Minutes of the ALC Steering Committee conference call on
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 from about 8:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M., Pacific Time:
Members present: Jim-dandy!, Anat (for the first part of the
call), Sassafras, Logistic, Ken,
& Big Sexy.
Discussion topics:
All the same topics that were discussed at the last
conference call (May 25) including:
Anat says she does the kitchen best.
We think we should assign chores ahead of time.
Should we provide bikes for our campers? People can use Yellow Bikes.
Jim-dandy proposes that a trailer be rented or purchased and
brought empty behind the rental truck that comes from Nevada City. The trailer should
only be used to haul garbage (and recycling) from Burning Man.
Should we have a burn barrel? If we have our own we can burn all burnables
(paper plated, cardboard, etc.) on site.
Some recycling should be brought to the recycle camp on the way to ice
camp during an ice run.
Should we increase dues to a minimum of $200 per
person? Higher camp fee but not ask
everyone to bring so much food. Perhaps
we can bring all of the meat but still ask people to bring fresh vegetables for
the salad later in the week. Breakfasts
are from 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. and supper (or call it dinner if you wish)
right after sunset (I think that is about 7:30 P.M.).
Anat and her crew in Nevada City will not have to buy and
bring the bulk food. We will find other
people and assign them the duty of purchasing the bulk food so that Anat and
her crew will not have to do that.
Duct tape seal for all of the coolers containing bulk food
that is scheduled for certain meals. This will keep the cold in and if it is
filled with dry ice it will last longer.
Perhaps we could assign someone such as Auntie-M to help
plan out the meals. Assign people to
decide what food to purchase and who to pack it up. We should put ice on food in coolers with
food that will be eaten during the first half of the week and dry ice on food
in coolers with food that will be eaten during the second half of the week. All left over food after a meal has been
prepared is available for anyone to eat at any time.
It might be easier to rent a truck in Concord rather than
the Bay area.
We must find someone who will ask for volunteers and decide
who we assign duties to.
Ken will think about the lights that we will need to line
the roads. Ken and Logistic will work on
it.
If the camp decides to have Logistic purchase the materials
for a 60’ x 60’ wind proof, multi-purpose, shade structure, mostly for tents to
be set up under shade, it will cost about $2500 for materials.
Smoking should be allowed in certain areas only. Smoking
should not be allowed in the kitchen and connected lounge area.
We still have to look into the possibility of arranging a
bulk delivery of water and fuel. If
someone would like to volunteer to check into this, the following information will
give you somewhere to start:
MECO Water www.meco-reno.com (website reported as an
unsafe phishing site)
Sparks – 775-722-1515 – 775-771-0720
Highly recommended you make reservations for water delivery through filling out the form on their website before you head out to the playa. Or you can send an email to meco-reno@live.com or call them.
Sparks – 775-722-1515 – 775-771-0720
Highly recommended you make reservations for water delivery through filling out the form on their website before you head out to the playa. Or you can send an email to meco-reno@live.com or call them.
If we want to have any ALC events entered into the Burning Book
then someone has to volunteer to get that information and find out what the
deadline is.
Deb & Ricardo might be about to plan to have a bar. These drinks will probably be Brazilian
themes and served in the morning.
Mitch says that he and Catra might plan a Barista party to
be held at ALC.
We suggest that Anat has her Samba Dance Class in our camp
rather than somewhere else.
We discussed the importance of planning and organizing our
meal plan.
I think we nominated Jose as the official videographer.
We nominated Tree Love to be a Steering Committee
member. We think Tree Love would make an
excellent coordinator.
We are hoping to make the chore of planning & cooking
meals, and cleaning up after less difficult for everyone. We believe that the
food should be purchased in bulk, loaded in coolers, loaded in the rental truck,
brought to the playa, the coolers not opened until the meal is to be
prepared. This planning and organization
is intended to reduce the stress during meal preparation.
I don’t know if I did as good of a job taking the minutes as
I did the last time. A lot was discussed. I have invited all of the Steering
Committee members to be authors of this blog so that they can add their
thoughts directly.
We would like to hold another conference call Wednesday of
next week, June 8, and hopefully we can have everyone attend. Steering Committee members, please be
available at 8:00 P.M. Pacific time.
Thank you.
Jim-dandy!
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