Meeting 2022-03-14 (members meeting)

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Time and location

Begun: 1230 AEST at the Sanctuary
Ended: 1515 AEST at the Sanctuary

Attendees

Present:

• @Timotheos
• @Kane
• @Emily
• @maclean
• @Owen

Agenda

• Personal check-in.
  • Ensuring we all have a shared sense of progress :)
• Discussions about residential agreements and collective grocery shopping (toilet paper, organics, etc.).
• Cleaning up The Cottage:
  • Organising @Kane's and others' possessions.
  • There appears to be mice here again.
• Review the Earthmoving task list priorities, especially noting:
  • the creek is now essentially stripped of its previously-established life (although @Timotheos saw a single fish in the bathing pool).
  • the landslide that broke the road connection to Lemon Hill.
  • the landslide near the dam area.
• There will be a seed collecting workshop and a native plant propagating workshop at Kumbartcho.
• @maclean's proposal to build a shed on the Lily Pad.
• Further discussions about space, sheds and storage.
• Discussion about the earthmoving dispute.
• Land For Wildlife Grant: VCP Grant Acquittal form 2021/22 - Due by: 31 May 2022, 5:00pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.
  • @Timotheos will coordinate with Jaye about using this grant to plant an area.
  • Probably organise a work bee to clear between the creek and the Festival Flat, then pick up more weed matting, and do a proper planting.

Notes from the discussion

• We should ratify a membership process, especially considering @Owen would like to become a member.
• Discussions about solar panels and @Owen's shed.
• Pineapple Shed quick fix, then use that as prototype for the larger future Community Shed (which needs earthmoving).
• (@maclean wants a place to feel secure and have ownership of)
• Meeting approved the refund to @Timotheos for the money spent on the plants - receipt will be scanned.
• @maclean proposed to create a separate Firestone Sanctuary Incorporated credit union / bank account. We discussed and agreed that we should create a new account for the organisation, separate to the ones currently held by @Timotheos.
• @Emily and @Owen to be allocated scribes for next meeting :)

Later

• Follow-up on previous meeting notes Meeting 2022-02-14 (members meeting).
• Review the overall workboard and set tasks for this week.
• Discussions about projects going forward (will be clean-up to start with, but this can be discussed again in further meetings.

Actionables

• @Owen look at the panels in the upper shed to determine what inverter, batteries et c. are needed
• Ask Caleb about dam / engineering
• @Timotheos call up council about a free plant voucher, as per instructions linked to from T43: Obtain free plants from council.
• focus for next week is generally cleaning up the area
• Kane and Peter sorting the upper shed to clear space for more dry storage
• setting up Owen shed
• Rubbish tip run + TVs
• mice trap to relocate them?
• book time this weekend to discuss space planning
• Make the space nicer for @maclean's temporary location (e.g. spinning his caravan around).
• Transcribe all non-trivial actionables into tasks on the workboard.