Board Minutes February 2011: Difference between revisions
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=== Bike Building Tuesdays === | === Bike Building Tuesdays === | ||
* CHRIS: Analysis indicates it's not worth it. We need to either stop paying Alex to be there, or stop buying pizza. Or both. Or else cancel it altogether. | * CHRIS: Analysis indicates it's not worth it. We need to either stop paying Alex to be there, or stop buying pizza. Or both. Or else cancel it altogether. | ||
**ALEX: We need to reconsider Bike Building. We don't want to be losing money but the program has important non-monetary benefits: education and practice for volunteers; the retention of volunteers through the quiet winter months; providing a fun and social volunteer opportunity. I would like to try cutting out the pizza and replacing it with cheaper snack food (say $10-15 a week instead of the $60 that was approved for pizza). I believe the idea of Bike Building has great merit and would like to try to turn it around rather than immediately cancelling it. Spending only $60 a month on food ($15x4) in addition to approximately $200 in pay for myself for a total expense of approximately $260 should allow us to at least break even based on past figures of added value. It's also important to note that I typically work on a variety of things additional to Bike Building while supervising Bike Building. When reading the Bike Building Metrics please also note that figures for 'Parts Expenses' are based on what we charge for new parts and not what the new parts cost us. One last consideration is that finished bikes are more likely to sell than unfinished bikes and this form of added value is not fully accounted for. | |||
== Food For Next Meeting == | == Food For Next Meeting == | ||