[frgeek-michiana] Re: Food Bank negotiation
- From: Tom Brown <tbrown46628@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:29:45 -0700 (PDT)
I emailed a request to my friend, the attorney at May, Oberfell, Lorber, asking
for advice regarding selling to for-profit businesses which are owned by
volunteers, board members, etc. So far, I haven't received a reply. I will see
the attorney next week at a social gathering. She may be waiting until then to
discuss the issue.
Tom
--- On Thu, 7/23/09, Chuq <chuq00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Chuq <chuq00@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Food Bank negotiation
> To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 6:54 AM
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> Well I have a better suggestion
> for the extra Gaylord of
> keyboards, sell it to Imre and me. As far as the extra
> monitors go, you should
> get a count of how many there are.
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> [mailto:frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Phil Goldbach
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> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:44 AM
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> To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Food Bank
> negotiation
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> "Men cry not for themselves, but for their
> comrades."
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> --- On Wed, 7/22/09, Tom Brown
> <tbrown46628@xxxxxxxxx>
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> From: Tom Brown <tbrown46628@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Food Bank negotiation
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> To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 4:46 PM
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> I talked face to face with Lisa Jaworski, the FBNI
> director, and I have good
> news and bad news.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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