The April meeting was called to order at 18:3 by Sam Rodriguez, pres. There were present also John Starr, Shawn Stein, Sándor Halász, and, later, Abby Youngs.

The minutes were approved.

Treasury report. JS handed out income statements and balance sheets (Jan-Feb and a year ago); gross profit was $25,254. (When looked at by calendar month, payroll can be erratic because with fortnightly payday, twice a year there are three, not two, in a calendar month.) He means to show the board income statement in condensed form, with comparison to other coöps.

It would be good to clean up the balance sheet, if not with audit, maybe compilation. It would be good if once more there were a finance committee.

Report approved.

New logo. SR in 'phone book found three willing to design one, one for $1000, one for $800, Designing Women, who for $275 would make a new logo in EPS, JPG, and PDF. AY asks about the big sign: stencil is readily made from EPS, and sign from that.

It was approved that SR call on Designing Women for, as aforesaid, making the new logo.

GM report.
A report about the San-Diego trip.

The (referring to the owner-day Saturday) time-sensitive Friday message was late, although early on Friday written. HS only late on Saturday got it, and only on Wednesday propagated it, for noöne had shown AY how to go through the website.

AY assigned Sasha Hulisz, once more hired, marketing duties.

SR says the flyer really belongs on the website, not on Facebook—but AY cannot put it on the website, has to pass it to John Klear, nor can John Klear fetch it from the NCGA website, and (SS) it is quite hard to copy such from Facebook.

AY says the budget is 80% ready, on paper, and she did not find the Excel template that JS made up. (SR) Friday is too soon, but (SS) May 2d is not. In former years David Finet made up 60% of the budget, and she would be glad of JS s help. AY and JS plan to meet.

The name to the NCGA has been changed. Now AY finds it more important to change the sign.

SR charges AY to in good time copy the NCGA flyer to the website. AY has learnt to fetch it, PDF, for copying to Facebook, but (SS) surely it is better to copy it to the website. As for John Klear s copying it to the website, it is quite hard to fetch from Facebook anything not one s own. SS explains linking to our website from Facebook. SS says it is better to route people to the coöp s website from Facebook. SR will ask Todd Wallace about director NCGA profile; AY strongly agrees.

Website. (SR for John Klear) For manager-posting April 1^st through yesterday there were 233 views, 67 through Jobview-Monster, 56 through Facebook (and Facebook has 935 views), through NCGA 28.

Membership. HS wants membership information on the membership webpage. He also wants the rate of paiment lowered, because it will look better if the rate is not amongst the highest in our NCGA corridor—not that he believes we will get more members for that. This rate is for keeping privileges, although we let part-shareholders take as long as they like to pay up.

AY doubts that there is community behind the coöp.

Change to equity system. SR: The referendum does not agree with the bylaws. HS said, yes, therefore did I often mention the bylaw committee, which since David Finet s leaving did not meet. SS: David Finet said that there was need that the bylaws be clearer, but (HS) it is needful that the bylaws reflect the referendum.

Construction. SR: the construction is now slower. AY: We have real water-supply issues, doubtless from the construction (and the basement is flooded, and the neighbors, too have water).

General-Manager search. SR: very disappointing: one application, not at all relevant to general-managership. Position advertized in the Blade, $135/day: all the Monster viewing comes from this. No response from Ohio-Means-Jobs. SS & SR held back from the City Paper, and the Free Press, and the Blade is too expensive. The City Paper comes out every two weeks, costs $19, the Free Press comes out every week, and costs $29. AY: the coöp has both, and also Toledo Family, Toledo Parent, and Healthy-living News. AY suggests also Eating Well, Natural Living, and Taste for Life.

Insitutional Memory. HS: we lack this: only one director, JS, is from longer ago: the rest of the board is new. JS was on the board when Shelley Luettke was president. HS asked about someone that he saw—it was Shelley Luettke, whom he never saw at a meeting. AY also complained that, likewise, nothing was passed on to her from Chad Olsen.

Insurance: SR submitted director-insurance forms. AY will go with Helen Elden to the credit union and talk about insurance.

(There was talk of credit unions.)

Article III of Incorporation. "… at the actual cost of purchasing, holding, and distribution, …" SR: This seems too restrictive, and Helen Elden, too, was surprised, but (SS) maybe one can take the cost of running the shop for the cost of holding and distribution. SR recommends that Veronica Murphy help (or (AY) Tom Goodwin) help make it less restrictive, although surely noöne will hold the coöp strictly to it.

CBLD course. Who on the board wishes to go?

Inventory. Why each quarter? AY: Inventory-taking is the only means of determining what sells.