[SSC] Meeting notes May 3rd - We are now a constituted co-operative

[Joss Winn]

Hello,

Here are my notes from our meeting on May 3rd:

Attendees:

Charles Cooke (LCDA)
David Young
Richard Hall
Jennifer Jones
Mike Neary
David McAleavey
Pete Somerville
Joss Winn

Agenda:

Sign Constitution
Revise Business Model
Revise FAQ


We signed the constitution and the final version is now on our website:

http://socialsciencecentre.org.uk/documents/

We discussed the Business Model with Charles. Outstanding are a simple
set of principles to include under section 10. We also discussed public
liability insurance and were advised that we would be covered under the
insurance held for the Mint Lane building. If we move from this
building, we need to ensure we revisit this.

Joss, David Young and Mike Neary will meet to draw up a set of
principles for the Business Model and will circulate a final draft to
this list.

David offered to be acting Treasurer. This was appreciated by all
present. We also agreed to use the Co-operative Bank and David will open
an appropriate account.

Charles suggested there might be an upfront cost of
marketing/advertising. We felt that this wasn't necessarily the case and
would use the Internet, local Press and approach people we know for help
with this.

Charles will contact the Lincolnshire Co-operative Group again for help
they might be able to provide in publicising the SSC.

We then went on to discuss the FAQ and made a number of changes to it.
We had to leave the building at 7.30 and still need to revise points 24-32.

The revised FAQ is here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OK6Cikt7n73yEUb-2CEDmutc4wJ_GFPrsolKBXwz5mQ/edit?hl=en_GB&authkey=CObno-MH

You can see a history of the changes by clicking on File -> See revision
history.

Please help revise points 22-30 and offer comments on 1-21.

We also discussed the matter of voting rights for associate members and
there was a feeling among those present that it would complicate matters
considerably if Associate Academic members (most of whom we do not
expect to live locally), had the same membership voting rights as
Academic members, who were engaged in the day to day running of the SSC.
There was the suggestion that Associate Academic members should simply
have voting rights for the AGM.  I don't recall a decision being made
about this at the meeting. If you have any concerns or objections,
please can you reply to this discussion thread.  Thank you.

A few of us then went to the pub to celebrate. Hurray!

Joss