So welcome everyone to the first general meeting today see? It's 13. So we're gonna go ahead and start. Sorry, online if you guys have seen like the whole window, it's the only way to really get the presentation and your face is on the right side of things. Is it big enough to read that?
Yeah, it looks fine.
I don't know how to make that better. Okay, call to order order of business. That's an extra step at the end that we're not going to have the sun. But um, yeah, basically roll call intros. Same thing as before, with the state of the org updates on the dating campaign, and no one can say can't mean and then calendar events in the middle. And we'll have one more vote at the end. But outside of that, recording checks we are recording. At the very end. The meeting will precede posts for the day off to the left, so we have to do this. Okay. Just so you know if you're watching, guys.
All right, roll call.
me here. My name is Harpreet. I'll just read it this time since we did a very last minute. Steering Committee members. There are four of us so far. Okay, I guess my name is Harpreet. I'm the campaign coordinator. And Riley and Robbie's gonna do shuttles
probably gonna go first.
Robert handloom sector taking minutes
on rally the education and membership coordinator.
Alright, yeah. Do a back and forth for intros either Charles
I'm Peter, member of working class, UT. And here now for the meeting. Is it all? Good.
Adri also a member
Hi, I'm Joanna. I'm also a member
at St. Any CV, yes. Welcome. And
Hi, I'm Peter. Peter. Holly. I'm also a member just haven't been doing much with the org for a while. Yeah. So I'm back. I'm trying to be more present.
Don't I or does not do much for the past few days. The past few months. Okay, Robbie, do you have the quorum calculation? That I'm not at the moment.
I believe it's five low. Okay,
well, we need to go any reports of members sick or in distress or just beginning of every meeting to decide aspose if they're if they're sick or abandoned family members. Also that way as an order we can help out if we want to. Set anyone have anything to report?
Nothing in particular, this time.
Same old okay. How the hell
Okay, there you go.
All right. Unfinished business. Riley. Do you wanna set a timer? Yeah. Okay. We're gonna try and keep on time. Okay. All right. So we have our infamous biannual review. The steering committee meets twice yearly for the bylaw review. We're planning on discussing changes to the bylaw review process and increases the time and effort needed to modify the bylaws and unlike we talked about last time, it's a big pain point for the org. All dBc members are invited to attend and contribute. The goal of the reviews is to align the bylaws closer to how we actually We operate. So that way we're not, you know, breaking them or being held back by our bylaws. Unfortunately, the steering committee wasn't able to meet at the last scheduled time we rescheduled to August 1010, to 2pm. So anyone that wants to come, please some, generally this will go better if you had member input. That way when we bring the modifications to the membership, there's their alignment with what the membership actually wants. And then the we were supposed to have a laborer for a ceasefire, San Joaquin County event yesterday, but that obviously did not happen. And we kind of hit capacity issues on that. But just to review going over that, since I think a lot of folks weren't here last time. So we had already approved a plan to host the meeting for local labor organizations in Santa Clara County. The event would feature video interviews with union members and healthcare providers from Gaza, produced by the National Labor network for a ceasefire coalition. Our aim is to update attendees on the situation in Gaza, and informing them about positions taken by other unions at the state and national level. That includes unions like UAW, SEIU teachers, union nurses union, so folks that definitely have local chapters here, local chapters, will not put out public statements and have not said anything yet. The hope is to get some of those union members to attend, get them put us into contact with their political committees. So we can then meet with the unions with the ultimate goal to get them to at least pledge for a ceasefire like these other unions have. There are a lot of locals listed on their website that have signed on to this, but it's not the same pledge that we have. But that's okay. There are political limitations to what unions are willing to do. We couldn't hold this event in the past this past week. But hopefully once you get to the calendar, we can find some time, either at the end of the month or sometime next month. The old the old again. Anyone have any questions about this? For a long?
Time? Yeah, that was good.
Okay, so new business and scheduled events. So we'll have a quick state of the organization update. Then a vote on tenant union, the focus campaign renewal will have and then we'll schedule the events on the calendar. And then we'll have a just an update on notes for genocide campaign, we had said when we first launched it three months after, we would have an update session on how things are done. So that will happen at the end. And then we'll have a vote on rules for members that are under 18.
Okay, you want
to set another time Riley? Yeah.
One second. All right, go.
Okay, weekly updates or autonomous cars. I was working on them before. I have even lost capacity for the next few weeks. So they've been postponed until the end of the month. I think they were useful while they were going up. And the interim will communicate like we have done before spamming each other on WhatsApp. Unfortunately, if someone else wants to step in to do them, please the Omni but yeah. For the next couple weeks. Just check out the calendar we will keep the up to date after this. And then feel free to ask them what suit there are or keep an eye on Alexa for upcoming events. Okay. See,
this one past one. All right.
All right. So the WC tenant union campaign
Okay, so this is just an update on the WC tenant union campaign. I kind of wanted to do a status update before we go on renewing it or not. And we can have some discussion here. But there's also space for discussion before we actually take the vote to renew. So the campaign, several tests do remain. We need To retrieve the signup sheets, and delegate handouts to some folks that are local leaders that we have abandoned for a couple of weeks, we likely have enough signatures at this point to quote city council, or sorry, approach code enforcement. And but our aim is to empower tenants to leave this so even though we could probably just ended in, we should hold off and put into it right for we do so unless of course the then campaign then we do have the option understanding it and you know, moving on. So hopefully sometime in the next couple of weeks, we can schedule a time to at least pick up the signup sheets that should be one or two people is knocking on the doors, like three people a week, give them the sheets to later this month, we have previously talked about organizing a barbecue at the site and the evening, the goal of the barbecue would be to, again share our findings about the HOA from the county documents. So we do know we have more clarification about the rules, our page was possible for them. And for us that has not gotten the signatures, and then also identify any more people who are willing to take lead on this issue. We'll need to identify at least you know two or three individuals to join us to deliver the letters to go in person, I think that would be really helpful. And then we can talk to those folks about setting up a an actual meeting with the tabula Tenant Association, like the LED official thing, I won't be wearing classic independent thing anymore. And so we can do here. And then after that, we will definitely have talked about escalating our approach because most likely, quote, person was not going to force the issue on us. But then that is something that we can work with the local leaders of the Tenant Association on. And so we may not need to go every week, like we do now when we are actively doing something there. Maybe just every other week. And that way, we can instead split our time, a different development that has, you know, 510 15 minutes instead of 200 things. And then I just wanted to give a shout out to Peter Hawley for working on the one page explainer more than a month ago at this point that ended up not using yet. But we do need to make a printed out version for that and during any barbecue event. And also, we'll make the hit a month just like the day before the Euro a couple of days before to invite them to come up. So we can hand it out then as well. That way they have context about what we're going to be talking about. In longer term plans, we still have the sorry, setback a bit. Also, other theater also worked on text messages that we can send out books so we shouldn't send out send out those text messages. Before we do the barbecue. That will we've kind of like maximally engage through text messages through fire drop offs and the barbecue itself. So everyone will have a fairly good idea about what we're talking about by the time we see them in person on barbecue. And okay, longer term we still have the handle to work on. That's been a long term project. Once you do finish, we can get it translated into Spanish. Just using AI as its blank should be good enough. And then we can start doing outreach to folks like the movie is getting placed like the trailer park which again will have one owner won't have an HOA will have you know 10 units will be much easier for us to handle them what we're doing now. So yeah, we definitely don't want to abandon COVELO but I think if we can take the next step it will really open up our capacity to start accepting or going to new places and expanding your campaign beyond just as one location. Anyone have any questions not only one just on what we're doing the renewals on Macker
anyone have any comments effects
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was it was it Yeah, I think that Uh, like we've learned, I think, what, you know, we haven't really done recaps on this because we're still considering like, continuing this effort, but I think we have definitely seen the cons of the larger place and then also just looking facilities and Falabella having like owners some different units, and then Hoa, kind of a lot of layers to, you know, for for us where maybe less experienced and like navigating the whole and it rights situation, as much as we might want to call it. So
that's something that I just
wasn't learning. Yeah.
Okay, um, I just wanted to add, this is just feedback right? Before the voting. Okay. I think as long as we're not abandoning those Calvillo, which would be devastating. And we already said, we're not, we're no exception, obviously, for success, right, and then we get their hands. Cow Billa, as I haven't been here for the entire time, but it's been a lot of units, a whole lot of units, I think we definitely learned a lot from that. But there's a lot that we still need to learn. And that we shouldn't have to rush or be a little overwhelmed or have something be completely out of are not completely out of our capacity to do so. So switching over to something that like, another apartment, with a building with less units, something that we can actually figure out and do to learn. And then building our way back up, if you want to continue doing to make millions, I think that would be the best option in my
other thing I would add is it might be helpful for us to be in some sort of, I don't know, workshop or something like I know, some people went to the the tenant union, forget the name of it, you can pay to. But even if there's something that, you know, maybe a local level that just has like basic edit rights students, something like that, so that we know it applies to the area that we are in and not just within auto unions across California, etc. That could also be another way to get to know information.
Okay, yeah, I like that idea. I think we would be the ones that would be running that workshop, which is like, we it's insane to think, you know, we have the most experience and we kind of figuring it out. A tune did have some I know, they have like random sporadic events where they kind of go over general rights. And I know, we have a bunch of scenes that are all based off. There's ones like the LA County scene. But I think if we go that route, I think that'd be a great way to scout out the next location. Not saying we're gonna give up on this one anytime soon, but have those in conjunction with our, with our, our campus? And so then that way, working with that would be I think it would just help, I think it would help not only us learning, because they would force us to learn and make them make an actual piece of literature. And then on top of that, it would help us interested people would hopefully just show up. And I know we've had that before, we've had interested people, but I think they drop out because they don't know what to do either. I think that's the reality. We have to get everyone together. And we have to be the ones who know what we're doing. And I think the stuff like like with code enforcement was good. I think we're making we're taking good approach but I think we just keep going down that path. We're never going to draw new people
okay, I'm sorry, are you saying
no, he got up and it was talking to somebody I think.
Are we on time?
We have three minutes before we need to switch over.
Okay.
Well, We'll talk about last time was I met with Sacramento, sac Valley Tagname. In fact, Valley tenant union has partnered with a nonprofit to hold little seminars and workshops like this, the feedback they gave was that they are overly reliant on the nonprofit to get people that would come out. But they have been able to find one or two buildings on that. So they try to find places that seem like would be right for organizing that just that have serious problems. But it is very much a service model, like during the live workshop, and instead of advising and letting people come in and out. There was one of the persons is from lawsuit, and she said, she is definitely trying to move the org away from working with a nonprofit, because they're really getting like poked a little bit about not making certain statements. But yeah, that's one method. And then I met with them doing several things on females. He said that you guys need people who are organizers who are active. But he said, also, a lot of people err on the side of like passing legislation. And so when he advised was find a ballot, measure, local or state, set up a table and advertise that you're going to be talking about the value manager, and then work people towards your tenant, any working set. And so that may be a good tactic. It's kind of false advertising. But at the same time, he does have a good point about we need people who are willing to let time to do activism, I'm not gonna speak because he said, you know, where he lives, there's plenty of people here who need help, but they are either almost themselves or they have issues and I they're in no state to organize their neighborhood. So you actually meet people who have so much free time they're willing to go to England talking about it. So that's something
else we can come back to it.
But just for me, folks, if any campaign so we've decided, so number two overarching campaigns, basically, we organize a list of any Workers Union, but your tenants one minute, but but the idea that we can build these throughout the city, you know, those folks can exert pressure on landlords, and therefore also politicians to withholding rent organizing, and sway to simultaneously build community, which was like the number one goal of it was the people in that development to get to know each other and build community, not just like when will rent or fix the Viddler. said, if you're anything that we can meet, to talk about.
Perfect timing.
The no load progenza campaign. This is a status update. I think we have one more slide at the end, maybe?
No, no. Okay.
So the current status of the campaign. We launched it, we updated the pledge to account for the fact that by Amazon, then St. Joe has left us and now it's Kabbalah kind of follows. So he did revise our pledge to account for that. And to account for her lack of action as vice president. Her stance on Israel appears to be unchanged from Biden's given a history of supporting Israel, attending AIPAC conferences voting on pro Israel legislation. Harris's recent acknowledgement of the humanitarian catastrophe, quote unquote, in March 2024 game monks after widespread recognition of the situation, Gaza by basically everyone else in the world for rendering such as I hear, you see, you seems to be a gesture towards love. And many people want to, you know, really have that opium and believe that she's shifting towards the left, but we should see through that by now, we've been through this many times. So WC is aimed still, even though Biden has dropped out is to continue revealing the truth of Harris's record on Israel to make sure people can't kind of sheepdog people into the party and say, Oh, no, she's different. She is on Supra only conservative position so far. I know as we get closer to the election, there will be questions about, well, what about the Republicans like the threat rose, ruler and Mueller by the month? So that's something we can talk about, but personally, I think we should not be afraid to take risks and organizing for independence and Holding the current politicians accountable for what, for enabling a genocide, or Trump likely won't change his current policy on Israel. The Democratic Party has to be made to understand that they can't maintain their current stance and remain in office at the same time. Our current activities are good been lacking card of being the city council districts where people have been endorsed by our charter. With the attempt to float those people get a sin, but those people and float the county party against them. We're still considering Tabeling at various locations, to discuss the genocide campaign along with our Ewok work, which is our labor union organizing and or tenant union work. Because as a nonprofit, we need to divvy up our time and not just be so politically focused. And I will help a lot. And lastly, we are currently evaluating the effectiveness of different outreach methods, including Tabeling, distributing fires in public and canvassing. We're trying to determine which approach will give us the greatest outreach for our essentially, like, effort put in, and that kind of remains open up open to debate and on some aspects want to talk more about like how much it's funny signatures we have so far, current strategies have been tried, and what worked and what hasn't worked?
Okay, so so far we have
that's my campaign. We are inside campaign.
Yeah. Hi, guys.
Currently, we have 164. Budgets, people that pledged to the nobles for genocide. But we had a lot of success with like the Costco parking lot, we got a lot of people that first day we gone like door to door knocking and we got less people, but it was still pretty successful. And not last week, the week before we did phone banking. And I think with online banking, we still need to figure out times that work best with people as we called it was 12 or 123. And there were a lot of people that were like busy with work or did an answer. There were also a couple bugs with the talk through so we're still figuring all that out. As Harpreet said with like colleges semester starting back up soon we could also dip our fingers into tabling I'm sure we'll get a lot more people that way because it will be a heavy traffic area with people running to class but so far we've obviously we've gotten quite a lot of people to sign and yeah
I think we talked about asking for less and sort of co op a went from there and then started enrolling Sen. Rancho San Miguel
because they're basically the other branch of food for us
so yeah, so that's options that we knew which all colleagues do better than door to door knocking we've done that twice I think we average like four to five centimeters an hour and it's walking around
thinking as getting or getting responses from people so they don't have usually works best after for like late evening like I'd say around five because I do for me for my internship and they have us do it like starting at five or 530 And that's when usually people pick up and are more willing to talk with their weekdays weekdays and weekends at seen your work for a while.
That's actually good to know because last time we had considered we do it on Saturdays and recently have considered starting at five like five to seven but I do think that people will be less inclined to answer f5 on a weekend on their day off. Yeah, so we'll, we'll play around with the time so when it comes to When it comes to phone banking, then figure out what works best
to ever figure out the issue and doctor with our 209. area, and okay, what was the result? So one of the issues we have with our system was we didn't have a to event area code. So I think people saw it, and they're like, this is spam. And
they said this, like launch the campaign and provision a number like a week in advance. So there's a very limited number of q&a numbers. And, I guess, one, and zombies or something. I don't know that he was like religion in advance, who was using it. But tonight is a pretty wide area. And so there's definitely a chance that other people were using it and got it before
we were. So can we reserve it for our next? Yes,
we have to schedule it and like any group talk, and then like launch the campaign, like you can be scheduled for later, but I put it in and hit launch to provision a number, and it'll hold that number for that timeframe. Well, we have to like actually launch it.
Can we change the script after we know, yeah, well, then let's just schedule
it. Yeah, isn't that we launched it like, as you were starting on banking last time, and it was
fine. So yeah, something changed. But so
I have a question about that. So we have to reserve it reserved number, right? For like, a certain amount of time. What is the reservation for this other group or person that
it's not just one number or numbers, it's just for whatever reason, they don't have like enough to buffer. A lot of people using it for tonight. They did say they're going to start working on letting you like, reserve a number like forever lawyer or like I think will be very helpful. Or by providing your own phone number. And you do say like a burner account. And that ways, if people call back, it's at least come back to you now it just goes like you can set up a voicemail. So just be like, Oh, this is where somebody's going to be calling. But in terms of the they did say has reset provided some feedback. Personally, Shawn, about the using it on mobile, they said they look into improving the UI for mobile. But but the patch to its newer, mobile, good seemed to work. So we were able to get it for people at the doctor's office at the start. How much time do
we got about five and a half minutes? Okay.
I guess it's something we can talk about some kind of some time. The we're getting like a enthusiasm like Cliff. When it comes to when it comes to Gaza. You can see it won in the way that progressives are like, Harris is good enough to get there. When we were phone banking, we were counting people. We had a pirate, identify the game very progressive, and like on the furthest left leaning people in the district. And it was like one of the worst phone banking days that we've ever had like, like, for
those of you that weren't there, a lot of those boxes, like I had a couple of people that were like, Yeah, I care about the Palestinians. But I don't want to sign on to this pledge or do anything. Because the fact that I'm thinking about like one lady was talking about that I'm thinking about is enough. Another lady was telling me that she donates some money to the families. And I was like, that's not stopping bonding, so so not like, do something and I got hung up on.
So yeah,
we're in a really weird environment right now, where people, those who care are either like burnt out, or like just spiraling in a feeling of like, I can't do anything, or people just don't care at all.
So if you notice, some of our reference changes are trying to move away from just having like a moral claim of like those adjusting to do to shifting upward. This is how this policy is affecting you like personally in your own life. Part of that is the cost of the water that's going over, or the cost is the lack of democratic representation like our newest posts on Josh, the third paragraph and is how when it comes to this, Josh is willing to work across the aisle, he's willing to get bipartisan support to pass military aid to Israel. But when it comes to actually day to day issues here at home, he will post about it on social media and be like, Hey, can you build or to I explanation mark on and that's a whole post that, you know, he's not willing to actually do anything organized around real issues, besides posts thing and that that just shows the lack of democratic representation. And we got to move people beyond that doesn't mean we mean voted for someone else. That means we want to you know, over the constitution but yeah anyone else like have feedback on how people have been like talking about as in their circles whilst we could possibly do to get people reengaged even if it is a slightly different angle of we have a representation not just that what's happening they got something wrong
my immediate thought is continue down the angle. I mean, it's it feels it's rough because news comes out so fast but the story about I mean, they basically they were fighting for the right to stop the highest prisoners and I feel like that was a pretty big news story that Western outlets did pick up and still didn't pick up as much traction as like we were four or five months ago which is crazy, but still think was able to pick up traction. So I think reminding people that like that like just just going back and saying this is an evil thing there's no place similarly to our no representation literally no representation nothing we can do as Americans aside from United States citizens aside from all of our own elected officials responsible so I think Carter is an easy target in that respect because he is made back darling so we can just keep going after it I think it'll I think that will will engage people again also reminding people that harder as received Shut up I think if we continue down that path and bring up the news stories about what essentially that money is coming from and what it's supporting I think we can make it a little bit
I second that idea I yeah. Oh yeah.
One minute you're you're muted
sorry. Thank you for telling me I was muted I think I get interesting angle with you guys because like maybe like how much influence like Israel has over like senators and how much money we send them because like there's tragedies all over the world and like there's nothing we can do about them but we need to explain why this affects us and how we could do something that had also negatively affects like Americans as well like like we need to present this angle like like like our politicians are on the Israeli like payroll or something like so much money and money our tax dollars over there to make sure like this is a horrible thing. And it's our problem and it negatively affects us and there's something we can do to like stop it by stop voting for them and demanding they stop doing this. I feel like we need to go more the angle not necessarily the tragedy but how this tragedy is affecting us as well as angle we need to go to get people's attention to it and
evoke their timing. We're out of time. And you
can you emotions. Oh can I Oh, I have motion to
add how much? Five minutes second,
we got a second
neighbor.
Oh, Adri things
on favor. It's unanimous. Okay, cool. All right. All opposed, just in case. All right. Five minutes go.
I was just quickly going to say that I was I was going to say something very similar to what Peter was saying. But I think we do have to everything that we talk about now as sad as it is. We do have to connect it back to how does this affect us? How does this affect the average American to those that still believe that all you have to do is vote for a different person then we just have to expose that like they're literally same principles, different faiths that the fact that like everything that happens here is or is not either all of the money most of the money that we have is is shooting in have a wicked even go the houses so the homelessness with them making it illegal I know there's a lot of outdoor I've seen from like people that I know and other like friends that don't really wouldn't say care but talk too much about STEAM. You know your house for free. In Israel, you know your You get education for free in Israel, healthcare for free in Israel. So I think that's what we should be doing like you, our new American, are struggling. And all of our money is being sent over there for them to have a federal all of your money is being sent over there. Yeah, we could also, like take some of the tragedies and kind of frame them in that sense. Like, for example, obviously, I don't think there's anyone who likes sexual assault. So why would you rally for that? So we can talk about that,
for example? Yeah.
I think we should go with that. So rarely, did you miss something?
Yeah, I was just gonna say that. I think maybe on top of the, you know, like leveraging electeds. I think we could also maybe if people want to, you know, we could start a donation. Or, like, you know, we could figure out ways of sending like, direct aid to Palestine. So like, we could give people multiple options to. Because I know, I know, from just like listening to my, like, relatively conservative stepdad talk about it. He's like, Oh, if you care so much, why aren't you sending money over there? And I'm like, that kind of makes sense. It's a, you know, a direct way of helping out. So we could maybe add that too. I'm
actually in a group chat. One of the woman that we met at the litter protest, in all of the group chat they just send GoFundMe is from Palestinians. So like, there is direct contact with them. And yeah, so that is something that we can do really easily. Like, I'm already in the kind of chat. If people want to, you know, help donate, I can either add that will just send them the GoFundMe, these. Yeah.
Yeah. To add to the fundraising, I know that I've seen individuals that will like, kind of like, sponsor families that rent goes up to, you know, that's something that seen, I think, rather than like, here's a list of all these girlfriend knees, which you know, they can pick from one but then it's kind of like, oh, shoot, like, I pick this one over another one. Or what do I do? If we kind of came up with like, a, we're sponsoring this family or the this individual as the VCU if that was something that
seemed more
like it being a person to what is happening in like people seeing the boss is like, okay, there's an actual person, actually, family and individual I can support by giving funds
that can have 30 seconds, or options.
Also, one more thing, I think, we tried to go the teaching route before. I think the way we went about it, maybe won't work anymore. But with like, colleges, again, going back in session, we definitely could fly you're there for an event where we have a teaching that can connect it all there because we're talking about like, okay, so not connecting it. Yes, social media would be great for that. But also you have to follow us. Or
less likely, but yeah.
Okay.
Anyone else really want to say something? Okay, I think just ongoing discussion on how we're going to get something done versus status quo. Okay, so next up is our actual vote for the renewal of the tenant union campaign. So it was up for reauthorization. Last meeting. So we got to do this every six months. We need to vote on a few authorization before well, that we're supposed to before February, you know, that's the summarize our progress we've kept. If you have a PowerPoint, it's entries for the person, especially if the folks so they talk to their neighbors come through. We engaged approximately 50 units in the area. So that's about 200 Some units. So that point 25%. And by engaged, I mean, like we talked to them, we have some notes on them, they've either signed off on the pledge. That's pretty good considering we've been really inconsistent in terms of actually going out there. And at least 10 to 15 people go through the notes we've talked through multiple times at this point, so they know us they know of us. So we made steady progress. I'm recommending reauthorizing campaign, because we're on the verge of at least having significant progress with the code enforcement letter. I know last month was very busy. But we can escalate our efforts to address the pocket issue. For the remainder of the year, especially, like after August, I'll be very good practice on how to like I always very large development, but it also has the benefit of giving us experience and engaging multiple people to have large scale action, but you're only have like five units, it's hard to have like a large scale protests or property management company or something. And then, with focus effort, you should complete the handbook, that's kind of been like a it's been a major roadblock for us doing other things as well. Because we haven't been able to put out a lot of material to like this stuff, that would be kind of like service modeling info. But that stuff we can put out to attract more people to help us. And then, like we were talking about before, later, when it just started in darker earlier than we think conduct some of these workshops. And advise people on a race with a goal of trying to find a unit or dwelling and organize. It this is supposed to be more of the time to discuss some of the strengths and weaknesses of that session going it's only seven months, we have basically 10 minutes to get a calendar. Pen. Yeah, thanks. So we should set aside time to counter. Yeah, so in terms of, I wanted to say the least, if you approve it to have like, a benchmark for a timeline. So I'm working on getting the code enforcement letter sent being the handbook, having a toggle at a meeting, and then developing capacity and canvassing on a smaller scale in soccer in Angola. So please help us if we kind of lose track, and then go on so. Okay, so any other comments on what we were saying before any kind of goals or when we should have those things done? Or thought someone should have those things on my site?
I think if we do canvassing purely for signatures two more times this month, I think that should be our cut off. And for our code enforcement letter, I think from what when I call it back code enforcement, it seemed pretty cut and dry. It was just how many signatures he got. And they could stay anonymous, I think we need to keep that in mind is these people don't even need to be like, it's just like, what unit are they in, it doesn't have to be like this person, this may if they want to give their name fine. If they don't, we have a list of signatures, we give it to them. They start the process. And then we can start going if we want to continue down that path of code enforcement. But there either way, we set the wheels in motion, and we'll just pay, and they're going to be investigated, and they'll find cockroaches because we know that they're already. Now the issue we run into before is if they're living conditions, if they're not clean enough, they're going to get criticized for that. So I think that's something we have to reinforce. I'm not even sure how we approach that at this point. But yeah, I think two more two more canvassing events, and then you do got enforcement or two more signature canvassing events and that's good enforcement.
I think whether we do the signatures or one of the things I was also the is just also phone calls. Like at this point, we do have a few people's numbers and contacts. And even like people that have not signed on, so we wanted to get a few more signatures that way. And we could just like what Chris just mentioned, like mentioned their unit number. Then I can also hopefully, hopefully add on more people. And maybe I my guess is employee won't Know When code enforcement would go and see the unit. So there's no way of like prepping. But there could be, you know, maybe once we've shared that we've submitted the letter or like we have individuals identified that will go join us to submit that letter that we should do the next part of kind of prepping people informing them like, hey look like, in order for them to consider this as a serious knee or serious thing that they need to address and intervene on, they need to, we need to be able to show them that, that you're not laying your dogshit inside or like, whatever it is right? Or that you don't have food out. Stuff like that, right, that we could have possibly seen while we were there.
And
another thing I was just thinking is like, what if we did letters? Like, what if we mailed letters to the units? I don't know if like, that might be a lot of work, like sending it out by mail and stuff. Maybe it's not blood, like we just printed mail it. But I don't know, I was just thinking if someone could just see a text and close it out. And then not look at it again, like a letter they might read it. It's like is this what we've done is what we're trying to do with whatever information impute like, even if we had the same thing for like, no votes for genocide, but like, sign on to this thing. And, you know, here's the code, QR code or whatever, something that can also get more people maybe to respond or just be in up to date with what's happening.
Yeah, I would say like for myself, like having started working on the handbook, I think I might feel more comfortable. Like if I continue doing that I'll probably see about reaching out to like tenants together or something like that. I think that's like the nonprofit doesn't run by and see if they have any new jobs and then studies. Okay,
or a timeline, I guess. Sounds good, then it's good to take about
five minutes
of our timeline. So let's do our one last signature drive, stealing barbecue thing. Maybe the first week discover it ourselves extra time because we never do that. So have at least one quick fire pick up next week. And then maybe one where he was injured drive or like wire handout slash barbecue, invite the last week of August as our second like outreach them. And then somewhere in that time, you need to schedule either phone calls or sending other texts that either drop in for letters, I think it's a good idea to we could send them like, I think design like the one page explainer the thing the sign was like that we timestamp and then they can send it back to us. There are blender units off. But yeah. For the handbook when we think about mid October for like a deadline, meaning
Tober Tober. Yeah, October or August or something.
So at least get Tober general meeting, we can go over the handbook as a group and then use the feedback and have it finalized over how's that sound.
And then for the AAA meeting with the Cavalia town Association, that will hopefully inform we can say, whenever we hear back at the time, we have a meeting with the kind of association when the deadline of like the end of September. So if you send off the letter, it's my first week of September, or Secondly, we give cohorts and a couple of weeks to respond. If they don't we can have that meeting with an association with like how we escalate now, code enforcement is taking the time to respond. And you know, maybe that means we go to the next one city council or something or we go to Code person again. Okay. Probably without signing and also have any comments sessions are turning in work that at least November December for outreach to other places that have to do Thus, yes
but I wonder if this might be a little bold, but like swag stuff for the barbecue rally button maker machine and maybe stickers or something like the not like like the window ones, you know like, Yeah, I think that'd be cool. I had showed that with heartbeat that like if units can show like, oh farther VCU to you and kind of like outside their window as a way like identifying themselves that way could be fork
I also want to add that maybe we should in event maybe during even like the tabling for the novels for genocide being on campus. We could also have like talk about the tenant union get volunteers up there. Because the more people we have the quicker this can go by. Yeah, so that's all I would add check a schedule to let possibly scheduling a tabling day trying to get volunteers
one minute. All right. I can read through the reauthorize this campaign for an additional six months pretending anymore. Can I get a second from an on steering committee person? Join seconds. All in favor. Please raise your hands
all in favor rising and abstentions? Abraham all right. No, I
think we have two effective abstentions.
Yeah, yeah. Okay. Motion passes
okay, perfect timing
Well, this is a calendar referring to that and people will have started okay, we didn't schedule a bunch of stuff but let's not go crazy we also crazy Okay, so steering had recommended the reading group or a social event for the four by seven sorry
I think these are valid Yeah.
That's someone suggested
I said tempo but there would not be enough space it's very loud music
Yeah. I want to start somewhere else because I agree with earlier somewhat conservative but for now sign can anyone go to the one go? Economy recap after our Oh, that's Oh, yeah. So it'd be a recap after other activities. Yeah.
Anyone else somebody? What time are we? Okay.
Yeah, I can go. Yeah. Yes.
Valley group Sunday, before?
Okay, what are we doing? What time did you say that? You're? Okay.
We'll invite everyone again. Everyone, welcome to come. We have scheduled reading group on the 29th. We don't have a Reading Tip yet. I guess we'll be informed for something rather than.
Yeah. Let's do it. Yeah, we'll do it on the forum. If if we don't have anything. I'm just if like, nobody votes. I'm just gonna pick an article and we'll read it at the reading group. If nobody decides they want to read anything.
Are people available on 29? It would be do we want to the same timing again? Like
7pm? Maybe? Yeah,
seven eight. Yeah, yes. Yes,
I might. Yeah.
Okay. Roll. It's all mine. Oh, I'm
sorry Would you
please just
right now the super working group meeting
on the 26th
Yes hybrid six
sorry sorry
Bali put me in what's it like 2629
I also possibly this the last Yeah. Peter says all right
okay, and the other thing was a new member orientation on the 31st we have a couple of folks we'll go over that if you're interested in joining like to be able to come on with me first. Okay.
Okay, what time
is that Saturday? Yeah. Exactly. For you
Yeah, remember the available when times were afraid?
I always like doing it later in the day. But if people have plans on us on Saturday, so
if we're going to do it later in the day, if on Saturday, I would have to be back by three. Or after
that's so before it's the year after whatever we did last night. Was it like two three? I
think we did it at like noon.
I think it was at noon
Good evening and then get
rich. Okay. Well, that's all the holiday weekend.
Labor Day slavery.
Maybe we should plan something for Labor Day.
Oh, that's one thing to plan. Okay. Okay, but Lisa was gonna be there. Yeah, it's just remember orientation. You don't need everyone
so we were gonna do sorry. 556.
After five, yeah, after like, five 530 overflow.
Seven was our okay, we can have Okay.
Can we say we needed to in canvassing days this month?
Yeah, one of them would have to be like right before the barbecue. So it would be sometime in the slap not since the bath exam. Pretty cool. But it'd be like the first week of September and then barbecue in September, at the first week? Which is, yeah.
Because like the next general meeting is on the fifth of September. Right?
No, that's what happens and you say old
Well, yeah.
Never stop going faster. It's
Wait, I feel like there's a song that about that. So we get your stop counting
along the days, so maybe a weekend will attract a crowd
or barbecue? Oh, yeah. Are we still gonna be doing canvassing for the genocide on Saturdays?
Okay, so thank you. Yeah, we can fill in the gap.
Like the 17th through the 24th or something
Before Yeah, for fun banking. And then on Saturday, we had said it was better after football. So I can get both Okay. Would you be available all the time?
What is
Argosy?
10s and 24?
Yeah.
And when when a sorry when are you out of town again? Not to if not to put you on blast but like because because we're gonna have to have somebody else like handling most of the scheduling right?
70 in like 20 Okay.
Not too bad. When can we like not help you anymore? And audits starting today? Around? And where do we go into hearing? You're already going to be streamed live
already outside?
Oh yeah, great. We just have one person, I can go after this. Okay. Okay, anyone else? Can you make money? And
I don't know about one of those two golf tournaments.
Maybe the 24th. For me?
I'll do that. Okay. And online, right.
I don't think I can do the 10th i My ability to 24th.
I think I'd be able to make the 10th and the 24th. I've been meaning to help out with one of these.
Okay.
I always said, Well,
okay, awesome.
And then I think the only thing we have left is we can just do like a flyer drop off. Like, Monday or Tuesday, the second or third? Or it's just like it seemed like a lot or one or two people is paying off wires about barbecuing by who will come to the barbecue. So we don't have to like books or any of that basically.
Oh, also just Wednesdays in general. Bazemore and I've been meeting about education and membership stuff.
Wednesdays from like seven to Yeah, believe me.
Oh, yeah, we got a federal holiday. So should we do Saturday and Sunday like seventh or eighth of September? Or should we do a weekday?
Writing the
sets, we divide the sets we should have like these in Chicago therapists because
No, sorry. You said the six.
I'm just asking six, seven or eight. Like, if you can go any of those things like this. Raise your hand and say no, you can see what it is
one vote for a taxi
I could do either six, seven or eight. It'll be after like athletics.
Jackie do either.
would have to be six or eight?
For an hour anything or?
I mean, if he can do it for the first hour, that'd be great. Okay.
Which, when? Sorry, when is this? So?
We're taking about I say okay
let's say the eighth is winning right now. Start next month eight. So rally.
Oh, so Okay, let me extend this, just
around a setup or something and say, Actually,
I'll be breaking the streak of never having an event on a Sunday. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay, so then on that Monday or Tuesday is anyone free? They don't make Canvas
week before yeah Monday's a holiday
shopping fire so
great to see it.
Okay
yeah, I can do the one to zero Thursday
they're counting they also do
that one day is September September 2. Sure
okay dropping flyers. Okay, so September 2, we'll drop off flyers to invite people to the September a barbecue.
So add something that we been meaning to switch from the movie night thing, the social for the novelist. I mean, if you guys still want to do it, I was talking to labor. Yeah.
Well, our Thursdays are so free. We usually save a lot of stuff on Thursday, and we've completely avoided it. So 22nd
Does that work for everyone? It would be later in the obviously we have a projector we have to be the student. I have a projector I have the screen. I don't have anything to put it on. But I could put on a tree and
want to be like when we go to a
park? Yeah. electric source.
Does September have 30? days? Yes. Okay. July I'll just have 31 Do I can never remember.
I said Friday, probably a better guy like outdoor movie night.
I really. Friday would be good. I know, we didn't say anything about like, a tabling event. But if we were to do that, before then suddenly, or unstable at app that Yeah, we could have a table that if we like, talk to like, more people will be more inclined to go if it's on a Friday or Friday, especially with school backup, high school or college. Yeah.
So we wanted to show a movie or do the labor
I would just want to be labor just because you have to get on getting the unions to do something. And they're like a leverage source for us. Just kind of like maybe tonight, but uh, you is not sending any unit people? Sure.
I will. I will also say though, that we the community building is like a bit like, I think we all agree that's like a big part of what we're trying to do. And we've been terrible. So, like, I think prioritizing both of those things is important. You know, but obviously finding time it's
difficult. I would also I both of them are worth it. I also think that we haven't really done any social events or the novels for genocide that yet and you know, especially with a lot of people being burnt out or feeling this whole like dread of there's nothing that can do having a space whether it's like a movie night or just a space where we like get in a circle and talk about our feelings something like that. I do think we have to do a better job community building that's the way you're gonna get people to continue to come out. That's leaving get
people to care to come back. Yeah.
30th then like people ending up orientation
out Shahab Oh, okay,
what was free on Thursdays?
Like, the evening of the 30th
Yeah, we do it. Sunny when the sun's So, setting like seven, seven
like meet, chat,
and then do get 30 Yeah, we can get food. A food of like little
like places where people can say something.
Yeah, so the 37 or whenever it's over
it's a Friday night like, unless unless somebody is working on Saturday
I'm sure two will be sorry usually will say like
two hours.
Eight and a half. I would just say nine maybe
usually the documentary stuff is not that long.
Yeah. But it gives us a little
conversation but we could at the end of it if we want to have like a conversation let's digest this by this
so movie and like Convo afterward, bass playing.
Yeah. All right.
Did I miss a you? I was kind of typing while you guys were talking. But did I miss something for September besides the barbecue, right on the eighth is what it was? Yeah.
The flyering for the barbecue. Okay, so that's canvassing or sorry? flyering at caovilla? Yes.
And then I guess escapable the thing on the eighth? I'm gonna go flip the flyers on a couple of books. So we've been around forever. If anyone else wants to come with
what day it was? Yes, honestly. Yeah, honestly.
Just gonna go talk with me for people that we love wires.
Also, for context of the Adobe Suite here before we go to any of those events, and then we'll talk longer, something like that. Unless you like me to lead from there. But we always sneakers.
It's just you don't need this. Yeah. And see that little one right there. It's like,
Oh, okay. For the eight.
I think that's everything. Um, one thing we had talked about, and I guess we can vote on it next time, because we're out of time. Okay, so you can just, I'll talk about this now. And then we can make a forum post about it there. We had an orange one, where we both worship.
And the WhatsApp? Yeah,
it was we're talking about how, like, as an organization, we should put out more statements that are more like evergreen, and I just like press release site stuff. But, you know, we obviously have this issue of, we always take a long time to like, talk about things and debate things. And so what I wanted to propose was that, we lay out a calendar going the end of 2025. And then we give ourselves three month blocks. And within those three month blocks, we pick, like, there's one issue that we're going to talk about versioning. So either like, like, if we're gonna do Black History Month, and we're gonna do like the, you know, free critique of black politics, like, let's give ourselves three months to work on the polish that like during that month, or if we have some other minute talk about talking about the problem with nonprofits, let's give ourselves three months to research and write something and publish that. I think on a forum like this, make like a post with three month box going at the end of 2025. And then we'll just have an open session on what we actually want to talk about during those bring on box. If they can't, like maybe they will be another thing where we should put something out. The goal, of course, is to put out ideas and rhetoric that show how we are different than like this than normal progressives. Like we're not just lobbying for policy, we're not involving for reforms and for welfare. Nobody wants something different than that. But yeah, basically, keep that in mind, think about stuff. And then we can take like a poll on what goes where. But then that way, we will have three months of like dedicated time to work on these articles that we have discussions, we have meetings in between general meetings, to talk about it to drop something and then have something that everyone mostly everyone will be happy with. Okay, And then I think to do that some new folks I want to join the undertaking. We want to take a quick vote on allowing people under 18 to join because now you want to keep going always and her friends I think she still like
the seniors I think she's great. Since your thoughts Yeah, I remember
so I'm gonna be like Riley then go to the next slide. Okay. Yeah, so he's wanting to change fees for minors who a waiver is I documented the dollar thing into like that probably not more for her. Okay, so I moved away dues for minors down to zero. And I get a second 80 seconds. Can I get on favor? Please raise your hands
Yes. Oh, Natalie.
Natalie, I guess let's see.
Ya.
Real unanimous.
All right. And then I motion to adjourn the meeting. Unless anyone else have anything else to say?
Very quickly. If you guys want to join in like making fliers or putting up flyers, please talk to me. Or writing. Yeah. Alrighty. Talk to either one of us. Yeah, it'll
be fine. Oh, I do actually have one other thing. I this is not something we need to vote on, necessarily. But if, if I make buttons for this weekend or for upcoming things, should they be like, no votes for genocide buttons? Like, what are we thinking? I can make whatever I just kind of need some pointers. And if nobody has any ideas, we can talk about it later.
Okay. Um, I I think there's a lot of flies in here and it's stressing me out. So gotta move. But um, I was thinking we don't even have anything yet. So like, just like generic maybe I think will be is first way to go. And
then I can make some like generic lefty hype buttons, probably some things around Palestine. No votes for genocide kind of stuff. Okay, cool. Great. Sure.
You're just like, I think you'd be enlightened sort of logo.
Yeah, I was actually I was thinking more of like, if we wanted something like swag, like how I mentioned earlier if there was an opportunity that with the buttons or stickers with like having our decal or logo, so like, people are actually out wearing it like that?
I can, I can do that. So I was thinking of just trimming the logo down to just the mountains with like, WC you basically. Yeah, because that fits better.
All right. All right. Cool. All right. Guys, Second. All in favor.
Yeah. All right.
Okay, I'm going to end the recording, but don't leave. Yeah,
