Monthly Member’s Meeting Minutes 2.11.15

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.