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 O’Hare, 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 PFC’s unique role (what for-profit competitors can’t 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

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