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1 Meeting House Management Committee Agenda 2025-10-20
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2 Monday 20 October, 5.15 p.m., in 7 Victoria Terrace
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4 * Attendance Draft minute: JP Ascher, Rachael Fitzgerald, Chris
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5 Jardine, Katrina McCrea (via Zoom), Jackie Noltingk, Laragh Quinney,
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6 Sammi Searle, Henry S. Thompson, Andy Tucker, Duncan Wallace
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8 * Convenor's report
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9 * Change of representative from Treasury Team
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11 Draft minute: We welcome Chris Jardine, the new AM Assistant
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12 Treasurer, and say goodbye to Jackie Noltingk, with a very warm
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13 'Thank You!' for your long service and many contributions to the
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14 work of this committee and your frequent help for its convenor.
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16 * Suggestions from Local Meeting
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18 Turns out HST misunderstood the suggestion from LM Co-Clerk Juliet
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19 Henderson regarding the provision of something to help keep folk
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20 warm in the Meeting Room: it was _blankets_, not gillets.
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22 Draft minute: We welcome the offer from Central Edinburgh Local
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23 Meeting to purchase a number of blankets to be made available for
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24 people attending Meeting for Worship as the temperature drops and
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25 ask them to liaise with the Managers about practical details such
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26 as storage, signage and cleaning.
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28 * Unpaid leave for Eliza Giles 3 months in August-November 2026: EAPPI
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30 Draft minute: We are happy to agree to Eliza Giles taking three
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31 months of unpaid leave August--November 2026 to be a volunteer
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32 with the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and
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33 Israel and wish her well in that very important and challenging
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34 activity.
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36 * Computing infrastructure
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37 * New domain and storage
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39 Jonathan Riddell (the AM Treasurer) and David Sterratt have begun
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40 a restructuring of various aspects of the Area Meeting's computing
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41 infrastructure, in part in response to the creation of a new
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42 domain (quaker.scot), including new email addresses and a move
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43 from Dropbox to Google Drive. AT and HST met with them to discuss
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44 changes this requires and/or enables changes in the Meeting House
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45 computing setup.
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47 * Windows 10 support
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49 HST and AT have worked together successfully to extend the
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50 provision of security updates to our Windows 10 PCs for a further
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51 year to 1 October 2026.
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53 * Dundee Friends Property Trust
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55 * Managers' report
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56 * Defend our Juries
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57 * Area Meeting 10 September
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58 * New Casual Staff
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59 * 2026 Room Hire pricing
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60 * CVenues 2026
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62 * Upper Bow report
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63 * Rent increase
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64 * Vacancy management
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66 * Finance report
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68 * Heating/Insulation/Energy...
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69 * Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES)
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71 * Works to be undertaken Upper Bow
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72 * Report from Majk Stokes
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74 * Quinquennial review/News from Trustees
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76 * Staff escalation route if they need backup
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78 Trustees wrote to us about this, following up on the meeting in
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79 July where SCALP (Scottish Community and Activist Legal Project)
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80 gave Meeting House staff a training session on _Working Well with
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81 the Police_.
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83 "we need ... an assurance from [MHMC] that staff have an
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84 escalation route whenever they need backup. ... We are happy for
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85 trustees to be on a reserve backup list in case no-one from MHMC
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86 is available."
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88 * Date of next meeting
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90 * Any other business
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92 ht