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

[Ron Francis]

Oh, one other point...

I still consider the Statecom directive to be in
effect, as is the proposal to form a Equal marriage
task force that organizes around the State, or any
other proposal in the history of Statecom that
requires financial resources, ....

.... but that does not mean that any moneys are
definitively dedicated for any particular proposal
that statecom has passed in the recent past
(phonecalls or equal marriage rights proposal or
whatever)... and especially one where the directive
seems to be for "Statecom and Locals to attempt to
call" and nothing is said about a paid person to do
this... although Adcom has agreed to a one month trial
on this matter spending money for a paid person.

On adcom we have talked about how proposals that don't
come with moneys attached as a budget item for tier
one or any tier are actually inappropriate, and in
fact what should happen in general is what happened at
our last Statecom where money was allocated
specifically for a task (some in tier one and some in
tier two)...

ron

--- Ron Francis <ronwf777 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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