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Feb 18th agenda

{emergent} 2.18.26 agenda

Welcome & landing: which value do you want to call in today?

updates

All-member meeting tomorrow @ 5:30 (hybrid)

Job description draft review:

link to

2026 Interim SMWC Co-Directors - Internal Job Postings⁠

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Interim Co-Director of Radical Restructuring (short-term)

Interim Co-Director of Restitution and Transition (1 yr contract + opportunity to renew contract into traditional full-time role after [x time])

Who can support Rachel R w/ edits in the next week?

internal deadline for finalization?

Priorities [still] on the table

Length of time for the short-term hire: 1yr (Interim Co-Director of Radical Restructuring)

Transition mapping: who leaves when?

Decisions to be made in this session:

When to schedule finance meeting?

Needs & parameters of Restitution & Transition team

What (if anything) is needed from this group is needed to support clarity in the all-staff meeting?

What other things are needed?

Phill’s email

Transition & next steps

Next meeting

date

agenda docket

Emergent tasks

Notes

notetaker

org values

notes

power + governance

A lot of track-work is administrative - used to be held by Syd & BEAN; currently Ronny is holding most information on those fronts

part of why a lot of folks are out of the loop w/ what’s going on at the workers’ center

PLT hasn’t met since they were seated in the Summer

appropriate for Grace & Molly to step in with high-labor administrative support - Transition Committee?

Restitution & Transition team: ideally convened tonight – Cam for long-term position, Phill for a position set to sunset @ end of FY - both are elected PLT members; well-positioned to jump into this - why not jump in?

RT team can work on a hiring process to bring on long-term person

typically: team that facilitates leadership team in being able toe to lead

job description committee needs to be convened w/ thinking capacity

Rachel R: feeling tensions w/ Ronny’s approach but it’s not the priority – makes sense to hire folks first

Rachel S: think Phill makes sense as hire; believe in teamwork w/ Cam; want to integrate Phill & BEAN’s notes on how to support multimarginalized folks better moving forward, especially Black members; how can PC / membership better support staff collective moving forward?

Molly K: willing to be part of the transition & restitution team. Will echo Maest’s comment about being concerned about P being in the conflict; don’t have enough understanding of what happened to make a strong decision; feel ok w/ Cam

Grace: a lot of what’s on the screen is wordy to process; don’t understand the org structures the way others do; not sure about what a transition committee needs to hold so the org can continue to exist; think Cam is a good choice for long-term person; think Cam & Phill would work well together; feel like there’s a conflict of interest; concern: the conflict & conflict of interest might carry into the work; feel like the board has to be empowered – a lot has been on pause

Ronny: wanting to involve Phill in a role that centers ableism and antiblackness; organizationally – we’re gonna need to show accountability to broader community that Phill is part of & beloved within; if conflict is an issue – feel like that’s Phill’s strength; giving Phill 4 months to work on the problems they and BEAN noticed and experienced in their time here; way to be accountable organizationally

other step we could take: Cam coming in to help us add capacity around the conflict resolution – have Cam come into that space; get clarity on what’s going on

feel like Molly, Grace, and others don’t have the clarity they need to make that decision

don’t want Phill and Cam in opposition or competition with each other; want to create resentment between them that wouldn’t be setting them up for success

ultimately: not enough board members here to make a decision

Rachel S: want to see an abolitionist framework embodied by short and longterm staff

if Cam is leaving the Board and joining the staff, would like to formally transition into the Restitution & Transition Team

DECISIONS

Hiring Phill

Rachel S: yes

Grace, Molly: not opposed, want him to be paid; need more information

Hiring Cam

Grace, Molly K, Rachel S - yes

remaining votes: Ysanne, Izzy - need quorum (4 yes/no votes total)

Rachel S putting out email to get the rest of the votes

who is supporting Rachel R. on cleaning up the job description - contract will be revisited w/in a certain amount of months (Molly K)

Transition & Restitution Team: Ronny in combination w Board Hire get it started; get pulse on other folks joining from the transition & restitution team from general membership; want the committee to be majority Black

starting members: Ronny + hired Co-Directors + org development contractor (maybe rïn – TBD)

Who to have on a Transition & Restitution team

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