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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  1. Financial Report 

In the bank: 72 k 

  1. Membership
  • Members: 261 (students volunteers from Slow Fish yet to be added)
  1. Sustainability/Growers/Green Initiatives Committee

            No report

  1. 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.
  1. 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. 
  1. Fundraising/Scholarship Committee
  • Celine to e-introduce Yves Potvin and Danny
  1. 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