Corporate Records

Meeting Minutes: November 2016

First, I want to thank Joan Armon, Dana Miller and Kris Meese for your contributions to and support for our work these past years. Joan, Dana and Kris have resigned from the Board and I will remove you from the e-mail list going forward.

A Board meeting was held November 19, 2016 at the home of Ruth Rinehart.  Present were Ruth Rinehart, Donald Studinski, Peggy Gates and David Braden.  Aleece Raw and Michael Anderson sent their proxies by e-mail in support of the proposed project.  James Wieser sent his regrets but did not vote and we have not received a vote from Oz Osborn or David Olivero.  After acceptance of the resignations enumerated above there are 9 members of the Board. There being four members present in person and two by proxy a quorum was present.

Those voting are unanimous in support of the joint project between Living Systems Institute and the JUUST Living congregation.  David Braden and Ruth Rinehart are going to work out the details of a program through which residents of the JUUST Living community will offer a home maintenance program that produces food that can be used to support the community and be sold through a food truck operation.

In support of that project David Braden will move forward with the High Plains Plant Propagation Cooperative and a formal internship program.  HP3C is an effort to create a demand for the kind of home maintenance services the JUUST Living community will be providing.  Through the internship program we will develop the procedures that will allow us to successfully produce protein and fresh vegetables for the home owners paying for services, the JUUST Living Community, and the customers of the food truck.

These interrelated projects create an opportunity to invest in the human and biological potential latent in our community.  We can offer this opportunity to any member of the community with discretionary time or money.  Those present discussed that we will likely start with a small community of perhaps 12 residents but that we can think of this as an embryo of the project when fully developed.  The project is a direct application of the concepts described in the Agents of Habitat lessons and holds the potential to heal nature, end poverty and abate climate change . . .

achieving the goals of the Living Systems Institute.

Posted November 20, 2016
David Braden, Secretary