Meeting House Management Committee Agenda 2024-12-09
Monday 9 December, 5 p.m., in 7 Victoria Terrace

* Attendance: tutti

* Convenor's report

  * Trustees between meetings decision 2024-11-12

    Unofficially agreed to December salary uplift for MEK

  * Further member for MHMC
    
    HST approached Dan ... wrt possible YF to suggest, no reply as
    yet, continued

  * HST emailed Clan Gordon if we can start early in the New Year,
    called today, still no date when we could expect them to pick us
    back up

  * COVID-19 Enquiry

* Managers' report

  * Holiday Cover*

  * Christmas opening

  * Carpet Situation*

  * Casual staff
  
  * Staff Development*

* Finances

  * Good news/bad news
    Income ahead of budget, expenditures even more ahead, so net
      deficit, but less than budgeted

  * Legacy
    Sue Freshwater's estate has cleared probate, and SESAM have
     received nearly 320,000GBP

* Lets

  NFPB: Precedent for charging or not?

 We currently hold our meetings as hybrid events, with probably
about 25 people attending in person and others online.
  *  The meetings take place on Saturdays, between 10am for setting up
and 5pm to pack away (the meeting itself will probably start and end
an hour after/before those times).
   * It is helpful to have a room that can allow a couple of tables
for resources and space for people to move about during the day.
   * We can bring our own equipment for the hybrid element of the
meeting, provided there is good wifi. But if there is equipment in the
building that we could use, that would be helpful.
   * We would like access to a kitchen for making hot drinks - or to
have these provided - and for Friends to be able to eat their lunches
in the building if they wish to.
    * If Meetings can provide a meeting space at no or low cost as a
way of supporting NFPB, that would be appreciated, though we realise
that we are not alone in facing financial challenges.

  YFGM: How much should they donate -- 200/300 in the past per MS
        More than nothing, which is likely, but less than ~400 concession

* Summer 2025

  * Momentum

  * Greenside

  * C Venues

* Any other business

  3F2

* Time without staff

  * Cover on 30 December

* Date of next meeting