2023-07-06 WCU Steering Committee Meeting
Attendance
- @chima, @HipGnosis, @Turcotte, @Robert_H, Paulo
Meeting Notes
- minutes of the last meeting were approved as posted
New Business
Email ladder for new members
- @chima presented a draft of the second email(available at the end of the Presentation document) which we reviewed
Tenant Union
- @chima discussed presenting the Tenant Union focus campaign, as well as stressing that we can vote to end this campaign if necessary.
- and potentially getting someone from TANC(bay area Tenants and Neighborhood Councils) to present now that their conference is over
UPS
- we next discussed the state of the UPS strike negotiations and how we could support them
- talked about a poster to have the community take pictures worth so they could post their support
- Researched local Farmers Markets as potential locations to present to the group
Social hour after meeting
- planned location of meet as Don Rafas
Park cleanup
- @chima presented the progress he made on the park clean ups
- 23 and 30th 5-8pm with perhaps BBQs during
- City will provide supplies, @chima talking with Ian from the park cleanup instagram for contact
Newspaper
- tenant Union first article
- Discussed if people would subscribe to both the Newspaper and WCU, we decided to keep them separate with an opt out for the WCU emails
- Discussed the how to approach sharing the voice of the working class without necessarily having them appear endorsed by the WCU
- Paulo pointed out the particular concern of this with solicited Opinion pieces
- Need to develop a process for these to go through the Education Committee
- Possible workflow for Opinion pieces Education>Steering>Membership
Tax stuff
- @chima discussed pending tax documents and information we are waiting for
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