Slow Food CNY

Slow Food Meeting #3 Minutes: 01/15/09

Location: Recess Coffee House @ 110 Harvard St.

Attendance: 27 people!

Started: 5:00pm

A. Introductions (Who are you? What is your favorite food?)

B. Updates

a. Media Activity

A lot of great feedback from the Post-Standard article! We now have nearly 60 people on our announcements list and had a lot of new faces at this meeting. Welcome all!

b. Slow Food USA application

We have had all of our round one information approved! Now we need to work on getting the more technical, legal information submitted. Then we’ll be official. The chapter board will take these tasks on!

C. Designate interim Chapter Board positions

Paul can’t do this alone. He called for two volunteers to fill two other executive roles. These roles are temporary, interim positions until we can set up our own bylaws for elections and actual positions.

a. Chair: Point person for the chapter, coordinates with regional and national officers. Paul will remain!

b. Secretary: Takes minutes, sets meeting agenda. Seth appointed!

c. Treasurer: Setting up bank account, getting EIN from government, managing dues. Meredith appointed!

D. Committee brainstorming

For this part of the meeting, we all broke out into six groups, listed below. Each group had a list of possible actions. They were tasked with brainstorming additional ideas, determining a committee leader and prioritizing one item for action. A LOT of ideas were generated during this part of the meeting. In order to keep these minutes mentally digestible, the committee chairs will be sending out an email on each committee within the next week. This email will do into more detail. In the meantime, here are the highlights:

a. Chapter Board

i. Chair: Paul

ii. Priority: Getting an EIN and submitting the second half of the application forms! ASAP!!

b. Event Coordination / Fundraising

i. Chair: Kris

ii. Priority: Introductory potluck.

c. Public Relations (Outreach and Communications)

i. Chair: Melissa

ii. Priority: Put together listserve groups and build a SFCNY website!

d. Slow Food in Schools

i. Chair: Jennifer

ii. Priority: Talk to a health class/food club in a specific school and do a harvest dinner. Perhaps Corcoran? Possible coordination with Syracuse Grows on this one.

e. Food Justice and Advocacy

i. Chair: Hanah

ii. Priority: Create a sustainable code to explicitly allow productive animals and urban gardening..

f. RAFT (Renewing America’s Food Traditions)

i. Chair: Travis Hance

ii. Priority: Create a list of local varieties of foods!

E. Next Steps

a. Get listserves set up for each group.

b. Work on getting us to be on the SFUSA website to make signups easier!

c. Set up standardized meeting schedule and avoid conflicts. Veto 2^nd Tuesday of the month because of conflict with Syracuse Grows (4pm-6pm at CCE. Harold Pl/Franklin)

d. Finalize status with Slow Food USA

e. Get working on committee priorities!

F. Closing: 7:00PM