House Meeting Minutes 10/5

1. The Kitchen Situation

Ari brought up that the kitchen takes forever (at least an hour) to clean. This seems like too much.

Erica suggested that, whereas the first and third floor bathrooms don't take very long to clean, the person in charge of that job might be the best person to help out the kitchen cleaner. That person could be "on call" to help the kitchen cleaner.

Jaclyn suggested that we need some more cleaning supplies.

Sam suggested that that we should ALL be on call to help cleaning the kitchen. Anyone should be ready to help out the kitchen-cleaner if necessary. Elissa thinks that it's unrealistic to expect people to help out.

Vivi red-lighted the proposed plan to have the 1st/3rd person be "on call." She thinks it's arbitrary and weird. On her view we should suck it up. Irina seconds this, saying that she thinks it doesn't make sense because the two people will be doing their chores at different times.

Jaclyn echoed everything.

We decided to move on: everyone will try to be clean and to help out, and there are no policy changes.


2. Bathroom Locks and Knocks

Elissa said that there have been a few instances of people walking in on other people in the bathroom. Make sure that you close the door and lock it when you use the bathroom! If you are showering and you don't care if people come in, leave the door open and it's fine.

3. Erev Yom Kippur

Briana asked what is the plan re: Yom Kippur? Erica said that everyone is welcome at her home in upstate for Yom Kippur. It's a super easy train ride, and she's driving up on Wednesday. Contact her if you want to go up.

Elissa raised the point that we won't have a communal meal erev Yom Kippur because we won't be here. Is there another communal meal time other people would like? No one wanted one.

Sam says that anyone who is in Manhattan on Wednesday night should get together and have a cheap meal out before we start fasting. Ari and Jaclyn said that they might be interested in this.

Elissa is doing soup on Sunday. It sounds like it's going to be minestrone next Sunday.

4. More Questions for the Landlord

Erica is calling the landlord. What issues should be brought up? Joanna says the screen door. Erica also talked to the landlord about the heat. He said that they're going to come and check out the heat situation, and also take away all the trash from the back yard.

5. Locking the Back Door

Joanna says that she got home last week and the door was not only unlocked but also ajar. LOCK THE DOOR WHENEVER YOU LEAVE.

6. Wine + Cheese + Cocktails

People want to have a dance party or cheese/cocktails party at some point. Columbus Day weekend is one option. Sasha has friends coming that weekend, and Erica is psyched because they are cute, straight, single men.

The party will be either this Friday or this Saturday. It will be Friday. It will be classy. Friends need to bring wine or cheese.

The party will be this coming Friday, it will start at 9:00, and everyone needs to bring $2 and bring a bottle of wine.

The next house meeting will be 9:00 on Monday. The positions are:

Leader: Erica
Scribe: Jaclyn
Stacker: Irina
Time: Emily