Member Acceptance Voting
For Interns to become Full Time Voting Members they must: Thoroughly understand and support Valhalla’s Vision, Mission, Core Tenets and Mandate. Share Valhalla’s values and Lifestyle Have a positive attitude and be helpful Follow the decisions made by the community Learn and practice Valhalla’s decision making method Learn and practice Valhalla’s Conflict resolution method Be …
Accepted Members & Termination
If a new member is voted into the organization a secret ceremony and celebration catered to the individual is held as an induction ceremony into the group. If however the candidate has failed they might be asked to leave the group or be given a second chance to redeem themselves all at the discretion of …
Internships & Invitations for Trials
The 30 Day Trial Process – volunteers who are looking to enter into the internship program must convince 3 active Full-Time Members to condone a 30 Day trial period. Within this period Valhalla members will evaluate your integration into the group – your ability to take on certain tasks and be a trusted member of …
Enrollment Process and Applications
See appendix for forms.
Membership types
The Valhalla Movement has 3 different types of members, each serving different purposes, responsibilities and benefits. At the moment these types of members are: Volunteer / Contributor Intern Full Time Member
Meeting Structure
Weekly committee meetings and bi-weekly Committee heads meetings. Currently committee meetings are scheduled for Monday mornings at 9AM.
Legal Council
Currently Valhalla’s legal council is coming from Gascon & Associés through a Tax & Entainment Lawyer who is one of the founding members fathers. However external opinions and help has come in the form of volunteers and anyone member can discuss anything with the legal council of their choice.
Third Party Accounting
The tracking of money being spent by the organization is not only to be done via the Accounting and Legal Committee internally but also by an external party to ensure transparency – legal credibility and obligations and to avoid all forms of corruption. The parties responsible for such accounting are also responsible for holding the …
Salaries and Compensation
For the 2014 Fiscal year no salaries will be officially given to any member of the Valhalla Movement including anyone on the Board of Directors. There will however be compensations given out based on project budgeting in which a percentage of money raised or earned via activities of the organization will go to labour and …
Fullfillment of Campaign Promises
Accountability to the people who donated money to us via crowdfunding efforts or our website are to always be respected. Campaign fulfillment is the number 2 financial priority of the organization as breaking a promise and trust between the Organization and its donors is a huge “faux pas” within our organization.
Payment of Land Taxes – Rent – Loans or Credit Cards
Payment of Land Taxes – Rent – Loans and Credit Cards – are Valhalla’s number one financial priority. If in the event of default on payment of these items The Valhalla Movement would be in serious financial trouble and thus these are the number one priority to be paid in full at all times. There …
Separate Bank / Financial Accounts
A clear division between private (personal) versus public (Valhalla) expenses needs to exist for an organization of this nature to work. Therefore Valhalla has 4 separate accounts for which it uses to operate: A Canadian bank account for which it uses for expenses related to its operations on the ground within Canada. PayPal account which …
Economic and Legal Policy
Economic Policy are a huge make or break factor in terms of the success and failure of organizations and this portion of the manifesto will look to clarify this all.
Tentative Legal Agreements
There are conditional / tentative legal agreements in place that allow The Valhalla Movement Foundation to purchase land at its current Sustainability Learning Centre test site located at 1961 Chemin de la Bataille, St Luc, Quebec, Canada. The costs associated to purchasing this land as an organization are something the Movement is striving for but …
Current Legal Agreements
Valhalla’s only current standing legal agreements are held with some of our sponsors including Centre De Jardin Brossard a local garden centre which sponsored the project in the early days. There are some other verbal agreements or short-term agreements that form and come to term periodically for things such as events or exchanges of service …
Property Rights
All assets purchased under the name of the Valhalla Movement belong to the collective of it’s members and are only to be used or liquidated with the approval of its members. All items brought in by an individual that are in use by the Valhalla Movement but not officially donated to the movement remain under …