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Thompson</author><date>Tuesday 29 August 2024<x:br/>7 Victoria Terrace</date><style>.a::before {content: "ACTION: "; font-weight: bold}</style></head>
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   <title>Attendance</title>
   <p>Eliza Giles (EG), Ken Latham (KL), Majk Stokes (MS), Henry S. Thompson
(HST)</p>
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   <title>Report on MHMC meeting 2024-08-27</title>
   <p>HST shared aspects of the Committee's meeting:</p>
   <p>C'ttee very pleased with staff's stepping up in challenging
circumstances.</p>
   <p>MS to be given the title of Acting Manager</p>
   <p>Salary uplift to continue until new Manager in place, at least through
October.</p>
   <p>Interviews and appointment of new casual staff can be done for October if
it's clear that help is needed due to bookings received.</p>
   <p class="a">MS to move forward with carpet</p>
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   <title>Staff feedback on the last seven weeks</title>
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    <title>Problems</title>
    <p>[missing/broken items] – consumables were often missing; loo roll
didn’t arrive until 15/8, soap often missing. Use our suppliers next time: fits
with ethos, fits our containers. E.g. one Sunday when no loo roll in any of the
loos.</p>
    <p>WiFi - This impacted our own ability to do our own work, because of
low bandwidth and/or ‘no internet’</p>
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    <title>For next time, if there is one</title>
    <p>Paper hand towels? We didn’t this time, worked OK? Probably some
use of loo roll for drying</p>
    <p>Start and end of day procedures – define/clarify, who’s responsible
for what. E.g. turning <emph>on</emph> the emergency lighting is our job.</p>
    <p>Clarify who repairs things. We do a daily inspection and fix things/bill
for getting them fixed</p>
    <p>In general if there are things we agree are are responsibility that we
are going to do for their benefit, we will have to charge
for that, not clear how e.g. lump sum vs. timesheet.</p>
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   <item><p>Kitchen - Not our cleaners job, did CV expect it? MEK cleaned it
from time to time: sweeping and wiping surfaces. Performers in there? Gap(s) in
the licence. Food out, so mice flourished. Fridge available? “You have to name
and date your food, or we’ll through it away”. Buckets left with dirty water
in.</p> <p>Leave less cutlery/plates etc. out for them</p> <p>Use as an office
made cleaning difficult - should clear away each night?</p></item>
   <item><p>Emptying bin bags, agreeing about triage (recyclable/food
waste/rubbish). Do we have to be responsible for all this so it can be done as
we would like.</p></item>
   <item><p>Weekend cleaning is necessary, we did some cleaning on Sunday
and/or Monday morning (kitchen, loos, loo seats in particular).</p></item>
   <item><p>We need to spend more time up front preparing the
building</p></item>
   <item><p>Emergency lights can’t be completely covered, dimmed is
OK</p></item>
   <item><p>Contact person, who is on site most of most days, for niggles (E.g.
shoes in the kitchen :-) (continuity)</p></item>
   <item><p>Staffing level in general</p></item>
   <item><p>Poster mount scarring</p></item>
   <item><p>More pictures in advance…</p></item>
   <item><p>Staples in the poster boards</p></item>
   <item><p>Discount for 4F wrt shower</p></item>
   <item><p>One negative comment about the Sunday meeting space (HST
disagreed)</p></item>
   <item><p>As an ethical workplace, how do we feel about the way CVenue treats
their staff, both volunteer and paid?</p></item>
   <item><p>Sundays have gone well (Wednesdays worked well, bar steps for Tony
Peach and Margaret Anderson and someone else with limited mobility).</p></item>
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   <title>Was it OK? Do this again (with C Venues or someone else)?</title>
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    <item term="KL">More ‘unexpected work’ than
‘unpleasant’</item>
    <item term="EG">The annoying things could be sorted in the agreement,
including a process for things that are still unclear (e.g. the toilet leak)</item><item term="MS">Niggles rather than disasters. Worth looking for alternatives,
e.g. Greenside, before committing to CArts, bearing in mind that they would
have <emph>their</emph> teething problems</item>
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   <title>Miscelaneous</title>
   <p class="a">HST to get C Venue's (local)
network guy’s contact details from Hartley</p><p class="a">KL to scan and
distribute missing/broken items list</p>
  <p class="a">HST to figure out how to
address the need for a regular MEK - MCMember meeting with a schedule that has
no full MEK overlap time in it.</p>
  <p>Clarification wrt casual staffing: Ellie
is <emph>not</emph> happy about evening or saturday working, and MEK are covering a
lot of evening/Saturday shifts.</p>
  <p>Keith Gunn to go ahead with new cable
trays.</p>
  <p>MS has renewed Giffgaff contract</p>
  <p>Ian Wilson will be visiting
some time soon</p>
  <p class="a">HST To check the state of the T&amp;C redo by
Trustees.</p>
  <p class="a">HST To go through MHMC on listing on sites that charge a
premium</p></div>
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author	Henry Thompson <ht@markup.co.uk>
date	Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:15:06 +0100
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