[statecom-discuss] How can we have a successful State Comm meeting on November 17?

[Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com]

Just a reminder - process issues shoul dbe discussed and dealt with first in 
the Procedures committee.

Given , Mike, your passion and attention to these issues, I strongly 
recommend you join that committee - my guess is your presence woul dbe enough to truly 
revitalize it -Love, grace
In a message dated 10/26/07 8:10:30 AM, merelice at gmail.com writes:


> Greetings,
> 
> I wish to applaud and thank Mike for his deep interest in making
> StateCom meetings productive and for starting to do what the
> co-facilitators of StateCom meetings, along with AdCom, should be
> doing in preparation. I believe it was precedent-setting when Eli and
> I -- as co-facilitators of the last StateCom meeting -- put out
> advance notices and instructions for posting proposals. We learned
> then that there are no guidelines for people who have volunteered to
> co-facilitate a statecom meeting.
> 
> The co-facilitators who were selected at the last meeting for the next
> meeting are no longer available. Nat and I -- as cochairs of the party
> -- had a conference call this week to begin to carry out the needed
> steps for the next statecom meeting which is just three weeks away.
> 
> I hope Mike will reconsider one of his complaints about the last
> meeting: the presentation about forming ward and town committees. Very
> few party members -- myself included -- are fully aware of all that it
> means to be an official ballot-status political party. If we are
> serious about being real, it's important to be educated about these
> things. StateCom is an especially appropriate body to be more
> knowledgeable about the possibilities so that its members can inform
> their local areas.
> 
> It takes just three registered members to form a Ward or town
> committee. While in some cases that might seem to be an insufficient
> number for a viably active local chapter, it provides a local presence
> and identifiable contact for people who are interested in learning
> more about the party. We should have dozens of such contacts scattered
> around the state. Amherst has an official state-recognized committee
> and it is inspiring to hear what they can do as a result. The fact
> that no such committees have been formed since the summer meeting is
> no reason why we shouldn't learn how to build toward that goal.
> 
> Merelice
> 
> 
> On 10/25/07, mikeheichman at verizon.net <mikeheichman at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Original Message:
> > -----------------
> > From: mikeheichman at verizon.net mikeheichman at verizon.net
> > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:30:07 -0400
> > To: statecom-discuss at green-rainbow.org
> > Subject:
> >
> >
> > October 25, 2007
> >
> > Hi Members of the State Comm. Meeting:
> >
> > I hope that we will have a successful State Committee meeting on November
> > 17. I know that for many of us,
> > including myself, believe that some of the recent State Comm. Meetings 
> have
> > been disappointing. However, I have to
> > believe that we have the capacity to better run our meetings so that we
> > will be able to do our job in leading our state
> > party.
> >
> > In order to accomplish this, I recommend the following:
> >
> > I.      Improve preparation for the meeting-the more that we all do to 
> prepare
> > for the meeting beforehand the more
> > likely we will have a successful meeting
> >
> > A.      I hope that our wonderful co-chairs (Merelice and Nat) will work 
> with
> > the co-facilitators to do all that is
> > necessary to organize the meeting.
> > B.      I hope that everyone who has ideas on what they want us to 
> accomplish on
> > November 17 will communicate
> > their desires beforehand.
> > C.      I hope that every member of the State Comm. who has a proposal to 
> move
> > the Party forward will send out their
> > proposals soon and have them vetted by the appropriate committees. I hope
> > that every member of the State Comm.
> > will read and respond to the proposals, and if they are in general
> > agreement, to co-sponsor the proposals. The more
> > that we can respond to misconceptions and concerns beforehand the more
> > likely our meeting on November 17 will
> > be more efficient.
> >
> > II.     I hope that we can better use our time on November 17. I propose 
> that
> > we "bend" our rules so that at the start
> > of the meeting we can discuss the agenda. The purpose is to become clearer
> > about what we want to accomplish.
> >
> > At our July 29 meeting, we were "forced" to spend quite a bit of time
> > planning for the upcoming annual convention.
> > This was time well spent because it was truly an "Urgent Matter". However,
> > I was very upset because I believed that
> > we wasted approximately an hour discussing the upcoming "Deadline for Ward
> > and Town Committees". Now that the
> > meeting is over, I would like to know how  this discussion led to action.
> > How many Ward and Town Committees were
> > established? My prediction is NONE. I am prepared to apologize if I am
> > wrong.
> >
> > If I am not wrong, then we wasted an hour of our meeting instead of
> > addressing proposals which had the purpose of
> > moving our party forward.
> >
> > I will resubmit my proposals that were not addressed at our last meeting. 
> I
> > urge others to submit their ideas on how
> > to move our party forward.
> >
> > Let's do what we need to do to have a successful meeting.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike Heichman
> > mikeheichman at verizon.net
> > 617-265-8143
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