Phoenix Earth Food Co-op Board of Directors
November 27, 2001 7:00pm – 9:00pm Meeting Minutes

1^st Order of business: Read and approve minutes of August 2001 board meeting.

Read and approved.

2^nd order of business: Lisa Blake announces intention to resign again.

Board member Lisa Blake would like to resign and have someone replace her as treasurer. Possible replacements were discussed, however no replacement was decided upon and Lisa will still hold the position up to an unspecified future date while a replacement can be found. It was decided to place a bulletin into the co-op newsletter and a flyer in the co-op store. Lisa wants to resign because she does not have enough time to do the work the position requires.

3^rd order of business: Volunteers

Maryellen stated that she has compiled a working list of volunteers to be used by the manager and committees.

4^th order of business: Committee Reports

Fundraising: Amjad stated that he failed to get enough interest from people to form and hold a fundraising committee meeting and also mentioned that he is no longer able to lead the fundraising committee. However he is willing to remain a member of it in the role of organizing the Midwest Music Expo as a fundraiser to retire the co-op debt.

Finance Written report provided. View said report for additional details.

5^th order of business: Manager’s Report

Written report provided. View said report for additional details.

6^th order of business: Plan of transition to future co-op manager.

The board decided a plan needs to be formulated which would allow and state the procedure for a seamless transition from our present manager Helen Elden to a yet unnamed future manager. It was agreed that the first step would be reviewing the Manager’s job description. Chad Olson was asked to consider the position and stated he would have to think about it.

7^th order of business: Plan for co-op 2002 budget and 2003-2007 5-year plan

It was decided that this would fall under the auspices of the finance committee and it would formulate the plan and report back to the board.

8^th order of business: Date & brief outline for the Annual Membership Meeting.

It was decided the dinner and business meeting would be first and then the featured speaker and or entertainment. The date is scheduled May 19, 2002. We will ask Connie Ward if she can reserve Epiphany Lutheran Church again. It was decided to include map in newsletter.

The next meeting is Tuesday, January 15, 2002 7:00 PM at the Covenant Presbyterian Church on Markway & Secor.