MediationCommitteeMeetingMinutes-20160623

First meeting of the proposed mediation committee on June 23, 2016

Attendees

• Walter Anderson
• Graham Bateman
• Raymond Cassady (on phone)
• Mike Churchill
• Mike Eber
• Art Givens
• Mark Havens (on phone)
• David Kessinger
• Corbin Perkins
• Julianna Perkins
• Nick Sainz

Minutes

• Select proposed committee chair

Graham Bateman elected unanimously

• Discuss potential operational rules

All members concurred that mediations should be conducted in private. The mediators will never discuss what happened in the mediation, even if the mediation fails and the conflict gets escalated to a formal complaint. Current thinking is that two mediators will be involved in each mediation. With one of the mediators being select by both (all) parties to the conflict. The parties will select at least three mutually agreed upon choices to allow the committee to make a member available to account for potential conflicts in scheduling. The committee will probably appoint the second mediator itself, again based upon availability and the need to spread experience mediating among the members.

Unofficial operating rule of the mediation committee is “What happens in mediation, stays in mediation”

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• Discuss training opportunity and needs

Walter mentioned that Adam Oas has a friend who is a local city councilman interested in creating a makerspace in his city who has experience training mediators. He may be willing to trade mediation training for training in how to create a makerspace. Graham is going to look into some additional options to find free mediation training for our members.

Action Items

• Walter will post board agenda item to get committee approved
• Walter will post meeting minutes to the wiki
• Graham will ask to have a mediation re-mailer created (mediation@dallasmakerspace.org) and the committees emails added
• Graham will create a draft of the proposed rules the committee will operate under