Hazelhurst CSA Committee 2009-11-22

Hazelhurst CSA > Co-operative Committee > Committeee Meeting 11th November 2009

Agenda

The agenda was proposed in an email from Kerri.

Appologies

All committee members were present apart from Yvonne who gave her apologies.

Notes

The following notes were taken by Chris, notice that these notes had been produced was sent to the email list on 23rd November 2009.

Marks Mindmap

There was a point-by-point discussion of the mind map which Mark Simmonds from Co-operativesUK produced following the Hazelhurst CSA Committee 2009-11-11.

Possible activities

We agreed that our purpose was to 'Own land and run a CSA on it'. Regarding the 'One plot', 'Many plots' we agreed that many plots would cover things like adjacent fields but not running other, separate, CSA projects.

Membership

We agreed we don't want to run a 'multi-project organisation' we do want 'investment' and to 'pay money and get produce'.

Aims and Objectives

We agreed we were a CSA and Chris agreed to investigate if there was also any point in us being a Community Land Trust.

Legal forms

Heather wondered with the BenCom model what happens if the organisation fails, could a £20,000 investment in shares by a member be repaid from the sale of the land?

We agreed that more information was needed regarding asset locks.

Suggestions

We agreed with Marks suggestions.

We decided that we wanted to create Hazelhurst CSA as an IPS BenCom, that we would explore the issue of being a Land Trust, how investments would be secured and the issue of the asset lock.

Gareth's paper

We discussed Gareth's Discussion Paper for Hazelhurst CSA Committee Meeting Nov 22 which was proposed in this email.

Governing Document ('Rules')

We discussed the Community Finance Model Rules.

Chris pointed out that the rules don't use Consensus Decision Making, however other Co-op rules do include consensus decision making clauses.

It was agreed to email proposals for the next meeting regarding other model rules and rule amendments to the list by 30th November 2009.

Proposed Name & Objects

It was agreed further discussion was needed on this but it would be for the next meeting, Hazelhurst CSA Committee 2009-12-03.

Oral history project

Heather presented her oral history proposal and we agreed to support it and she agreed to circulate the actual proposal to people by email.

Next Meeting

Thursday 3rd December 2009 at 7:45pm and a formal start at 8pm, at Gareth's house and with an end time of 9:30pm. Email proposals about the issue of the rules to be circulated to the list by 30th November 2009.

Agenda

• Finalise on rules if possible
• Aims and objectives
• Mandate from the public meeting
• Feedback on actions
• Seeds for Change consensus training
• Bank account

Next meeting: Hazelhurst CSA Committee 2009-12-03

Previous meeting: Hazelhurst CSA Committee 2009-11-11