Meeting Notes 2013-10-16
Attendance / Icebreaker
- Icebreaker: should i stay or should i go
Present:
marc, matt, eddan, miguel, max, jordan, danny,
we have concensed that if there are no objections accompanied by an alternative set of article of assocition within a week that we will use the articles of association marc has proposed to drive to sacramento and get incorporated
announcements
- public schule general meeting tommorow 530
articles of incorporation
marc is proposing a modified form of noisebridges articles of incorporation. finer points
board of directors
we can kick them out by majority vote thinking of ways to have them be officious but without too much dictator powers
- Alternatives proposed
- Term limited stop gap board
- Charade board "cardboard cut out", only do bare minimum. (liked by peeps)
- No fundraising
=board action
the four things that are necessary for a board action are:
- meeting
- notice
- quorum
- voting
decision making
board would decide by consensus n-1 a certain number of nonboard members would have to be at every board session for quourum with no executive session
profit donations records funding
this has to be non-profit, what activities are precluded for that? start-ups. maybe peeps are not ok with that.
federal tax status
we will do 501c* and decide the wildcard later
articles of association by laws
we need by laws and they could be based on articles of association should include
- exclude board members from voting in recall
- require open meetings
- have some number of nonvoting member
- no exec session
risk assessment
there will power in a few people, can this be stemmed by cultural norms and ease to
insurance
from the noisebridge copypasta
articles 6.1
who becomes members? noisebridge says one person has to vouch you~ or application process
articles 3
this is noisbridge copypasta plus our values from articles of association