i told em to stop/leave they were informed by an April G. that they could come in and use omni to shoot an interview for an independent film. at 1st they bluffed that they went through the commons wg but later admitted they didnt i informed them & April that the common spaces must be booked through the commons working group & that they had to stop i dont think i made any friends there On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 4:29 PM Adam Munich <me(a)adammunich.com> wrote:

from all my interactions with the commons working group, i was under the impression that private/for profit entities needed to contract with omni commons to use commons space and pay fair market value as we are a 501c3 perhaps you can explain something i'm missing here On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 5:13 PM Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote:

if any member can allow their friends to come in & use omni for shoots w/o insurance/contracts/etc, i'll let liberated lens know On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 5:39 PM robb <sf99er(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I’m pretty sure they just left 5 mins ago, if they were at the front door seating. From: sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss-bounces(a)lists.sudoroom.org> on behalf of robb <sf99er(a)gmail.com> Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 6:08 PM To: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> Cc: Sudo room <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>rg>, commons <commons(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] Interview in entrance hall if i'm wrong, someone please speakup since they're still here On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 5:50 PM robb <sf99er(a)gmail.com> wrote: if any member can allow their friends to come in & use omni for shoots w/o insurance/contracts/etc, i'll let liberated lens know On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 5:39 PM robb <sf99er(a)gmail.com> wrote: for the record, they were white On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 5:37 PM robb <sf99er(a)gmail.com> wrote: from all my interactions with the commons working group, i was under the impression that private/for profit entities needed to contract with omni commons to use commons space and pay fair market value as we are a 501c3 perhaps you can explain something i'm missing here On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 5:13 PM Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 4:38 PM robb <sf99er(a)gmail.com> wrote: Why would they need anybody's permission for this? Seems like an overreach. Was somebody else trying to use the space for something else, or was it otherwise empty? _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss

On 4/24/19, Marc Juul <marc(a)juul.io> wrote: Actually there may be issues around letting a for-profit group use spaces other than the ballroom in that it may affect the property tax status of those rooms.

Yeah, not cool. i don't understand yoir response at all, yar? maybe there's a miscommunication here? Lots of groups have booked common space for film shoots through the normal process (which includes vetting the nature of the event for alignment), contributing financially and with proper protocols established (such as no recording anyone without their permission, signage, awareness of other things happening in the building, etc). Letting friends of former members (as this sounds to be) feel entitled to free unscheduled use of space with no agreement/contract *is* precisely the kind of "elitism" Steve was haranguing omninoms about, which those of us involved in booking and scheduling the space have been very self-examining of and working hard to avoid especially over these past 2 years. And yes, Commons and Finance still need to have this convo, but for-profit / unsponsored use of the space, even one time, renders that space taxable for the year. Our property taxes are $25-30k/yr (about a fifth of our annual income) and we havent gotten any feedback on our exemption yet. Tender times. We've been waiting for feedback from the assessor to have that fully-informed convo - the County's fiscal year is July-June, so any changes in our booking processes should take shape before June to count toward our 2019-20 property tax exemption.. Probably will be in our interest to have _only_ nonprofit/sponsored events in the entrance hall as it's hella square footage. CCL, sudo, liblens, upstairs offices etc are all exempt areas. On Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 19:25 Marc Juul via commons < commons(a)lists.omnicommons.org&gt; wrote:

i didnt freak out, jerky i asked a few questions & informed them of our policy On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 7:58 PM Jake &lt;jake(a)spaz.org&gt; wrote: