House Minutes - November 1st, 2009

House websites: No. At least, not yet. None of the houses in SCRH have websites yet and nobody knows when they're going up.

T-Shirt Committee: Check back spring quarter. All right. This meeting is off to a good start!

Kitchen: Aaron claims that other people (not in our house) use our kitchen!!!!!!!!!Maybe we could label everything in the kitchen to mark public dishes. Since we have locked cabinets, we can start moving unmarked dishes to those and just wait for people to complain. The kitchen is just filthy in general, christ people. If you see non-DelGiorno people using the kitchen, please politely show them the window exits.

Sam says that we should have incentives for people to keep the kitchen clean. Maybe put names into a raffle to win prizes based on how often they clean the kitchen. Have a sign-up sheet for two people a week, have a cap on how many times your name can be entered into the raffle. Regulation? Not in my free market.

Kathleen suggests that we start charging people for leaving dirty dishes in the kitchen, locking them up in the cabinets if they're left out and charging money to return them to them.

Having drain problems? Rescom can handle that.

We could do a membership thing with changing the door locks on the kitchen, but there are problems with people letting their friends in. Can't do this because changing the kitchen door lock involves changing the door locks across the entire dorm.

We could force people to label their dishes and confiscate unlabeled dishes - this would let us find out who's leaving dishes out. Announce this at the next house meeting (not tonight) after we've gone over these not--- wait what they're going to use these notes oh crap

We need to delineate the Kitchen Czar's duties and send them out to the council, so we all know what he's supposed to be doing and when, and so we can actually implement this plan of regulating kitchen use. He should also come to house meeting so he knows what's going on and what we need to do to fix these issues.

IHC: Met with dining contract overseer, Richard Mason. They're trying to fix the issues with SCRHDH, like vegan not being vegan and forks not existing and. Printing is weird because Canon is handling it and nobody on campus actually knows how it works. Hopefully it'll be worked out soon. Transportation issues should be directed to IHC or Patricia Padurean, who heads the committee responsible for those.

Apparently the chance of a drive-by when you're getting off the South route and walking back to SCRH is HUGE. I've already been shot eight times. Tonight.

Birthday Pixies are doing a wonderful job, as always. The one silver lining to our thundercloud of a meeting.

We're doing "ok" on funding, will discuss kitchen policy, t-shirts, fundraising at next meeting.

Excom needs to be here every meeting. Someone should've told me this when I signed up for this position, dammit.

Anyone having plumbing issues? Apparently corner rooms are. Our DelGiorno lounge sign got ruined by water damage :< problems with your keycard, let Dan and Anna know. They've gotten more info on the issues, and they'll point you in the right direction. Also, if you get a new ID, make sure you make them transfer your printing money over. It will be gone otherwise.

Ben Smithgall talks about the kitchen reform bill being pushed through the Senate. Is there a public option? Unlabeled dishes in the kitchen are going to be confiscated two weeks from now. The moment he mentioned positive incentives, all hell breaks loose

With Ben Horn. dun cry ben

If you have suggestions and/or concerns, yell at Ben Smithgall about it.

Bulls game in January! Email Matt about it if you're interested ASAP.

Fall Formal transportation is being provided. Buy within the next 20 minutes and Matt will get an additional ticket for FREE!

BRING CANNED FOOD TO THE LOUNGE AND PUT IT IN THE BOX.

STUDY BREAK: BANANA SPLITS AND MANGOES