Meeting transcript: MTG_32185 (notsofar)

Sarah: OK, thank you guys for coming in on such a short notice.

Sarah: Um I just wanted us to all get on this <UNKNOWN/>  

Sarah:   third floor slash aquarium project. Uh just kinda get some status updates from everyone in their departments.

Sarah: Um as for HR  

Sarah:   um I know that we did hire enough people for um the new floor and the aquarium.

Rachel: Yes.

Rachel: On my end I would think uh that uh   On my end I would think that uh the report I prepared is now uh very clear.

Sarah: But we do need  

Rachel: We will have   we will <FILL/> uh move forward and we will have  

Rachel:   enough budget and uh I think we are uh doing very fine. It's gonna be a success.

Beth: So for my status, I've found that the numbers that I presented last week are still  

Rachel: We should uh do  

Beth:   good. Although, I found that we went down by about forty percent um and  

Beth:   you know, that's a good thing even though we've been spending more than we were expecting to.

Beth: Going down forty percent is profitable and I hope that it will carry on being that way.

Ron: The marketing department has purchased of  

Ron:   about a thousand little fluffy animals   little fluffy sea animals to be able to give out to people that walk into the mall  

Ron:   and to direct them to come up to the third floor.

Ron: Uh there   When you press them, they speak   they go up to the third floor actually.

Linda: I just wanna interject something here about uh I've been in touch with the city authorities about uh  

Ron: It's kind of an interesting idea.

Linda:   this um   this event uh and all of the   all of the  

Linda:   blow um <FILL/> whistles and   bows and whistles that we've been planning and I'm having a terrible <FILL/> time getting them to answer.

John: So me from the legal department, we've now understood  

John:   that we need to  

John:   that we need to um  

John: There's a big obstacle now with the aquarium is that we need a lot of legal documents  

John:   to bring in all the water and all the fish. Um I've been on top of it but that's really something we need to focus on right now.

John: Um it's gonna   not take a couple days. It's really gonna be hard and we need to see what  

Sarah: So going back to HR um it is something that, although we did hire enough people  

Sarah: Um we do need to decided on the salaries, we do need to decide on the benefits for them, um and just overall um  

Sarah:   kinda the values that and the culture that we want them to stand by 'cause they are gonna be joining the mall's uh staff.

Sarah: Um and in regards to the project itself  

Rachel: I understand uh hearing what uh   what has been said around the table right now  

Sarah:   we do want  

Sarah:   to finalize some things uh especially around the holiday.

Rachel:   that uh we are uh more or less all of us on the same page and it could be a very successful project.

Rachel: I would uh like to hear more from uh the cost of this uh aquarium and the <FILL/>   and the  

Rachel: Especially the insurances.

Rachel: This is uh what   something that worries me a little bit. I   I hope we can  

Beth: And I love what that sounds like but I'm not sure that it would be practical for us to go that far.

Beth: So I've put it into a different frame.

Beth: And I've got the graphs for that. I'll share that with you next week.

Beth: So that everyone can see how it's impacting the overall business  

Beth:   and the projected budgets for next year and for the year after.

Beth: Um and I think that in this visualization you'll be able to see it more clearly and everyone will <UNKNOWN/>  

Beth:   <FILL/> be able to probably understand it clearer, and then it will be  

Ron: I think it's very important that we look at the   the way that <FILL/> people interact  

Beth:   <UNKNOWN/>  

Beth:   in your inbox and everyone can have  

Ron:   with this uh aquarium that we're   that we're putting up.

Ron: Uh I know the   the budget is going to be a problem and the legal is gonna be a problem.

Ron: But if   if we focus on the interaction of the  

Ron:   uh the uh client base   the uh   the   the walk-in people that are  

Ron:   that are coming up to the uh   the third floor.

Linda: I'm still a little skeptical about how uh   how  

Ron: It's important to take a look.

Ron: It's  

Linda:   <FILL/> advantageous this is going to be for the uh   for the shopping mall as uh   as a whole.

Linda: Um  

Linda: Would   We're opening the aquarium, we're trying to bring in uh a new uh   a new kind of uh   of uh public.

Linda: But I'm not sure if the things <FILL/>   that we're planning right now  

Linda:   in terms of the opening   the opening ceremonies, the open event, whatever you wanna call it, and all of the  

John: Everything you're saying is very good but what we do need to talk about is our new parking lot. the parking lot is finished  

Linda:   bells and whistles are gonna be uh   are gonna be really effective.

Linda: I would really  

John: And now we can have much more  

John:   customers each day. Each week we're gonna have  

John:   more traffic in our mall which is very good news. The only thing we still need to deal with is our legal  

John:   uh problem so we're still on top of that, we're gonna figure it out. I'm gonna come back on Tuesday with a  

Sarah: So in HR, I did say that we did hire everyone, so we did hire  

John:   follow up on this and then we're gonna move for  

Sarah:   uh people for sales, we did hire people for the activities but we do still need um the overall uh floor manager.

Sarah: Um so it is the next person that we're trying to hire. So please look out for anyone  

Sarah:   in your connections or  

Rachel: Uh yes, OK. I   I hear you, I hear you. I uh  

Sarah:   uh anyone else that might be interested in such a position that has past experience. We do want someone experienced for this role.

Rachel: I just would like to know now  

Rachel: For our next meeting, I would like us to uh  

Rachel: And   And what is it? What about <FILL/>   two <FILL/>   two days from now?

Rachel: So we're gonna have to have a   a much better understanding  

Beth: <PName> Sarah </PName>, I don't know if you heard me before.

Beth: I know the two weeks block is a <FILL/>   a problem for us and that there'll be a lot of staff on leave at that time.

Rachel:   so that we can close the deal.

Beth: But it was the only time that I saw was available for this kind of initiative.

Ron: If we think about the uh   the   the   the food that we'll be serving in the food court  

Beth:   and then  

Beth: No.

Beth: We'll bring them in at a later stage to   to make it more  

Ron:   and how it relates to the aquarium.

Ron: I think this will also bring in more people from a marketing standpoint.

Ron: So we serve, let's say, uh <FILL/> fish and chips, uh thinking <FILL/>  

Linda: I think this is a very important point, uh I hadn't thought before about uh   about the food that would be served  

Ron: <FILL/>

Ron:   start   start uh   <FILL/> start  

Linda:   during   before, during, and after this uh particular event.

Ron:   cut tomatoes.

Linda: But that's a very important element in terms of drawing in the   the public.

John: A new plan that I have what we're gonna do is that we're gonna take food  

Linda: I think we should   we should go over that in detail next meeting.

John: And people who are waiting in lines is we're gonna <FILL/> take the food.

John:   we're gonna give small samples to people so they can try the new food in the stores uh like in the food court and then slowly bit by bit