[Membership] Local-Growth Diversity-Building Organizing Model Proposal (Draft 3)

[Ron Francis]

Dear Lisa,

ooops, another communication problem...

The discussion about Concord organizing was separate
from the proposal.  Nobody raised concern about the
proposal that I recall when the matter came up and was
discussed in detail, thus I sent it out to statecom
since memberhsip is a committee of statecom and our
minutes and approved documents are public.

In Kim's notes it says that the proposal will be sent
out to adcom which has the authority to spend money,
...so I thought it was a done deal, or else why are we
sending it ?

(I can understand how the Concord discussion could
have been intermingled with the proposal discussion
since it was mentioned that we might come back to the
Concord issue later in the meeting)

In any event, since there is a question on your
mind..., I will post to all lists saying that there is
still a question to be resolved on the question of
funding for low-income anchors / pay for staff to be
discussed on email by Membership Committee

I do recall 48 hours on the discussion on the question
of paid staff for Concord project but we haven't
chosen the 5 communities yet, (it is not clear that
Concord or East Somerville or Cambridge will be one of
them... although I think Concord should be one of them
but that is for a later discussion) and so I don't
think that discussion bears on the proposal,...
certainly not directly.

The proposal includes money to deal the the technical
difficulties of inviting low-income folks to the
meetings / events including the anchor needs
(transportation, child care etc...if necessary... but
we did agree to wait 48 hours on this before going
further on the Concord stuff...

This proposal does not reverse Statecom decision since
Statecom never indicated that $5000 should be spent
for anything.  The only moneys agreed to be spent by
statecom are the ones at the last meeting related to
the convention.  ( I think about $1700 but I don't
remembers the exact number... )

The statecom did say that we should "attempt to have
all locals and statecom call all memebrs..." but no
mechanism, particularly funding was decided upon or
even known about by Statecom members.

Ron



--- AbolishPoverty at aol.com wrote:

> Ron,
> I am shocked to read this e-mail! What happened to
> our vote to wait the 48 
> hours then have an e-mail conversation regarding
> this subject. I had concerns 
> and mentioned some as noted by Kim in # 5 of the
> notes. 
> 
>  We didn't agree to make this project idea and
> funding thoughts public. I'm 
> not sure the other people at our meeting had enough
> information (they are not 
> ADCOM members) to vote on the issue example: since
> this would reverse an ADCOM 
> / STATECOM decision that is already in place with a
> staff person hired. Ron 
> you also didn't mention in your e-mail about other
> possible large donations that 
> we could locate easily for this very idea as I
> mentioned at our meeting. You 
> and Wendy need to meet with Maria as the GRP
> co-chairs and present your idea 
> and ask for the $5,000 needed. 
> 
> I now believe we have a huge problem and I'm not
> sure what to do at this 
> point since you sent this e-mail out to a number of
> listserves. NO doubt this 
> issue will be on Monday's ADCOM agenda.
> 
> 
>                                     Lisa Anne
> Richards
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