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The Steampunk Café is confused as hell. We registered as a CT LLC last May, and now a whole bunch of obligations are coming due, yet we haven’t actually opened yet. On the plus side, my research into what we need has confirmed that the state did in fact add Dan as our third partner despite sending me feedback that they successfully added me (again). No worries on that.

Our current issues include paying a 250.00 existence fee and paying 120.00 to amend our articles of incorporation and bylaws. Soon this will be old hat, and I won’t mind it at all. Right now, it stresses me to no end. Last thing I need is to be tossed in prison for 20 years for dotting an i rather than crossing a t. The Steampunk Cafe isn’t successful enough to be above the law. Though I imagine that’s on our to-do list somewhere.

Steampunk Café is pursuing, with no small degree of urgency, a potential goldmine of a location in Manchester, CT, tying up all the loose ends of the start up process, and has a goal of successfully opening before the academy is over. The location has been holding us back for months.

Participant Julie Hoagland rec’d approval for her incorporation of Color Us Family, LLC, a counseling service for adoptive families, and mentoring for teen foster and adoptive youth. We conducted a discernment and analysis process to establish her vision, mission, goals, and a step by step process for setting up the infrastructure for the LLC, and to consider her options for engaging other partners. At the same time, Julie was surveying alternatives for increasing her income immediately, while creating a situation in which she could have flexibility to define and practice her approach to mentoring by working with clients in her selected age group.

Julie has now successfully created a situation in which she has accepted a job with one agency (2) that does social work in areas other than her specialty, and negotiated employee status with an agency (1) for whom she had been contracting. Agency 2 also agreed that she could bring in her current clients and will allow her to develop that niche and her approach.
This satisfies the concerns of the first agency who would not offer her the job unless her liability for her other work was covered by her employment at another agency, even though technically they would only be liable for her work with theior clients. She was able to talk them down in terms of their objections regarding a ”non-compete” situation, since their area of service is different from her other work.

This also takes the pressure off making the LLC the primary venue of immediate income, and enables her to have the time to explore the implications of options for setting up the management structure and thoughtfully project development in stages for the LLC.

Willimantic Adocates Make It Happens works with individuals who are homeless, disabled, in recovery and/or out of prison to help them succeed, when provided with support to find, obtain and utilize resources currently avialable in the community, while creating opportunities where gaps exist. We believe that it takes a community to help each individual to become all (s)he is capable of being in order to make a viable, caring, effective functioning society.
WAMH also had made up a mission statement previously. Here is the original mission statement: Willi Advocates Make it Happen (WAMH) Mission: Our goal is to support people in using their own assets to create both safe, sustainable and affordable housing and living wage employment, and in these ways develop healthy lives and caring communities.

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Hey ya’ll, I just started a new thread in the Coop CT Biz Academy forum about ”good resources for starting a cooperative” Check it out and contribute or ask questions! http://www.cdi.coop/community/groups/ct-co-op-business-academy/forum/topic/good-starting-a-cooperative-resources/