FEED Operations Committee Meeting Sept. 28, 2015
FEED Conference Room
Present: Lauri Lee, Chris Brockel, Lisa Wiese, Abha Thakkar, Karin Cretney, Martee Mikalson, Terrie Anderson
Agenda
- DVR placements
- Goodman Center pie baking
- Harvest event
- Equipment needs
- Value added products updates
Decisions Made
- Settled on timesheet and reporting procedures for DVR employees (sign iPad)
- Third DVR placement, starting Oct. 12, to act as operations assistant
- Need to communicate with Goodman Center about their scheduled pie baking
- More users in Kitchens will impact their ability to use the entire facility as they did last year, produce kitchen is booked during their bake time.
- At-capacity freezer and cooler space means they will not be able to cool and freeze 2500 pies while here.
- Repairs to cooler/freezer after their last baking session mean they cannot overload cooler and freezer, even if space allowed.
- Suggest they get a refrigerated truck (Schoeps?) for this purpose.
- Need to set a temperature for foods to go into cooler and freezer to avoid the repairs we’ve had when things go in too warm and warm the rooms up.
- We may need to charge more for freezer shelf space than cooler shelf space, as we are almost out.
- Another option is a 12×12 foot freezer that could be installed in the northwest corner of the dry storage room. Cost: $14,000.
- Bill Lubing, Kelly Warren and Lisa Wiese met to explore options for value added products for local farmers.
- Need to establish how much time it takes to produce value-added products to determine cost.
Action Items
- Martee will send the ad created for Northside News for the FEED portion of the NorthGate Harvest Festival out to users.
- Martee and/or Adam will contact Goodman Center to discuss pie baking session.
- Establish temperature for items to go into cooler and into freezer—Martee and/or Adam
- Develop recipes for value-added products and establish time to produce and cost to produce—Lisa
