A record-breaking 152 Owners registered to attend our 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting meeting on October 23rd, and 76 people actually tuned in.
Owners heard updates on the state of the co-op and the GM search from members of the board of directors and from our new interim general manager, Dennis Hanley.
If you weren’t able to attend, click here to listen to a recording of the meeting.
Owners, please join us for our virtual annual meeting!
Co-op Market 13th Annual Owners’ Meeting: 4 p.m. Saturday, October 23, 2021, via Zoom
It’s almost time for our Annual Owners’ Meeting! Please take a few moments and register to attend.
Our agenda will include reports on the state of the co-op from our Board of Directors and management team, as well as an update on our GM search. As always, there will be prizes! (You do have to be present at the meeting to win.)
We’ll be meeting virtually, via Zoom, and so we’ve created a set of Virtual Meeting Guidelines with important rules and instructions. Please read them before attending our meeting.
NOTE: Registration is required. Please RSVP here. When you register, you will receive the Zoom login information by email as soon as we’ve confirmed that you are an Owner.
Our meeting will start at 4 p.m., but you can enter the waiting room starting at 3:30 p.m. Please come in at least 10 minutes early to be sure you don’t have any technical problems.
During the business meeting, you will be asked to vote by poll to approve the agenda and the minutes from last year’s meeting.
We look forward to seeing you!
P.S. The first 50 Owners to register will be entered in a drawing for a $100 gift certificate! We’ll also be giving away turkeys and gift bags at the end of the meeting. To win, you must be present when your name is called.
Date Changes for Annual Meeting & Board Election
September 3, 2021
Dear Co-op Market Owner,
Your co-op’s board and management team have taken the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to reevaluate how we work together and how we serve you, our Owners. One of the most visible and meaningful components of our work as a cooperative is our annual Owner’s meeting.
For the past several years, we’ve met in October to hear reports on operations and finances, review issues that vitally affect Co-op Market, transact business such as bylaws changes and election of board members, and, perhaps most importantly, gather as a community.
Upon review, we recognized that holding the annual meeting in October puts undue strain on staff and management during the holiday season ordering crunch, which is already a hectic time for a grocery store. To alleviate this strain, the board has decided to move our annual meeting to mid-April. This year, we will still hold an abbreviated virtual meeting in October to present operational and financial updates, but we will move our larger meeting and board election to the Spring.
Please join us!
Our virtual meeting will take place at 4 p.m. Saturday, October 23rd. Look for an invitation with a Zoom link closer to that date. We plan to resume our traditional in-person community gathering, board election, and annual meeting on Saturday, April 17th, 2022. We’ll communicate details for April as soon as we know them.
Please help us guide the co-op!
Even though we’re delaying our election until Spring, you can still get involved with the board now, as we have an opening for a board member to be appointed in October. The appointee will serve until the April election.
We accept board candidate applications on a rolling basis. If you are available to be considered for appointment in October, please submit your application now. Three seats will be open for our April election, and we’ll start accepting applications for these in January.
As a food co-op, we depend upon our Owners to provide leadership by volunteering for board service. Our board members help by crafting long-range strategies for fulfilling our mission while upholding our values and monitoring our progress to ensure we’re moving forward in the right direction.
If you wonder whether board leadership is right for you, please attend one of our regular board meetings on the third Monday of the month.
You can access both the webinar and regular monthly meetings at this Zoom link.
Meeting ID: 838 0329 6836
Passcode: 303122
For more information and a copy of the board candidate application, please go to the governance page of our website.
We look forward to meeting the next generation of committed, engaged co-op board leaders. When you invest your dollars, energy, and time in our co-op, you are voting for the kind of community you want to live in.
In cooperation,
Co-op Market Board of Directors
Art Gelvin, Brian Kassof, Patrice Lee, Anduin McElroy, Madeline Patterson-O’Dell, Hilary Shook, Rich Seifert
2020 Annual Meeting Agenda and Guidelines
Co-op Market 12th Annual Owners’ Meeting: 4 p.m. Saturday, October 24, 2020, via Zoom
It’s almost time for our Annual Owners’ Meeting! Wondering what to expect? Here’s our agenda.
We’ll be meeting virtually, via Zoom, and so we’ve created a set of Virtual Meeting Guidelines with important rules and instructions. Please read them before attending our meeting.
NOTE: Registration is required. Please RSVP here. When you register, you will receive the Zoom login information by email as soon as we’ve confirmed that you are an Owner.
Our meeting will start at 4 p.m., but you can enter the waiting room starting at 3:30 p.m. Please come in at least 10 minutes early to be sure you don’t have any technical problems.
During the business meeting, you will be asked to vote by poll to approve the agenda and the minutes from last year’s meeting. You can read the minutes here.
We look forward to seeing you Saturday!
Please join us – virtually – for our 12th Annual Owners’ Meeting!
NOTE: Registration is required. Please RSVP here.
Each year our Owners come together as a community to get an update on the state of the co-op from our board of directors and general manager. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we will hold our 2020 meeting virtually, via Zoom.
Please join us!
Our agenda will include:
• Election Results
• State of the Co-op
• GM Search Update
• Q&A Session
• Prizes!
This year’s guest is William Deal, Western Corridor Development Manager for National Co+op Grocers. (NCG is our co-op of retail food cooperatives.) William has served our co-op as a consultant and advisor. He’ll discuss challenges & opportunities facing the cooperative community nationwide.
Owners must RSVP for the meeting. If you are on Facebook, we have also created a Facebook event to help you keep up to date.
Save the date and register ASAP for an opportunity to receive one of 50 gift bags filled with samples and treats!
When you RSVP, you will receive the login info for Zoom via email. We encourage you to try connecting at least five to 10 minutes before the start of the session on the 24th. If you haven’t used Zoom before, you can find video tutorials here.
Questions for our Q&A session should be submitted ahead of time via email. Please send us your questions before Friday, October 23rd.
Though we can’t meet in person this year, we hope you’ll join us to celebrate our achievements and learn about what’s in store for your co-op.
2019 Annual Meeting Report
Approximately 60 Co-op Market Owners came together for good food, fun, information and inspiration at our 11th Annual Owners’ Meeting on October 19th. Lots of them won prizes, too, including turkeys, $25 gift certificates, chocolate, a basket of Fair Trade goods, and more.
The meeting agenda and financial statements are available here.
Agriculture Report
We learned about the current state of farming in Alaska from Scott Mugrage, president of the Alaska Farm Bureau. He said the number of farms in Alaska is up by 36% at a time when farming is down by 3% nationwide, and Alaska farm revenue is up by 100%. We also lead the nation in female- and veteran-owned farms. Mugrage said that although we currently grow less than 5% of the food Alaska needs, we have millions of acres of potentially farmable land, and some of the best of it is in nearby Nenana. He sees the tremendous growth potential in turning Alaska-grown ingredients into value-added products, such as heat-and-eat meals.
2019 Election results
More Owners voted in our annual Board of Directors election than ever before. We received ballots from 488 of our 3070 eligible voters. That’s 16.5%, many more than the 307 needed to achieve the 10% required by our Bylaws.
• Art Gelvin was elected to Seat B
• Brian Kassof’s appointment to Seat D was confirmed
• Anduin McElroy’s appointment to Seat I was confirmed
• The amendment to our Bylaws was passed, decreasing the number of board seats to seven from nine and the board quorum to four from five.
Thank you to all Owners who voted in our election and to those who attended our Annual Meeting. You are the heart of our co-op!
