2019-02-13 Toronto Workers Co-op Meeting

Time: 13 Feb 2019 5:00 PM ET Location: https://appear.in/offline Attending: ben, udit, dc, elon, garry, patcon, yurko

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Agenda

PL debrief (30 mins)
Quick Working Group Updates (10 mins)
- ~~Business Planning~~
- Finance
- Governance
- Infra & Ops
Business Plan (20 mins)
- Chat thru template in here
- Operations

Recent call with Evan
- outcome was unexpected
- stated OKRs not seen as priority
- Concerns about amount (both $ and work scope)
- Questions about overhead for managing/administrating a grant of this magnitude
- Concern with who had project management experience
- Tacking on launch of cooperative; additional work?
- If narrower scope of work would only require one team to evaluate, so simpler
Ask for more rigorous process
dc: Let’s think on big vs micro grants
Future opportunities:
- nothing firm, but seems yes?
- smaller
- touches on one team (unclear on budget)
Reflect on how to speak about big ideas in smaller ways
There are many grant opportunities but we need to decide how much we want to fit ourselves to be ready for those opportunities

Finance
- Talked to DUCA Credit Union
- dc: see others as alternatives? desjardins?
- ~~People~~ Ben doesn’t seem to like Alterna
  - Dawn banks with them personally, Our Networks is there too. DC: I think it is totally fine. patcon: me too.
- dc: In research, good to 1) do more than two, and 2) hit a spectrum.
- Desjardin = huge size
- Next steps:
  - Call Meridian and Desjardin
  - More research with SMB person at DUCA & Toronto branch
Governance
- Conversations with OCA Peter, Forth Pig about not-for-profit v. “regular” governance structure (dc, patcon, ben)
- OCA webinar: incremental is good. Set a long timeline (patcon)
Infra and Ops
- Conversation around backups
- Agreed to take up milestones
- Conversation on scale (this is the x-over between business planning/ops/infra)

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