Claire will see if people are willing to and/or want to
- Come up with ideas for next board meeting
- Kyle will give Connor access to the Google Calendar so he can update events
- The white board calendar is on the backburner for now
- We have the rights to do the following:
- Painting the Mural
- So long as paint and design is run past GHR and it’s in the core
- Any furniture in common rooms owned by Reslife, we can ask them to remove it
- Storage
- Blocking – Booking rooms can be done for consistent weekdays and for more than 2 hours
- Permission to move in 1-2 days early to move things out of storage
- In house room selection (i.e. no housing lottery)
- Room switches before December break
- Mural
- We can change the one in the core and cannot paint a new one somewhere else
- The general consensus seems to be to changing it – or at least the CIF logo on it
- We’ll have a design contest
- One option will be to not change it
- Kyle will send out another email about it
- Needs to be done by November 16
- CIFnic
- Make a quest to guard the grills – get there in the morning and sit there until 2
- Have Molly do it
- Firepit budget
- Caitlin will check to see how many skewers Reslife has
- If not enough then we’ll see about ordering some online
- Haven’t heard back from Anika about the movie out there
- If need be we can move it into the Anderson lounge
- No to the Yellow Jackets event
- Possibly another Alumni event
- Bring it up with next board
- Meeting with Karen Eli
- Do we want the fourth suite?
- We will hold an emergency MANDATORY floor meeting on Wednesday at 9:30pm
- Kyle is sending out an email about it right now
- Do not have side conversations, comment, or laugh when other people are talking – in general be respectful
- No Board meeting next week
- We should make sure to have everything set up that we want to talk about before floor meetings
- We can get together a bit before it to make sure
- CIF/MIF Swiss Miss Whatever
- Put games and such on the first floor of Anderson
- Caitlin will respond to their email
- Kyle will forward the Maker’s Faire to floor
- Someone has offered to donate some games to floor – we want this
- Check with Mike about what people want for game library to spend money on