[frgeek-michiana] Re: Food Bank negotiation
- From: Phil Goldbach <shadowvar8541@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:44:02 -0700 (PDT)
This doesn't surprise me as I was thinking of when in high school, every now
and then the JROTC unit at Riley would go volunteer at the food bank and help
out. The way it worked was we just started going through the donations they
received and sorting it. So I can see how their liability insurance is voided.
Well the inventory has a place to go, but what worries me is securing it. If
FBNI has to worry about unauthorized access to stock, then should we not also
worry about unauthorized access to our items? This raises a question about how
we are going to secure our items, if a detailed inventory should be taken. It
also raises the question of much further we need to reduce our stock, I took a
count of all gaylords and pallets, both used and empty, we currently have a
total of 95, most of which are now monitors. However, not all of the pallets
(including the ones that have gaylords on them) are the same size, so one
pallet could take up X amount of space and take Y amount of space. We have 4
pallets of bad monitors for Goodwill pickup. I suggest that since we have two
gaylords of PS/2 keyboards, we keep one and the other we cut the wire for
recycling purposes.
One way to secure the pallets/gaylords is to inventory, label, plastic wrap
them, (in the case of gaylords putting plastic wrap over the top) and marking
it somehow. That way if we do need to access something, we can unsecure, take
what is needed, and resecure the gaylord.
Since the shutdown of the Free Box program seems likely to happen, instead of
waiting until our inventory is moved, I recommend that we stop loading Free
Boxes now and continue eliminating excess stock. If there is another class
scheduled, then we load enough systems for that class and then that's it, until
(if and when that is) we do find another space to use as our warehouse.
If the freight elevator can only be operated by FBNI employees, would there be
stairs to this second floor area? I don't mind if we have so shift our hours to
coincide with those of FBNI, but it is a matter of when other volunteers can.
I'll begin asking the volunteers next warehouse night as to if they could make
it to the warehouse with hours that do coincide with FBNI. So what hours is
FBNI open and where are they located?
Phil Goldbach
"Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades."
--- On Wed, 7/22/09, Tom Brown <tbrown46628@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Tom Brown <tbrown46628@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Food Bank negotiation
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 4:46 PM
I talked face to face with Lisa Jaworski, the FBNI director, and I have good
news and bad news.
The FBNI will let us store our inventory in their upstairs warehouse as I
reported earlier. However, we cannot be in the warehouse after hours. The
facility closes at 4:30 PM M-F. FBNI is open for 4-5 hours two Saturday
mornings per month. Lisa said she reviewed the warehouse set up with the WH
manager, Eric Curry, and there is no way they can secure their food storage
from our area. FBNI's liability insurance is void if unauthorized people can
access the food stock. Second, only FBNI employees can operate the freight
elevator to the second floor. Unless we can manage to work during normal
business hours, the FreeBox program will shut down if we move our inventory to
FBNI.
Lisa offered to publish a notice that we need new warehouse space in the United
Way newsletter or email list. The list/newsletter has about 200 subscribers.
I'll send her an email with a one paragraph description of our mission and a
list of requirements for a new warehouse.
In sum, the FBNI space is more or less temporary (we didn't discuss the actual
time limit), and we will shut down the FreeBox program once we move our
inventory to FBNI. We will reopen the FreeBox program once we find a suitable
warehouse or switch to daytime operation only.
Tom
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