Riverton Community Housing

Riverton Board Meeting Minutes¹
May 1^st, 2001

Board Member Attendees: Martha Hurr, Peter Easterlund, Dave Rugg, Julien Kubesh, and May Prombutr

Staff Attendees: Gary Ellis and Valerie Aas

Meeting called to order at 5:45 PM.

The Meeting started with the first Quarterly financial Report from Gary Ellis.   He reported that Riverton Financial Report looks normal.

Gary already gave a vacate notice to the Wild Side Salon on April 30^th, 2001 and asked them to move out by July 1^st, 2001.

Valerie would like to get ideas from everyone on the upcoming design and format of the 2001 annual report and she requested that this item be put on next month’s agenda for discussion.

Gary presented plans for the office renovations.  The discussion was held on the old Riverton Office Space on whether we are going to rent this space to the Chateau Co-op or let them use it free of charge.  It was decided that they would rent the space from Riverton.

Discussions were held about Marshall’s progress as a co-op.  The idea of having Marshall combine with the Chateau to become one “unified” co-op was raised.   Valerie does not agree with that idea.   She believes that, six months from now, Marshall may be different after more marketing to involve members takes place.  In addition, Marshall needs more time to work towards getting into the co-op model.  Dave also suggested that we should marketing our four co-ops via some medium like the U Housing Fair.

All other cooperative reports are available online at http://www.riverton.org/board.

Old business

The board decided to join CCDC, making a $5000 contribution per year. We are also planning on hosting a social event at CCDC's June meeting in Minneapolis.

New business

The board came to an agreement on the strategic plan as a focus for our efforts for the next several months.

The next meeting is set for June 12^th, 2001. 

The Meeting adjourn at 7:30M.

¹Minutes prepared by May Prombutr, Riverton Board Member.