In Attendance: Jackson, Ty, Marc (secretary)
Meeting Start: 7:24 PM

Upcoming Event: Abortion Rights Discussion
The discussion will be this upcoming Saturday, July 16. So far, the Facebook event has pretty decent interest generated so far. We will promote the event through this week.

Ty suggested sharing the event alongside good news about abortion rights across the country—e.g. today a Minnesota judge ruled that abortion restrictions in the state were unconstitutional. Basically, emphasizing how people are already fighting back against SCOTUS’ decision.

Library Donations
Jackson donated a lot of books to the BCH library, including a novel and graphic novel. Thank you!

Website Updates
Marc talked about plans for making the site more interesting and with more focus on what BCH is, what the space is, what resources are available, etc. Marc discussed plans for totally revamping the homepage, as well as developing ideas for regular blog posts and promoting other groups’ events.

We brainstormed some ideas for what the site could look like and what the purpose of the home page should be. Ultimately, everyone’s on the same page that a big change in the design, layout, etc. needs to be reviewed by core/usual members, particularly any content changes. Marc will also explore how to update the site’s layout in the back-end so that it doesn’t change what our visitors see.

Marc will take point on website updates and creating dummy/private pages to bring to the group for review. He’ll also figure out how to fix the current calendar widget.

Fall Events
We still are planning on collaborating with OutNebraska in September.

Potential event themes/ideas: Anti-Columbus Day protest, Halloween Movie Night, reaching out to DIO-Fest organizers and seeing if we could collaborate somehow? We have also heard from some close friends that they’d be interested in running an event, showing a movie, inviting colleagues, etc.

Husker home football games are on: 9/3, 9/10, 9/17, 10/1, 10/29, 11/5, 11/19

DIO-Fest will also be on October 8^th, so we don’t want to compete with them on that day.

Meeting Adjourned: 8:47 PM

In attendance: Jackson, Wyatt, Conner, Marc (secretary)
Meeting Start: 7:40 PM
Note: There will be no planning meeting on July 4th, 2022.

Event Review: Pride (2014)

• We showed Pride (2014) on the 25th. Folks who attended seemed to enjoy the movie and we had OK turnout. We figure it will be an uphill climb to get people to attend in-person events again due to COVID concerns.
• For future events, we can plan on putting COVID safety requirements (masks) near the top of the event description, so it’s clear that we’re taking precautions.

Upcoming Event: Abortion Open Discussion

• Ty wrote up the event description draft; Jackson will edit it. The event posting should be live soon.
• We anticipate that attendees may still be in a reaction/venting mode during the event. We want to make sure to make space for that during the event, but also provide a space for tangible takeaway.
• Conner offered to provide the Powerpoint slides for a past event he attended, which could be used to inform the discussion.
• During the discussion, we want to make sure to talk about a few elements: some historical context as well as the failure of the Democratic party to do anything meaningful to protect abortion access.

New Projector

• We used the new projector for the first time on Saturday for the Pride showing. The picture looks great, but the HDMI ports are dead. Other connectors/ports work decently, but since the HDMI port was the whole reason we upgraded, we need to get it repaired.
• Jackson will contact repair shops to see if they can fix the HDMI port. Marc has offered to transport the projector wherever it needs to go.

OutNebraska Event

• Aryn reached out to us regarding hosting an event later this year, August at the earliest. We will be able to host, though we are anticipating that the 1st half of September will work best since August is so busy.
• We will include the OutNebraska event in our Fall calendar when we discuss it in the coming weeks.

Accessibility

• The living room, entry way, ramp, and driveway have been cleaned up and are more accessible now.
• We still need to improve the threshold between the porch and front door, but this may be part of a larger project that we hope to get started on in Fall.

Tabled: Further accessibility discussion (furniture), library donations, YouTube video tour

Meeting Adjourned: 9:15 PM

Meeting start: 7:20 PM

In attendance: Jackson, Ty (secretary)

1. Upcoming Event: We have a movie night, “Pride” on Saturday! Have to continue tidying the room, but otherwise we have everything we need.
2. Library Donations: Jackson got some more donations for the library! Ty sorted through them a bit, and there are some stacks that we’d like some other members’ opinions on, but some of the books got accepted into the library outright. Thanks, Jackson!
3. Projector: Jackson got us a new working projector! He spent $160.88 on it. He got preapproved by other members for reimbursement on this, but this is officially documenting the total for reimbursement. He also highly recommends buying a remote for it to serve our ambition to get this projector mounted instead of on a cart, as well as an extra bulb for it to have on hand. These are also OK’d for reimbursement when he finds them at a good price.
4. OutNE: OutNE reached out to us regarding our interest in volunteering and/or hosting future events of theirs. We’re opting to volunteer as individuals rather than as a group. But as far as hosting, assuming schedules work out we’re down to host future events. If any get scheduled for fall, we can potentially put it on our fall calendar.

Meeting adjourned: 7:45 PM

Jackson and Wyatt were the only ones available tonight. We had some discussion about making the space more accessible, and then committed time tonight to actually cleaning up parts of the space indoors and outdoors towards being more ready for our next public event on June 25th.

In Attendance: Jackson, Ty, Marc (secretary)
Meeting Start: 8:00 PM

Accessibility

• The driveway is temporarily full of supplies. We discussed moving the supplies to the east yard of the house. We will be reconstructing the rain barrel array in the east yard, which should give us more space and also use up some of the supplies currently in the driveway.
• We discussed organizing the inside of the space as well. Folks will be able to assist depending on availability and time constraints. Ty brought up that we would need to make sure that paths are at least 3′ wide to be ADA compliant, so we will keep this in mind as we clean/organize the inside and outside space.
• We also talked about ways to make the free food table indoors more accessible and organized so visitors can quickly see what’s available and take what they need.

Movie Night

• Jackson will write up the description for the movie night sometime in the next week or so.
• Our current projector encountered an error during/after a power outage and likely needs to be replaced sooner than we originally anticipated. We’ve already approved Jackson spending funds from the treasury to replace it once he does the research and finds a proper replacement projector. Marc will also assist with research.

Calendar Distribution

• Jackson took care of everything downtown and in the Everett/Near South neighborhood. Wyatt also did his usual route, and Marc and Ty will take care of hanging calendars in other locations.

Meeting Adjourned: 8:30 PM

In Attendance: Marc (secretary), Ty, Jackson
Start: 7:15 PM

Dropbox:

• We have no planned online discussions that will need to be recorded in the near future. Ty cancelled the paid subscription to DropBox.
• We still have the files archived on DropBox, as well as Marc’s HDD from editing/posting the videos to YouTube.
• We discussed getting a SSD or HDD for BCH recordings in the future which these could be archived on.
• Final total for reimbursement: Subscription was $11.99/month for 3 months, for a total of $35.97. Ty accepted a round $35 as reimbursement and we approved reimbursing Ty for the cost.

Calendars:

• Marc completed the draft of the color version/full-size of our summer calendar and the handbills.
• We reviewed the content and design of the calendars and double-checked for errors. All looks good, so we’re ready to print. Ty will send the documents to the print shop tomorrow. Jackson will pick up the prints.
• We decided to get 35 full-sized calendars and 20 sheets of handbills.
• We divided up the calendar distribution between members.

Meeting Adjourned: 8:30 PM

In attendance: Wyatt (secretary), Marc, Ty, Jackson,
Start time: 7:05 PM

1. Yard Sale. We had a very successful yard sale, clearing about $1200! Just about matching our record year. Thank you everyone for your donations and purchases. The collective will be well funded and be able to make multiple donations to causes throughout the year. We lost a few garage sale signs this year. We do need a few more sign wires for more yard sale signs. Marc will plan on making yard signs for next year.
2. Projector Modernization. We would like to use some of the funds to buy a nice new projector. We want something that will last us for a long time. We want one that we can replace the lamp easily. Its worth spending money on a really good one. Jackson will take care of this.
3. Summer Calendar Finalization. August zine workshop is finalized.
   1. For June: Movie showing, Saturday, June 25^th – 7p – 9p
   2. For July: Abortion Rights: What Now? discussion on July 16^th – angled toward projected ramifications, which states have/had trigger bills, which states will keep it legal, what to do now. Marc will reach out to a university professor he knows regarding the abortion discussion; we may consider other folks to reach out to.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Marc, Ty
Start time: 7:25 PM

1. Yard Sale – Our annual fundraiser is this weekend! It’ll be a lot of work, but we had worktime tonight to price almost all of our currently collected donations. We discussed the logistics of picking up some of the larger batches of donations from our families. Jackson can still use some backup getting things set up on Friday morning, as neither Marc nor Ty will be able to help then. We’ll do our best!
2. Tabling Opportunity – Our neighbor Chelsea emailed Jackson this afternoon to let us know that she’s hosting a block party on Sunday, June 26th and invites us to come and table (as we have done in at least one previous year). We are interested, and Jackson will email her back to accept the invitation.
3. Summer Calendar – We still need to pick dates for the Pride movie night and the abortion rights discussion, but our night got late on us with all of the yard sale prep. We’ll continue this discussion on the Discord. TABLED.

Meeting adjourned: 9:30 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty, Marc (briefly, late, by phone)
Start time: 7:07 PM

1. Event Reviews – We haven’t met in three weeks, so we have had three events since our last meeting!

We had two online events, Professor Lynn’s CRT talk and our friend Aryn’s talk on Title 11. Marc stayed home tonight to work on editing those talks for our YouTube channel. We did have minor issues with Jitsi on both events, with the recording stopping prematurely and having to be restarted. We also still need to get Ty reimbursed for upgrading his Dropbox account to hold the files from these video recordings.

We also had our latest reading discussion this last Saturday. The turnout was low, but it was a good discussion.

2. Yard Sale – The yard sale is coming up next weekend. We’re now publicly accepting donations. We’re not sure at the moment if Wyatt will have time to build the temporary tables we enjoyed last year. Ty is not sure yet about his availability for next week, because of his work schedule. It sounds like we could really use some more volunteers to help us pull this off. We have a lot of uncertainty tonight, and we’ll have to continue planning logistics for this via the Discord as more details become known.
3. Buttons – Marc has pressed some prototype Black Cat House swag buttons. They are very cool! And we are excited to have swag with our name/logo on them at last. Marc has offered to make more buttons, possibly as things to sell at the yard sale. This is a good idea in theory, but we’re not sure what designs those would be.
4. Niskithe Prayer Camp – We extend our solidarity with the Niskithe Prayer Camp trying to save the Native sweat lodges here in Lincoln. We will be donating $200 to their PayPal.
5. Summer Calendar –

June or July: Movie Night: Pride
July or June: Some kind of discussion on abortion rights; Marc will reach out to a professor contact at UNL
August 27th, 1-3 PM: DIY Publishing: A Zine Workshop (working title)

Meeting adjourned: 8:33 PM

No one was available to meet tonight. We’ll try again next week.