June 3rd, 2017, 10:00 am -12:00
East Phillips Park Cultural & Community Center, 2307 17th Ave
S.
EPIC web
address: eastphillips-epic.com
Office: 2536 18th
Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone: (612)
280-8418
Board Roster:
Jenny Bjorgo, Rosie Cruz, Laura
Dale, Mary Gonsior, Linda Leonard, Carol
Pass, Linda Vermillion, Cassandra Holmes, Tom
Harris
Board Members
Present: Rosie Cruz, Laura Dale,
Mary Gonsior, Linda Leonard, Carol Pass,
Board Members Not Present: Jenny Bjorgo, Linda Vermillion, Cassandra Holmes, Tom Harris
EPIC Members:
Brad Pass, Michael Green,
Shirley Heyer
Guests: Julie
Graves, Brendan Kelly
10:00 Introductions:
· Greetings and Introductions.
· Approval of Agenda as amended. Approved by Consensus.
· Approval of Minutes from May 6th, 2017, Approved by
Consensus.
10:10 Announcements:
- Rental of the Office Cleaning Day to be announced
- EPIC Community Meeting, June 8th, Thursday, at East Phillips Park, 6:30 to 8:45
- Summer Festival, Sunday, June 25, 2017
10:30 Recent deaths in East Phillips
Three deaths on June 2nd. A youth was killed on 17th Ave, struck by a car. A man and woman living on 18th Ave died of an overdose.
10:40 Waite House KRSM Radio - Julie Graves and Brendan Kelly
(Julie Graves) After 3 decades of serving in the neighborhood, due to changes in funding, Waite House lost all their K-5 funding for afterschool activities in April. They have figured out some ways to partner with Mpls. Schools and other partners to provide services to youth aged 2-11 (children under five must be accompanied by an adult. ) The program will provide a snack, supervised playground, gardening, arts, cooking, literacy mentoring and dinner on Monday-Thursday, from June 26th to August 4th (2:30PM – 6:00PM). EPIC funds that were provided for summer programs will be used to serve EPIC families through these new activities. More East Phillips families and youth will be served through this program than the planned program which had to be cancelled. Additional funds are being sought to provide programming for the school year.
(Brendan Kelly) KRSM, a brand new radio station operating out of the Waite House, has officially launched and has 81 hours per week of programming. This is a low power station and serves a geographic region (South Minneapolis). KRSM is a media justice project, working with a multitude of community partners, featuring multilingual content. Free trainings are available to anyone interested. You can now listen online at www.krsmradio.org, but once funds are raised to install an antenna, you will be able to access at 98.9 FM.
Discussion of whether to elect officers when so many
directors are not present. EPIC’s bylaws state on page 6, the board shall elect
officers at the first board meeting following the annual meeting. Consulted
Roberts Rules of Order, and previous month’s minutes.
MOTION: EPIC
will elect officers today. LL, MG, Approve (3 in favor, 2 abstain.)
·
For: We have a quorum, existing
officers are currently present.
·
Against:…There are 4 directors
absent this month; Absent directors did not contact EPIC to report excused
absences.
Officers elected by consensus
President: Carol Pass
Vice President: Laura Dale
Secretary: Linda Leonard
Treasurer: Mary Gonsior
MOTION: Correction
to May Minutes (LL, LD) Approved (4 approved, (MG) abstain.)
Correction:
11:40
(Bylaws and Questions)
Because
not all EPIC officers were present, we agreed to postpone election of officers.
For July Agenda:
·
Review of June Election,
Discussion, Questions
·
Tabled items:
o Board Functioning discussion
o Completion of Bylaw process
·
Review
bylaws page 6, Section 8, Change?
10:25 Safe Streets
Effort – MOTIONS?
TABLED by consensus.
10:50 Completion of Bylaw process
TABLED by consensus.
Garden Committee Sign-up (March-October)
9AM (usually) on the first Saturday of the month. (Right before the EPIC meeting.)
2017
July (8) - Rosie
August - Laura
September -Mary
October - Linda
2018
March -
April -
May -
June -
12:00 Adjourn
