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<P><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>I will stand aside re my concern about not allowing other Greens to subscribe to the Strategy Listserve, and agree to keep the wording in the email to "Post your feedback to.....". </FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>I understand the importance of suggesting that County Councils start organizing strategy sessions on a regional basis. I absolutely agree. As stated previously, the reason that is not in THIS initial email, is to not overload the email and the reader with too much info all at once. This is an <EM>initial</EM> email, just to get the conversation started....it is certainly not an end product, just one of many emails that will have to go out to continue engaging local Greens in the very large and on-going process of what we are trying to accomplish. </FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>We can easily send another "reminder" email in a couple weeks for those who have not responded and add our suggestion of regional meetings. Follow-up phone calls are also very important, and thanks to Barry and Adrienne for taking that on!. </FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>To answer Barry's concern about spelling out "why" this is a good project....I'm sorry, but if any Green reading the email cannot figure out the importance of stategizing for the future of our Party then they would most likely not be interested in it anyway!. </FONT> </P>
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<P><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>The first 2 or 3 sentences of the email are meant to engage and excite the reader, what else could possibly be said?. We could spend another week creating the perfect opening tag line, but we need to gety started already!</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>Unless I hear any more outstanding concerns, I will plan on sending the final draft to Jim to send out to County Contacts by friday am.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>Thanks all!</P>
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<DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Jim Stauffer <jims@greens.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> GPCA Strategy Planning <strategyplan@cagreens.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tue, January 4, 2011 5:00:41 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [StrategyPlan] CC on Strategy Plan Announcement<BR></FONT><BR>The CC reviewed the proposed announcement last night. It's ready to go as soon as Kendra and I work out wording about how this list will be used as the alternate posting spot.<BR><BR>There were some concerns, listed below. Our final conclusion was to address the concerns in a follow-up message in one week.<BR><BR>Barry Hermanson was concerned that the message states that this is important, but didn't describe why. He's going to pen a few lines for the follow-up.<BR><BR>I raised the concern about not promoting the idea of counties gathering into small
groups for their discussions. A few others agreed. That will also be added to the follow-up.<BR><BR>We discussed the need for sending periodic reminders to the counties. Barry and Adrienne volunteered to make calls. We should also send email reminders.<BR><BR>The section from the meeting minutes is copied below.<BR><BR><BR>Jim<BR><BR>=====================================================================<BR><BR>Attending: Michael Borenstein, Barry Hermanson, Matt Leslie, Adrienne Prince, David Quinley, Michael Rubin, Jim Stauffer.<BR><BR><BR>3 - Finalize draft and authorize distribution of the 'Strategy Notice' to the County Contacts list. [10 min]<BR><BR> JS: Reads text of Kendra Gonzales’ Strategy Notice and intent of Wiki discussion. She wants this distributed to the lists.<BR><BR> BH: I like it. The only thing that’s missing, is some statement at the beginning as to why people should get
involved. Why is this an exciting project? I personally believe this is an extraordinary time for the Greens. I’d add 3 – 4 sentences at the beginning. She has put together a good basic document.<BR><BR> AP: I would pass that input on to her.<BR><BR> JS: She and I are still having a technical discussion regarding the wiki vs. the email list. Something that disappeared in the evolution of this document is mention of getting counties together with their neighbors. We will get better discussions if we can get more participants. I don’t know how anyone else feels about these group meetings, but I think they’d be beneficial.<BR><BR> BH: The internal aspects of why it’s important to have good planning…I feel should be mentioned.<BR><BR> MB: This notice is about as long as a County Contacts notice. These amendments can be inserted very
briefly.<BR><BR> BH: I’d like to be a traveling liaison, helping the Counties/Regions conduct their discussions.<BR><BR> MR: I agree with Jim. I’d be sad to see the ideas of special event gatherings disappear from this. We should at least try and involve not-the-usual-activists in our counties.<BR><BR> MB: I think that could be put back in…<BR><BR> JS: I wonder if we should send this one as-is, and then one week later, a message about how to connect with the locals. It would be nice to give some guidance about how to conduct a live meeting on this topic.<BR><BR> DQ: Could there be a connection to any of the data collecting that Marnie is doing? Could she be gathering some feedback while doing her calling?<BR><BR> MB: We are trying to get individual and group suggestions for strategy for short and long-term planning, to be created
and consensed upon at the next two plenaries. What do we want for a timeline? It would be good to send this out asap.<BR><BR> BH: So we need to finish this tonight!<BR><BR> DQ: How is this different than anything we’ve tried to do in the past?<BR><BR> JS: We have never actually gone out to the counties for strategic input.or long-term goal setting. This is an experiment, a major departure. It would be nice to see if there are some common themes out there.<BR><BR> BH: Jim, are you going to send this out to the county contacts? Send out several messages, with updates, and how-to’s. Maybe a couple of follow-up messages in the next few weeks. I would make an offer that if counties or regions want to include this on an agenda, I will attend the meeting just to listen.<BR><BR> AP: So are we consensing that we send this to the county contacts list as-is,
with followup messages over the next few weeks?<BR><BR> BH: We would then need to decide then the text of future messages.<BR><BR> MB: Passes by consensus.<BR><BR> AP: Is there a phone list we can use to follow up with? I’d like to make some phone calls.<BR><BR> JS: Yes, we do have some phone numbers and emails. Its on the IT webside behind the common password. Ca Green website/IT. Link called “county contacts.”<BR><BR> BH: I’ll make phone calls.<BR><BR> AP: I’ll do South, you can do North.<BR><BR> MB: And if they get 2 phone calls, all the better!<BR><BR> JS: Everything will go to the County Contacts list, the Co-Co’s list and the GPCA list.<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>StrategyPlan mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:StrategyPlan@cagreens.org"
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