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Minutes from Exec meeting 3/7/2011
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Katheryn Decker French)
Mon Mar 7 21:52:36 2011
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:52:32 -0500
From: Katheryn Decker French <k_french@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-minutes@mit.edu
Exec Meeting Minutes 3/07/11
Attendees:
oremanj (Josh Oreman)
k_french (K. Decker French)
jaxxson (Xavier Jaxxson)
brogan (Brogan King)
katoco (Katherine O'Connor)
kameeko (Harriet Li)
thzhou (Tiffany Zhou)
Ellen Kranzer
Lori Tsuruda
afarrell (Andrew Farrell)
squishme (Squish E. Moose)
Meeting started at: 9:20pm
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Officer Reports/Announcements:
oremanj[president]: Conclave bid meeting tomorrow. 9 people going to
this upcoming conclave. We will be electing two voting delegates at the
next chapter meeting.
brogan[historian]: has been cluedumped
catherio[pvp]: pledge meeting coming up tomorrow, will orient pledges to
the office.
jaxxson: regarding MBU: we got the youth service grant. I will call the
BSA and confirm the dates in the fall. We will meet with them to discuss
deadlines we need to set for ourselves, etc. As far as I know, we are on
the schedule, and will start getting applications over the summer.
katoco: Bikes not bombs is this wednesday. There is a 5 person limit-
sign up on the chmrr.
afarrell: still collecting boxes. also, if you have places you can set
up boxes, sign up at: tinyurl.com/apo-uso-boxen
k_french: steak fry is this sunday.
Ellen: we need to think of income replacements if reg day is going away.
--discussion of this:
catherio: we like this better than fundraisers
ellen: tshirts- can crank out 244. we've done this and sold out.
catherio: $5/shirt--> 80 shirts gives us $400.
ellen: we need to be proactive about selling shirts, and we can do it.
we've done this on and off since the 60s.
jaxxson: sell shirts at big screw/umoc, and parents weekend.
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oremanj: printing press?
ellen: we'd have to change our price structure. it's often cheaper to
print things commercially, the press is just cooler.
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oremanj: bookex? fee goes towards replacing any lost books, techcash,
and the rest is donated. would customers be annoyed if we took some for
ourselves?
lori: 0.25% ish?
oremanj: 1% is $300 for the entire year. we would need 2%.
lori: problem is that losing one expensive book destroys the whole margin.
oremanj: add 1% on top of techcash fees, but only about half pay with
techcash.
oremanj: bookex not super-lucrative, but could fill in some gaps.
lori: people are used to 6-7% taxes.
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catherio: any more work-like gigs out there?
ellen: sometimes restaurants will help with a fundraiser.
lori: the psc and asa have money
catherio: finboard will not fund things that don't benefit the MIT
community. we can get money for e.g. finals coffeehouse, or maybe open
projects widely advertised.
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oremanj: tshirts seem the most viable
catherio: will require many silkscreeners and about 4 hours to make.
will also need people to sell and do publicity.
lori: but we would not have to overlap with bookex. could print in the
summer, then sell in the fall.
oremanj: can then bring them out over cpw to sell to prefrosh.
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Meeting ended at 9:51pm
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Katheryn Decker French
k_french@mit.edu
MIT Class of 2011
