Phoenix Earth Food Coop Board Meeting
November 21, 2017

Location: Main Branch Toledo Lucas County Public Library, 325 Michigan St, Toledo, OH 43604.

Board Members Present:Anita Levin, Sandor Halasz, Hermann von Grafenstein, Alyx Kendzierski, Tom Fine, Adrienne Armstrong, Shelly Boraby, Mary Sawers, Claudia Cooper

Absent: Sean Fitzgerald, Maureen Ciesinski

President Hermann von Grafenstein called the meeting to order at 6:50 PM.

  1. Approval of the Minutes. Minutes for 9/27/17, 10/25/17 and Annual Meeting 10/15/17, were approved as corrected and distributed. MSC to approve each set of Minutes.
  2. Meeting Dates going forward: December 20, 2017 and thereafter beginning January 2018, the 4th Wednesday of the month at 6:30 PM. Outreach will be the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 6:30 PM.
  3. Review of Action Items: Action Items were reviewed. See end of Minutes.
  4. General Manager Report – Postponed
  5. Financial Reports – Reviewed as circulated by Tom Fine. Reiterated the need for Board and members to shop at the Coop as much as possible. Increasing sales needs to be our first objective. Cash flow pressures remain despite a net income improvement in2017. MSC to accept the financial reports as circulated.
  6. Jackson loan accounting – completed. The write-off will occur after the settlement is completed.
  7. Evaluation of building – Tom is continuing to research
  8. Outreach– Adrienne reported there was no meeting in November. Vegan Meet up at Coop has resulted in sales. Next meet up is in December. Date to be announced. The next Outreach meeting will be Tuesday 12/19/17. Phoenix has had write-ups in Blade, Mary will ask Kent Illenden of Old West End (OWE) paper to publicize. Mary will get listing of other area neighborhood publications.
  9. Review of Annual Meeting – Brainstorming to increase Meet ups like the Vegan Group at the Coop. Gluten Free, Paleo, Dairy free, Seniors, Coop Delivers. Possibly set up Blue Apron style packages with recipes and pre measured ingredients for Senior Centers. Consider Prep demo and sampling.
  10. Election of Officers

    President – Hermann

    Vice President – Adrienne

    Secretary – Anita

    Treasurer – Tom

    Slate passed unanimously

Next Board Meeting: 12/20/17 6:30PM at Main Library

Action Items:

10/25/17 – Tom will explore cracks in heat exchanger: transferred to GM

11/21/17

Hermann – will email corrected minutes to Anita: done

Hermann – will identify which minutes are missing and try to round them up: in progress

Hermann – will locate sign-up sheet from Annual Meeting 2017: in progress

Mary – will get commercial-appraiser contact info to Tom & Hermann: done

Hermann – will contact Kent Illenden at the OWE paper:transfer to Alyx

Mary – identify local area neighborhood papers and email to Adrienne and Hermann: done

Claudia – will ask Kris Johnson to make presentation to A Senior Center: done. Next: will arrange meeting in Jan 18.

Adjournment at 7:45 PM

Respectfully submitted,

Anita Levin, Secretary

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