Operations Director Transition

7 is no longer able to serve the number of hours required to serve as the Operations Director in an unpaid capacity. Therefore, we must re-allocate those duties, including training new volunteers to perform these essential tasks. 

The Board has approved a paid six-month contract role for 7 to continue carrying out these essential CSPC operations duties, train volunteers in these duties, and contribute to the needs assessment process that may result in the creation of a long term contracted paid position to take on essential CSPC operating duties. During this time, 7 is taking a leave of absence from the Board to avoid any conflicts of interest.

Operations volunteers, we need you! This area manages all the CSPC’s IT infrastructure, facilities management, and oversight of our finances. If you have skills in any of these areas (or you’re excited to learn!), please email our HR Director at HRdirector@thecspc.org. More specific calls for volunteer assistance related to this transition will be advertised in the coming months.

Thank you for all the ways your contributions of money, time, and energy help make the hotness happen! Our community wouldn’t exist without YOU.

Masking policy

When the Board last discussed the mandatory masking policy in April, we announced that we would be revisiting this decision by September (see more details of that decision-making process here). As we are seeing a new wave of Covid infections and we’re entering flu season, we will not be changing the masking policy at this time. The Board will next revisit this topic in February. 

The Board is considering advice from The People’s CDC in our policy decisions: we are continuing to use mandatory KN95 masking, and we’re looking into improving air filtration as an added protection in our crowded indoor environment. The Board is also working to create more avenues for civil member discussion of this topic, possibly including a dedicated Discord channel set to “slow mode” to discuss establishing science-based criteria for eventually making masking optional at some or all events.