[Imc-web] Announcement On Planning to Deal With Back Room Shut-Down

[Paul Bengt Riismandel]

Anyone and everyone who wishes to help find a solution and plan for
dealing with the recent shut-down of the IMC's back performance space
and other code violations at the IMC should attend the next IMC Steering
Group meeting, Wed. May 14 at 8:00 PM.

 

Here are more details:

 

On Sunday night Meghan from the Shows group called an emergency meeting
for IMC volunteers to come together and begin planning on how to deal
with last Thursday's shut-down of the IMC's back room performance space
by the City of Urbana for as yet not fully specified building code
violations. There were 10 people at this meeting, including Paul R.,
Ellen K., Mike L., Cyrus, Meghan K., Jane, John M., Molly S., Jeff, and
one person whose name I didn't get. 

 

At this time the full extent of the City's findings on code violations
are unknown, although many of them were discussed at a meeting with the
City on Friday, attended by IMC volunteers Sascha, Mike L. and Danielle.
According to Mike, the City has promised to give us a report of their
findings this Tuesday, May 13.  For the time being the back performance
space is closed until further notice, but the main IMC space continues
to be open.

 

At Meghan's suggestion, the group assembled at Sunday's meeting decided
to begin drafting a statement from the IMC to give our side of the
story, in part responding to some of the City's assertions about the
performance.  Megan and Jane will draft this statement and post it to
the IMC main e-mail list (imc at ucimc.org).  Anyone wishing to see this
draft and make suggestions on it should be subscribed to the IMC e-mail
list - you can do this at this webpage:

http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/imc

 

We decided to ask the Steering Group to review and approve this
statement at its next meeting, Wed. at 8 PM. 

 

In discussing the known details about the violations the City says it
has found, we agreed that there are two major decisions to be made.
First, we must plan to do whatever work is necessary to keep the main
portion of the IMC space open - that is, all of the space except the
performance space: front room, production room and middle gallery. We
should be able to address this question at Wednesday's Steering Meeting.

 

Second, we must decide if the IMC wishes to do the necessary work to
bring the back performance space up to code.  We agreed that this
decision cannot be made without knowing exactly what the violations are,
what work must be done to fix them, and an estimate of what that work
will cost.  We will not have much of this information in time for
Wednesday's Steering Group meeting. Therefore it is unlikely that an
informed decision about the future of the back performance space can be
made at Wednesday's Steering meeting.

 

The Steering Group is the body, made up of empowered spokespeople from
all IMC working groups, that tackles the issues and decisions that
affect the entire IMC.  At the moment, anyone and everyone in the IMC
community who wishes to help find a solution and plan for how the IMC
will deal with this problem should attend the next Steering Group
meeting, Wednesday, May 14 at 8:00 PM at the IMC.

 

 

 

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