PFC Board of Directors Meeting
Minutes for September 13, 2005 - Draft Version
Attendance
Board Members: Arun Mathur, President; Howard Shapiro, Vice President;
Duane Thomas, Treasurer; John Austin, Secretary; Andrea Dunathan; Chad
Hershock; Katie Wimsatt.
Mary OHare, Volunteer facilitator for Expansion Discussion segment
Kathryn Sanderson, PFC Member-Owner volunteer, recording minutes
Call to order 6:15PM by Arun
Agenda Review L.7 Compensation and Benefits revised monitoring
report removed from Consent Agenda and added to Ends Monitoring Report
agenda segment; Nominations Committee Charter removed from Consent Agenda
and added to regular agenda; receipt of the 8/15/05 Ad Hoc Expansion Committee
meeting summary was added to the Consent Agenda; second GM Evaluation
Charter agenda item is a duplicate and was removed.
Consent Agenda Minutes and web minutes of the 8/9/05 meeting; summary
of 8/15/05 Ad Hoc Expansion Committee meeting; minutes of 7/28/05 Nominations
Committee meeting; G.9 Board-Membership Communication board self-monitoring
report; shut down of PFC Experimental On-line Community (MemberClicks).
All Directors having reviewed and understood these materials, the revised
Consent Agenda was approved.
Calendar Items on the Board calendar were discussed and some
were changed.
GM Evaluation Committee Charter This discussion was postponed
until the October meeting.
Nominations Committee Charter (removed from Consent Agenda) After
discussion, the charter was approved.
Modified Ends and L.7 Compensation & Benefits monitoring reports Review
of June reports resubmitted by Carol at Board request.
Consideration was given to whether the definition
of compliance should
be different for
Ends than for Executive Limitations policies. No
decision was reached on this issue and discussion
will continue in
the future. Acceptance of
the resubmitted Ends monitoring report was approved.
Carol requested Board clarification of the meaning
of some portions of policy L.7 for the future.
The Board noted
this and will review
the policy. Acceptance
of the resubmitted L.7 monitoring report was approved.
Expansion Discussion The major discussion was postponed
due to time constraints. Duane presented a summary of conclusions
from
the Ballot Survey results, from
a report developed by Andy Smiler, PFC Member-Owner volunteer:
* Ballot Survey results are not likely to be generalizable
to the Membership as a whole.
* Members differ in how they use PFC and why they use PFC.
* Their use of PFC may be affected by their economic circumstances.
* Members seem to share certain core values, attitudes,
beliefs regardless of how often they use PFC or how much
they spend:
- Social justice (activism/advocacy)
- PFC as focal point of a community
- Values
* This may point to PFCs unique role (what for-profit
competitors cant
copy): Members care less about particular products than
that certain values-related needs are met.
* Members personally live in accordance with their values/beliefs,
* act and encourage changes in their world that are consistent
with those values/beliefs, and
* enjoy interacting with like-minded individuals.
Next Meetings Tuesday, October 11, 2005, 6:30PM and
Tuesday, November 15, 6:30PM at Menlo Innovations (212 N. 4th
Ave). Note new
starting time and
revised date for November.
Adjournment by acclamation at 8:28.
Respectfully submitted
by John Austin, Board Secretary
|