Stack: David

Minutes: Greg

Time: Bruce

Jimmy and Greg read the revised Opening Statement. It is agreed that more work is needed. Anyone interested in joining a ‘revise the opening statement ‘workgroup, please see Greg and David.

Karl and Amanda go over hand signals.

Bob mentions last Saturday anti-nazi rally in Lexington. Good turnout.

David mentions new chant against the Nazi rally members, including, “Sit down Bitch”.

Eddie reiterates his love of the new chant.

Karl mentions talking to occupy members while there who are very involved in occupy just in other cities.

David on Finance says that 3 months has been paid ahead to the Braden center. Unable to contact Robin who still has card to account.

Finance workgroup consists of David, Linda and Karl.

David in contact with Kendra Clark, Improv for a fundraiser.

David on Braden center workgroup. One PC is online? One laptop (David’s) but still need printer cartridges.

Karl is still getting network going at Braden. 3 of the 4 PC machines DON’T have wi-fi cards so hardwiring is needed which is a delicate issue since this is a second floor operation. But the idea of a real, working media hub is still the goal.

Eddie wants a open house fundraiser at the Braden center. Eddie asked to await open stack session.

Tai Chi in Jefferson park, Tuesday morning at 9:15am. Every week.

David speaking for Direct Action. Asks about occupying the infield. David feels its a good media idea.

Mary concerned about access.

John mentions Occupy committed to walk with 350 environmental group at Oaks and Derby.

Karl doesn’t see a lot of good from occupying infield at Derby. Not a visibility ‘place’ due to the prtying demographic. Offers counter proposal to contact Lark and PLAN demonstrations against Humana, ALEC and various ‘targets’.

Eddie says not either or but both. 30-50 people in infield and working the media is important. Free air time. Doable.

Taco suggests a select group with signs.

Proposals…

Bob suggests GA at Braden center in addition to library GA’s.

Mary says bring are own beverages.

Amanda asks to clarify actual day(s) suggested.

Bob would like to see more branch out

Greg doesn’t feel building numbers happens via adding more GA meetings. In fact, history shows the opposite.

Karl suggests actions around parks with single person tents and signs and reading material and demonstrate/be visible at differing parks, based on themes relevant to the park community. All day conversation. Could hit each park. Doesn’t foresee police interference.

David suggests using the Saturday GA (which is in the park) as a venue for accommodating Karls idea.

David likes rotating Wednesday GA between Braden center and Library.

Eddie mentions gazebo at Shawnee good for said events.

Bob: Day camps would be good exposure, basically endorses Karl’s proposal for Park demonstrations.

Bob and Eddie raise voting registration issues at park.

Bob’s proposal then is to have bi-weekly park demonstrations at various parks. Saturday’s only. Discussion ensues.

Greg supports proposal and would like to keep the issue to vote on simply as support idea or not instead of hashing out every detail of how. How can be worked out once consensus is reached on the question of should we or not.

Taco raises transportation issues for those without such. Karl offers rides and also expands idea of planning.

REWORDED GA: GA’s every saturday, with demonstrations and GA at various other parks when possible. This is a biweekly goal with times, dates and parks to be announced later. GA at 6th and Jefferson regularly.

Proposal passed unanimously.

Taco proposes protest signs at Derby be with small, pocket size signs that when united would create a larger sign. Still feels derby action a good idea.

Karl likes idea.

Greg suggests everyone interested in derby action, see Taco immediately and work out this action.

Taco suggests being visible, raise public interest.

Dave feels support in city is there.

Larry asks about MayDay action. Wants to see occupy involvement. International movement and important.

Bob moves to adjourn.

Words of encouragement. AMANDA PLEASE STAY!!

Meeting ends with laughter and hugs.

4/18/12

Main Library

Facilitator: Karl

Minutes: Greg

Stack: David

Time: All

Karl explains that David will be at Braden center on Mondays and Tuesdays, 11am till 5pm and Karl will be there Wednesdays and Thursdays, 11am till 5pm.

Times are tentative but honest goals to achieve weekly. Logistic issues to be overcome.

Eddie left a desk at center that needs brought to the second floor.

Bob and Karl mention that NOT encamping allowing them time to accomplish other important tasks.

David and Jimmy to work on updating an opening statement for review at next Wednesday GA as it was agreed by all that an opening statement at each GA is important and needs to apply to our Library space.

Karl goes over hand signals for newcomers.

17 people in attendance so 15 people would be a 90% consensus to override a block.

An extended discussion of hand signals takes place.

Karl formally recommends a structural change to our GA.

Usually GA’s focus on workgroups and their reports, however would like to see GA be a hub for the many diverse activities and groups and causes that occupiers are involved with.

Stress networking of citywide efforts and groups. Discussion ensues.

Linda disagrees. Eddie also concerned with such an idea of change.

George agrees with Karl as does David as many occupiers are already doing this. That is engaged with other groups and bringing their efforts to GA.

Greg unsure on just how such a change would look in an actual GA.

Eddie stresses keeping the uniqueness of the Occupy Brand alive and separate.

Mikal says Occupy brand is over saturated and being used in contrary ways.

Also needs honest, hard work to accomplish Karl’s stated goal. Especially if we expect outside groups to come to us OR occupiers going to outside group meetings and reporting back. BOTH take time to evolve as they involve building trust.

Other organizations ARE involved heavily in our community and unfortunately most groups including occupy here in Louisville are lacking there very young.

Need to reach out yes but reach out also to youth. Larger occupy pushed on by youthful activism.

John wonders how we reach youth.

Nate offers reasons he hasn’t been around Occupy and some are due to consensus decision making in itself. Something to ponder when asking where are the young people.

Mikal adds young people are action orientated and many UofL students were willing to act but we failed to use them. Some in DC with plans to go to other cities with occupy tactics.

Eddie laments that yes we haven’t done enough with our youth.

Karl adds not having camp may be best thing going for us as we move into future.

Building Consensus is an important need.

George says the idealism of justice does draw people to occupy. All volunteers. Volunteer organizations fragile.

Objects to idea of weekend warriors or students as less than. Very important component. Do not prey upon ourselves. All wanting progressive change.

David mentions Braden center as a controversial part of occupy of late.

Bob feels daily focused activism important without occupation. Wants to discuss direct actions can be taken now to stay involved and visible.

Karl would like to set up at differing direct actions involving parks.

Tim reminds us that Zuccutti park doesn’t require direct actions to be consensus based

Greg reiterates that work groups are or can be doing this now.

John. Work groups should work this out.

Linda ideas on voter registration.

Eddie thinks every Saturday at a different park is a good idea and can be coordinated with other groups. Collaborate.

Curtis likes idea of collecting emails like we used to at 6th and Jefferson.

Karl doesn’t want to do this alone.

David asks if a workgroup doesn’t get GA “approval” can they still use Occupy name?

Tim, yes. Direct actions can.

Greg. Workgroups have in the past respected the GA’s decision to not endorse a particular action or announcement. Work groups should worry more about actions and organization than GA approval. Work groups can act outside GA, hopefully respect GA wishes.

Nate asks about Derby Day actions.

830 time limit reached. Meeting brought to an end.

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Present: Quiz, Marianna

Our committee decided to be a source of trust and team building for the Occupy movement in Louisville. We covered actions, philosophy, and procedures for educating to the Occupy function, with the goal of building smoothly functioning systems for Occupy.

The discussion began with an overview of the 3 parts of education presented by Quiz. #1—Address Issues, #2—action learning/skills share/outreach, #3—research/gather statistics in our community

Build infrastructure—post information board in the kitchen tent with
-meeting times and locations
-copy of the statement made at the beginning of every GA
Quiz will be responsible for this.

Create trust through pledges and statements.

We discussed topics for educational presentations. All topics would examine the disenfranchised economy. Sustainability was a suggested topic, including living, landless attitudes, and dwelling portability. Two other suggested topics were health care reform and finance reform, what is contained in the recent legislation and what is missing.

With regard to educating to the Occupy function, we discussed three areas: priorites, sustenance, and development.
Priorities:
-meet all agreements (fiscal agency, metro permit, utilities, Kentucky Alliance, ValuMarket, health and safety of Occupy members and the community)
-maintain accessibility
-direct actions (local and national)
Sustenance:
-camp needs
-continuation of the movement politically
-support for work groups
Development:
-ensure the community can speak intelligently and accurately to local and national issues
-increase constituents ability to respond to national issues
-identify community action groups and support pro-active policy and activist development

We decided to try to have two education events every month and to try to coordinate them with direct actions so that the education would precede the direct action event. For February, preceding the F29 event, we decided to show the film, “The Corporation” at three different times and venuse, from Feb 19th to Feb 22nd. Marianna will contact The Braden Center, Downtown Library, BRYCC House, Woodlawn Library, and Jeffersontown Library about rooms in which to show the film. For March, we decided to do two events, one on campaign finance reform, and one on lobbying. The campaign finance event is envisioned as a moderated panel discussion, and the lobbying event will focus on how to lobby ethically, hopefully with KFTC involved in the presentation. The Education Committee will develop supporting literature for both events. Marianna will contact potential panelists. We will also contact WFPL about broadcasting the campaign finance event once it is finalized. Quiz has already begun to develop publicity fliers.

Next meeting is Sunday, February 19th at 3PM at the BRYCC House.

Mandy read the opening statement and explanation of hand signals.

First we’ll have work group reports:
Direct Action work group: Last Tues we asked about joining F29 national day of action, we got approval to move ahead. We met Thurs and came up with basic plan, I took conference call with national group right after our wg meeting. All I’m asking today is approval that our target corp is YUM brands with a side of Humana. We have minimal plans, we’ll go to the YUM center, we’re going to start around 4, to get the word out about ALEC where corporations write “pre bills” and send them on to legislature to get passed. We’ll ask for help and volunteers but we need approval to join the national group.
David: can we go occupy KFC?
Lark: we may need some gorilla ninjas to do a few things throughout the community. There are other groups who we may reach out to. If we register we can get some help from other groups.
Proposal For F29 event shut down the corporations event in solidarity with other Occupy groups across the country.
Taco: we need to get people to do stuff the day before and the day of
Lark: This is going to be a big big event. We’ll come up with plans, it’s going to be huge.
Proposal: no stand asides, no blocks, proposal passed.

Mandy: Encampment workgroup is next
Jesse: Can someone volunteer to send in a needs list weekly
Mandy: can anyone volunteer to do that?
David: Since Cymone left nobody’s been doing it and I don’t want to take it on b/c I have so many other things.
Mandy: can we talk about it afterword?
Mariana: There was a food donation at 9am this week and no one was here to receive it, we need to formalize that and tighten that up.
Guitar Bob: My tent can be addressed 24/7 I will respond kindly
Mariana: we have to greet all donors warmly and let people know their donations are appreciated. We have to tighten that up.I won’t solicit anymore donations til that is tightened up.
Taco: We need receipt booklet. People show up and “No, I have to go” and don’t listen to us when we say they need a receipt.
Jesse: It’s set up where we can get online contributions online again, do we have to track goods that are donated?
Taco: we have to give receipts to everyone
Jesse: No, only if it’s over $100 we have to give a receipt
Karl: I think it’s a great idea to record for accountability, but unless it’s over a certain amount you don’t have to and we don’t have to give receipts for food donations. Let’s not let another meeting go by without picking up a receipt book. It’s easier to get one than it is to talk about it for 3 GAs in a row.
GBob: I can greet people any time of day.
David: some people drop stuff off and we never know they were here. Last Sat. I sent an email about b/c someone said he dropped off food and $20 and I never saw that donation.
Mandy: anyone else on stack to talk about it?
Taco: We had a situation where a couple of power cords got burnt out b/c of the weather, a heater got fried, etc. We need more power cords again, extension cords.
Jesse: we’ll post it online
Lark: Size?
Taco: 10-12 gauge cords
Stop Foreclosures WG: F25 day of action.
Jesse: We’re doing an occupation at bardstown and baxter we’re going to mic check them and demand they stop foreclosing and I just want to let everyone know about it, we meet Monday at 6 at WIT corner of shelby/chestnut.
David: we should move GA to 4 so we could all attend and still have GA
Mandy: can we vote to move the GA to 4?
Discussion: re moving GA to the bank, and doing it after the protest
Mandy: the Proposal is : GA at chase bank after the protest.
Vote: nobody objects, it passes.
Facilitation WG: Jesse: did anyone get in touch with David
Marion: I saw KA Owens and said KY Alliance needs the money, It seemed like it might not work.
Eddie: We got the office. I’ve talked to David Lott. K. Owens is just a co-chair. It’s up to us, we just don’t want to leave our camp site.
Jesse: If no one objects I’ll get in touch with him today and ask him about what was proposed at last GA
Eddy: we’ll save them money to pass on the phone calls they get, they only got 4 last month.
Karl: If they are willing to use our services, they are not into the intern they have and think it’s a waste of money. If we offer services, I don’t think we’ll have no need to pay for electricity.
Eddy: I have a computer I can donate if we have someone to install it, etc.
Mandy: want to keep talking on this? If no, we’ll move on.
Mariana: I met with George he’s meeting with Yarmuth Monday at 11:30 and he’s got a list of people he wants to attend. He’s done a lot of work on this.
Taco: Who’s going with him>
Mariana: Me, Pam, George, Keith
Mariana: Last weekend nobody came and the facilitator’s feelings were hurt. I’m planning on going tomorrow. It’s Sunday 3pm at Brycc House.
Media: David: There’s gonna be a big story tomorrow in the CJ by Chris Kenning
Taco: I was in the paper for the Occupy Mitch McConnell
Eddy: whole top of the metro section
Taco: has anyone been keeping up with what’s been going on with the occupations around the world?
Mandy: Media’s about what we’re doing here and maybe that would be something to talk about afterword?
Lark: I don’t know what to do about the media needs list I have
Eddy: What kind of needs?
Lark: I need a videographer, we need radio spot.
I’ll make a list and send it in and someone from the media team will address them.
David: I’ve been talking with Karl, right here on 4th st. is the free public radio.
Eddy: they also have a video stream
Jesse: What would the scope be?
David: It would be an occupy show, we’d try to call others from other occupys and if they’d give us an hour a week that would be great.
Jesse: I support that but I think we need to keep getting approval from GA as it moves forward.
Taco: If we’re going to do something like this why don’t we do it the day after the GA, so it can be talked about right before it’s happening.
Karl: May I recommend that we go over there and try to get an episode to focus on Occupy (state of affairs or something)
David: they’d decide what time it would be
Lark: can we vote that we’ll look into and we’ll discuss what we will do next time.
Proposal: We go to free public radio and ask about what is open to us
Vote, no blocks or stand asides, proposal to inquire passed.
Mandy: Next up
Lark: we can have a table at the social action Shabbat it will be an informational table, lots of good organizations. It’s not a protest, it’s an outreach opportunity.
Mandy: I think we should support this especially because of what happened before when someone was calling and using our name inappropriately.
Jesse: I don’t like adding friends of occupy, b/c it seems like an endorsement. I’m not comfortable with it.
Lark: The reason I had that idea came out of the conference call that we need to add affinity groups, the only people I was going to ask would be people who’ve already been friends of occupy louisville. I got neighborhood groups to support prior projects, it was sort of a pr thing.
Eddy: I’ve got pictures of Yarmuth that we could display on the table
Karl: My 2 cents, we need to get to a point where we can define the scope of endorsement and differentiate between different levels of endorsement. There are some who are very sensitive to it, very worried, and sometimes I think it’s an absolutely appropriate response. But a list of groups that say they endorse us and putting it on the website is not us endorsing them .
Mandy: 6 minutes do we continue?
Lark: I’ll have everything approved before we put it on the table
Mandy: can we vote on Social Action Shabbat
Proposed that we have a table? It passes, no stand asides or blocks.
Lark: I’ll let y’all discuss the friends of and maybe we can talk about it next time.
Mandy: so we don’t need to vote today?
Lark: It seems like more discussion is needed on this topic for sure. I do think it’s good to let other groups know who supports us.
David: I know that Dawn over at UU are very supportive and they started a group and they are planning a valentine’s dinner for us.
Lark: Joann would like to know how many people are coming by Sunday, we’ll give her a head count, let me know after GA
Finance WG: Online donations are all set up. There’s a form where you can see a spread sheet of our donations and all our expenses.
We should keep track of all financial donations
Mariana: can we send an email blast about it?
Jesse: I can do that, do we need to address the financial situation of the past?
Mariana: We should be positive about it.
Lark: Let’s wait til we can get it all online
Vote to wait til next GA to get things updated and ready to roll out?
Mandy do we have Other WG reports? Ok we’re going to open it up to Open Stack
David: I’d like to introduce Guitar Bob. He’s very into consensus, he’s been with the rainbow gatherings, he has a referral from Occupy King NH, and he’s pretty cool.
GBob: thank you David
Mandy: Open Stack Items?
David: As you know most of us here are unemployed. We’d like to find businesses that wouldn’t mind letting us work one or two days a week
Help the Occupiers find temporary work to get funds into our pockets and the occupy account.
Robin: What is the plan? It’s too vague.
Mariana: wanted to say that all donations to the camp need to stay in camp.
Guitar Bob: I understand the opposition but I think can be a good thing.
Mandy: I think people here networking together and offering support in helping people here get jobs, but I don’t understand what Occupy can really do to help or can offer to this?
David: I’m thinking we can send out an email and when people are looking to hire people they’d know they could come to us.
Eddy: we need to do a better job engaging people coming to the camp, and we can do a lot to network. Just advertising that people from Occupy are looking for a job…Occupy is still looked at as being trouble makers.
Proposal: The Occupants at the encampment would like to do temporary employment through connections that we have made through occupy to procure funds.
Mandy: can we vote on that? IF you think we should endorse what david said?
Yes, three nos, some stand asides Ok, there’s not enough support for that to pass, so if you’d like to refine it a bit and bring it back?
Ariel: How do I find out more about the groups and what they are about?
David: occupylouisville.org has a forum section that lists all the workgroups and when they meet.
Ariel: I looked at it and it had times, but there’s not much about what they are doing.
Jesse: check the website each group has a page with some info.
Mandy: also, we have people here from several groups, so your resources are right here.
Mandy: Okay opening the floor to anymore open stack
Can we end the meeting with words of encouragement.
David: gonna be in the paper tomorrow someone get me a copy
Lark: we have online donations again! thanks to everyone who made it happen.
Mandy: I’m happy to see 4 new faces here today and would like to hear what brought you here.

paper plates

plastic forks&spoons

pancake syrup

butter

bread

potatoes
large box of baking soda for cleaning
egg replacer

mac-cheese

potato peeler

spaghetti sauce

sugar packets

apples
suntea containers

solar oven

electric skillet

flip top handiwipes dispensers with bleach ingredient for cleaning rags

Lots of discussion before GA started regarding consensus, camp, donations.

Cymone: Opening Statement & hand signals.

Mandy Stop Foreclosures WG: Want Occupy’s endorsement for an action we’re doing. We’ll do it on our own not as Occupy if consensus is not reached.
We’re going to Occupy Chase Bank to get the community to pay attention to what Chase is doing. Caution tape around the bank, Mic check in the bank to say our message which is that Chase is involved in illegal foreclosures. We want media attention and want to have people speak about their experience. I propose that OL talk about it but hopefully endorse it so that hopefully we can say that OL supports it.

David: When’s the date? Jesse: Saturday 2/25/2012
Curtis: What did Obama’s new proposal do to help you? Mandy: We’re doing research, but it won’t change what Chase has already done.
Quizz: IT’s great that you’ve provided a good outline and that you’ve made it clear what the action is going to be and points of contact for people to speak, What time of day will it be?
Mandy: 1pm , the branch is open til 2. We’ll get there at 1, do a mic check and then the bank will close and we can stay as long as we want.
Christine: What part of this legal and what part of this is civil disobedience? What’s legal as far as wrapping caution tape on their property?
Mikal: wrapping the tape is not illegal, it doesn’t damage. Mic check is legal. If they ask you to leave and you stay, you’re tresspassing.
Mandy: Part of this is still open, we don’t necessarily have to break any laws to do this.
David: could we go over this at Saturday’s GA
Karl: Is there a script?
Mandy: Monday at 6 we’ll be meeting, writing script, and writing press release.
Jesse: I’d like to vote on this today if we can b/c we want to start publicizing this. At the mic check, if they ask us to leave it’s up to everyone to decide if they want to leave or stay and get arrested.
Curtis: if they ask you to leave can’t you just walk out on the sidewalk.
Lark: Which bank?
Mandy: Bardstown Rd. & Baxter.

Cymone: Proposal to endorse the action against chase bank, all in favor, none opposed, we will endorse the action against Chase bank on 2/25/2012

Lark: Our Occupy Mitch McConnell went over very well. (Showed CJ story about us) The big lakcing in that was the tv media just ignored us, Sam got it on video, he’s going to put it on youtube. If anyone has suggestions on the next action, help us get media attention. Shut Down the Corporations ALEC American Legislative Exchange Counsel, two big ones are Humana and UPS. If you have ideas let me know. It’s not til Feb 29th Leap into Action.
Every 2nd Sunday LPAC Veterans for Peace does Peace vigil, this Sunday 12th at 4pm. I’d like to put it on FB.

Karl: Just wanted to make a comment regarding the action with Mitch McConnell, I wasn’t in the best of form, when I tried to speak I think it fell short. I understand the purpose was to highlight the NDAA, Nobody knows about NDAA and everyone knows about Mitch McConnell, if we aren’t smart enough to connect to what he’s done to us locally, we’re shooting ourselves in the foot.
Curtis: I think you’re underestimating what you just said. My whole family had no idea what the NDAA was. They’d never heard of it, until I explained it to them.
Jesse: the point it to raise awareness, so what you did is what we want, you explained it to them.
Karl: I think it’s great it raise awareness.
Lark: We went along with a national act. We were putting him on notice. I don’t think he’s going to change his mind b/c we are out there protesting, but we did put him on notice.

Cymone: Do we want to continue

Quizz: Thursday is the meeting, so that would be the place to continue the conversation

Facilitation WG: Cymone: There was debate about using the space. I was thinking that I could be someone who could be in the office. I have experience. I could take some time and volunteer to do office work.
Karl: I talked with Pam earlier today and as far as I know she’s at the KY alliance board meeting right now. I mentioned to her that one of the things we’d talked about was the ability to volunteer someone to do some office work. David’s mentioned that he’s willing to go several days a week. The KY alliance has one intern, and there isn’t a lot of work to do. But if we could line that up, and say MWF 10-2 we could have someone to answer phones for you. Would that exonerate us from having to make a financial contribution for utilities. Pam wants to go down and use the space too.
David: I’d be willing to do 12-6 4 days a week or more, I could stay late or come earlier. Whatever I can do to help, I”m committed to do.
Jesse: We don’t have a concrete proposal, so I’m going to make one. We are willing to allocate up to $100/month the money but we are also going to ask if we can trade services. Someone from Occupy would staff an office 3 days a week, 12-6.

Cymone: continue?
Consensus: Yes

David: 12-6 3 or 4 nights per week would work for me. After this past weekend when we got what we needed for electricity, I became a believer that we can get what we need when we ask for it.
Curtis: Mine is similar to Jesse’s, I’d like to send around a ballot, to vote on who is going in here and who is not, and how much money is going in here and how much is not? I’ve seen some funny ass shit go on, I”ve seen it happen.
Quizz: we agree we need to get into the details of management, but we need to move on with stack.
Karl: Jesse I appreciate the proposal, the only thing I would mention would be that I think it would be better to come back with a yes for $50/month and services traded. I don’t think they need 30-50 hours of continuous occupation each week. I would ask what is their schedule? And so if we can alternate a couple or three people, so that way you can do your work, and answer the phone, and we need to put that in our proposal. Pam would like to be in there, and David would be another person b/c he is committed to being there damn near every day.
Quizz: this is a great start for a memorandum of agreement. Everyone will know this is what we’ve agreed to. You have to have forms of accountability such as consequences. We need to track who has been banned. Who has keys: If someone signed you in or out, we have to log when the keys are used and by who. What work groups are going to use the space. So that everyone knows what is going on. A memorandum agreement is a way to go that sets boundaries very clearly.
David: I thought he didn’t want the keys passed, and didn’t want copies made. So I thought he wanted two people to be responsible for the keys.
Mikal: Maybe we should talk to David Lott again? That never happened? We’re spinning our wheels.
Jesse: we never finished this discussion to go talk to David Lott.
Mikal: Can we vote yes or no and work out the details? I would suggest we agree we want to be in the space, but not until we negotiate the details with David Lott.
Quizz: Thank you Mikal, I”m in agreement. Pam may come back with some info from the KY Alliance meeting. They keep food and things down there and we don’t need people in there that are going to disrespect the space.
Karl: In the spirit of what Mikal said, could we get a vote on a proposal? We’ve not ironed out all the details and we won’t til we give David Lott an answer. As it stands, we want to make it work. Let’s get an affirmative voice.

Cymone: temp check can we get a vote
Jesse: We will seek the use of the Braden center and will allocate up to $100/month and will ask to offer volunteer work to offset costs if possible.
Vote: yes, one stand aside, resolution passed.

George: I’ve brought 10 copies of the resolution, I want to propose that this be presented to the city counsel as part of a Lark-inspired action as far as participation of people. Other cities have passed resolutions like this. I’ve got a petition also, I’d like to read the title of the resolution. (A resolution opposing the US supreme court’s interpretation of the constitution in Citizens United v Federal Election Commission…..)
My proposal is that we, in an appropriate manner present this to the metro counsel.
Mikal: What would happen if they said no.
George: we’re no worse off
Mikal: Had the group thought about an action
George: My idea was to approach the them and rep and get them together to co-sponsor this. If not, we might have an action to support this.
Lark: so have they been approached?
George: no, not yet.
David: My 5 weeks since I spoke to metro counsel is up so I can present again if you’d like me to talk about this.
Karl: The Right has attacked the unions, why put them on the same playing field?
George: The way to keep it non partisan is to go with both sides.
Karl: I keep hearing people talking about amendments and I want to know what crack people are smoking, we haven’t been able to pass an amendment in 80 years.
George: we could talk about this privately for the next 2 hours.
Quizz: you’ve put it out there, that is a positive motion forward for us to build upon. This is good for us as an awareness and outreach document.
Lark: We can work out a time table and when we come back we can have more fleshed out ideas.
George: I”d like a week, I’d like to ask my proposal be pushed to next week.
Curtis: Didn’t we approve this already?
George: we did approve an amendment earlier, this is a resolution going to metro counsel.
Quizz: Point of Process! We have stack going on. POI I have this idea that there is an archetypal battle building up. This is how I dream up these street actions and things. If anybody takes this info and can muse on it. I’d love to see rock ‘em sock ‘em robots going out to teach about NDAA in the neighborhoods. If anyone wants to take that and roll with it.
Cymone: Let’s vote on this ?
Consensus: let’s vote
Cymone: Do we pass the proposal that George present this resolution to the city counsel?
Vote: Yes, no stand asides or blocks, Proposal is passed.
Quizz: Education work group meeting; We talked about what programming we can do long term. Bike work shop, composting/gardening. It would be going through Brycc House programming. What I did hardline is that we have conflict in the camp with security and food issues. I’ve gone in to work with them on these issues. We are trying to have daily action at camp, to see where we can grow together. We are incubating ideas.
Mikal: I need some clarification.
Quizz: seeking money to sponsor Brycc House activities, to host the Occupy camp.
MIkal: So that would be BH activities that Occupy members would be invited to. It’s your organization doing that workshop, regardless of who you invite.
Quizz: in the process of getting donations of food. I got approval for us to have fiscal agency over certain actions, through our organization. Our org. is working to build function and sustainability. I’d like to further offer that we are willing to sponsor activities that are funded by other agencies that can be presented to the community and Occupy.
Mikal: I have an issue if an org asks for money not for the org, but for Occupy. I wanted to make sure it’s being requested not in the name of Occupy.
Quizz: that’s not happening.
Mikal: that’s the clarification I wanted.
Cymone: you can come sunday or talk to Quizz after the meeting. Media work group?
Jesse:we don’t have any updates.
David: UU Friends of Occupy, on 2/14 they want to have a dinner for Occupy at 5:30 with GA at 7pm there. They would like to invite us to dinner and then they would attend our GA in the sanctuary. I’d like to get the word out.
Lark: GA will be at the church that night? Yes
Cymone: can we vote on having our GA at UU next week on the 14th, no stand aside or block, proposal passed. Dinner at 5:30.
George: I suggested we do friends of UU
Lark: I spoke to the pastor, she idd a great sermon about Occupy, I linked to it.
David: you should have been there this past sunday, it brought me to tears.
Robin: update on financial situation. Bank account up, paid porta kleen, created excel to track donations, and expenditures.
Cymone: Other work groups?
Cymone: Proposal regarding Education (charter schools)
Jesse: it appears some may be using the Occupy name as if we support positions we’ve never discussed or endorsed, I’d like to put it on the record that we do not take any stance on things that we’ve not come to consensus on.
Mandy: I wanted to bring a proposal perhaps on Saturday’s GA that we have to have consensus on actions
Mikal: We did talk about this in the past, but it got misconstrued, and we should probably revisit it.
Cymone: can we table this til Saturday.
Quizz: I feel strongly about this esp. when it goes to city counsel.
Robin: we need consensus before it goes anywhere.
Curtis; I know about Yarmuth and that was an accident. It turned out to be alright.
Karl: a new work group has been formed. It has it’s first meeting. We’re looking at having a meeting every 2 weeks, it is open. Consensus building work group.
Meeting ended due to library closing

The bank was exceptionally lenient with late payments up to 45 days until it became apparent that other issues were in play. In the last 2 years of our mortgage, we got our payments to fit within 30 day turn-around times, and the bank was continuing to be cooperative – save for the constant reminder of the late fees. Ultimately, we went into foreclosure when a member of the board was not in regular communication with our insurance agent and let our insurance payment slip. When the other members of the board found out about this we did our best to remedy the situation.  The actual insurance writers had no problem starting back up while the agency itself told us that it wanted all $4000 up front to renew the policy. Ultimately a late insurance payment turned into a call for payments in full on the remainder of the insurance, which triggered notification of the bank who started foreclosure.

The bank let us know unless we could come up with a minimum of $12,000 as a security for missed or late mortgages (including the payment of all late fees) then the property would be lost. In effect, it put forward the notion that it was willing to try to find a way to give us time to remedy the conditions of extreme financial duress in a building which was not affordable up to the very sale date by the Commissioner. Sadly we decided to not dispute the Catch-22 scenarios that landed us with a nearly impossible set of tasks which were beyond our scope of renovation and attention. So… the Brycc House has moved down the street and resides as a rental now at 825 South Floyd Street. The site was not really the first choice of location for current members but providing service in Old Louisville from our new location can continue to be a part of our vision. We prefer to be proactive instead of fighting beyond our means in a struggle between commercial and governmental authorities.

Come visit us on Sundays at 3pm when we discuss how other folks can learn more and join the process of Occupying Economics affordably and sustainably. www.brycchouse.com

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