Present: Ellen Bovarik, Brenda Collier, Rad Cunningham, Ellen Finkelstein, Howard Gale, Karissa Louwen, Karl Meyer, Fred Miller, John Morris, Shiela Morris, Marcia Mullins, Mike Yarrow, Ruth Yarrow.
Endorsement Policy
We discussed the draft on SNOW endorsements and projects (see separate document).
AGREED: We will present this to the SNOW meeting tonight with the following amendments:
- If a decision is under time constraints to be brought to the regular SNOW meeting, it will be considered by the Coordinating Committee. If there are further time problems, five members of the Committee should be consulted and if three or more agree, it can be approved. Temporarily, the five are Marcia, Karissa, Ellen B., Brenda and Rad.
- Level 2 endorsements should have a super majority of the general meeting
- Similarly, Level 3 endorsements should also have a super majority, with people committing to action. We agreed that this category, which includes events such as Dec. 8 and Jan. 16, should be called "SNOW-wide events."
We also agreed that there should be fourth category that could include working groups, to be discussed further at the next meeting.
Minutes
AGREED: Minutes for Coordinating Committee meetings should be written and sent out in 24 hours, with comments incorporated in the next two days and sent out to the SNOW list.
Office
AGREED: For the next two months we will continue to operate out of the FOR office, and then assess where we are. We will discuss this further at the next meeting.
Liaisons and Lists
AGREED: We will use the assistance of the temporary liaisons as laid out in the previous minutes for the next two months. As liaisons contact their groups, they will inquire if the neighborhood facilitators or others would be interested in serving as liaisons. Draft processes to choose liaisons and how affinity groups fit in will be developed at future meetings. We also agreed to set up a new list on neighborhood group contact people (or two other people from that neighborhood group), liaisons, and other coordinating committee members. While this list is not moderated, we noted that someone will need to approve subscribers and pay attention to the correspondence. We agreed that we should issue an email bulletin once a week that will consolidate and prioritize upcoming events for SNOW.
Minutes by Ruth Yarrow