Hey all, I did not see this message in my inbox until now, apologies for the delay: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: LAURIE COOPERMAN ROSEN <Lscoop(a)comcast.net> Date: Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:46 PM Subject: Lease To: Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> Cc: Eddan Katz <eddan(a)eddan.com>om>, George <travology(a)mindspring.com> Hi Matt- I haven’t completed the lease—originally I was just waiting for your address so I can print it out but after spending some time there this week (George hurt his arm—you might have heard about that story), we will need to add some additional clauses to the lease before printing it out. Often when I walk in there—and worst of all yesterday, right after George de-bugged the place—I was shocked to find huge trays of food (enough to feed probably 30 people!) just laying out there in the warm air, clearly stale.  This is totally inappropriate—and gross!  The common area was set up to be a place where people could have meetings, occasional special gatherings and possibly an additional receptionist desk for each of the businesses there.  It is clear that while it is being used in its current manner that there will be no possibility of us being able to attract other tenants into that space to share it with you, and we can’t afford to get only what you and the public school are paying for the space without any ability to rent out more.  We know that people are still sleeping there—often they wake up in the middle of the night and walk out the front door, because clearly they don’t know the rules and they violate the code and we are getting called (of course, these are folks who don’t belong there and shouldn’t have codes….they should just not have been there in the first place!).  We don’t even know whether the people sleeping there are your members or not, but the fact that there is nobody to shut up the space at night and kick out the stragglers still in there is clearly a big problem and we are losing more and more sleep because of it.  This will need to change.  We will either need to put a curfew on the use of the common area space except in the case of special events, or require that somebody in authority come once at the end of the evening and shut the place up and make sure that everybody is out of there, doors locked, and the elevator shut on the top floor so that others (including those in 2141 corridor that seem to gravitate there) won’t have access to it.  Even with your insurance, the liability issues are getting greater all the time based on the problem of the space being kept open and people who shouldn’t be in there hanging around throughout the night.. We are going to have to make clear in the lease, once and for all, that the common area is NOT a living room!  It is not a place to put out food unless a special event is going on.  A point was made to George about giving 24 hour notice before spraying again, and I will try to have him adhere to that in the future, but the point is that he shouldn’t HAVE to be doing that to begin with! Matt, you have always been quite reasonable and easy to deal with, but you have a life and can’t be there 24 hours a day, so we’ll have to put our heads together and come up with some additional solutions to make things work for everybody up there. Please let me know how you feel about this, and what steps we can take to move forward. Thanks- Laurie _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss [1]

Some clarity on The Omni. We are still in negotiations, but the deposit is about $30,000>(twice rent) the extra $20,000 are to cover first month rent and have some standing>funds. Also, more importantly, last I heard we do have donors who are willing to>cover this cost. We are currently dotting our I's and crossing our T's Including>gaining fiscal sponsorship so donations will be tax deductible.> >

>On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote:>>food and furniture? but isn't the common area where we are supposed to keep our receptionists???> this is seriously getting more off the wall every week to week and a half. the place>was seriously empty before sudo came in and he claims we are hurting his ability>to rent the space? if he were more reasonable then we would've already filled the>space with other likeminded groups! don't you see what's happening, george?> > we should be hedging our bets with a backup plan in case enough support for omni>plan doesn't materialize - i am generally optimistic about collective of collectives>but the $50,000 dollar deposit and the location are huge barriers to moving into>the omni. couldn't make it to the meeting this week, but are there any other leads>beside 8th and alice? recently came upon the term 'hackbase' http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Cyberhippietotalism which could offer up some more viable venues. what if

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It's almost certainly a no-interest loan (David K can confirm). Loans like these will likely be our best friend for the near term. Donations are great, too, and ideal except that we can't promise donors any tax-deductible benefits until we have either a confirmation letter from the IRS acknowledging receipt of our 501(c)3 application for Omni (6-8 weeks reply since they just layed off 30k employees...) or a fiscal sponsorship (doable with a 1-page form and effective within a day). A quick note about initial funding/financing: I want to also suggest that the immediate goal of $30-45k floated as necessary to get us in the door might need a nudge upwards to $60-90k to make the move safely and securely. I met with someone yesterday who is interested in pro-bono bookkeeping for Omni (hurray!!) and she recommended having 3 months worth of expenses (rent, etc) in cash reserves from Day 1; she also recommended souricng the majority of that from the collectives for reasons of commitment... but depending on options from capable supporters, loans might suffice. Finally, a note about fundraising prospects. Once we are in the door and the dust has settled someway, literally filling the calendar with all collectives events and programming will make a credible demonstration to more donors/lenders/contributors of all kinds. As well, this kind of exposure is perfectly amendable in media assets for a crowdfunding campaign. I've done research on a dozen development projects similar to Omni and found that they raised a maximum of 10% via Kickstarter-style crowdfunding; at least 90% of their funding came directly from investors. What's more, they launched campaigns two-thirds of the way into 2- and 3-year fundraising raising timelines, no sooner than 1 year into their effort and after having their financial model built from the ground up and vetted by accountants. I'm looking forward to catching up on other discussions from this week! Have a great Friday evening, all! On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss