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August 17, 2025
House Members Attendance:
Shane, Star, Kaycie, Ruth, Rowan, Vic, Carina, Jessi, David Q, Seb, Olivia, Alice
Associate Members Attending:
Caleb, Matthias
Non-Regular Attendees:
Gardenia, Paul, Cory, Serenity, David M
Personal Check-ins
Prospective Members:
First Meeting Question:
- Full Legal Name
- Pronouns
- Why do you want to live at SASONA?
- When would you want to move in?
Second Meeting
- Are you willing to do 5 to 6 Lumps (hrs) of Labor a week?
- Are you willing to attend a minimum of 2 house meetings per month and 2 labor holidays (4 lumps each)?
Officer Check-ins
Archivist:
Bookkeeper:
CHEA Rep 1:
CHEA Rep 2:
Culture Coordinator: Kaycie - setting up 1 on 1 interviews to get a feel for people's experience at Sasona, having conversations with ppl about emotional dynamics at the house
Food Planner:
Grounds Coordinator:
Kitchen Kaiser: Ruth and Fay - orientated some ppl, working on dinner buddy deep clean labor not getting fully completed, will reach out to individuals to discuss
Labor Czar: Rowan - got some nominations, will put out ballots tonight, will also put out treasurer and archivist nominations, sent out last week's schedule and will send out new schedule tonight, treasurer tbd (might be Matthias for the short term)
Maintenance Coordinator:
Mastodon Overblower: Olivia - some homework but nothing too new
Meeting Chair:
Membership Coordinator: Bailey - Matthias moved out and is now an associate member, official first day that the Owens are members (if you see them welcome them!), Bailey Spade's old room (#13) bathroom had some flooding that messed up flooring so 1 house vacancy is remaining
Minutes Taker: Seb - will send out minutes as a pdf to sasona business
Steward: Jessi - sent out update via email
Treasurer: Mathias - will be handling treasurer duties until election happens, bills and lease will be paid and steady pending elections
NP Rep:
Operations Manager: David - thanks to everyone for dealing with various house crises, shoutout to Vic for helping with someone leaving the property, also the smoke smell/fire department issue, working on bookeeper transition, needs to deposit some checks, house contractor fell through so working on getting new contractor to get room 13 filled, GMM minutes had some good conversations about the struggles Sasona is going thru which is good to talk about so people don't get overwhelmed with emergencies, provides opportunity to look at house policies and update them
Wiki Updates & Announcements
Agenda Items
Agenda Item 1
(Bailey) put Ruth's moths on guff fridge
Agenda Item 2
(Vic, Star) name chair where Ruth sits Ruth's corner
Agenda Item 3 (D)
(Star) codify policies for money order for initial contract signing pament wki: contract signing policies - under signing first contract - “pyment for initial contract signing must be a money order” - discuss zelle/checks and future rent payments
Agenda Item 4
(Kaycie and Vic) discuss events board - how do you want to be notified of community events and happenings? (google cal, physical posts, slack, email, etc)
Agenda Item 5
(Kaycie) propose to reschedule culture meeting for a Sunday in September
Agenda Item 6
(Star, Vic) sexy car wash to get David M (bikini car wash fundraiser, topless optional for more money)
Agenda Item 7 (B)
(Jessi) Seb's accommodations plan
Jessi - seeking acommodations for Seb's labor. Typically labor czar can make minor changes/modifications, will be asking for actual reduction in lumps which Jessi hasn't been seen before, so it will be brought to a house vote based on getting house and Seb's needs balanced
Seb - explained disability needs and issues
Ruth - acommodations boils down to what can individual do and fit that into house labor system
Jessi - absentee policy no longer used, La Rea policies have lump reduction policy that to be brought to house vote as allowable alternative, and house can discuss if it is a reasonable accomodation
Rowan - question about why absentee policy can't be used, reduction of lumps would put more holes in labor schedule and people are at max of 6 lumps already, suggests labor lumps trade/donation
David M - offering idea that house can be flexible on quicker move out to help
Olivia - would support waiving 30 days to help with move out, has anyone put forward number of lumps for accomodation
Seb - I am currently doing 2 lumps for minutes taker, could do archivist as another lump, so total lumps can be 3, concerned about officer turnover
Motion: Seb's labor will be three lumps total - 2 lumps for minutes taker and 1 lump for archivist.
Rowan - propose to extend discussion by five minutes
Rowan - will have more empty labor spots due to accomodation - could we assign Seb labor that house takes over.
Kaycie - able to pick up extra lumps
Carina - can also pick up extra
Ruth - in favor of people doing lumps voluntarily, but those lumps shouldn't be Seb's responsibility should be house responsibility, hopes it would get done in
Rowan - makes sense, should specify if no one picks up labor Seb wouldn't get penalities
Modified Motion: Seb's labor will be three lumps total - 2 lumps for minutes taker and 1 lump for archivist. Seb's remaining three lumps will be taken care of by house volunteers.
Rowan - direct response, takes back what they said
Mathias - can we just say reduce Seb's lumps to three because other things have an excessive amount of into what Cory said about Seb moving out early to allow for more lumps to come in earlier can keep in mind
Seb - for house information will talk with Star about early move out
Vote on Motion: Seb's labor will be three lumps total - 2 lumps for minutes taker and 1 lump for archivist.
Motion Passes: 9-0-1
Agenda Item 8 (C)
(Rowan) Scheduling CJs membership review
Agenda Item 9 (A)
(Olivia) Payment plan for Olivia in September
When olivia logged into bank make previous payments got a notification that an upgraded bill experience is on the way for Fri Aug 29 - Mon Sept 7, basically bill payments for her account will be turned off end of Aug to beginning of Sept
Tried to prepay as much as she could, will owe community $500 by Sept 1st
Check that comes end of month (29th) on Friday can conver the $500, sometimes comes early on Weds
Motion: Olivia will pay her remaining balance of $500 for September rent no later than Tuesday, September 9th
Motion Passes: 12-0-1
Agenda Item 10
(David Q) Laundry room disaster (discussing laundry etiquette)