{"id":8698,"date":"2025-09-04T17:13:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mateel.org\/?p=8698"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:13:50","slug":"mcc-board-of-directors-meeting-minutes-6-18-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mateel.org\/?p=8698","title":{"rendered":"MCC Board of Directors Meeting Minutes 6\/18\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mateel Community Center<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public Board Meeting Minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6\/18\/25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date \/ Time:<\/strong>June, 18 2025 @ 6pm<\/td>Location:<\/strong>MCC Hall, 59 Rusk Lane, Redway or by Google Meet<\/td><\/tr>
Board of Directors Public MeetingWednesday, Jun 18  \u2022  18:00\u2009\u2013\u200920:00Google Meet joining infoVideo call link: https:\/\/meet.google.com\/aqh-aiqe-fjtOr dial: +1 209-850-2447 PIN: 172 819 585#More phone numbers: https:\/\/tel.meet\/aqh-aiqe-fjt?pin=3161718047631<\/td>Current Board Members: <\/strong>
Pleasure Strange.    (V. p.)*Nicole Fryer Josh Harden * Dillon Opllet (Trez)*Shanon Taliaferro*Lonny Whitlow*Julia Ralsten (Sec)*Christy Augustine(President)*John Bruno*<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Meeting Called to Order at:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Board members in attendance (notes) : * next to name<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also in attendance: Carly, Steven, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quorum established :6:12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Announcements: 3 minutes each<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Approve minutes: Pleasure makes a motion to pass the minutes. Julia seconds, all here agree. mot<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Mcc Board meeting public minutes 5\/25<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Office and Staff updates: Elena Has been here most days from opening and close. She has had a few people come in for SAMF tickets. We have a triple header of events coming up the weekend after SAMF. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Votes: Emergency vote, started by email completed by google chat, to add Amiee to the new community first credit union, due to the bank switching owners. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Old Business: 5 minutes each<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      1. SAMF25- tickets sold 106 weekend day, 130 day tickets. Site is currently being built and should be finished by friday. Then vendors and volunteers move in. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. ROTR25- sales are on par and are looking better than 2024. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. New Media associates(talked about at last private meeting 6\/4) – Lonny, Maybe? (push till next meeting?)-they did email Nick back today though. We will be communicating this week?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. Board sponsor endeavors- per email shanon sent earlier this week. HAF has a list, <\/li>\n\n\n\n
      5. Shanon has been having a conversation with Re-deck, a loan company. About getting funds. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
      6. Tressa and Demond are working on a health and fitness grant. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        New Business: 5-10 minutes each<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        1. More outreach and tabling at community events- trying to sponsor local events and getting the mateel logo on other peoples posters. – we can sell space on our marque for other events. – make an advertisement on marque advertising that people could rent it.   <\/li>\n\n\n\n
        2. Newsletter- Christy is organizing and encouraging others to be active in making it. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
        3. Brochures-  for air bnbs and hotels advertising our space. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
        4. Youth night- under 18 club, she wants to get together with the youth and make a neat cool fun thing for the local youth. We would have to look for a sponsor or a grant. – to do that should engage with the other community groups that work with the youth. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
        5. Board night- where we have a community\/public gets to hang out and meet the board members.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        6. Pleasure sent out our new security protocol to our security team. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          Public Comments 3 minutes;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          1. Tanya Malley; Sustainability at Reggae- <\/li>\n\n\n\n
          2. Green sustainability Gal(Carley), 200 cups for summer arts? Carly will even make a grant template for us for the HLA. -new world water sets up Hydration stations at events. -Toss wear for getting cups with our branding. She did send a quote over to Tanya, for her Green sustainability plates, 1000, plates and cups. 1500 forks, 500 bowls, 2530$, just for drop off and pick up. . (OCF does it this way.)-She would like to be involved in all our events. -Josh would like to see a cost ratio of comparing reusable silverware, vs disposable. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
          3. Shannon mentions we should use some of the HLA grant money, to buy some merchandise, IE branded cups. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
          4. Steven Lulu – PGand E grants to upgrade infrastructure to improve power usage. , he recommends redwood energy cost authority, No coast energy audit done. He wants to offer his services to plan, design, and permit,  a solar array. For ground mounts. The roof is maybe more difficult.  – (elena mentions we had a PGand E power inspection in January 2025) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
          5. Bamboo utensils for use at events. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
          6. Private meeting was canceled August 6th. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
          7. We are gonna do a trade with Kyle Sterner for two single day tickets to ROTR25 in exchange for oysters.(suggested by Babbette)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

            Up-coming Events:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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            • June 21st & 22nd SAMF at Sohum Park<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Aug. 1st, 2nd, 3rd Rotr at County Line Ranch<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Do we do something at Lonnies 4th of july event? We will attempt to table at 2 events. Benbow and miranda. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

              Meeting adjourned at: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              Closed session agenda ; 7:56<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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