Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Attendees: Francesca de Freitas, Marisol Santos, Lerin Oystryk,  Emily Kennedy

Decisions

• Draw for monthly co-op star award vouchers
  https://avcoop.igloodigitalworkplace.ca/resources/resources_wiki/star_awards
  Winners: Debra Rolfe (star) Nels (nominator)

 Discussions

• Reviewed and reported on action items from the previous meeting

• Thank you’s for events in the last month

  • Dave for continuing to lead the singalongs

  • April for the Among Us games

  • Matt, Eve, Ron and Rex for fixing and selling of the bikes to the coop (then Craigslist)

• Weekly challenge draw (give your kitchen improvement): Brianne

• May/June/July Events

  • Power washing - June 

  • Junk removal - June

  • Common area cleanup - June 

  • May 29 - bike tune-up session (1-4pm)

  • Quiz night - possibly in mid-September (asking members to pay $10/person to participate)

  • Zoom pizza party?

• Gofer - there are enough kids who have volunteered for these tasks until October
  
  

• CHF BC Conference 

  • Thank you to everyone who sent in photos for the conference

  • Many of the coops have pet committees (possibly something to have in AVC?)

• Lift calendar art has been successful and so far two kids have submitted and Francesca has included Cameron’s art on the May calendar

• Bike committee has put a proposal together to use the empty room as an extension of the bike room.  If anyone else in the events committee has other ideas for the room, please put the idea forward

• Jenny Woodruff has put a proposal for the coop to purchase a foosball table that could go under either the covered areas of the North or South garden (near the hallway).  She is asking for endorsement from the Events committee.  

• Kids book club would like to publish a literary magazine, and invite all co-op kids to contribute.  The kids are asking for support and funding on the printing costs ($100-$200).  Francesca will discuss this with the kids before approving the funding but the committee supports this initiative.

  Action Items:

• Mikaela will work on kids Kahoot game (possibly summer)

• Francesca to look into getting the mural updated

• Emily will look into include a photo scavenger hunt

• April will look into resorting the books in the common room and will pose the question to the coop on if they use the book deposits from VPL

• Marisol to go through action items for the common room cleanup

• Francesca to look into getting the safe removed from the common room

• Emily to talk to parents and Jenina and Sandy on what they need done for the playground 

• Francesca to look into a zoom pizza party/individually wrapped treats

• Francesca to use “take a picture of your deck” after the power washing and add a reno one for a future week

• Lerin to look into how to get members interested in quiz night to pay for the event (via etransfer?)