Past Member-Owner Meetings

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Regular Membership Meeting - Sunday, October 27, 2024

GRC Elections

Meeting Agenda
Meeting Minutes
Operational Update
GRC Update & Election
Results of the GRC Election Vote Held

Regular Membership Meeting - Sunday, June 30, 2024

Annual Budget Vote

Meeting Agenda
Meeting Minutes
Operational Update
GRC Update
Budget Presentation
Results of the Vote Held

Regular Membership Meeting - Sunday, April 28, 2024

Board of Directors Election & Bylaws Revisions

Meeting Agenda
Meeting Minutes
Operational Update
GRC Update
Strategic & Long-range Planning Committee Update
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Committee Update
Results of the Election Vote Held
Proposed Food & Product Manual Amendments, Q&A and Vote
Results of the Food & Product Manual Vote Held

Regular Membership Meeting - Sunday, January 28, 2024

Food & Product Manual Updating

Meeting Agenda
Meeting Minutes
Financial & Operational Update
Governance review Council (GRC) Update
Nutrition & Education Committee Proposed Food & Product Manual Ammendments

Regular Membership Meeting - Sunday, October 29, 2023

GRC Election & Bylaws Revisions

Regular Membership Meeting - Sunday, June 25, 2023

Annual Budget Vote

Regular Membership Meeting - Sunday, April 30, 2023

Board of Directors Election & Bylaws Revisions

Regular Membership Meeting - Sunday, January 29, 2023

Owner Brainstorming: Growth & Savings Ideas/Straw Poll

Regular Membership Meeting - Sunday, October 30, 2022

GRC Election

Regular Membership Meeting - Sunday, June 26, 2022

Annual Budget Vote

Special Membership Meeting - Sunday, May 22, 2022

HWFC-ECFC Collaboration Vote

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, April 24 2022

Board of Directors Election & Not for Profit Discount Vote

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, January 30, 2022

Bylaws Revisions

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, October 24, 2021

GRC Election

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, May 23, 2021

Annual Budget Vote

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, April 25, 2021

Bylaws Revisions & Board of Directors Election

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, January 31, 2021

Bylaws Revisions and Member-Owner Manual Revisions

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, October 25, 2020

GRC Elections, Food & Product Manual Revisions, and Bylaws Revisions

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, June 28, 2020

Annual Budget Vote & Board of Directors Elections

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, January 26, 2020

Bylaws Revisions & Member-Owner Manual Revisions

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, October 27, 2019

GRC Elections, Bylaws Revisions, & Member-Owner Manual Changes

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, June 23, 2019

Budget Vote & Member-Owner Manual Revisions

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, April 28, 2019

Board of Directors Election and Bylaw Amendment

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, January 27, 2019

Addition to Statements of Conscience

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, October 28, 2018

GRC Elections and Support of NY Health Act

General Membership Meeting - Monday, June 18, 2018

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, April 22, 2018

Board Elections, Budget Vote, and Food & Product Manual Revisions

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, January 28, 2018

Changes were made to the Certificate of Incorporation and three seats on the GRC were filled.

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, October 22, 2017

Governance Review Council Elections

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, May 21, 2017

Budget Vote

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, April 30, 2017

Board Elections and Bylaws Votes

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, January 29, 2017

Member-Owner and Food & Product Manual Revision Vote

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, October 23, 2016

Bylaws, Par Value and GRC elections

General Membership Meeting - Monday, June 27, 2016

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, April 17, 2016

Financial presentation and board elections

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, January 31, 2016

Financial Report, Meet and Greet Co-op Committees, Member Work Groups

Special Membership Meeting - Monday, November 30, 2015

Board recall vote, board elections, straw votes on board actions

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, September 27, 2015

GRC Elections, Task Force updates, member labor discussion.

General Membership Meeting - Monday, June 29th, 2015

Voting on budget and changes to member discount.

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, April 26th, 2015

Voting for new board members and a change to the bylaws.

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, February 22, 2015

Discussion and votes concerned changes to the Food and Policy Manual and approval of Empire State Plaza contracts.

Special Membership Meeting - Sunday, October 26, 2014

An election was held to fill a Board vacancy, a report was given by the GRC, and there was a discussion concerning changes to the Food and Product Manual.

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, September 28, 2014

The meeting included approval of the annual budget and a GRC election. (See previous meeting for budget information.)

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, June 29, 2014

The meeting failed to reach a quorum and will be rescheduled for September.

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, April 27, 2014

The meeting included Board elections and a report from the GRC.

General Membership Meeting - Monday, September 30, 2013

The meeting included the GRC elections and votes on fracking, a bylaws change and authorizing new shares.

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, June 9, 2013

The agenda included a vote on an addition to the meat and fish policy and a vote on the annual budget.

General Membership Meeting- Sunday, May 19, 2013

The agenda included a vote on the meat and fish policy, a vote on the alcohol policy, a discussion of the patronage refund, an update on the new store, and an open discussion.

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, April 21, 2013

Board elections were held at this meeting. Erin Shaw, Bill Frye, Lynne Lekakis, Marwin Margolies, and Sam Messina were elected to the Board. We thank Ned Depew for his service on the board. Paul Kopmar and Stephen Winters also were not elected. On the other confidential matter that we considered, we decided to follow the suggestion of the NCGA.

General Membership Meeting - Sunday, March 18, 2013

Annual Budget Meeting- Jan. 27, 2013

General Membership Meeting- Sunday, September 30, 2012

There was a vote about the member discount, a Governance Review Council election, a discussion about the mission statement, a discussion about product manual issues, and a discussion about Board member compensation.

General Membership Meeting- Sunday, April 29, 2012

General Membership Meeting- Sunday, April 22, 2012

The membership voted to support the development of the new store. We adopted a resolution to authorize construction and development, including committing to a fixed budget, borrowing money from primary and secondary lenders, leasing equipment, expending resources to do so, and completing any necessary steps in land use permitting we need from the city. The vote passed overwhelmingly, 120-6.

General Membership Meeting- Sunday, March 25, 2012

Voting Results:

Item 1: Proposal to Amend HWFC Bylaws to Address Conflicts of Interest and Employee-Directors DEFEATED: No votes: 77, Yes votes: 64

Item 2: Shall we raise the price of a share from $100 to $150 and retain the payment plan options? DEFEATED: Yes votes: 90, No votes: 52 (2/3 of those who voted are required by the bylaws and the Cooperative Corporations Law to pass this item- we were very close.)

Item 3: Shall we extend the current discount structure (8%/24%) for six months until September 30, 2012? PASSED: Yes votes: 121, No votes: 21.

General Membership Meeting- Sunday, January 29, 2012

Voting results: Budget vote passed 98-9; Honest Weight Community Initiative passed 86-15.

General Membership Meeting- Sunday, October 16th, 2011

Leif Hartmark and Sandy Mackay were elected to the GRC and the strategic plan work plans passed.

General Membership Meeting - June 26, 2011

Vote results:

The first two questions had to do with editorial changes to the membership manual to facilitate future editing:

Question 1: Shall we adopt these small issue changes to the Membership Manual?

Passed: 109 yes to 8 no

Question 2: Shall we adopt these changes in language describing discount in the Membership Manual?

Passed: 96 yes to 16 no

The next question was about new rules for members to transfer hours to one another. It puts limits on the amount per month and year allowed to be transferred and gives the co-op the ability to decline transfers when they have exceeded the limits:

Question 3: Shall we adopt the proposed changes to the Membership Manual regarding hours bank transfers?

Passed: 104 yes to 10 no

The next question had to do with orientation requirements. All those who buy a share will be invited to attend an orientation, but it will no longer be mandatory. It will, however, be mandatory for those who wish to work in the store to attend an orientation. The membership committee will recommend materials to be given to those who buy a share.

Question 4: Shall we adopt these proposed changes regarding orientation requirements for household and shareholders?

Passed: 84 yes to 35 no

The final question was about lowering the discount by 2% for weekly and monthly workers for 9 months while we study shopping patterns and make recommendations for the 2012 budget cycle to further address the discount expenditures:

Question 5: Shall we adopt this change to the member manual which will lower the discount until March 30, 2012 to 24% for weekly and 8% for monthly work requirements, and update the balance of the manual where the discount levels are spelled out?

Passed: 97 yes to 40 no

General Membership Meeting- Apr. 10, 2011

Slide show and other files presented at the meeting (these are password protected files; call the co-op with your member number to obtain the password):

Voting results:

Jessica Allen Hayek, Alexandra

Juhre, Roman Kuchera, and Rob Sweeney were elected to the Board of Directors.

The question, "Should we proceed with establishing the Honest Weight Community Initiative, Inc. a nonprofit organization, with HWFC, Inc. as its sole member?" passed with 70 "yes" votes and 32 "no" votes.

General Membership Meeting- Oct. 17, 2010

Jody Haggard and Ursula Abrams were elected to the Governance Review Council. Members voted 89-48 in favor of applying for a beer license. There was also a discussion of the member discount.

Special Membership Meeting- August 1st, 2010

There was a presentation of and voters approved the design of the new store. For more information, including drawings of the proposed new store, see the announcement and minutes below.

General Membership Meeting- April 18th, 2010

Members elected five board members at this meeting, and voted on a change to the bylaws.

General Membership Meeting- January 24th, 2010

The agenda for this General Membership Meeting included voting on the co-op's 2010 budget.

General Membership Meeting - October 25, 2009

The agenda for this meeting included a governance review council election and updates on the new store. Also on the agenda was a vote on two additions to the HWFC Food & Product Manual: Proposed Deli Guidelines and Proposed Wellness Department Guidelines Click here for the membership approved guidelines in the Food and Product Manual: Additional Deli Guidelines and Additional Wellness Guidelines

Voting results:

Both candidates for the Governance Review Council, Ginny

McEwan

and Matt Smalls, were elected to office with each candidate receiving 101 votes.

The Deli Guidelines passed 99 to 1 and the Wellness Department Guidelines passed 97 to 4.

General Membership Meeting - June 7, 2009

General Membership Meeting - April 5th, 2009

Agenda summary: review annual report, elect Board members, meat stocking proposal.

General Membership Meeting - January 25th, 2009

Members approve the design of the new building.

Voting results:

On the proposed 2009 Budget: Yes 193 No 11

On the proposed new store design: Yes 185 No 17

On GRC Candidacies: Bill Frye 84 Dan Nerenberg 82 Elected to the GRC: Bill Frye; Dan Nerenberg

On proposed By-law Amendments:

Number 1 Yes 92 No 11
Number 2 Yes 101 No 0
Number 3 Yes 101 No 0

General Membership Meeting - October 5th, 2008

General Membership Meeting - June 1st, 2008

After a lively meeting, Honest Weight members voted 123 to 11, with one abstention, to pursue a design for the new store that presumes building to suit on the 100 Watervliet Avenue site.

Annual Meeting - April 27, 2008

Minutes

General Membership Meeting - February 24, 2008

General Membership Meeting - Oct. 21, 2007

Co-op members voted 189-13 to purchase the property at 100 Watervliet Ave. in Albany as a future site for the Co-op. The closing was scheduled for Oct. 31.

General Membership Meeting - September 23, 2007

A discussion of bylaw changes to clarify our structure and help our organization run smoothly. These items were discussed at the last meeting but were unable to be voted upon due to a rule about bylaw and incorporation changes.

Membership Meeting - June 2007

Annual Meeting - April 2007