23rd January 2006 Matilda meeting

Minutes of Matilda Meeting - Monday 23rd January 2006

1. All the collectives fed back.


 * Kitchen collective will put up recipes on the web site.
 * The art collective suggested improving access for the gallery.
 * The building collective proposal to board up windows on the front of the building was agreed. This was to save time and money and the windows being rebroken. Buildings collective said a new sign is to be put over the front door. People required to help with lettering. Also proposed to have a building action list on the wiki and in the building to let people know what has been done and what needs doing.
 * Gig collective imposed a ban of parking cycles in the gantry to preserve the new paintwork
 * Ketamine collective announced its plans to build a flotation/isolation tank and an experimental nuclear reactor. Office space was requested but not yet sorted.
 * Bike collective distributed flyers for a forthcoming Critical Mass and Bike maintenance workshop day.
 * Proposal for a fundraiser for Saving Iceland somewhere, somehow.
 * Cooking for next Thursday social is by the Art Collective then the Ketamine Collective the week after.
 * It was also agreed to document progress of the building with words or photos on the web site.

2. Money

The Art collective agreed to produce a budget for refurbishing the art gallery with reference to the previous allocated building budget.

Various strategies to deal with finances were discussed. Special meeting next Monday specifically for Money and Yorkshire Forward.

3. Then followed a long rambing discussion on the new meeting structure. Despite possible problems it was decided to try it and see. Because many things are still left to be resolved there would be extra meetings focusing on specific long term issues like money, decision making, security etc.

Monday meetings were not to be held 3 weekly because of confusion. Instead fortnightly and hopefully monthly seemed a better solution.

Agendas for spokes-council meetings should be made available well before meetings to give collectives time to discuss and agree their ideas. If any issues at meetings were late then there would be a break in the meeting to allow collectives to discuss this before the main spokes council bit....

4. It was agreed that collectives would put up contact lists and posters and information about what they were doing on their respective web pages and to make the website more useful and informative generally.

5. The gig collective suggested that to avoid further police intrusions they would finish gigs earlier. The site gallery and block space serve alcohol legally by asking donation only.

6. Next weeks facilitator was agreed.