2005-11 PPO Business meeting minutes

Ideas for the agenda (emailed out beforehand)

• Setting up rotating "shifts" at St. Francis (re: who opens the door, sets up the table, facilitates the evenings, etc)
• Deciding what to do at St. Francis the evening before Thanksgiving (Wed. 11/23).  The church employees are going to be cooking turkey dinner late into the night that evening in the kitchen.  Too loud probably to show a movie.  Do we want to just close down that night or do something else?   If we do something else, would people even show the night before a holiday?
• Plan out our "Harvest Potluck" 11/30 event... live music, dancing, potluck, decorations, publicity, etc.
• Wednesday evenings after 11/30... need to get the schedule down.  
• Rex Burkholder's assistant wrote back and said that 12/7 doesn't work after all, that he could do 1/4 instead.
• The Yahoo group.  It's relatively quiet these past few days, but there's been a lot of frustration from folks who think there's too much "irrelevant" yammering.  Do we want to split into different groups; is that too confusing; moderate the group instead, etc.?
• What are the prep and outreach working groups up to?
• When we have speakers, it might be a good idea to have a "room captain" during Q&A
• one of us who can help the speaker by keeping track of raised hands and calling on people in an orderly and fair way.
• The idea of forming a small committee of sorts to draft a statement to Mayor Potter's office urging him to take peak oil considerations into his vision planning.  A few folks I've talked to are very interested in doing this.
• What to do with this database I have of people who have filled in the sign-in sheet all of these months.  Start contacting folks?  Telling them what?
• talking points for Portland Peak Oil
• portlandpeakoil.org/cs update
• have something (group/structure/plan/...) around finance but from  the point of view of how to do things on the cheap as most people  don't have any money to invest anyway.
• Maybe plan for a Wednesday on a how to of bartering and/or local currency?
• maybe a Wednesday night around " lightning talks" which are a  series of 5-10 minutes on a series of subject.
• Regular minute taking..(posted online?)
• Who's handling Wed's schedule
• Wed schedule through 12-15 (if possible, for publicity scheduling reasons)
• Media guidelines around filming attendees without their permission.
• Volunteer round-up...Misi calling, projects, script
• Party...last wed in Nov.

Present at the meeting

Jeremy O'Leary, Jim Wrathall, Pam Leitch, Emily Pollard, Theressa Latoski, Norris Thomlinson, Robin Canaday, Jennifer Rueda, Gene Berk, Mike Dill, John O'Brien

Agreed topics for the agenda

• Schedule: -opening/setup   -who decides the scheduling