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Meeting Minutes from 5/18/2003
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ike)
Fri May 9 09:21:57 2003
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 09:21:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ike <ike@MIT.EDU>
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Hopefully the formatting won't be messed up on this message.
We ate at India Pavillion in Central square, it was yummy.
Some points that came up:
-End-of-term Potluck next Friday evening
-Where will we have it? Senior House? Talbot Lounge at EC? Random
Hall's main lounge? The Warehouse (grad dorm)? somewhere else?
-Senior House worked well for the Thanksgiving potluck.
-We'll buy some fruit juices and desserts, any other suggestions?
-Summer:
-Some of the officers will still be around, let's have a few
meetings!
-It's a good time for outings in general, to explore new
vegetarian and vegetarian-friendly restaurants
-Everyone should feel free to use the list more to organize more
(unsubsidized) outings
-MIT vegetarians Finances:
-we have no money in our "main account"
-the ASA says we didn't pay for participating in the First Year
Summer Mailing (FYSM) for 2002, for which we owe $80, and they
also want to charge us an $50 late fee. They will attempt to
withdraw this money from our main account, and if they can't, they'll
freeze the account. Also, we're banned from participating in the
First Year Summer Mailing for 2003 until we resolve this.
-We have money left in our "funding" account in 3 sub-categories:
-$75 for capital expenditures (Parthiv has spent about $75
on vegetarian themed videos for the club)
-$115 for events, which we should spend soon, particularly
at the potluck, although we may want to put together a
last-minute partially-subsidized club outing to some
vegetarian friendly restaurant. ($35 was spent for food
and fliers for the booth at SAVE's event last friday)
-$125 for publicity. $80 of this was supposed to go for
this year's FYSM, but we're banned from that because we
haven't paid for last years. the catch-22 is that we also
can't use this year's money to pay for last year's mailing.
We think we'd like to spend some of the rest of the money on
art supplies/printing for our display board in Lobby 8.
-I don't understand how these finances work, ask Parthiv
if you have questions.
-Board Space:
-anyone know offhand how often we have to maintain our board to
keep the ASA from taking it away?
-It looks like they only re-allocate space once a year.
-The current board is kindof a first draft, but isn't too bad,
we'd like to spend some money and effort to make it look very nice.
