Present: Kamila, Christi, Radka, Justin, Bas, and Sam

Announcements

• Welcome to Sam
• CAPP proposal will be put off until the mid 08 deadline, due to timing problems and other structure issues
• Christi went to Budapest for a NESsT workshop, now there is work to do (see agenda item 2)
• Electricity problem was too many things plugged in to outlets. For future, solution is: unplug everything, flip fuse in RC, etc. per Kamila's instructions
• We have a cash flow problem because of grant payments not yet received, specifics and potential solutions will be discussed (see item 9)
• Conference report: nice conference in Istanbul with 200 people for over 20 countries, last minute juggling with locations but facilities were good, Randy will have final support by end of Sept, there is a photo album on the web, the AGM took place there and minutes are now on web, the email list will be sent out this week to all participants, charter/statute changes have been applied on web, please direct other questions to Randy
• Christi will come early and leave early tomorrow (20-9)

Agenda
1. Magazine Meeting 2. NESsT 3. Team Building 4. Annual Strategy Meeting 5. World Carfree Day 6. Resource Centre-AA orders 7. Magazine Exchange 8. Website 9. Randy's status 10. Financial situation

1. Magazine Meeting

• Bas, Sam and Justin will be at the meeting. Kamila wants a meeting report. Christi exempts herself from working on this issue because of extra work on 2008 core funding and NESsT stuff

DECISION: The meeting will be Thursday at 2 pm. Justin will give Kamila a report about who will do what and deadlines. If additional time is needed for the meeting, it will be completed on Mon. (24-9)

2.NESsT

• There is a business plan due 26 Oct. Christi needs to meet with Justin.

DECISION: Meeting next Tues. @ 11 am

3. Team Building

• We will have a team building activity soon. Sam suggests go-karting :). This weekend is not possible. Fri. 28th Sept. is a national CZ holiday. Kamila proposes that we go Sun. 30th to Radka's (or Monday morning) and return Tues. or Wed.

DECISION: We will leave Sunday and return Tuesday evening (30th Sept-2 October)

4. Annual Strategy Meeting

• We need to have strategy meeting early Oct.

DECISION: We will have it 5th Oct. Location will be determined later.

5. World Carfree Day

• There will be a Resource Centre table, and we need staff members to be there.

DECISION: Kamila will be at the table during the bike ride (3-5). Kamila will discuss things with Daniel and determine if there are other times when a WCN person should be at the table. Based on this, staff will volunteer to cover other times if necessary. Kamila will tell all staff by Fri.

6. Resource Centre-AA orders

• This is paid for through the UK paypal site on the AA Website or by check. There are some orders which came via email from Paypal.

7. Magazine Exchange

• There is a magazine exchange request from another organisation.

DECISION: Kamila and Justin will discuss the details later.

8. Web

• We would still like to implement proposed changes to the website.

DECISION: We will postpone discussion of this until next Wed.

DECISION: Bas will send the materials. Christi will investigate the paypal account to see which account the money goes to and how (ie. check or auto-transfer). 9. Randy's status

• Last time we talked Randy offered to work on conference on volunteer basis after August; however, there is a lot of work in the month of Sept. He helped with youth exchange (beginning Sept.) and there is a lot of work to be done with Istanbul conference follow-up and finalising Portland contract (08 conference). He proposes that he be allowed to invoice 1/4 time CZ salary for Sept. After Sept. he will be a volunteer, but this will be re-evaluated closer to the PDX conference depending on workload. He offers that the invoice for Sept. wages be paid whenever the money is available. Kamila proposes that Justin take over some of Randy's work after Sept.

DECISION: Randy will invoice for Sept. It will be paid when we can.

10. Financial Situation

• There is a cash flow problem and money is due back to the EC. Christi is working on 08 core grants. The proposal is that everyone will be looking for potential donors, we will be selling resources at WCFD, there is a letter out to Mark Brown.

DECISION: The membership coordinator will send a request for membership fees to all members who have not paid their membership fees. Christi will send out an email asking people what they will do to help find money, and everyone will respond within one week about what they will do, who they will ask, etc.