Minutes
9-18-09
- Carol would like to see Food Events on Campus?
- Our focus can be to manipulate food services on campus or to educate people on food.
- Susan made a sign in the dinning hall which was meant to give food education to the students. The sign was abused.
- Madelyn wonders what food is available
- Susan is willing to answer questions.
- Zorn is interested in putting up information on how to eat cheaper and healthier food at home.
- Food Committee board was used and now only is used by the farm. Dianna once bought a chart to educate on food healthiness.
- Once they asked students what their favorite meals were. Gene now says that they have put out polls in the last few years to gather data on people's eating habits, dietary restrictions,
- Community involvement in ideas
- Gene wanted to do a bake sale to buy new table-clothes.
- The disconnect between the kitchen staff and the bigger community body is gigantic.
- The kitchen tries to cook three different protiens: a regular, vegetarian, vegan pro
- Can we do organic produce? Yes we can, but we'll have to take something away over here.
- Gene has a disconnection between the kitchen and the administration
- Why aren't left overs given away for free?
- Gene will show how much money he spends on food. "total transparency"
- Can we afford organic?
- Yes, we can have organic, but we have to find another place for the money to come from.
- In order for us to make changes -- towards higher quality, more organic (ex cetera), -- we have to take the money from somewhere else.
- $635,000
- salaries
- paper goods
- supplies
- food
- (cut it under 600,000
- Gene needs 800,000
- Gene is cutting money dramatically
- Small batch cooking
- Reused material as much as possible
- There is a health concern with leaving food out on the line.
- Nick wonders if we can cut down on the chicken and meat proteins and supply more vegetarian and vegan options.
- Gene says he's trying to buy United Foods but it is carry out and cash only.
- Gene wonders how to cook restaurant quality food for the masses.
- How much produce can the Farm produce for the college?
- Respecting our food and our dinning hall.
- Nick has an idea to create a co-opperative kitchen on campus in the campus center
- Gene and Sue have had problems getting students to show up to paid jobs -- how will we be able to motivate students to come when they are volunteering.
- When Dianna was here there was a co-op called (Grazers). They bought milk locally and they bought stuff from the Brattleboro Co-Op.
- 2 people would cook dinner every night for 25 people
- everyone was responsible for shopping and signing up for the meal you cooked
- It created an exclusive relationship of 25 students but it was a good experience
- TO DO:
- What is the food committee budget?
- Food Services Budget
- Food Survey
- Nick's Co-0p idea
- A food event
Meeting Minuets
10-5-2009
- Making the food better is this really the main issue?
- Small cut backs to five more food
- Not as well funded as Academics- We the school is making the best decisions
- Different options- Need to have good ideas, open to change, open dialogue,
- Perfect world vs. Our World, Our Campus, Our Choices
- Could we help change food services, lots of involvement?
- The Food Services- Contracted through the school, year by year
- Coffee Shop is also being run by them, took it under their umbrella, they are helping us out
- Questions- Input on Food?
*Dietary Restrictions
*More openness
*Not Caring Not Connected
- Food survey is a good start
- We need to have empowering questions asked, by the student body and also by the administration.
- Funding Events, Certain Foods (Cultures, Types, Local, Organic, ETC.)
- Is there Money for- Organic, Variety of new things, Local, additions to food
- Can the food services be given more money
- Is there room to expand?
- Break Down of Money?
- Find way to show it as meaningful, not just a number, make it into something people can relate to
- Categories?
- Food
- Labor
- Management Fee
- This isn’t an in house operations- We can’t take this on so we hire someone else
- Show students the history of our food- 6/7 years who did we have before that
- Over head cost, fine line between making food for one person and then making them for a group
- There was a lot brought up in the last meeting, lots of radical opinions, interesting ideas
- Things that were brought up last meeting that could be expanded on include
*Pig Roast/Cultural Events
*Food Events
*Guest Chefs/Student involvement
-Contributing to Parts of the meal, desserts,
- These Radical Ideas help move everything along,
- Maybe we can have a big meeting with lost of community support once a month and get ideas from that to go off of for our next set of things to take on
- Work Day- Getting involvement to help out in the Kitchen for doing prep work from the Farm Harvest
- Food Survey-
- Looking at last years survey, trying to make it more concise and less open-ended
- Departments of Questions-
- Coffee Shop
- Make up a list of questions
Meeting Minuets
10-12-2009
- Meeting for CO-OP who is interested, cost food, labor, space, etc. Run by Austin see if he would want to be involved in this at all
- Food Survey by next Monday send out email
- To Do –
- More questions for survey
- Student CO_OP possible beginning initial interest meeting
- Are you interested your own food,
- Student meeting at this time, join other students
- Lets make it happen,
- Time and place
- Nahum and Austin
- Soda machine
- Is it worth it, money cost, save money use for what, respect for this we are a community
- soda machine? Coin operated ?
- 1000 a month on Pepsi
- ideas- coffee, more organic things, peanut butter (real), real maple syrup???, waffle machine?, reducing amount of meat use for grains dishes more vegan options quinoa
- meal plan distributors what do they want to see more of? Do we want that on the survey? DO any of the following things appeal to you…. Better food n the dinning hall..
- Reduced meat for more veggies, whole grains, different whole protein, Do they serve meat at every meal, can you live with out meat? Save cost on meat do something better with it? Beans good beans kidney white beans black beans More beans less meat
- Where does your food come from? Commercial vs. Organic
- Health 1-5
- Meatless meals
- What would you like to see more of, list it
- 1000 dollars a month for not having soda machine for these things
- Are you blank vegan veggie meat eater
- Who is eating on campus how many?
- More Beans?
- Drink Usage? What do you drink?
- More student involvement?
- Coffeee Shop, how often do you go to the coffee shop?
- To Do –
- More questions for survey
October 26, 209
- Finished Survey
- Have it sent out to the Marlboro Community
- Meeting set up for the CO-OP Idea
- Have talked to both Nahum and Austin about setting up this co-op idea
- Now that we have the survey finished what are the next areas we want to focus on
- First Order
- How much money do we have as a committee?
- Do we want to try and raise more money? If so how?
- What would the money be used for?
- CO-Op membership down town for the kitchen
- Special Events
- Speakers
- Workshops
- Food Events
- Can we do more Community Dinners?
- Community dinners?
- How would that work? Involvement? Who would get involved? Can we base this off of the Survey?
- How often would we try and do this? Once a month? Semester?
- Themed dinner?
- For next Community dinner can it be work sponsored?
- Do work for dining hall and get a meal afterward
- Improvements to the Dining Hall
- what improvements
- Clean Walls
- Paint
- Bulletin Boards
- Windows
- Murals
- Art Shows
To Do
- Contact Art Committee (Public Art) John Willis
- Look into local Workshops, who could come here?
- Work Day- Next meetings focus
- Plan out small workshops with kitchen Staff
November 9th
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- Keep mugs in the dining hall?
- Wednesday Town Meeting, present information from food survey
- Who answered? Break-down of information
- Point out allergies, mainly wheat/gluten
- Local and organic both important to students show that
- What are people willing to give up? Show the top three, meat at every meal, and soda machine
- Here are the results to the Food Survey
November 16th
- MATERIALS the kitchen staff expressed they needed
- discussed options for the mug problem, to be continued
- use of bulletin board -
- contents:
- "share your thoughts" posts
- address list for change in response to survey
- post results of survey.
- post proposals on what we intend to address in next town meeting
- waffle maker monitor sign up sheet
- In direct response to the survey we will be getting the following this week:
- organic and natural peanut butter
- eggs to order
- Also discussion on committees advertising their agenda in the napkin holders.
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