January 27 General Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, January 27, 2026
7:00 p.m.

  • LOCATION: Picnic House, Prospect Park, 95 Prospect Park West, between 4th and 5th Street
  • Only current 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 modify the order of the agenda or adjust the time allocated to each item.

I. Meeting Warm-up and Chair Committee Introduction (7:00 – 7:10 p.m.)

II. Open Forum (7:10 – 7:25 p.m.)
Members are allotted time to bring one item per person to the attention of the membership for up to one minute. Written items will be recognized first. Items can be submitted anonymously and read by the Chair.

III. General Coordinators Reports (7:25 – 7:50 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 (7:50 – 8:15 p.m.)
Committees authorized by the GM can deliver a short report. This time won’t 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 in advance of the meeting to help the Chair plan time allocations.

V.  AGENDA (8:15 – 9:30 p.m.) 

Item 1: Formalize the “Principle 6 Committee”, Focused on Advancing Cooperation among Cooperatives
Item Sponsors: Anne Schoeneborn and Cheyenna Weber
Discussion:  To deepen the 11-year relationship between the Park Slope Food Coop and the Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC (CEANYC) by formalizing a member committee focused on advancing cooperative principle #6 (cooperation among cooperatives) in NYC and our surrounding foodshed.

The full text of the proposal to Formalize the “Principle 6 Committee” is available here.

Item 2: Adopting Community Agreements and a Code of Conduct
Item Sponsor: Jason Weiner
Proposal:  To foster more humane interactions and transparency within the Coop, we will formalize a set of community agreements and a code of conduct.

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