New Board Member!

Your Local Market Co-op Board of Directors welcomes a new board member, 

Shauna Thomas.

[photo to come]

As a co-operative corporation, Your Local Market Co-op has a board of directors who helps guide the direction of the co-op.

When we started to co-op, only members could sit on the board of directors. [Members of a workers' co-operative must be employees of the co-op.] After several months of non-stop learning we decided to acknowledge our deficiencies and look outside for expertise.

recent display at YLMC

Shauna is a librarian at the Stratford Public Library (you may have noticed our recent display). Over the past eight months has shopped and volunteered at the co-op, helped with our participation at Savour Stratford 2011 and been generally 'on board' with everything our co-operative stands for.

Our board can consist of 5-9 board members. We currently have 5: Shauna, and the four members (Drea, Chris, Heather & Katelyn) The board is elected by members, and has responsibly over policies of the co-op within limitations set out in our articles and bylaws. The Board uses YLMC's vision and purpose to make decisions in the best interest of the co-operative.

If you are interested in sitting on the board or have an interest in participating  with the co-op in another way,
please talk to a member in store!

The board meets for quarterly meeting, as well as occasional special meetings.