May General Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, May 27, 2025
7:00 p.m.

  • Where: Picnic House, Prospect Park, 95 Prospect Park West, between 4th and 5th Street
  • Only Park Slope Food Coop members may attend. To enter the meeting, all members must present their membership card or phone with their member ID barcode at the entrance.
  • Time in parentheses is a suggestion. The Chair has the discretion to change the order of the agenda or the time allotted to each item.

I. Meeting Warm-up and Chair Committee Introduction (7:00–7:15 p.m.)

II. Open Forum (7:15–7:30 p.m.)
This time is allotted for members to bring one item per person for up to one minute to the attention of the membership. Written items will be recognized first. Items can be submitted anonymously and read by the Chair.

III. General Coordinators Reports (7:30–7:45 p.m.)
The General Coordinators provide brief reports on Coop operations including but not limited to finance, purchasing, logistics, and special projects.

IV. Member Committee Reports (7:45–8:00 p.m.)
Committees authorized by the GM can deliver a short report. This time is not to be used for discussion of an agenda item. Depending on the number of Committees prepared to report, each Committee will have up to 5 minutes to make a report. Committees must notify the Chair before the meeting to help the Chair plan time allotments.

V. AGENDA (8:00–9:30 p.m.)

Item 1: Annual Revolving Loan Committee Election (15 minutes)
Item Sponsor: Revolving Loan Committee
Election: Two current members of the Revolving Loan Committee, Kathy Martino and Joe Holtz, will stand for re-election.

Item 2: Annual Pension Education and Reporting Committee (15 minutes)
Item Sponsors: Pension Education and Reporting Committee (PERC)
Election: Avi Fisher and Nils Mellquist will be presented for re-election to the Pension Education and Reporting Committee.

Item 3: Agenda Committee Election (15 minutes)
Item Sponsor: Agenda Committee
Election: Sophia Li will be presented for election as a new member of the Committee.

Item 4: Proposal to Amend Article VI of the PSFC Bylaws (45 minutes)
Item Sponsor: Elizabeth Tobier
Discussion:  Proposal to amend Article VI of the bylaws of the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc., by adding a paragraph, for the purpose of specifying the circumstances under which a General Meeting can be held remotely using a videoconferencing application. The proposed draft paragraph to be added is:

“6. When the Park Slope Food Coop cannot locate a meeting space within which to hold a scheduled meeting, after a reasonable effort has been made to do so, that particular meeting, and only that particular meeting, may be held remotely using a videoconferencing application.”

VI. Board of Directors Meeting (9:30 p.m.)