EPIC
Board Meeting Draft Agenda
July 9th, 2022, 10am – 11am
EPIC web address: eastphillips.org
Email: sarah@eastphillips.org
Office: 2433 Bloomington Ave., Minneapolis, MN
55404
Phone: (612)
354-6802
Board Roster: Mary Gonsior, Cassandra Holmes, David Ingold, Shontal Lajeunesse, Steve Sandberg, Schyler Sellars, Karen Townsend, Nikolas Winter-Simat, LR Young
Board Members Present:
Board Members Not Present: Cassandra Holmes (E),
Members:
Guests:
10:00 Review vision and mission
Welcome guests/intros
Approve agenda,
Approve minutes,
Reminders:
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Next
Community Meeting will be: Thursday, July 14 from 6 to 7:30 at Little Earth
Farm (corner of Ogema Pl and EM Stately St). Rain location East Phillips
Community Center
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Agenda
here
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Note
no option to join online for this one
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Note
food etc. starts at 6pm, community conversation at 6:30
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Next
Board Meeting will be: Saturday, August 6 from 10am to 11am at the EPIC office
and online (link to join meeting can be found at eastphillips.org)
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Board
Meetings are open to the public
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Letters
sent by board since last Board Meeting
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Friends
of Lake Hiawatha letter of support
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LERA
Greenhouse letter of support
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Monthly financial report
Updates:
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Hiring: hired Hindolo Pokawa for
Program Manager (15 hours/week), Hayat Guled for Outreach Worker (4 hours/week)
and Project Manager (15 hours/week), Emrys Stramer (8 hours/week)
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Any board member available on July 16 to
participate in a Wavelets Creative Sound Garden in Karen’s lot?
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Live
performances/storytelling/poetry/art/composed tracks
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Karen would love to weave it in with EPIC
somehow
10:05 Report/Update
from Executive Coordinator
● Update on BIPOC
Centered Wellness Services
Report
from Departments - Vision
● Update from board
members who edited the strategic
plan
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Next steps, will be to report back to
community
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Share at July 14 Community Meeting?
MOTION: The EPIC board adopts the strategic
plan as outlined.
10:35 New business and delegate to proper spaces
(work group, department etc.)
1)
LifeStyle Recovery Community Groups Proposal
2)
Updated Budget - David, are we ready to approve?
a)
Numbers
added from use of funds - move anything around? Bob Cooper wants confirmation
that the amounts are the final amounts for these items
i)
Community
Hub $60,000
(1)
Realistic
number - update from Nikolas on use of space?
ii)
Youth Worker (LERA) $10,000
(1) Depending on community
hub - increase?
iii)
Youth Programming (East Phillips Park)
$10,000
(1) Depending on community
hub - increase?
iv)
Small
Business grants $5,000
v)
Home Grants $20,000
vi)
Microgrants
$30,000
vii)
Community Gathering Infrastructure (4
Sisters) $35,000
viii)
Signage
was lowest interest from community survey - back burner
3)
Microgrant
application - Cleaning Captain (Mary, David, Schuyler, LR, Nikolas and Karen)
a)
Sent
an email to both the Executive Committee and Legal and Finance Department - we
have our first Cleaning Captain application!
i)
Mary
- update on contract for this?
ii)
Question
about paying youth (14-17 year olds) for this
iii)
Question
about upping the hours
(1)
Have
maximum of 12 hours/month on application
(2)
Had
been planning to have this up and running in May, so do we want to up the hours
to closer to 15 or 20 hours/month to be sure we are spending this money since
we have someone that is interested in doing more hours?
b)
SHRS
interested in Cleaning Captain program as well. It would look a little
different than what we had set up with the $21/hour payment.
i)
Gracie
said it would likely be about 5 participants per clean up event, every other
week and one hour per clean up.
ii)
The
five people would get $20 gift cards for 1/2 hour of clean up. And they would
like to do it for 3 months. Either Gracie or a participant would be the primary
applicant and SHRS would help coordinate the clean ups.
c)
Can
board members receive microgrants?
11:00 Adjourn
