November
3rd, 2012, Saturday, 10:00 am
East Phillips Park Cultural & Community Center, 2307 17th Ave. S
EPIC web address: eastphillips-epic.com
Office: 2536 18th
Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55404
Present
(board): Carol Pass, Earl Simms, Chiffon Williams, Linda Leonard, Rosie Cruz
Not
present: Jennie Bjorgo, Mary Gonsior, Steve Struthers, JoseLuis Villasenor
Members:
Brad Pass
10:00 Introduction:
·
Approval of Agenda ( LL,CW ) APPROVED
·
Approval of Minutes from 10/6/12 EPIC Board
Meeting ( LL, ES) APPROVED.
·
Moved Consensus process, Approved
10:10 Announcements:
·
ELECTION!! VOTE!! TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH – 7:00 AM- 8:00 PM, Stand in line as
long as necessary
·
EPIC Membership Meeting: Thursday, November 8th, 6:30 PM, the
East Phillips Park Center
·
Alley Annual Meeting – Nov 16, 6:00 pm, East
Phillips Park Center,
·
Clean Sweep – October 13th was a great
success!!
·
Cultural Evening with Lila Downs totally
wonderful!!
·
EPIC Community Garden Harvest Party, October
20th nice and fun
10:15 Alley Newspaper Annual Meeting–
Harvey Winge - Pledge of $500.00
with other Neighborhoods
MOTION: EPIC will join other
Phillips Neighborhoods to help defray the cost of the Alley Annual Meeting,
Consensus
10:25 Update
on the Pool – the Park Board received the $350,000 Twins
Stadium grant to add to the Legislature’s fund of $1,750,000
10:30 Housing
Rehab Program: EPIC concluded all the work on organizing
the program. We can begin work on a marketing plan next week. We will create a
Brochure listing the programs and start disseminating them. We need to form a
task force
in the next weeks to work on a marketing plan.
10:40 Garden Bike racks – EPIC
will share 50% of the cost for Bike Racks with the City. Price is $48.90 higher
than stated in our our first motion.
MOTION: EPIC approves adding $48.90 to $200 for Garden Bike Racks – Will to be delivered in spring. Consensus
10:50 Removal
of Polluting Industries from East Phillips – Starting with
Bituminous Roadways
MOTION: EPIC commits to a major effort to remove polluting industries, Bituminous
Roadways, Consensus
11:00 Issues
with General Membership Meeting of October 18th
EPIC
501©(3) funding –how does this go? Why is a general RFP illegal? Difference between a 501©(3) and a foundation.
Discussion: Difference between a
501©(3) and a foundation. A Public
Charity receives grants..does not re-grant to other orgs. A Foundation gives grants w/ RFPs. Question: did you
people understood this at the
October meeting?
Most agreed: not really. Would not have
been arguments.
We
need to define this better. Collaborative efforts w/ funding- Criteria for
funding –sequential, serves East Phillips people, duties and enhancement for
both, fully collaborational…both groups do the work, a chosen priority for
EPIC, a special organization
that works with us to respond to and provide services to our community…LL-
should be based on need.
CP – must be based on EPIC’s capacity to
do our part and willingness of the other organization to work with EPIC and strengthen
both organizations at once. Process of sharing funding needs more work. But we
can accomplish more by sharing resources than alone.
Obligations
of board members – See Bylaws- We are to debate and form policy here, not
in
community meetings. We can disagree, but are to work it out at board meetings
&
state
what the board decided & any departure we have from that. Board loyalty is
important
and
has value., especially w/ regard too stability.
LL: we can’t fight with each other in
the General Membership meeting, people will never come back.
CP:
At least not the board members fighting each other..
Ideas?
RC: We need Mary back. People don’t
listen to each other. Too much Disrespect.
BP:
Need to “state rules of engagement’ at the outset. Read them. Bring Robert’s Rules and Bylaws.
11:30 .A-POD
– A Partnership of Diabetics – Collaborative funding
to bring this program to the Latino residents of East Phillips, a major effort
responding to EPIC’s commitment to Latino outreach. EPIC will recruit people
with a focus on Latinos and the organization provides the program. EPIC will
provide matching money to Allina’s $2,500. There is already a translated Somali
group. This fund will help Spanish translation of materials for a Latino
specific health group. EPIC may share costs and ownership of interpreting
machines with head sets.
EPIC Board needs to work on Memo of Agreement to be sure it is fully
collaborational and fits requirements for 501©(3) status.
MOTION:
Bring Memorandum of Agreement back with changes. Consensus
12:00 Adjournment
