November Eureeka Greens Minutes

Meeting Minutes: November 18, 2006

Members present: Heidi Calton (facilitator), David Cobb, Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap (notes), Jared Wilken, Hannah Clapsadle
Guests & Observers: Ed Light

1. Announcements
• Humboldt Exchange Pancake Breakfast, Sunday 19th (10-noon), 1402 M Street (corner of 14th & M). Cost is $5 Community Currency.
• Heidi still has the items from the yard sale and would like help contacting and dropping off the items to a charity – David & Jared offered to help, Heidi will contact them.

2. Adoption of October Meeting Minutes
Minutes approved by unanimous consensus.
Hannah will show Kaitlin how to post the minutes to the county website.

3. Treasurer’s Report
• Kaitlin nominated Hannah to be the new Treasurer. Hannah was elected by unanimous consensus. Heidi will contact Xandra and work with Hannah to put her name on the bank account and take Xandra off as a signer.
• This month Heidi purchased a web domain $95.40.
• Total in the bank is $673.65 ($50 belongs to the County Greens, Heidi needs to make that change.)
• Jared suggested that we give some money to the county greens to help them do some mailings to get people involved, pay for copies etc.
• Heidi suggested we donate a percentage of our monthly balance to the county.
• Hannah pointed out that might take a lot of administrative work to do it every month, and we might not want to always give the county money.
• Kaitlin suggested that we pay for the Eureka portion of the county mailing, so long as they amount does not exceed $300. (If it is a lot less than $300 then we are willing to pay for up to $250 to cover the costs for other localities.) In order to do this we need the mailing to mention the dates, times, location of our meetings and give our website. Jared will report this to the county at their next meeting.
• Proposal approved by unanimous consensus.
• Heidi asked that we ask the people organizing the mailing how many people are in the Eureka Greens jurisdiction.

4. Old Business
A. Eureka Greens Website & Web Administrator:
• Last month we asked Heidi to contact David Giarrizzo and ask him to change the address of his blog so that it does not look like a Eureka Greens site. She was also going to ask him to give us the passwords and access to www.EurekaGreens.org.
• Heidi purchased www.EurekaGreens.com last month.
• Jared will contact David Giarrizzo to tell him the above information and ask him to change the address of his blog.
• Kaitlin will contact James Stratton and Charles Douglas and get the password and web hosting information for www.EurekaGreens.org.
• We will make any posting part of the website open only to registered users, and it will be moderated.
• David nominated Kaitlin to administer and create a new website for us. Kaitlin was elected by unanimous consensus. Ed and Heidi are interested in helping.
• Things we’d like to have: register online, 10 key values, statement of intent, links from Heidi (why I switched), county, other locals, ca greens, national greens.

5. New Business
A. Future Fundraising & Outreach Ideas
• Kaitlin offered to make a poster with our 10-Key values and our meeting times to let people know when we’re meeting, include a voter registration appeal, contact information, she will make these for our meetings in 2007.
• We want to have another yard sale in the spring when the rain stops.
• We’d like to do something for St. Patrick’s Day, and we want to have the County greens take the lead on it and we can help, and encourage the Arcata Local to get involved too.
• What kind of event could we do for Valentine’s Day – Show Your Love for Democracy (Register Green), Show Your Love for the Earth (Register Green), Show Your Love for Peace (Register Green), etc.
• Heidi will invite Fhyre to join the County Greens fundraising event.
B. Voter Registration Ideas
The County greens are looking into this and Jared is working with Shaye to do it, he will pass on the information to us about the events in Eureka.

6. Set Next Meeting, Brainstorm Agenda Items
• Website progress report
• Treasurer’s progress report
• St. Paddy’s Day event planning
• Valentine’s Day Show Your Love Posters Brainstorm
• New business: outreach to already registered greens, email announcement list, phonebank

7. Next Meeting
Saturday, December 16th, 3:30pm at 321 Coffee.
Kaitlin will check in with them to make sure this isn’t a problem.
Everyone bring a friend next time!

Submitted by Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Secretary
Approved December 16, 2006