diff --git a/roles/mote/tasks/main.yml b/roles/mote/tasks/main.yml
index 42b3f2e0a3..045e483bff 100644
--- a/roles/mote/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/mote/tasks/main.yml
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
   - nuke mote json cache
   - restart apache
 
+- name: allow apache to run team sync script
+  file: path=/srv/web/meetbot/teams recurse=yes owner=apache group=daemon mode=0644
+
 - name: start mote-updater service
   service: name=mote-updater state=started enabled=yes
   tags: