meetings:2025-08-03

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August 3, 2025

Rowan, Seb, Alice, Ruth, Alex, Shane, Fay, Matthias, David, Star, Mae

Caleb

David

First Meeting Question:

  1. Full Legal Name
  2. Pronouns
  3. Why do you want to live at SASONA?
  4. When would you want to move in?
  5. Do you have any pets?

Daniel Mejia - he/him, wants to live here because of the Sasona family/community vibes and liked how we do food and have the house setup, trying to move out of current place ASAP/as early as August or sometime in the future, no pets

Payton Lynn - she/her, wants to live here because loves community living and having good roommates and is looking for a place to live in during big life transition, looking to move in ideally w/in the next 2-3 weeks, has an 8yr old pug that is kid/pet/adult friendly lap dog

Owen O'Keefe - no pronouns, is in inquiry for collective living and interested in the social fabric of community housing/coop and looking for family friendly/proverbial village coop, looking to move in soon, no pets

Second Meeting

  1. Are you willing to do 5 to 6 Lumps (hrs) of Labor a week?
    1. TImel - yes
    2. Sam - yes
  2. Are you willing to attend a minimum of 2 house meetings per month and 2 labor holidays (4 lumps each)?
    1. Timel - yes
    2. Sam - yes

Officer Check-ins

Archivist:
Bookkeeper:
Culture Coordinator:
Food Planner:
Grounds Coordinator:

Mae - We have basil and tomatoes coming in nicely, staying ahead of the heat with watering


Kitchen Kaiser:

Ruth and Fay - would like someone to run for kitchen kaiser, some kitchen labor is not getting done, Ruth and Fay will be having labor accountability conversations after today's meeting to go over specifics of labor responsibilites so things aren't getting missed, weevils in bulk flour so trying to find better container for flour and Rowan will get new flour container, over kitchen budget with new microwave but need better sealed containers to preserve food


Labor Czar:

Rowan -labor schedule changing to six lumps for everyone, will post Sunday dish as makeup labor (please sign up!), will count ballots for grounds, treasurer, and archivist, will put up ballots ASAP for bookkeeper+CHEA rep+kitchen kaiser+archivist+meeting chair, apologies if labor is not first choice


Maintenance Coordinator:

Alex - did insepction on room 6, will be doing inspections on room 13 and 3 in upcoming week, working on getting walkway fixed up going to art shed, got a new wheelbarrow, looking to replace door handles on entry doors


Mastodon Overblower:

Olivia - Nothing for this week, short to medium term plans - would like to attend board tech meeting, getting a grasp on who still needs an account on new wiki, plan on what legacy pages need to be transferred and find an archive place, catch up on slack archive.


Meeting Chair:
Membership Coordinator:

Star - wanted to clarify three moves are opening up (smaller darkside room with move in ASAP), two other rooms opening up soon (one has set date, one is tbd), once eligibility requirements are met prospectives can sign up for new room immediately


Minutes Taker:

Seb - will send out email with PDF of minutes and link to minutes on wiki


Steward:

Jessi - sent out a lot of emails this week about maintence, following up on Spade's move out, raised concerns with Rowan up next week's schedule, reached up to Alex+Olivia about maintence hours and waiting to hear back, received Star's clearance for Beans (almost all pets have clean bill of health), go to GMM at La Re!


Treasurer:

Mathias - Met with Seb and David to go over Treasurer position on Friday and having another follow on transition meeting after general membership tonight.

Seb - You can come to me off of the agenda for payment plan and reimbursement quesitons.


NP Rep+CHEA Board Members:

Mathias - is stepping down once he moves out, general membership meeting next Saturday at La Re.

Fay - general mem meeting on Sat, met with David and Mathias about role as new board rep, IT meeting coming up this thursday, board meeting coming up mid month


Operations Manager:

David - filling in for bookkeeper right now, please pay rent normally and reach out to David with any questions, important for non-hosting house to make it over for GMM next Saturday to get representation on votes (such as who is NASCO properties rep which owns the La Re and Sasona properties), thinking about fast tracking some officer votes/details on absentee ranked voting/late signups, make sure to work with treasurer on costs/next year's budget

Wiki Updates & Announcements

Agenda Items

Note: $ must be escaped by preceding with a \. Example: \$100

(Fay) Reimbursement for instant pot card

(Jessi) New Pet Policy

(Jessi) Kaycie's Culture Meeting

(Fay) Castile (Dr Bronners) soap replacement requested, but it is not on staples list. What budget do we buy this from typically? Maintenance vs Kitchen? Should we add to staples list?

(Fay) General membership meeting next Saturday August 9th @ La Rea. Announcement + David Ops request we move Saturday brunch to early dinner and bring food to cater and contribute to La Rea.

(Fay) Can we talk about labor? 1. labor gaps due to preferences 2. prioritizing certain labor over others during labor shortages 3. makeup labor system

(Alex) Need rent payment plan

New business

Bugs in our kitchen :c

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