[Peace-discuss] [UCIMC-Finance] Storage of AWARE Stuff

[Mike Lehman]

I intend to attend the AWARE meeting this Sunday (Jan 24) to discuss the 
options for storage with AWARE. If possible, could this item be near the 
beginning of the ageanda?
Mike Lehman

Mike Lehman wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> After several moves following the closure of the office that AWARE 
> shared with several other tenants, the IMC has managed to consolidate 
> AWARE's stuff temporarily in two locations in the basement. A small 
> amount of it is in the Janitor room underneath  the air duct at the 
> north end of the room. The larger part of it is stored around the air 
> handler in the air conditioner room. And there is a LOT of it.
>
> Currently and probably for the foreseeable future, the IMC is not 
> going to have excess space to rent to AWARE to store this considerable 
> amount of material. Clearly, the bulk of it is not and probably is 
> unlikely to be needed at a central location for quick and easy 
> availability for use in demonstrations and other activities, which 
> seemed to be the reason to keep it readily at hand at the IMC in the 
> first place.
>
> Some of it does seem to be of value for future use in making 
> additional signage, etc. Much of it may be of purely historical 
> interest, given that circumstances have changed and the issues 
> addressed have moved on. Other materials may be of use if the cycles 
> of politics return us to the same disquieting problems as they so 
> often do.
>
> I note this in the hope that in the new year AWARE will address what 
> its actual needs for a ready reserve of on-hand and easily available 
> signage and related materials at the IMC might be. If reduced to a 
> suitably modest cache, we may simply be able to afford continued 
> storage in an area that would not otherwise be used.
>
> However, the current situation is far from that happy situation and 
> really must be addressed in some form or fashion. Is it possible that 
> an AWARE member has an attic or garage that could accommodate long 
> term storage for the bulk of these materials that would seem to have a 
> low priority for ready availability by their very nature?  We welcome 
> your proposal on a way to move forward on this in the new year.
> Mike Lehman
> UC IMC Finance
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