Easy Does It
Board of Directors Meeting
Minutes for August 16, 2001

Present: Jonah Markowitz, Leslie Gordon, Hale Zukas, Jonathan Gold, Rose Acampora, Jesse Townley, Denise Glagau; Peter Trier on telephone.

Meeting started at 6:50 p.m.

Public Comments
None

Announcements
· Hale used the Easy Does It services on August 15, at 11:30 p.m. with unsatisfactory results. Jesse will call B&G on Aug 17 to follow-up.
· Jesse: KPFA meeting for disabled community at North Berkeley Senior Citizen, this Saturday.
· Jesse: Berkeley Dispute Resolution: Moving to 1966 San Pablo. Looking for volunteers and donations.428-1811.

Minutes

· Change spelling of Denise's name to Glagau
· Change spelling of Gina's name to Sasso

· Change Kimberlia Johnson to Kimberlea Johnson

· Change Garret to Jan Garrett

· Change Sprowl to Sproul Plaza

· Change Kamalarz to Kamlarz

· Meeting started at 6:50 p.m.

· Erin Harbaugh, not Harbaug

· Date of the Solano Stroll is Sept 9.
Agenda
Plaque: credit card problem with the trophy place.
Denise: combine secretary's report with elections; move elections after ED report.
Jonah: Suzy is to find the bylaw changes in old meeting minutes that have occurred since Leslie's presidency and send them to Peter. Jonah's goal: 2000 minutes will get approved so that the organization will have a record of its history.
Denise: remove Support Employee Assistances Program; remove Criteria for Case Management
Hale: does the board not have the responsibility to approve the budget?
Jesse: going into negotiations on Monday about budget. Will reach tentative agreement and bring it back to board or board can agree to send president and E.D. and give them the power to negotiate.
Leslie: put budget on agenda after E.D. report; will be discussed in Jesse's report

Jonah makes motion to approve the agenda; Jonathan second; Jesse abstained; Motion passes.

President's Report
Nick accepted the severance. Extending the contract with Jesse to January 31 2002.

Executive Directors Report
Jesse went over all 13 points on his written summary.
There followed some discussion on Jesse's letter published recently in the Daily Planet

Budget
There followed a discussion on what to do with the $45,000 that had been allotted, in part, for an administrative assistant for ED, but will not be needed until new ED selected. (and only if that ED needs an assistant).
Also discussed were salaries for Program Manager and raising the attendant base pay.
Additional discussion on number of attendant calls.
Jesse left at 8:02 p.m.

After Jesse left there was a discussion about advertising Employment Opportunities. Rose explained that only the Daily Planet was being used as other papers, like the Express, brought in people from too far away.
There was a question and brief discussion on if there was money in the budget for legal advice.
There was discussion on hiring a database consultant. Jonathan requested that he be a part of this hiring process.

Secretary Report and Election
A discussion about the current application form for potential board members resulted in the following motion being made by Jonathan: Throw out the current application form and write a new one. Jonathan will rewrite and have a draft ready for approval after the elections. Jonah seconds. Motion approved.

There followed a discussion of who would be contacted about board membership by which current board members. Current board members are to let everyone else on the board know if they find someone who wants to be a board member.

Hale makes a motion that any current board member or potential board member must have a majority vote from current board.
Peter seconds.
Motion passes.

Conflict of Interest
Jonathan moves that discussion be tabled until next meeting when Jesse is present.
Jonah seconds.
Motion passes.

Raises Employment Opportunities:
Leslie brings up issue of base pay raises Employment Opportunities. Jonathan wants to see statistics on what percentage of time attendants are on call. Gina, Rose and Jonathan will work on getting these statistics; Hale mentions that IHSS is $8.50 and going to $9.

Jonathan makes motion to adjourn meeting.
Jonah seconds.
Motion passes.

Meeting ends at 9:05 p.m.

Notes taken and submitted by Susan Parker.