Understanding Cooperatives
Unit 7 - Mini Cooperative Business Experience


Handout 7.1 - Planning Meeting Agenda 

     1.   Call meeting to order.

     2.   Discuss ideas and purposes of the MINI COOPERATIVE as a learning experience.

     3.   Motion to organize.

     4.   Elect temporary chairman, secretary, and treasurer.

     5.   Decide who may belong.

     6.   Appoint steering committees in the areas of marketing, membership, and bylaws.

     7.   Set guidelines for the amount of money to be collected as "earnest money."

     8.   Set date, time, and place for the organizational meeting.

     9.   Have each committee meet.

     10.  Adjourn.


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