AHEC Meeting Minutes

• AHEC member reports
• Chair report (Jordan)
• Umbrellas for court were never ordered, Denise never received the proposal for buying them. Update next week.
• Garden expansion under way. Meet with John Gallagher, the mechanic, who’s agreed to help w/ garden.
• Contact inventory officers and communities coordinator to help w/ building the garden.
• Talked to Denise about landscaping the lawns, but it’s not possible due to the irrigation.
• Talked to Denise about repurposing the window benches and put some cushions on them to make it comfy. Turns out we CAN actually do this.
• ODGE approved April 2014 Will Fund proposals. Forwarded to Denise to commence buying. Priority on kitchen shelving, shredder, scanner.
• Office coordinator (Jess)
• Waiting to meet with officers
• Photos for the new officers are mostly there. Some are missing.
• Officer budget proposals were sent out.
• Operations officer (Orpheus)
• Met with officers
• Chris Foy appointed as Events Chair
• Meeting with SidPac people at 9:00pm tomorrow for orientation
• Secretary (Alin)
• Waiting to meet with officers
• Treasurer (Ho-Jun)
• Waiting to meet with officers
• People are starting to send RFPs to him
• GSC GCM meeting
• Jordan attended
• GSC individual committees updates.
• 60-GSC.91 resolution: resolution to recommend to the MIT corporation to divest all the holdings in the endowment from fossil fuel companies
• Resolution came to a vote 25 (yes) -17 (no) -11 (abstained).
• Jordan voted “no” because he thought the resolution was not adequately defended. Proponents did not show understanding of the financial consequences of the resolution.
• Stanford and Yale implemented a similar policy
• Discretionary AHEC member budget for officers
• For buying food during officer meetings or for officer awards
• Should be # of officers per AHEC member times $10
• Shabnam: must ensure food doesn’t distract people from the actual meeting
• Reuse/recycling/donation bins during move-out periods
• This was proposed by William Plunkett, the new environmental officer
• Katie proposed this in the past but there were worries about people leaving trash/junk and having no one to take care of it. Would attract mice, etc.
• AHEC agrees this is a good idea. We have to be sure items get recycled/reused/donated properly so that we don’t run into a storage problem.
• GSC meetings next week
• AHEC officer summer budget meeting