Meeting on June 23, 2008
From Bgx
Location:
Tinka's house
Attendees
Craig, Tinka, Beth, Damien, Joe, Lee, Joy, Marty, Adele, David
Meeting notes
- Contact list: ACTION: please everyone check and update as needed
- Website
- Leads
- Damien: content & design
- Marty: business, rates, point of contact, etc.
- Burn Green Express Website is the gateway through which most people reserve space on the truck*** Leads:
- The website will make clear to viewers which group will benefit from any BGX financial overage (INW, BRAF, etc.)
- Group Bios - submit 'em!
- Financial transparency - still up in the air
- Testimonials
- Leads
- Shipping Service
- Leads: Marty & Lee
- ACTION: Marty needs dimensions (measurement & weight) of shade structures from people who are bringing them (Lee, SexyBitch, Jeny & Brian)
- ACTION: Marty asks that camp members consider limiting their gear to three 31 gallon bins per person.
- Shipping services will investigate the potential of providing locally obtained water.
- Kitchen
- Leads:
- Food: Joy
- Facilities: Craig (space, kitchen items, etc...)
- Microwave coming from Sea Monkeys for free
- ACTION: Read the kitchen document and provide allergy/preferences/etc.
- Everyone should bring snacks, comfort foods and emergency food (defined by Joy as what you will want when you're grumpy and nothing in the cooler is appealing)
- DECISION: to not schedule ice runs
- ACTION: underwriting of food/collect up front (last year food came to about $45 per person) - COLLECT AT NEXT MEETING $50
- ACTION: Bring coolers to next meeting for Joy to prep
- ACTION: Craig denies wanting but will probably receive his own personal bag of bacon
- Craig will be bringing a keg and tap system - LEE: has a friend who runs a brewery who might give us a deal
- Damien will be covering the Fresca
- Leads:
- Shower/Evaporator
- Leads: Joe & Craig
- Joe will build the evaporator and the shower. Craig will take any credit and any blame that gets thrown around - yay Craig!
- Load Masters
- Organizing of loading and lifting stuff
- Truck
- Lead: David and Craig
- Trailer
- Lead: Lee and Joe
- Camp Set Up
- Pre-Run
- A time to test things out
- Arrival Friday Night at Midnight has been granted
- ACTION: email Lee with any specific details your plans for interaction, and/or specific details about how the camp interacted with the city last year
- ACTION: request early admission for 20 people
- DEPENDANCY: Who arrives when?
- departing Seattle Thursday Morning
- Tear down
- Pre-Run
- BM Org
- Placement
- How are we interacting with the city?
- ACTION: email Lee with any specific details your plans for interaction, and/or specific details about how the camp interacted with the city last year
- We are primarily a shipping service
- Bar
- Art Car
- Minty Fresh
- Arrival: ask for all early arrivals
o Bar
+ Lead: Craig and Beth and Lee
+ To have a space for a bar on the street that we open and run at our will
# Theme: Get 16 year olds drunk; NAME: Jailbait Bar
# Candy-Infused Vodka
# Placement for Bar
# Drink Themes
# Building a Bar
# Possible interface with Art Car
# Separate from Kitchen
o Water Meister
+ Lead: Marty and Beth
+ Last year water was brought from Seattle - can we get it locally?
+ Marty has looked into getting a bigger bladder
+ ACTION: if water is gotten there - get it after unloading the truck immediately upon arrival
+ A motion is moved to all fuck on the waterbed in the truck
+ Craig also has a contact at water containers
+ LEE: get in touch with Wally regarding local sources for water
+ Providing water may cover some of our expenses
o Trailer
+ Lead: Lee
# rebuilding of trailer
# Hotties with Power Tools
# ACTION: at least 2 Work Party are needed to complete the trailer
o Bikes
+ ACTIO: Bike Repair and/or Decoration party
o Power
+ Lead: Lee (Generator)
+ Note the faulty string lights
+ Deep Cycle Batteries - Joe may get one
o Storage
+ Finding a storage space
+ Lead: Damien & Marty
+ 24 hours
+ Ground floor
+ Not stoned elevator operator
+ Marty has done some pre-contacting
# last year's vendor (public storage on Fairview) can rent us two units for two months, totally around $500
# other vendors are quoting prices around $500 per unit per month
+ Two spaces are required: one for bikes; one for everything else
o Drive Down/Drive Back
+ Facilitating the getting down there for everyone
+ Coordinate rides
+ Organization of the departure and stuff
+ Coordinate with Load Masters
+ Lead: Joy
+ Boston People: renting a car in Sacremento
+ Tentative Drive Down Schedule
# Truck pick-up on Tuesday, August 19
# Load Truck Wednesday, August 20
# Depart Thursday, August 21
# Thursday night at Summer Lake Hot Springs
# Friday morning at Summer Lake Hot Springs.
# Arrive at BRC Friday, August 22 or Saturday, August 23.
+ Tentative Drive Back Schedule
# Break down camp & load truck Sunday, August 31. (let's talk about when/how this can happen)
# Complete truck loading morning of Monday, September 1.
# Depart BRC
* Option 1: by 9:00 AM Monday, September 1 and skip heinous exodus. Seriously. I'm so not kidding here.
* Option 2: after 10:30 AM Monday, September 1 and plan to somehow enjoy a 4-hour exodus. We did it last year. Wasn't all that bad.
# Have a cooked meal in Cedarville or Alturas.
# Arrive at Summer Lake Hot Springs PM Monday, September 1.
# Tuesday, September 2: Depart Hot Springs & arrive in Seattle.
# Wedneday September 3: N O T H I N G
# Thursday September 4: Unload truck
# Friday September 5: Finish unload, wash truck, refuel & return truck to Penske.
o Shipping
+ Leads: Marty & Lee
+ Expenses: about $200 more than last year - estimate
+ ACTION: get some idea of what people are each bringing
# 3 31 gallon bins per person?
o Shade Structures
+ Monkey Parachute and Radio Tower
+ Your Mom - 17 by 50 - shade cloth - Riff Raff
+ Rufus (Low and Nasty)
+ Jeny B Structure
# maybe up front in camp?
+ Craig - Carport as Kitchen Structure
+ ACTION: David's dome as the camp chill space?
+ DAVID: Ground Cloth
+ Big Tent - possible chill space
o Healing Center
+ Lead: Adele and David
+ Under the B-Camp?
+ Intention is for the table to be out and available when not in use and Adele to offer some body/energy work every day
+ And an intention for everyone at camp to get some body/energy work at least once in the week
o Art Car
+ Lee has a goal of having it ready
+ BETH: Lighting
o DECISIONS
+ we may be customers of ourselves with our stuff
+ revenue overage will be donated to ignition nw?
Minutes taken by SexyBitch.
