ZRS Board Minutes – Sept. 2, 2017
Attendees: Kai Hui, Liaoran, Taiso, Jian Zhi
Convened at 10:10 a.m.
Topics:
- Financials
- Donations level for last two months–about $700 from donations (goal $1,000)
- Changes to internet arrangement–need to start helping landlord by paying more of the share
- Taiso: would like the arrangement to be business-like
- Treasurer will talk to landlord about appropriate payment
- Taiso: could potentially count Reishin’s share as a donation
- Liaoran: having the internet in ZRS’s name would help us build a record for financial standing
- Subcommittee Reports/Updates
- Liaoran: no formal updates
- Review of comment cards & requests for board agenda topics
- Nothing
- Old Business
- Newsletter
- Concerns from the first time around
- Length–needs to be sustainable
- Tenuous connection to Zen practice–effort should be made to connect topic of article to this practice (our brand)
- Quoting other sources–want to encourage expression in own words
- Image copyright–want to avoid troubles and encourage people to provide their own image
- Secretary will develop a submissions guidelines document to use for nextime
- Concerns from the first time around
- Fundraising
- Interest in hosting a rummage sale or other kind of event with the possibility of making it recurring
- Discussion around crowdfunding as a way of raising money toward buying the zendo
- The board will review the output from the fundraising brainstorm session and try to determine the next move
- Newsletter
- New Business
- Programming approval
- Taiso: would like to preserve the option to have monthly half-day sits on Saturday
- The board approves Reishin’s ask from August 15
- The board will also communicate that Reishin can plan on having half of the Saturdays
- The board approves Liaoran’s use of the space on the last Monday of the month for a Stoic reading/discussion group
- Sutra book reordering
- Request from Manju for about 20
- Jun Po has an outlet for ordering new books
- Liaoran: would like to have a stack available at the zendo for purchase
- Taiso will reach out to Jun Po to determine run size limitations, cost and other considerations
- May also be able to piggyback on Vimala’s order for rohatsu
- Will also request a batch of the next edition on mondo manuals when they’re ready
- Programming approval
Adjourned at 11:50 a.m.
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