SEED LIBRARY OF LOS ANGELES – VENICE - January 2020

SEED LIBRARY OF LOS ANGELES – VENICE BRANCH

JANUARY MEETING – MINUTES

1/18/2020

START TIME: 1:03 p.m. 

Attendance: Azita, David, Julie, Bridey, Kim, Toshiro SLOLA Member

Absent: Ade, Jeremy

Late: ( JP arrived after 2pm)

UC/Master Gardeners: 

REPORTS 

Secretary _ Bridey : Reads minutes

Treasurer _ Kim : Received $100 check from Shalom Institute and Camp (Shemesh organization with Davis Watson) Checking $3,582.12  Savings $1,738.50 PayPal $349.62

Membership_ Azita/David : Azita nothing to report. David cleaning his desk found two new membership applications. David will pay $20 Kim cash. Azita reminds us that when cash is given to send Paypal money immediately. 

Librarians _ Jeremy & Ade : N/A

Outreach : N/A

Vice Chair _ David : Present at Winward event. 7th graders were a hard bunch. Spoke about the 6 centers of civilizations, how and why did they become a big city -all revolves around agriculture and saving seeds. Brought cotton bolls where they removed seed from cotton, which was a high point. 

Ordered 9 different varieties of tomatoes and I also have beans that I have purchased for a project that fell through to add to library stock. 

Speaking next Thurs morning at USC for a Food & Ecology class. 

Cool Beans, is newsletter by Richmond Grows Seed Library in CA, an outlet and platform for us and others who want to write about seeds. 

Dr.  Daniela Soleri  is from Univ of Santa Barbara has two loads of different beans and wants different seed libraries around California to grow them and report back. She wants to do a study on community seed diversity and adaptation collaboration. David has accepted to participate. The seed varieties offered are, “Cherokee Trail of Tears,” and, “Jacob’s Cattle Bean.” 

Chair_ Azita : Spoke with 4 classes at Winward school. Topic: Landrace & genetics  - each class was different, we did some on the spot research about the French -- lots of pro-biotech questions and wondering about GMO’s and why they are bad if they feed more people. Lots of food justice conversation. Spoke about procedure of Seed Meetings so that they knew what to expect if they came to the meetings. Not many kids accepted seeds because they didn’t think they could take care of them. Azita shared her dream for the Seed Library is an App and the response from teachers and students was positive and supportive, will follow up with that as well as who may be interested in volunteer day. Hopefully we are invited back for more talks. 

Bridey made a SLOLA volunteer sign-up sheet that we can use at meetings to invite more hands.

Altadena report available on Transition Pasadena website. 

We need to alter how we take seed check outs and make sure we cutoff before speaker begins or say until 3:30 to allow us a chance to shut down on time. 

Julie_Parlitarian:  No report but will meet with David & Jo-anne again before the next meeting. Election talk should be brought up in September and so by July we should have the election process outlined and figured out. (July meeting date July 18th). 

JP : Want to know if you guys want me and have dialogue and communicate and when people have differences of opinions - do I get a vote to resign or to stay on the board. 

Julie mentions that he was voted in and so it’s his decision to stay. 

Bridey asks what is his role. David mentions that he has shown interest in inventory. 

JP finishes to say that he wants to talk about our misunderstandings and would like to be a voting member of the board as Technical Advisor and happy to relinquish role as Secretary. 

OLD BUSINESS

• Seed Inventory is behind, we need to spend time outside of SLOLA meeting days.
• Need to submit Orcutt Budget
• Seed of the Season : Carrot Nantes Scarlet (March we will switch to a new bean) We can also add a Seed of the Season Hard and Seed of the Season Easy for varying difficulty levels.

NEW BUSINESS 

• Online Seed order forms / inventory.
• What do we need to buy? Business cards? More merch? Hat? Envelopes with more SLOLA info to give away at events. 
• Azita will ask Jo-anne to make a SLOLA origami seed pack paper
• We need a new treasurer, also note: when leaving a position we need to have a job position written out with tasks/duties to pass on. (Should be in something in Trello)
• David proposes Jaeger as a speaker? Azita mentions that towards end of year makes sense with her.
• We need to find new speakers on Seed Saving / seed subjects : Folklore & Seed History is suggested idea. 

Upcoming SLOLA EVENTS 

01/26/2020 Volunteer Day 3-5PM

1. JULIE MOTIONS TO ACCEPT THE MINUTES. DAVID SECONDS. AZITA CALLS THE QUESTION, ALL IN FAVOR, MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. 
2. DAVID MOTIONS THAT JP IS NO LONGER THE SECRETARY BUT THAT IS THE TECHNICAL ADVISOR. JULIE SECONDS THE MOTIONS. AZITA CALLS THE QUESTION, ALL IN FAVOR, MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. 
3. DAVID MOTIONS TO ADJOURN. JULIE SECONDS THE MOTION. AZITA CALLS THE QUESTION. ALL IN FAVOR, MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. 

MEETING ENDTIME 2:17 PM

– VENICE BRANCH

JANUARY MEETING – MINUTES

1/18/2020

START TIME: 1:03 p.m. 

Attendance: Azita, David, Julie, Bridey, Kim, Toshiro SLOLA Member

Absent: Ade, Jeremy

Late: ( JP arrived after 2pm)

UC/Master Gardeners: 

REPORTS 

Secretary _ Bridey : Reads minutes

Treasurer _ Kim : Received $100 check from Shalom Institute and Camp (Shemesh organization with Davis Watson) Checking $3,582.12  Savings $1,738.50 PayPal $349.62

Membership_ Azita/David : Azita nothing to report. David cleaning his desk found two new membership applications. David will pay $20 Kim cash. Azita reminds us that when cash is given to send Paypal money immediately. 

Librarians _ Jeremy & Ade : N/A

Outreach : N/A

Vice Chair _ David : Present at Winward event. 7th graders were a hard bunch. Spoke about the 6 centers of civilizations, how and why did they become a big city -all revolves around agriculture and saving seeds. Brought cotton bolls where they removed seed from cotton, which was a high point. 

Ordered 9 different varieties of tomatoes and I also have beans that I have purchased for a project that fell through to add to library stock. 

Speaking next Thurs morning at USC for a Food & Ecology class. 

Cool Beans, is newsletter by Richmond Grows Seed Library in CA, an outlet and platform for us and others who want to write about seeds. 

Dr.  Daniela Soleri  is from Univ of Santa Barbara has two loads of different beans and wants different seed libraries around California to grow them and report back. She wants to do a study on community seed diversity and adaptation collaboration. David has accepted to participate. The seed varieties offered are, “Cherokee Trail of Tears,” and, “Jacob’s Cattle Bean.” 

Chair_ Azita : Spoke with 4 classes at Winward school. Topic: Landrace & genetics  - each class was different, we did some on the spot research about the French -- lots of pro-biotech questions and wondering about GMO’s and why they are bad if they feed more people. Lots of food justice conversation. Spoke about procedure of Seed Meetings so that they knew what to expect if they came to the meetings. Not many kids accepted seeds because they didn’t think they could take care of them. Azita shared her dream for the Seed Library is an App and the response from teachers and students was positive and supportive, will follow up with that as well as who may be interested in volunteer day. Hopefully we are invited back for more talks. 

Bridey made a SLOLA volunteer sign-up sheet that we can use at meetings to invite more hands.

Altadena report available on Transition Pasadena website. 

We need to alter how we take seed check outs and make sure we cutoff before speaker begins or say until 3:30 to allow us a chance to shut down on time. 

Julie_Parlitarian:  No report but will meet with David & Jo-anne again before the next meeting. Election talk should be brought up in September and so by July we should have the election process outlined and figured out. (July meeting date July 18th). 

JP : Want to know if you guys want me and have dialogue and communicate and when people have differences of opinions - do I get a vote to resign or to stay on the board. 

Julie mentions that he was voted in and so it’s his decision to stay. 

Bridey asks what is his role. David mentions that he has shown interest in inventory. 

JP finishes to say that he wants to talk about our misunderstandings and would like to be a voting member of the board as Technical Advisor and happy to relinquish role as Secretary. 

OLD BUSINESS

• Seed Inventory is behind, we need to spend time outside of SLOLA meeting days.
• Need to submit Orcutt Budget
• Seed of the Season : Carrot Nantes Scarlet (March we will switch to a new bean) We can also add a Seed of the Season Hard and Seed of the Season Easy for varying difficulty levels.

NEW BUSINESS 

• Online Seed order forms / inventory.
• What do we need to buy? Business cards? More merch? Hat? Envelopes with more SLOLA info to give away at events. 
• Azita will ask Jo-anne to make a SLOLA origami seed pack paper
• We need a new treasurer, also note: when leaving a position we need to have a job position written out with tasks/duties to pass on. (Should be in something in Trello)
• David proposes Jaeger as a speaker? Azita mentions that towards end of year makes sense with her.
• We need to find new speakers on Seed Saving / seed subjects : Folklore & Seed History is suggested idea. 

Upcoming SLOLA EVENTS 

01/26/2020 Volunteer Day 3-5PM

1. JULIE MOTIONS TO ACCEPT THE MINUTES. DAVID SECONDS. AZITA CALLS THE QUESTION, ALL IN FAVOR, MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. 
2. DAVID MOTIONS THAT JP IS NO LONGER THE SECRETARY BUT THAT IS THE TECHNICAL ADVISOR. JULIE SECONDS THE MOTIONS. AZITA CALLS THE QUESTION, ALL IN FAVOR, MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. 
3. DAVID MOTIONS TO ADJOURN. JULIE SECONDS THE MOTION. AZITA CALLS THE QUESTION. ALL IN FAVOR, MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. 

MEETING ENDTIME 2:17 PM