Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Location: Campagnolo Upstairs, 1020 Main Street
Call to Order: Scott Jaeger @ 1:30 pm
Roll Call: Céline Turenne
Board Attendance: Robert Belcham, Ryan Bissell, Darren Clay, Scott Jaeger, Celine Turenne, Neil Wyles
Guests: Genevieve Dufresne, Victor Girardi, Tret Jordan, Jessie McMillan, Colin Stauss
Approval of Board Meeting Minutes from October 31, 2017
1st: Pending 2nd: Pending
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- Financial Report
In the bank: 72 k
- Membership
- Members: 261 (students volunteers from Slow Fish yet to be added)
- Sustainability/Growers/Green Initiatives Committee
No report
- Marketing & Branding
WEB SITE: new web site to be presented at AGM. Colin to work with Dominic (IT) to streamline content and make sure all membership and required content is in; remove forum section
- Media training required for chefs: Leeann to organize and CTS to organize a “media training” event - pending
- Official spokespersons’ list to be organized – pending
- Celine sent list of expectations to Leeann to plan for next year’s events.
- Events
- Scott to follow up on 2018 chefs’ congress
- 2018 events calendar –
- March 3 – PICA Kitchen Party (wine festival event) – Saturday, March 3 - Chair: Darren Clay- Darren to see if Wine Festival will give a donation in Chefs’ Table Society’s name.
- March 20 – Curry Cup 2018 -– Chair: Neil Wyles – to go with a mix of men/women chefs.
- May ? - Spot Prawn Event – Celine to send the Board a recap of the SPF broken down into sections. Alex to work on procuring a “free” container for storage; Neil to talk to Mike about storing the container on Wharf property.
- June ? - Food truck – Chairs: Danny Markowicz, Alex Tung with third chef to maintain continuity; Neil to ask Yaletown (first right of refusal)
- August ?– Wild Salmon Celebration (TBC)
- September 23 – Slow Fish Dinner – Chair Darren Clay; Co-chair:
- Chefs’ Congress 2020: to be announced at AGM; planning to start in 2018
- Robert Belcham to follow-up with Joie Alvarez re: social media; Celine to discuss with Kathleen for 2018 as well.
- Fundraising/Scholarship Committee
- Celine to e-introduce Yves Potvin and Danny
- Miscellaneous:
Donation: Fundme campaign for BC wine – picture of board members taken to promote donation
- Mental Health issue (postponed)
- New committee media training – Townhall - pending
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Adjournment: by Scott Jaeger @ 3h15
Next meeting: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 @ 1h30 pm
Location: Campagnolo Upstairs, 1020 Main Street