meetings:2026-04-05 [Sasona Cooperative]

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====== Apr 5, 2026 ======

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

Bailey Wright,  David, Eevee, Vic, Brigid, DJ

===== Associate Members Attending: =====

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

Gardenia, Kate, Corey, Tim

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

**First Meeting Question:**

   - Full Legal Name: Gabriele Kahn
  - Pronouns: she/her
  - Why do you want to live at Sasona? i like living in community and am looking for a place to live. i like the location
  - When would you want to move in? in the fall - august or september
  - Do you have any pets? no

**First Meeting Question:**

  - Full Legal Name: Timothy vickers
  - Pronouns: he/ him
  - Why do you want to live at Sasona? openess, inclusion. always accepted
  - When would you want to move in? in the fall - within a week
  - Do you have any pets? no

**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 2-3 Labor Holidays per year (4 lumps each)?

====== Officer Check-ins ======

**Archivist: ** \\
**Bookkeeper: ** \\
**CHEA Rep 1:** \\
**CHEA Rep 2:** \\
**Culture Coordinator:** \\
**Food Planner:** \\
**Grounds Coordinator: **Eevee: its looking good. grounds team been doing a lot of work\\
**Kitchen Kaiser:** \\
**Labor Czar:** \\
**Maintenance Coordinator: **brigid: leanred a lot this week. going to get maitenence request availables - hard copies, qr code. its streamlined but no one can access. its going to be fun and cool. i am going to schedule the pest control people. they are mostly outside. apparently they have placed. i put the note on the fire extinquisher. insurance inspectors are supposed to come soon. its been my job to ensure the house is hazard free and make sure fire extinguishers are up to date. \\
**Mastodon Overblower: ** \\
**Meeting Chair: ** \\
**Membership Coordinator: **bailey: 2 open rooms. vic in process of moving stuff into 15. kitchen room is now open for people who want to move in there. kyle reached out and let me know he might be interested in moving in sooner than may. he should be added to the labor schedule that will come out tomorrow. i havent been elected as steward yet but have been acting as it. i am running for steward. votes should be counted. there is an upcoming court date of april 16 on zoom. i will be attending. shawn is still on the premises. hopefully we can get that sorted out soon. \\
**Minutes Taker: **out of meeting chair.\\
**Steward: ** \\
**Treasurer: **EEvee: nothing new \\
**NP Rep: ** \\
**Operations Manager: **

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

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====== New business ======

Eevee: getting payment plan for next week. did a big job in vegas and will get it by the 15th and be able to pay in full

david: there is a late fee of $25 that me and jessi have had

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dj: our food budget has run a surplus and it would be nice to put that towards kitchen items

brigid: we are trying to ease back toward kitchen remodel. we may be not having a kitchen for many months. we could buy things that would be helpful for then too

bailey; i think there is a seperate budget for kitchen things and food budget is different

dj: box cheese grater

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corey: its officially budget season. nasco passed budget last weekend. i am np board rep to introduce budget process that goes through may. chea board meeting this thursday. nasco does it, then chea then the house. nasco education asked np to make a donation to nasco. they were asking for 7500. np board approved 5k. in past, np board has approved 10k. np board voted to increase vacancy reserves. a lot of the houses carry debt for people not renting rooms. that debt gets paid off for vacancy reserve. there are a lot of houses that cant pay it. we are inc from 5% to 6%. some reps are saying we need to increase that in future years. if we dont use vacancy reserves, money comes back to us.

dj: bailey how does this connect money wise to room 14

bailey: we are not recieving rent for room 14

corey: we end up shorting the amount we pay to np. they make up the difference from vacancy reserves. i can dig out budget and send out. chea board is going to do budget this month. usually there is not a lot of varaible expenses at the board level. this upcoming thurs we are going to draft budgets. i will be at houses following two sundays. next month in may im going to work with treasurers to draft house budgets and try to not make rent go up as much as we can.

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bailey: matt and gracie wedding reception is next weekend. they were long time co-opers and are coming back from michigan. ruth will be in town for that and also indias.

gardenia: my wedding is in a couple of weeks at la rey