meetings:2025-07-27 [Sasona Cooperative]

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====== July 27, 2025 ======

===== House Members Attendance: =====

Jessi
Olivia
Ruth
Shane
Sidney
Rowan
Alice
David
===== Associate Members Attending: =====

Caleb
===== Non-Regular Attendees: =====

David M
===== Personal Check-ins =====

===== Prospective Members: =====

**First Meeting Question:** 
  - Full Legal Name 
  - Sam Schonzeit
  - Pronouns he/him
  - Why do you want to live at SASONA? 
  - I love the neighborhood. it's inexpensive. i've never lived in a co-op but lived in several cooperative situations. I feel like i'm at a point in my life where i'd like to be more social. living in a co-op might help with the isolation 
  - When would you want to move in? 
  - Sept 15th
  - Do you have any pets?
  - No, but wants a cat

**First Meeting Question:** 
  - Full Legal Name 
  - Thymel Kousa
  - Pronouns she/her
  - Why do you want to live at SASONA? 
  - I just moved to the US a year ago and I live alone for 10 months and it's hard to be far from friends and family. After 10 months I feel alone sometimes. I tried community in NYC, and I had a good experience, so I tried to find another one but didn't really connect well with the house. I'd like to be a part of the community for some support. 
  - When would you want to move in? 
  - July 31st
  - Do you have any pets?
  - No pets
====== Officer Check-ins ======

**Archivist: ** \\
**Bookkeeper: ** \\
**CHEA Rep 1:** \\
**CHEA Rep 2:** \\
**Culture Coordinator:** \\
**Food Planner:** \\
there's sticky notes next to the list. I'll figure out HEB shopping this week.
**Grounds Coordinator:** \\
**Kitchen Kaiser:** \\
there's labor that isn't done but we're aware of it. 
**Labor Czar:** \\
I'm going to send an email
**Maintenance Coordinator: ** \\
**Mastodon Overblower: ** \\
Not much to report, but I was able to meet with Jessi about a broad view of what I'm doing. We discussed the new wiki, and some other things. I have a better knowledge of what i'm supposed to be doing.
**Meeting Chair: ** \\
**Membership Coordinator: ** \\
**Minutes Taker: ** \\
**Steward: ** \\

Hallo,

Here's what I did for Steward this week:

-- Coordinated with Olivia for Mastodon transfer.
-- Coordinated with David M to have him come for our Heart Meeting about our organizational structure.
-- Made some Facebook posts to drum up some perspectives and communicated with some perspectives to encourage them to come to their meetings.
-- Created a survey--please fill them out!! 
-- Received Pippin's documentation for the missing tapeworm meds.
-- Received Beans' documentation -- the last thing we need is either proof of a negative fecal test or proof of meds for tapeworm/hookworm/roundworm.
-- Sent a few emails this week, feel free to check them out! I've started an email series about our community values--so please feel free to share your favorite values stories!!

I'm sure I'm missing a few things on this report but that's the gist of what I did this week. Please let me know if you have questions or concerns!

Thanks all for making this place magickal!

Jessi

**Treasurer: ** \\
**NP Rep: ** \\
**Operations Manager: **
====== Wiki Updates & Announcements ======

====== Agenda Items ======

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===== Agenda Item 1 =====

(David M and Jessi) Heart Meeting with David M 

David: Let's start with NASCO--they're our big organization. NASCO Properties is the organization that actually owns the properties that are Sasona and La Reunion, which make up CHEA. Sasona and La Re are both a 501c3 under CHEA. Part of this is a structure as a necessity, and also out of support. 2002 NP bought Sasona's property. 2014 they were able to buy LaRe. NASCO Properties is a co-op of coops. We send representatives to them and they deal with the management side of things. 

Sidney: does NASCO have something where we can see a map of where the properties are?

Ruth: yes it's out of date

David M: NASCO is mainly focused on education--there's a conference with training. we're just members of NASCO, but NP is actually who owns the properties. it's approx $10M in assets. 

Sidney: how unique is NASCO?

David M: there's other co-op organizations, like College Houses--they own their own building. there are other national co-op orgs but they're structured differently. a lot of these coops were created for women to band together to support them in going to college.

Ruth: that's the northeast, but here it's about a country and town

Sidney: do we have relationships with any coops outside the US?

Ruth: in Canada. Canada gets a lot more support from their government

Caleb: i'm curious about the relationship has been between CHEA and NASCO

Ruth: we were CHEA for a long time, but at some point we had a baby and LaRe came about.

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