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ACM minutes Feb 8, 2023

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Present: Laraine, Ben, Jorge, Robin, Linda, Kerry, Mike, Kay (notes), Vicky, Victor, Vinnie, Cheryl, Eliza, Lynda, Marina, Myste, Mary, Amy, Coleen

Check-In: Where did you go to high school and what was your favorite subject?

Length of ACMs

In November a straw poll suggested we shorten ACMs by 15 minutes as an experiment.  We did that for several ACMs.  Lessons learned: Be flexible on length of meeting, depending on intensity of discussion and so on.

Conflict Support

Posted some information on the wiki, tools for working on conflict. 

For instance six-step model on conflict, from the book Cooperative Culture, written by Yana and

  1. Emotions don't equal logic and don't have to.
  2. Encourage self-honesty.
  3. Share the triggers for the conflict.
  4. What's at stake.Why is this important
  5. Reflection and mutual understanding
  6. Proactive opt,ions

The committee would like community members to offer documents they have found useful for consideration for posting.

Members: Laraine, Lynda, Alex, Eliza, Laura.

Storage Bin Items

Jorge and Robin are interested in cleaning up the fire pit and disposing of the half-burnt logs.  Victor thought the best way to clean up the fire pit would be to burn the logs. The Fire Dept said our pit isn't legal because it isn't a barbecue, and gave us a month to change it, which hasn't happened.