Annual Meeting Minutes
Saturday, March 26 at 10am
Present:
Nikolas Winter Simat, Laura Dale, Devika Ghai, Amy Luciano Santamaria, Ariah
Fine, Brad Pass, Linnea Hadaway, Dave Moore, L.R. Young, David Ingold, Karen
Townsend, Steve Sandberg, Cassandra Holmes, Shontal Lajeunesse, Tim Blighton,
C. Michael Menge, Lex Horan, Sonya Ewert, Rose, Joe Meinholz, Elena Fultz, Sky
Sellars, Jeremy Gray
10:15 Welcome!
● Introduce current board members
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Laura
Dale, Mary Gonsior, Cassandra Holmes, David Ingold, Shontal Lajeunesse, Steve
Sandberg, Earl Simms, Karen Townsend, Nikolas Winter-Simat
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Thank
you to our board members who are not running for re-election (Earl Simms and
Laura Dale) for all of the time and hard work you put into EPIC
10:20 Announcements
● EPIC is hiring!
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Part
time (about 4 hours per week) temporary
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Multilingual
East Phillips residents are highly encouraged to apply!
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Find
the job description and apply at eastphillips.org
● EPIC is in the process of creating a strategic plan
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Share your ideas of how we can make East Phillips more
joyful, vibrant and holistically safe by addressing issues like affordable
housing, food access, environmental quality and more
▪
Complete this
brief survey
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Attend our April 14
Community Meeting at 6:30
● EPIC has funds that we must use this year and we want to
hear your ideas of how to spend this money!
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For
those joining in person - use paper on wall
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For
those joining over Zoom - use this Jamboard
●
EPIC’s financial condition presentation
10:30 Details
about the election and candidate speeches
● One nomination from the
floor: Schuyler Sellars
● Nominations prior to
the Annual Meeting: David Ingold (incumbent), Karen Townsend (incumbent),
Nikolas Winter-Simat (incumbent), L.R. Young
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No board election because five open spots
and five nominations
10:50 PowerPoint about what EPIC has been up to
