[Imcamericorps] floor waxing logistical issues

[Isak Griffiths]

Long emails are everyone's nemesis. The primary concerns:

-- The post office's entrance/exit is in the main space, and they use paths
in a fleur-de-lis pattern in the main space (to the bathroom, their break
room, and the back door) until 5:30-6 pm.

-- When, how and by whom the items in the main space will be put back. It
would be nice if that were a group effort as well.

-- To be blunt, I don't trust people to respect signs or simple barriers
that prohibit entry... the sense of entitlement to the space is too great.
To honestly keep people out of main space during curing time, we would have
to block off the stairs at the bottom, the red doors outside the doors, the
loading dock door and the rear/ramp door. I don't know what will work short
of people stationed at each location saying, "no... really... no one can go
in until X o'clock." With of course some rotation to allow for beverage and
bathroom breaks.
_________

If we weren't on a time crunch Saturday, I would suggest doing the Sunroom
and the couch area Saturday, and the rest of the main space Sunday.

I know ZB is unavailable Sunday. But if others are, I think it would make
more sense to do the whole main space Sunday when we can legitimately say no
one is allowed in the space at all.

The problem with Monday (or any evening) is that due to the Post Office, we
can't start much of the main space section until after 6pm.

Isak


On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Isak Griffiths <isak at ucimc.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was about to add the floor waxing to the IMC calendar, and realized a few
> things...
>
> 1. Due to the calendar being unupdatable for so long, I forgot that
> Thursday the 19th there is a show at the IMC. [I'm trying to get the rest of
> the calendar current.]
>
> 2. When it comes to waxing the main space, how will this be coordinated
> with the post office?
>         -- using the main space bathroom and rear entrance
>                being used to access the post office space
>         -- the carts being pushed to the loading doc between 4:30 and 6pm
>
> 3. How will we handle the passageway of the main space used by Betsem,
> Books to Prisoners, and others?
>
> 4. How will time coordination be handled with print/wrfu since during at
> least part of that time, there will be no access to the production room? (Or
> the finance office.)
>
> 5. In the main space, after each final coat, how will we keep people out of
> the space and off the floors for the 3 hours curing time since, assuming
> that after the 4-hour blocks we'll be "done"? (In my experience, neither
> putting up signs suffices to instruct or deter people.)
>
> 6. In the main space, the curing time means that furniture won't be put
> back right away. How will we coordinate resetting the spaces and putting
> everything back? This is important as there are things going on that week,
> and I don't want to be in a position of resetting the space alone and having
> to drag everything back into place. The schedule for that week (including
> setup and cleanup times):
>
>       Sat 14th    -- open
>       Sun 15th   -- open
>       Mon 16th   -- open
>       Tue 17th   -- event 7:30 - 10pm
>       Wed 18th  -- event 5:30 - 8pm
>       Thu 19th   -- event 6 - 11pm
>       Fri 20th     -- event 6 - midnight
>       Sat 21st    -- event 4 - midnight
>
> Isak
>
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