Davis Food Co-op Board of Directors
The Board of Directors are local people who are elected by the membership to volunteer to shape the Co-op's vision for the future and outline broad policies for our Co-op to follow. Click this link for information about Board Meetings.
Click this link for information about Board Resolutions in February and March on a member initiative for Boycott, Divestmen and Sanctions.
Directors of the Davis Food Co-op
Dina Biscotti ('13)
Janie Booth ('11, Treasurer)
Samuel Citron ('12)
Teddy Consolacion ('13)
Julie A. Cross ('12, Secretary)
Frank Fox (Alternate 2, '11)
Stacie Frerichs ('11, Vice-President)
Rebecca Hager ('11)
Desmond Jolly ('12)
Steve Reynolds ('13, President)
Kevin Wolf (Alternate 1, '11)
Please note: June of the year given is the end of the Director's term.
The Board of Directors regularly meets on the first Monday of (almost every) month in the Conference Room in the store. The Co-op's Bylaws, Article VIII, Section 6 (A) Dates of Meetings, specifies that the Board have regular meetings at least eight times yearly. The Co-op's meetings, as specified in our Bylaws, are open to any member in good standing. Execeptions are specified in Policy for portions of meetings dealing with hiring decisions, firing decisions, personnel evaluations, lease negotiations, grievances and litigations, and matters which would convey competative advantage if they were disclosed. Meetings that are closed (that is "held in executive session") or meetings in which portions are closed shall still be announced and the reason for the closure given.
The next meeting will be on Monday, September 13, 2010.
The meeting will be held in the Co-op Teaching Kitchen, 537 G Street, starting at the usual time of 7:00 PM. The Teaching Kitchen is across the street "kitty-corner" from the store, on the south-west corner of 6th and G Streets. The next scheduled Board meeting is August 2nd, as the Board has a retreat in July.
Agenda page for the Davis Food Co-op Board of Directors Meeting
(The new agenda is posted at least seven days in advance of meetings. So the link may be for the upcoming or the past meeting.)
The greater co-op community has embraced a tool that can help a food co-op wrestle this question to the ground. It's called Policy Governance. It is a set of boundaries by which a co-op staff and directors can optimize their work together, delineating when and how they stay out of each other's ways and when they could cooperate for maximum effect. It clarifies responsibilities.
The key to policy governance is to focus the board's responsibilities into three areas: setting long term ends (or outcomes) and organizational limits; holding the general manager accountable for organizational performance within those ends and limits; and, creating an active dialog with the member/owners about updating the ends of the organization. Ends policies are supposed to answer the questions: what changes, for which people or need, at what cost?
Since it is not enough just to write policies and hope for the best, the Board checks to make sure that the written policies are being followed in actual practice by receiving Monitoring Reports. These reports generally cover two aspects: forbidden practices and very desirable outcomes. Since we have lots of policies to review, the Board divides up Monitoring Reports so that we review our policies at least once annually.
Want to learn more? Join us at our next Board Meeting.