[Sosfbay-discuss] Minutes from East Valley Greens Meeting 09/11/07

[Kaisha Torres]

Hi All,
I will try to answer the items that Drew left unanswered from Jim's
questions.....please see below:

-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Johnson [mailto:JamBoi at Greens.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:59 PM
To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
Cc: kaisha_marie at comcast.net; Rob Means; Iliad Rodriguez; warner
bloomberg; cls at greens.org
Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] Minutes from East Valley Greens Meeting
09/11/07


I've included a plain text version of the minutes (my apologies that its
based on a previous version of Kaisha's notes since I couldn't copy/paste
the .pdf version she attached to the note that started this thread) and
answered a couple of Jim Doyle's questions below.


Green is Connection!
Drew

On Tue, September 18, 2007 07:55, Kaisha Torres wrote:
> All those locals who missed this meeting can catch up and join the
> excitement next month! We meet the second Wednesday of every month at the
> indicated on the minutes.
> Thanks!
> Kaisha

On Tue, September 18, 2007 11:57, Jim Doyle wrote:
> Kaisha,  Thank you for the minutes of the meeting.
>  From which I can add or comment on:
>
> The name of the local sounds very good to me.
> What a terrific meeting!  It ended at 8:41 pm!
> And it had plenty in it.
>
> Solar Panels:  terrific project.
>
> Plastic bags:  who is the person who has a friend on the city council
>     and who is the city council member of which city?
>
> GP social:  who will be receiving the announcement?

KAISHA:  I will draft an Evite invitation tomorrow and forward a sample to
the members of the EV Green and other interested Green members with the
signup name & password for the Evite account so that then everyone can go in
and import/add the emails from their own personal contacts that they would
like to invite. I personally plan on sending it to almost everyone in my
address book.
>
> Festival meeting:  I do not recall seeing a notice of this or if I
>     did, it did not ring a bell at the time.

KAISHA:  I sent out the notice this morning and as Drew and I sit here
alone, I can see that method will not work for future meetings :) Hopefully
this is an event we can form a solid working group around. It may be that
the social is a perfect opportunity to discuss the interest or lack thereof
on this idea.
>
> Barec issue, 49ers stadium attachments did not come through.

KAISHA:  I apologize. I sent them through prior to this email
>
> 2) hosting a movie:  good going evg
>
> 3) database:  A number of people put their names and info on the
>        signup sheet at the Berryessa Arts and Wine Festival in May.
>        I recovered them from the tabling suitcase last Saturday.
>        The quickest way for me to get them to you is to provide
> photocopies.
>
>        Building a database:  What should we use at the present time?
>           The cms content management system is still in the future.

DREW:  Cameron and I are wanting to set up a CiviCRM (that sits on top of
Drupal
CMS).  Unfortunately finding time is an obstacle, but that is our desire.

>        Drew: what do you have in mind for a mailing list?  Something
> commercial?

DREW:  No just a cagreens.org e-mail list.

>   9/28 social   How widely will this be publicised?
>        Should any other groups be notified?  E.g., ACLU, NAACP,MAPA.

KAISHA: Wow that's an interesting idea. I am sure that members of the org
involved in BAREC and the 49ers would be interested in coming but I hadn't
thought of other groups. I think our intention was to have this social be
the first of many so maybe after our success on the 28th, we can discuss
expanding our invitations to other groups in our next meeting.
>
> Once again, a powerhouse meeting in less than 3 hours.

KAISHA:  You should have been there! This group is on fire and ready to
change the world!...locally :)
> Jim Doyle
KAISHA:  Thank you for reading and responding!

____

Minutes East Valley Greens Meeting, 9/11/07

Attendees:  Iliad, Kaisha, Rob & Drew

We recapped the information from last meeting with Rob to bring him up to
date:
Current Ideas and Goals for our Local:
1	Take school district project Iliad conducted at Leland and SJ Unified to
install Solar on Schools
2	Green Products, Businesses, Technologies Festival
3	Banning plastic bags via SJ City Council (like Oakland & SF)
4	Drinking water purchasing eliminated from County/City
5	Issue campaign – BAREC vote will occur in November
6	Stadium Issue
7	Evenings of Discourse/Green Party Socials

Solar Panel Installation @ Schools –
Illiad discussed the Solar installation project @ SJ Unified. Chevron is
supplying the panels, installation and upkeep. It hit the media and calls
are flooding the school district due to his partnering with Chevron.
School construction manager conference is a good place to put a
presentation. Programs must be approved by the school district.
School district is paying Fixed rate for the life of the contract (20
Years). Illiad will be supplying information that we may be able to pass
on to our local school districts by the next meeting.

Plastic Bag Issue –
Discussed with his friend on City Council about sponsoring a bill to
eliminate bags and he seemed interested. Contact Ross Muriakamini (SP?) to
contact this city council member to discuss the issue.

Green Party Social –
Set for 09/28/07 from 6-8pm at Smoke Tiki Lounge at Post/San Pedro in
downtown San Jose.
•	Discussed  providing a bit of literature with our issues, goals & a sign
up list

Festival Meeting –
Sending out the notice for the meeting next Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at
the Peace Center at 7pm. Susan King is the SF contact for the Greens in
the area of the greenfestivals.org and Drew can contact her about whether
they are already involved in the festival in October 2007.

BAREC Issue –
See attached brief

49ers Stadium Issue-
See attached brief

Drew updated our group with the following information from the last county
meeting:
1	Warner Bloomberg is recovering from the Plenary and unable to attend
tonight. He asked that BAREC be a issue that we move forward on. By virtue
of being a party, we can utilize the registrar of voters and make contact
with the members within the EV Local area (and especially SC Residents).
We briefly discussed Kaisha’s brief which is attached to the minutes.
2	Movie night at San Jose Peace Center @ 7pm-It was requested that the EVG
host the movie this time. 6pm would be the time for set up and Rob can
address the group after the movie as he has expertise on electric
transportation. Illiad told him that there is an update available on the
air quality control board in regards to the movie & its claims (Who Killed
the Electric Car).
3	We need to amass a database of people in our area. Cameron has all the
lists from tabling. Kaisha will contact Cameron to obtain a list of people
in our local area to invite them to the social. We need to develop a
strategy for maintaining the database. Drew believes Cameron is working on
an online database/content management system and civics database phoning
system. Drew can arrange for a local area mailing list.
4	We discussed the modification of the chapter name. We are the East
Valley Greens and the mailing list will be spelled out.
5	Rob discussed the world café discussion group concept. Refer to:
http://www.theworldcafe.com/ He discussed the concept behind it and how it
works. His interest in this was sparked due to the condition of his city
council and the inability to penetrate the political structure into his
town. Instead, the world café provides a forum where personal interests
and biased are removed. Rob put together a proposal and a $3K budget and
was going to go get foundation investment. Rob has since decided that he
would try to obtain $30 a head instead. He has two tentative dates:
01/19/08 & 01/26/08. It will be held in the {UPDATE PER ROB: Indian
Community Center, Saturday Morning Jan 19th, 2008.} It is a Grass roots
democracy movement. Rob will invite the local politicians & usual
suspects. He only has 75 seats available, currently because of the
physical space of the center. Fred & Jim have volunteered to provide
support. There will be 15 hosts & a facilitator. It should be warm &
inviting discussion with active participation as a prerequisite. Discussed
replicating the event based upon Rob’s success. Illiad suggested some sort
of scholarship/funding for the event. Rob is doing this in connection with
a neighborhood organization and he will include information for the
Democracy Café in the newsletter.
6	Other topics: How our area is structured: Do we have neighborhood
associations? Where can we meet as a political party?

Local Party Structure
Drew suggested we determine a list of positions to build our local party
with and recruit for those positions. (Tabled until future meetings;
however Kaisha was appointed as contact for the purposes of the county
council)