Present: Kamila, Sam, Justin, Chris and Theo

Announcements

• Sam working away from Office 11th - 31st March.
• Chris working away from Office 16th - 25th March.
• Theo working away from Office 22nd - 30th March.
• Kamila was un-officially informed by DG that we will NOT receive large DG ENV Administrative grant.
• Randy will represent WCN in Portland.
• Kamila should attend, but financial situation is a problem. Will search for cheap flights.
• Justin and Kamila will only receive half salary for February. Remainder at end of March. Radka has not received any salary for February.
• ICC staff will be recording hours and tasks for next meeting.
• Theo has started working on a WCN response to the EU Green paper with people from carfree list.

Agenda

1. Advert Exchange.
2. Visegrad Publications.
3. Caravan Prague DVD.
4. Sara Stout renumeration for facilitation.
5. Information flow from Kagi concerning Membership.
6. Website Updates.
7. NESsT Request.
8. Annual Work Plan.

1. Advert Exchange

• Chris: Exchange of magazine adverts between Carbusters and related magazines. Momentum are already interested. Exchanges would be free, kind for kind. Mag examples: Earth First, Dirt-Rag, Ecologist, Momentum etc. Can we afford to pay for some adverts? Should we exchange free Adverts?

DECISION: Kamila: No money for advertising at the moment, also against Czech Law. Free exchange is possible. Chris will co-ordinate this.

2. Visegrad Publications

• Chris: Visegrad publications are not selling well. Chris proposes to help co-ordinate the distribution and advertising of them during trip to Slovakia, and after.

DECISION: Kamila: Radka will attend meeting next wednesday. Discuss further between Chris and Radka. Justin will provide contacts.

3. Caravan Prague DVD

• Justin: Is there interest in the addition of Caravan Prague to resource centre?

DECISION: Kamila: Depends on terms of distribution. No finances to buy, but could pay upon selling of DVD. Justin will order 5 if cash is not needed up front.

4. Sara Stout

• Justin: Can we offer Sara a gift from the resource centre in thanks for taking over as list moderator?

DECISION: Justin: Justin will ask Sara if she has subscription, or what she wants.

5. Info flow from Kagi to Membership Coordinator

• Justin: Some Kagi orders include payment for membership. This should be sent to Justin. Kamila: Justin can check Kagi site directly. Kamila: when will new member orgs be updated on the website?

DECISION: Kamila: Justin will check Kagi for new member org payments (annual fee). He will send updated list of member orgs to orders to ensure all member orgs get magazine. Justin also needs to update member org page. This will be finished by March 12th.

6. Website Updates

• Justin: Updates can be written directly on the members-only wiki. Kamila+Sam: This is extra work. Already lots of updates necessary. Don't have time or skills.

DECISION: Kamila+Sam+Theo: Justin will create space on Wiki, but ICC do not have time or skills to do the updates. An entire website overhaul is necessary.

7. NESsT Request

• Justin: NESsT Loan Finance survey to fill out.

DECISION: Kamila: Christi and Radka are involved. Justin will forward to Christi and Radka.

8. Annual Work Plan

• Justin: Pippa wants to work with Kamila concerning work plan.

DECISION: Kamila: Work plan should wait until Kamila has assessed impact of losing the DG ENV Admin grant and writes proposal. Kamila will communicate with SC soon.