December 2 General Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, December 2, 2025
7:00 p.m.

• LOCATION: Picnic House, Prospect Park, 95 Prospect Park West, between 4th and 5th Street
• Only current Park Slope Food Coop members may attend. To enter the meeting, all members must present their membership card or phone with their member ID barcode at the entrance.
• Time in parentheses is a suggestion. The Chair has the discretion to modify the order of the agenda or adjust the time allocated to each item.

I. Meeting Warm-up and Chair Committee Introduction (7:00 – 7:10 p.m.)

II. Open Forum (7:10 – 7:25 p.m.)
Members are allotted time to bring one item per person to the attention of the membership for up to one minute. Written items will be recognized first. Items can be submitted anonymously and read by the Chair.

III. General Coordinators Reports (7:25 – 7:50 p.m.)
The General Coordinators provide brief reports on Coop operations, including but not limited to finance, purchasing, logistics, and special projects.

IV. Member Committee Reports (7:50 – 8:00 p.m.)
Committees authorized by the GM can deliver a short report. This time won’t be used for discussion of an agenda item. Depending on the number of committees prepared to report, each committee will have up to 5 minutes to make a report. Committees must notify the Chair in advance of the meeting to help the Chair plan time allocations.

V.  AGENDA (8:00 – 9:30 p.m.) TBD

Item 1: Financial Advisory Committee (25 minutes)
Item Sponsor: Michael Freedman-Schnapp
Proposal: The Financial Advisory Committee will regularly review the financial performance of and economic conditions facing the Coop and provide advice to the members and staff on addressing these issues through regular reports. This committee is advisory only.
Click on the link for a full description of the proposal

Item 2: Discussion of Top-down Communication Emails (20 minutes)
Item Sponsor: Rosa Palermo
Discussion: Paid staff communications are currently sent to members without any two-way feedback mechanism. I’d like us to explore ways to make our messaging more democratic, transparent, and member-responsive.

Item 3: Hearing Officer Committee Election (20 minutes)
Item Sponsor: Hearing Officer Committee
Election: Josh Geller and Jacob Heyman-Kantor will be presented for election.

Item 4: Proposal for Free and Fair Elections (25 minutes)
Item Sponsor: Sophia Li
Discussion: Proposal to (1) require all PSFC committees to hold standardized, regular, transparent, equitable, and open elections; and (2) create an Election Committee to facilitate committee elections at the Coop. The Election Committee will be overseen by the Board of Directors.