Agenda:

• Bylaws discussion
• Incorporated.  Now what?
• Space discussion
• Grey Water Potluck update
  • Next one?
• Bylaws meeting update... turned into house rules discussion

This will be a long meeting, so come prepared.

Questions raised in the past:

• What should our bylaws cover?
  • Membership/Removal
  • Board
  • Decisions?
• How specific do we need or want to be?

Agenda (in no particular order):

• Green Fest update (Jill, Rickey, Pete, Cassandra)
• Chicago Creative Expo update (Micah, Lloyd)
• Being incorporated
  • Next Steps
• Space search update
• Bylaws
• Punk Workers Coop (Rickey)
• A social event.
• Fundraising?
• Website
• Anything else?

Agenda

• Mark Fick Q&A
  • when do we need a need a name
  • paperwork?
• Our name.
  • urban mold (variant: urban molt)
  • elephant collective
  • grey water
• Gail Russell (Grant Writing) update
• Next Step.
• Any suggestions?

Edit this page and add things we need to talk about.

there is a meeting scheduled on thursday april 5 at 2pm with gail russel from steans family foundation to discuss grant writing. it is open to anyone (perhaps three-four people tops) who is interested in attending or has ideas to contribute. -cassandra

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1521378

the above address is a link to an article titled "Legal Structures for Intentional Communities in the United States." enjoy!

apparently i need 25 words, so i'll leave you with a haiku:
we want happy home
be excellent to all folk
party on dudes, ya

i am not exactly clear about the legalities, and i don't know if LLC is the best way to go; however, forming an LLC is essentially a start to founding an organization that will be doing things that A) may or may not involve money and B) may or may not involve liability. the key is "maybe." i also don't think we're talking about starting just a housing co-op like quimba or others, but rather something more complex (see link below about social co-ops).

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The logistics group was organized to work on issues relating to legal, accounting and business matters.  How can we legally go about doing what we wish to do?  What sort of federal, state, and local laws would apply?  How can we internalize these legal requirements in our by-laws, in other documents, and in practice while staying true to our many other goals?

Current membership: Dylan (coordinator), Nico

the Chicago Community Loan Fund (www.cclfchicago.org) is our friend:

Here are two pieces of the 2007 US master tax guide relating to tax exempt entities.  cooptax.pdf is included in the other but is the most pertinent page and general to all cooperatives.  If you have trouble reading the full text of chapter 8, try enlarging it past 100% for screen viewing.