Monthly Member’s Meeting Minutes 2.11.15

Cable Community News 27th November, 2015

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Monthly Membership Meeting 2.11.15 (Minutes)

Theme:

More clearly identify themed pieces and themed pieces should be clearly labeled

Types, tones, styles and forms. Is the Cable too negative?

Needs to provoke ideas etc
More on complex topics in an accessible form i.e economics
Get out to communities
Human interest stories
Roundtables
Solutions Based Journalism

6th edition:

Politics of health

Distro:

Top ups
Produce clearer pick up maps
Area co-ordinators should keep an eye on levels
More distro to outlying areas

VOTE: Membership votes to increase print run to 20,000 unanimously. Reviewable monthly.

VOTE: Advertising:

Ecotricity: Membership votes to accept advertising with Ecotricity.
Membership votes to pass advertising contract within EMSM.

Meeting template:

Deferred for online poll to be set by Dean
Further meetings should not be facilitated by primary contributor

Payment to co-ordinators:

When to expand outside core for payment?
Work out a provisional hourly rate- Harry Pitts to work on methodology
Log hours from now

Membership vote unanimously to approve coordinators stipends, reviewable quarterly.

Defer surplus spending plans to wider discussion with proposals for working out methodology.

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