Please please please DO NOT take anything from the site without approval from Patty, Alicia, or a Lead Crew member. Even at that, you may want to get approval from Patty. The ONLY people who are allowed to authorize transactions, purchases, day to day operations of the gleaners are the board members. Our key lead crew members when we are not on site get guidance from the board and ask if they are in doubt.
I (Alicia) call Patty when I am in doubt if we should get rid of something. We voted Patty is as our Coordinator and she deserves the respect as she is responsible for the program, the building connections, connecting with partner agencies, working with PCS as well as Linn Benton Food Share. This is a job she loves and is not an easy job helping to feed almost 520 individuals. Issues like what happened with the wheelchair make a lot of stress on Patty, the Board, and the many many volunteers who searched for the missing wheelchair on Monday.
The following link is the lead crew schedule-as posted in January 2023. If you don't communicate with the people on the lead list before taking something (Other than the weekly shopping items), you are in violation of our Policy.
https://philomathcommunitygleaners.blogspot.com/2023/07/lead-crew-schedules.html
As it has been previously posted, the getting rid of product that is not part of the members weekly shopping experience. Your membership could be at risk if you take it upon yourself to take items. In addition, as a reminder, pay attention to the RACK and the limits. If it says 1 item and you take 2, that is theft. We have caught folks taking more and that is an automatic termination of membership from the program.
Policy 1.5.2 Theft of PCG/PCS property or selling items or giving away any items to a non-gleaning member of will result in permanent expulsion from PCG/PCS and permanent barring from the premises will be enacted in addition to the possibility of legal action. Skimming** (setting aside product before shopping) is considered theft. For example, any items posted on Facebook or any social media for giveaway or selling will be immediate expulsion. You are welcome to bring back any unused items (or portion of items) received from the program.
