June 2021 Meeting Minutes

MRA Board Meeting Notes

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

19:30 – 20:20

Attendees (virtually)

Lauren Facto, Alex Cameron, Mike Majeski, Neil Arcot, Tim Ellis

Agenda 

1. Minutes from May approved
2. Flyer for MRA
   • Mike distributed a flyer for review by the team
     • If no objections, Mike will distribute during canvassing
   • Flyer is meant to invite people to join the MRA
     • Mike collects that information and forwards it to the board for followup
   • Targeting 100 new members by end of month (on 4,000 door knocks)
3. Etobicoke Climate Action
   • Two successful events; next event on June 24th to lay the groundwork for longer-term efforts in Etobicoke
   • Signup at EtobicokeClimate.ca
   • Tim and Alex to continue to liaise between the two groups
     • Useful model to have someone on the board liaising with other connected groups to keep us up to date; can expand on that
4. Insurance
   • Emma found a lot of wishy-washy behaviour from other competitors so we elected to stay with the current insurer
5. Letter to Grimes
   • Letter written; next step to send from the MRA email after being signed by the President.
   • Lauren will forward to Tim/Adam/Mostafa for sending through MRA email
6. Newsletter
   • Neil offered to take a shot at the newsletter drafting
   • Will go through meeting notes and inbox for community events and content and forward to Tim and Adam for implementation
   • Alex offered to help out with comms as well if desired
   • We are getting quite a few emails about ML Ready Mix; we may put a filter in place to sort into a folder of their own and then calculate the total every few months to update people.
7. Filling the role of President
   • Mike would like to step down and have someone fill the role
   • He is willing to stay on and hold the course if that’s ok with folks
   • He will send along an email and let people know we’re planning to coast for the summer and then consider next steps
8. Other business
   • Next meeting:
     • Take July off
     • Have a late August reconvene and hopefully have it in-person
       • We chose August 18th as a tentative re-convene date