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