Subud Greater Seattle Unofficial Minutes (prepared by Oswald Norton)
Meeting Date: 4/28/13
Attending: Oswald, David, Paul, Hadiyah, Marston, Elisha (Please add your names if I missed you. Sorry!)

Agenda:

• Financial Report
• Sprint Street Center
• Communications
  • Website
  • Yahoo
  • Eastside Group
• Social Events
• Committee

Financial Report

• Better donations to center this quarter vs this quarter last year
• Desire to have Sprint Street separate accounting from center to show where income and donations separately
• A way needed to communicate to members the need.
  • Agreed: That Sherwin should have access to the website and do a monthly report on income.

Spring Street Center

• Ramp Discussion
  • Marston will help with finance research
  • Marston and Paul will analyze the impact of ramp rental on income
  • David will do a quote for himself and ask Marston’s company to bid as well
• Upcoming and current rentals
  • April good
  • May not much income
  • June looks OK
  • Need steady ads and steady marketing to promote center
• Spring Street Marketing
  • How to get more traffic?
  • Marston suggested “The Knot” as an option
  • Create a Marketing Plan?
  • Paul pulls stats on site visits to our Spring Street center website as an indicator of who’s looking at the site. He correlates that to the bookings received.
  • Agreed that Marston and Paul would come up with a proposal for our meeting in May this would be discussed and voted on.
• Sprint St. Renovation
  • List of items needing repair has been created
    • Safety items needed will cost around $500
      • Bannister for going to the upstairs – almost came off during an event.
      • Lights to illuminate the front of the house – renters are unable to see their way to the street after events.
        • Action: We agreed to go with a more professional look than the solar lights and would put in a permanent poll light
    • Other items
      • Flyer box outside the house with Spring Street rental info

Communications

• How are we communicating to the members
  • We need some education of committee members on how Yahoo Groups communicates out to the committee
• We are using Mail Chimp as our communications out to the members through our center Word Press
  • Action: We need to come up with an editorial schedule of contributors to the site with a monthly rhythm.
• Julia Hurd will do a story on the Seattle Group website.  Paul is going to work with her on this.

SICA

• Events: Jun1 and August there are events planned
• May 19^th there is a general meeting and brunch

Agenda for 5/26 meeting

• Main Topic: Communications
  • Rhythm of input for each committee member
  • SICA events in June and member participation
  • SICA event in August – Moroccan poet here. Later travels to California

Regular items to be covered as well:

• Financial Report
• Sprint Street Center
• Communications
  • Website
  • Yahoo
  • Eastside Group
• Social Events

• Committee