PFC Board of Directors Meeting
Minutes for July 19, 2004

Attendance
Board Members: John Austin; Larry Horvath; Arun Mathur; Pete Schermerhorn; Howard Shapiro; Duane Thomas; Laurie White; Carol Collins, PFC General Manager

Rusty Brach, PFC Information Technologies Manager – facilitating meeting
Kathryn Sanderson, Member/Owner volunteer - recording minutes
Julie Sverid, PFC’s new Human Resources Director

Call to order
7:30pm by Duane

Consent Agenda
minutes and web minutes of the 6/14/04 meeting; Board self-monitoring reports G.5 Board Committee Principles (Laurie) and G.6 Annual Agenda Cycle & Board Calendar (Larry); CCMA trip reports by Larry and Duane. All Directors having reviewed and understood these materials, the consent agenda was approved.

New Ends policies and priorities
The Board adopted final Ends policy wording, eliminated the proposed priority statement, and adopted revised wording for GM monitoring reports. The GM will present an interim report on policy interpretation and measurement in November and a report of organizational performance on Ends policies in May 2005. The schedule of subsequent Ends monitoring reports is still to be determined.

Planning outside inputs and Board Retreat
The Board will explore training opportunities at NEW Center in Spring 2005, and consider quarterly enrichment meetings on such topics as financial training, fundraising, gathering Member feedback (structuring surveys, analyzing data), and current trends in the natural foods market. The Board may hold a one-day, facilitated retreat in late winter or spring focusing on a single visioning/planning issue.

Discussions of Board Workload and the On-Line Community Update were postponed.

Next Meeting
Monday, August 16, 2004, 7:30pm at Menlo Innovations (212 N. 4th Ave).

Beginning in September, the regular meeting night will be the third Thursday of the month.

Adjournment
by acclamation at 9:30.

Respectfully submitted by John Austin, Board Secretary