[Imc-tenants] Main Floor

[leon mcgee]

Leon-

Last night at steering I was unable to talk about the item issue on the main
floor. Here are the items that me and another individual (if they choose to
be named) have listed:


The things we think are clearly in the way or that appear to have no home:
     - the rolling table/cart by the fridge
     - the art just behind it
     - the air hockey table
     - the trash and broken or odd chairs around and on top of the cabinet
by the ladders
     - the big brown tables
     - the large white marker boards
     - the huge painting behind the white boards, and anything behind it
     - the very unstable coat rack behind the brown tables

Things that just seem to take up space
     - the single locker behind the black chairs, by the door to the
sun-room
     - the huge brown cabinet under the trash and odd chairs
     - the black, open-backed cabinet behind the ladders
     - the window frames and panels and stuff
     - everything around the piano and the supply closet
     - since it's not tuned, the piano
     - the water fountain in the library/computer lab that doesn't work

Things we simply personally think could use a new home
     - the blue peace sign
     - the huge black table that exists only to hold up the blue peace sign
     - the broken down boxes by the typewriter
     - the pamphlet rack by the fridge
     - the wood mounted to the wall by the sound system that serves as a
table

Undecided
     - the ping pong table... I know this is occasionally used

Think we should get back, at least for now
     - the two-level table that was moved to the maintenance closet
downstairs;
       since Austin was put out of the finance office, it's what he uses for
a desk.

I hope at steering last night that everyone understood that the old/new
rules for moving things out of the hallways, etc. apply to all floors of the
building.

Now please don't take this the wrong way. I understand that some of these
items have been here and now I am sure your wondering why its a problem now.
It may not have been a problem in the past, but with


   - more a more events happening, we are having the issue of always having
   to move stuff around. Which may then get in the way of someone else. The
   fact that if,
   - Time is Money, well Space is too.
   - Also, we are really short on storage space and things that really need
   storage are taken up by someones personal keeping or what I believe it seems
   that over time some items are kept because someone thought it could be used
   for some project or art thing, then 6 months later the items are collecting
   dust, maybe we remember who kept it, and the reason for keeping the item(s)
   not in the works anymore or just plain forgotten.

This here is a bad habit. People look at this place as there home which in
my opinion should not be the case, but seeing that some use this place as a
second home for a "FREE" storage place. We should try to make a area of the
IMC for persons belonging. This was mentioned last night at steering. We
should move forward with this. Plus it will help with securing these items
that some may want to leave here.
After all, what is FREE storage with out FREE security. And heck, if storage
is free, then the proposal for a meeting room should be FREE.

Just kidding! Being sarcastic. Needed to laugh at something this morning.
Nothing is free in this world and it doesn't necessarily have to be money.

-- 
Building Coordinator
Leon McGee
202 S Broadway
Urbana, IL 61801
Leonmcgeeamericorps at gmail.com
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