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Portland Peak Oil: July Council Meeting

Jul 10 2006 - 7:00pm
Jul 10 2006 - 9:00pm

Location

Emily's place
1314 SE 45th Ave.
Portland, OR
United States
See map: Google Maps

Hosted by:
Emily

Body:

While typically the first monday of the month, the holiday weekend as bumped the PPO Council meeting to the second Monday in July.

If you'd like to see what's going on behind the scenes or if you'd like to get more involved, please attend the Portland Peak Oil Monthly Council Meeting.

The intention of the Council meeting is to come together monthly to discuss group operations and make crucial decisions regarding PPO going forward. These meetings are open to the public to be as inclusive, transparent, and community-oriented as possible.

Likely agenda topics are:
* Wednesdays @ St. Francis for July and August
* hopefully an update on the Peak Oil taskforce

What else? Please post a comment for a topic you would like to be included.

FYI, the actual agenda isn't officially decided until the start of the council meeting where we also decided how much time each topic will get.

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location?

Submitted by nellie on June 29, 2006 - 4:55pm.

Do we know where we'll be meeting?

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not yet

Submitted by Jeremy on June 29, 2006 - 7:18pm.

Emily was going to check with her housemates, but we don't have a location yet.

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suggested general meeting changes

Submitted by Jeremy on June 29, 2006 - 11:19am.

Currently the more experienced people in PPO don't seem to be getting much value out of the 2nd Wednesdays  and from this I have a suggestion for remaking the general meeting.  The exact content for meeting would still be determined at the monthly council meetings and the approximate timeline would remain the same but the breakout groups would be determined by what working groups or spin-offs (the co-housing effort for example) had a topic they wanted to discuss.  It is possible that work groups could use the breakout group as their meeting.

For the July general meeting the suggested timeline would be

  • start talking at 7pm,  it could be personal introductions, new people introducing themselves, have people sit with other people who live nearby, current events, something but start at 7pm.
  • 7:05pm - start the intro to PPO and cover the announcements
  • 7:15pm - announce the planned breakout grouops where one person from each group would in two minutes or less announce what was going to be covered.
  • 7:30pm at the latest - split off into the breakout groups and pick the scribe for the various groups.
    • co-housing
    • Peak Oil 101 that would serve as the training ground for the speakers bureau
    • the prep group could have their Winter gardening topic
  • 8:40pm - bring the room back together and someone from each group (likely the scribe) outlines what the breakout group covered.
  • close by 9pm
  • kick everyone out of St. Francis ASAP unless there is a burning need/want and that the opening and closing crew isn't being forced to stay.

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