Community Village Minutes 
January 2012 -

January 2012

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Community Village Minutes, January 11, 2012

Agenda:

Intros
Fair Announcements
Agenda Review
Host & Consensus Raps
Council Selection Process
Restaurant Selection Process
Site Report
Construction Report
Stand For Council
FM intra network idea
Support Occupy More/How?
Non-fair announcements

INTROS:
Hi to new childcare person and all of us.

FAIR ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Agenda Review, host rap and consensus rap as expected. Bla bla…

COUNCIL SELECTION PROCESS:
After some discussion and differing proposals, this was consensed on and established Jan 11, 2012, for temporary use subject to re-evaluation following its use for conflict resolution:

“Persons volunteering to serve on the Coordinating Council deserve a respectful and fair confirmation process. No candidate should be blindsided publicly with a concern they have not already had a chance to respond to privately. When concerns are expressed about their candidacy at a Village Meeting, discussion will be minimal, with the candidate given equal time to comment on specific concerns. But the majority of the conversation between the person with the concern and the candidate will occur privately between them and perhaps the Council. Resolutions of concerns should be shared with the Village when they have been reached.

People will stand for Council at the January Village meeting. If someone would like to be on Council but absolutely cannot make it to this meeting, they must send someone to stand for them. The Council candidates will make a statement or answer questions regarding who they are, their Village/Fair experience, etc. Candidates for Council must provide contact info and be accessible during the next week.

Anyone about whom no concerns are raised prior to the January Council meeting will be confirmed at the February Village meeting.

A person may not feel safe, or able to tactfully discuss their concerns with a candidate, so a person with a concern may be accompanied by an advocate.

To allow some time to work out a solution, the January Council meeting will be held the second week following the general meeting.

Someone may bring up a concern about a candidate publicly at a meeting if and only if they have warned the candidate that they may bring up that concern and have made an attempt to resolve it. The Villager must contact the candidate within 7 days of the January Village meeting, and if the concern is not resolved in a person to person conversation, another attempt must be made at the January Council Meeting.

A village member may stand aside or block a Council candidate only if he/she has taken his/her shared concern through the process described above.”

RESTAURANT:
We are deciding on the 4th element of the Restaurant Selection Process Proposal tonight. (See whole adopted proposal coming soon.)
During the present ongoing process we have had 8 applicants. OCF Food Committee will decide which of those we will be tasting, with the top recommendation presented in March The committee doing the evaluating is already selected for this year.
The proposal was consensed on as amended. Copy to be with us soon.

SITE REPORT:
It is flooded now, but was higher. David doesn’t like the straight eye view down the Shady Grove path – wishes it was curved… A Spirit Booth bush was removed by Vegematics. LUMP Committee is back at work. Is there still a Greenspace Committee? No?

CONSTRUCTION:
2 potential booth rebuilds this year: Peace & Justice and the Restaurant, which will get a loft. Council will submit a capitol budget request of about $6,000. Yew poles will be used this year for the front of booths. It was noted that square construction elements have lasted years without rot, and have been a sound investment. It is hoped boothies will find creative, removable ways to decorate the square booth posts. OK? Do it.
Esthetic add-ons are what we need much of.
What booths will need construction next year? Does it ever end?
All goes back to the earth, lest we forget.

STAND FOR COUNCIL:
Standing: Keith Herchberger quackerbacker1@msn.com cell 541-513-1238, Tim Mueller 541-521-7208 tim@gwproj.com, Paul Sass psass731@aol.com 541-689-3709 , Lois Inmann 541-836-2670 , Nathan Greene 541-852-0627 spuddygreene@yahoo.com , Dianne Albino 541-933-2584 iriedi@yahoo.com, Karla Caudell 541-337-5319 kjcaudell@yahoo.com , Jennefer Harper 541-514-9487 JenneferHarper@yahoo.com, David Hoffman 541-484-9204 fixit@efn.org.
Please contact them within 7 days to express a concern.
Shadows include Drake Eubanks, Laura Weil–Noppenberger.

FM INTRA NETWORK:
Joe talked about this and had a small demonstration. Here is what he wrote about it:
I want to do a low power FM radio station for the village. We could use this for broadcasting the Stage but also for other things such as music all night and announcements. I will supply the equipment. We could use the generator bike for some or all of the power. I would like to talk to others about doing programing. With the legal power limit and a good antenna we can cover the whole village and camp areas.
Additionally I would like to set up a wi-fi with a server for the village. This could be used by cell phones or laptops or other devices to access a webpage/site and possible files or streaming media. I can supply all the equipment and would like to talk to others about doing the software setup. My idea on the wireless server is not to do internet as such but rather to have a sort of intrAnet for the village. Nothing on the intrAnet would be available on the intErnet and the outside world.
David wants it used to assist those who have trouble with hearing. I could do two microphones for the crowd, used as talking sticks plus a lapel one for the facilitator.
I am part of the Green Earth Booth but this might best be part of Doors or the Info Booth, it might even be a booth of itself in the future if it works well.
The discussion will continue…

SUPPORTING OCCUPY:
In addition to statements of support on our website, the village will allow Occupy messages on our Drum, links to Occupy websites on our website, and villagers are encouraged to help however possible.

NON-FAIR ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Bye Bye

 

 

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