[Sosfbay-discuss] Agenda for 2/4/09 meeting

[Drew Johnson]

As part of our ongoing reform of the General Meeting to make it
interesting, fun and worth going to I've been lobbying for months now to
make it a regular feature of the meeting to

1) have an 20 minutes set aside for inspiring talk/presentation by one or
more folks (could be a panel) near the front of the meeting -- this month
I nominate Roy for the slot and request we put it in after approval of
last month's notes (which I'll post sometime today or tomorrow along with
the previous month's) and the Treasurer's Report and before the other
Recurring Business

and

2) have specific time set aside for breakout meetings of committee,
working group, etc.  If people get into the habit of arriving at 6:30 as
we advertise this time for breakout meetings time could even be before the
7:30 main meeting time.

3) Note also that as I previously announced on this e-mail list that David
Ledesma specifically declared at the last SRK Santa Clara Coalition
meeting that his March 7th event was no longer going to be considered a
Green Party event (let alone a GP fundraising event as was originally
planned) and that he no longer wanted to be a part of a Green Party
committee or coalition addressing fraudulent military recruiting tactics. 
So I would question giving David time on the agenda at all for his
non-Green Party, non-coalition event.  He seems to have the details of his
event well in hand and I'm sure it will come off very successfully but it
doesn't seem that he needs General Meeting time to address his non-Green
Party, noncoalitional event.

4) I will ask for 10 minutes to report on the formation of the (renamed
from SRK-SC to) Santa Clara Truth in Recruiting Coalition. We already have
an e-mail list going and we've already started discussion with members of
Veterans for Peace, Chapter 101.  The coalition will be moving forward
with an alliance with Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against War and
and others similarly concerned about truthfulness in recruiting and in not
recruiting children fraudulently.


Green is Go!

Drew


On Tue, February 3, 2009 10:24, Peter Myers wrote:
> Based on what I've heard so far, here is the agenda for tomorrow's
> meeting. Please look over it before the meeting. If you have anything
> you'd like to add or change, please e-mail me those thoughts as soon
> as possible. Please don't wait until tomorrow evening to suggest
> changes, because it will take longer to finalize the agenda.
>
> Green Party of Santa Clara County
> Meeting Agenda, February 4, 2009
>
> Beginning Business
> Choose facilitator, time-keeper, note-taker, vibes-watcher - 5 min
> Introductions - 5 min
> Finalize agenda - 5 min
> Recurring Business
> Treasurer’s report - 5 min
> Stop Recruiting Our Kids (David) - 10 min
> CiviCRM (Cameron) - 5 min
> 2010 Candidates, including Wes’s suggestion for Water Board (Peter) -
> 10 min
> Accountability (Brian) - 5 min
> Tabling kits (Caroline) - 5 min
>
> New Business
> Oscar Grant (Drew) - 5 min
> Oscar Grant (Carol) - 5 min
> Upcoming tabling events - 10 min
> Roy Nordblum - 10 min
> Whistleblower support (Brian) - 10 min
> Long-term project ideas (Jim) - 10 min
> Earth Day event (possibly in south of county?) - 10 min
> Palo Alto and Sunnyvale’s greening projects (Dana and Drew) - 10
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