NELA Board Meeting

October 24, 2018 7:00PM

Join Remotely:
Phone: 720-835-5603 | PIN: 87096
Computer: https://www.uberconference.com/nelaonline

Location: The Conference Center at Waltham Woods, 860 Winter Street, Waltham, MA

Agenda

7:00-7:05PM – Welcome and Introductions

7:05-7:45PM – Department Report Reviews and Updates

• Secretary
• Treasurer
• Programming
• Outreach
• IT
• Fetish Fair Fleamarket
• Chair

7:45-8:15PM – Current/Open Business

• By-Law Status
• Consent Violation
• Open Positions
  • Director of Associates
  • Director of Communication
    • Social Media
• Feminist & Queer Happy Hour Collaborations
• IT Task List
  • Website updates (Meeting Minutes, Board Meeting schedule, other?)
  • Application for Board Position: Review
• Freedom for All Massachusetts
• December Board Meeting/Associate’s Appreciation Party

8:15-8:45PM – New Business/Open Forum

• Requests for NELA Funding Process/Protocol
• Other – New topics, etc.

8:45-8:50PM – Break

8:50-9:20PM – Executive Session

Three reasons why NELA says “Yes!” to protecting transgender rights:

1. If discrimination and pain comes to one community, it hurts every community. People who are transgender are also your friends, family, and neighbors. We must stand together to protect each other.
2. The transgender community is incredibly vulnerable. They are nine times more likely to attempt suicide in their lifetime, eight times more likely to have experienced severe psychological distress in the last year, twice as likely to be living in poverty, and five times more likely to be living with HIV than the general US population. It is essential to work together to protect the rights of the transgender community.
3. It is crucial to protect the transgender community in New England because it affects transgender people everywhere. States with similar laws will see them challenged, and will hesitate to introduce new protections. If we cannot keep transgender people safe, their community will be threatened everywhere else.

Get a Great RACK w/Thista Minai & Dr. Graham

When: Saturday, September 22, 2018 12:00pm AND 2:00pm
Where: Arts at the Armory, 192 Highland Avenue #1C, Somerville, MA 02143
Purchase Tickets: NELA Tickets

In this two-part intensive, national presenter Thista Minai and infectious disease specialist, Dr. Camilla Graham, team up to help you stay risk aware in your consensual kink. They’ll give you the latest medical information to keep yourself and your partners protected with your delightful perversions.

First session (12:00pm): Discuss a variety of toys from sexy to sadistic, examine what precautions we might consider when using them, and learn how best to care for them between scenes.

Second session (2:00pm): Dive deep into medical play, exploring safety protocols and aftercare procedures for needle play, sounding, micro-branding, and more. Come learn which common kink practices help mitigate risk, which ones don’t, what might actually make things worse, and what you can do to keep your risk profile exactly where you want it.

Knowledge is sexy so let’s get busy!

When: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 | 7:00 – 9:00pm
Where: Non-Profit Center | 89 South Street | Boston, MA 02111
(2 blocks from South Station and multiple parking garages)
Join by Web: www.uberconference.com/NELAonline
Join by Phone: 720-835-5603 | PIN: 87096

7:00-7:05PM – Welcome and Introductions

7:05-7:45PM – Department Report Reviews and Updates

1. Secretary
2. Treasurer
3. Fetish Fair Fleamarket
4. Programming
5. Outreach & Diversity
6. IT
7. Chair

7:45-7:55PM – Pride Business

1. New London, CT (8/25/18)
2. Hartford, CT (9/8/18) – Ad Content?
— Worcester, MA (9/8/18)
— Vermont (9/8/18)

7:55-8:25PM – Current/Open Business

1. By-Law Status
2. Consent Violation
3. Open Positions
— Director of Associates
— Director of Communication
— Social Media Coordinator
4. Mr. Connecticut Leather
— Gift basket for Raffle
— Ad content – Done!
— NELA Contingent
— Hotel rooms

8:25-8:40PM – New Business/Open

1. Summer Flea Wrap-Up Meeting w/Hotel
2. Feminist & Queer Happy Hour Collaboration
3. IT Task List
— Website updates (Meeting Minutes, Board Meeting schedule, other?)
— Application for Board Position
— Also reference Director of IT report
4. Requests for NELA Funding Process/Protocol

8:40-8:45PM – Break

8:45-9:15PM – Executive Session

Hello All,

Would you like to get into the Summer Flea for free?!?! Or get free NELA swag? Or a NELA Associate’s card? Or all of that?!?! Well, then we have a great opportunity for you!

We are moving our wares and goodies – including everyone’s favorite: gridwall 😉 – this Friday, July 27th, 2018 and we need your help!

We start at the Somerville storage unit around noon on Friday where we’ll load up the rental truck, drive to our new storage unit in Hudson, MA (~33 miles) then unload the truck into the new unit. How long will it take? That all depends on how many people volunteer!

Due to the physical nature of the move, the storage unit move will work similarly to Load-In/Load-Out at the Fleas where time volunteered counts as double-time (i.e., 2 hours worked = 4 hours volunteer credit).

On Saturday, July 28th, we will inventory all NELA swag from ~Noon-4:00pm. This portion of the volunteer opportunity will count as standard volunteer hours.

Here is the breakdown of benefits:

• 2 hours: Free entry to the Summer Flea
• 4 hours: Half off entry to the Winter Flea
• 6 hours: Plus a one year Associateship to NELA
• 8 hours: Plus a NELA T-shirt

If you are interested in this opportunity, please email volunteers@nelaonline.org no later than 7:00am on Friday, July 27th with the following:

1. Preferred name (legal name not required)
2. Cell phone number
3. Day/times available

You will receive an email and/or text confirmation by 8:00am on Friday. Coverage for these two opportunities will be limited so grab ‘em while they’re available!

Lastly, we realize that it’s short notice for many people, and for that we apologize, but we’re hoping that there is a handful of people out there who are interested and whose schedule will allow them to help us.

Thank you very much!