19th Ward Community Association
Housing Committee
Saturday Meeting Notes for Posting
October 13, 2012
Final

The Meeting convened at 10:45am.

Present: John B, Donna S, Jackie F, Angie B

None of the members, for whom we had set up 10:00am Saturday meetings, attended. We held a very short meeting when Donna arrived at 10:45am after getting out of work. Jackie and Angie were also at the 19WCA office selling House Tour booklets and joined us to discuss problems of getting volunteers involved.

Issues touched on include:

• The 19WCA has also had problems getting parents of students attending local public schools involved in the Association. This has prevented the 19WCA from starting a School Committee to work with local schools.
• Most of the active members in the Association are maxed out in terms of time commitments to the various ongoing 19WCA activities they are involved in.
• Most new couples in the neighborhood have both partners working and the downturn in the economy has changed the environment in the workplace. Restrictions placed on workers has eliminated the flexibility many once had for conducting some volunteer activities from the office.
• Email permits volunteers to connect with each-other even if they have a different work schedules, but not all volunteers have personal email accounts and restrictions in the workplace for using company phones and company email for personal use is hampering volunteer communications. Some companies even block access to personal email accounts on Yahoo, G-mail and the like.
• Many people are working multiple part time jobs to make ends meet.

We reviewed the calendar John had produced which highlighted the days (1st & 2nd Wed.,2nd Sat., 4th Thursday) we have scheduled for meetings. We would like to cut it back to 3 per month. Because of low attendance today we will address this at the Wednesday Oct. 17 meeting. John will contact Annie, who had requested the Saturday meetings to see if she still is interested in that day.

We also delayed discussion of November and December holidays and “10 worst houses” list to the Wednesday meeting.

Donna will again do the totes compliance run with Toni this week since June is still out of town.

Meeting adjourned at 11:45 am.

Our next meeting is Wednesday October 17th at 11:00am.
Our next Saturday meeting the November 10th at 10:00am.

Minutes submitted by John B

Calendar Reviewed:  Calender 2.png

Agenda Item for October 17:  Agenda Items Oct 17, 2012.doc