[Bookstoprisoners] Building Donations, part 2

[Christopher Evans]

Greetings IMC family,
I've sent this email out before, but cleaning the building this morning has me seeing a need to send this out again.
 
There are many well-intentioned folks who continue to donate furniture, tables, couches, and entertainment centers to the IMC. I guess a non-for-profit organization with 30,000 sq. ft. of a building gives the impression that we can be the dumping ground for the university's transitional population.
 
I don't believe this is the case. We are at capacity for crap. 
I take full responsibility for much of it and will continue to haul this crap, organize this crap, and hopefully in the coming weeks we will have our exits and hallways cleared once again.
 
I ask again that IMCistas please refrain from making annonymous drop-offs of any furnishings without checking with me first or better yet, not at all. 
We have had some ambitious volunteers build some extremely heavy furnishings for specific events, and now the IMC is going to figure out what to do with these pieces as well. Felt cloth or wheels on the bottoms for such things would be helpful.
 
Please try to use table cloths for the existing tables if you need tables. Use all the chairs in the building before renting more. Believe it or not, we have over a hundred chairs, and its been rare to see a hundred people sitting at the IMC. I sincerely believe HopeNet's generous donation of the red/yellow chairs needs to be hauled off the property since non-stacking chairs are clogging the IMC. My opinion. 
 
Just so you know, the Titanic Ship is going into to the dumpster today. While it is a dramatic piece, it is too worn, and since its arrival, has brought bad luck to the IMC, my opinion. There is an opportunity to replace some of the worn out sculptures (the giant daisy might be going too) with new ones as the University plans to demo my old studio at Lincoln Hall. That means there are several large sculptures that could be placed in here but I have held off on that until I see some improvements around here as far as space. I will be reviewing the cardboard sculpture collection and we may have to let some pieces go to the dumpster for space/aesthetic concerns. 
 
Understand that we house working groups who are always in need of space since their accumulations are constant (most notably, BTP, Bike Project, and the Tech group). Until we have more shows/events that host 500+ people, I see no need for this buiding to have more things to sit on, put stuff on, or more computer monitors and televisions. 
 
The Tech group, in cooporation with RFU, is planning a new make-over for the production studio. The woodworking/art shop is going to be organized soon, and we now have our public computer lab back if we ever get the computers working again. 
 
Much thanks to Jay Schubert who, with another volunteer, hauled away many pieces of electronic equipment to the recycling event last weekend.
 
Thanks for reading this and I hope you understand what I'm talking about.
chris, the building guy.
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