[GREN-Exec] Decision process

[Kevin Thomason]

Sounds like a good plan to me John.

My thoughts:

While I really like the idea of us hosting speakers and working with other groups on joint initiatives.  My concern is that this event could have more of a political focus (attacking our current government) than an environmental focus.  Granted the current government has had a dismal track record on the environment, however, I don't believe that we should side with or against any particular political party as we will need to work with them all at some point or another.  

I also wouldn't want GREN to fall into the current governments crosshairs like the KW Field Naturalists did earlier this year and become the subject of intense Revenue Canada auditing or for us to be seen as biased for or against any particular political faction.  I believe that we need to focus on solutions and build broad community action on the environment rather than attack individuals or political groups.  There are lots of political parties and action groups in Waterloo region already, however there aren't many diverse, credible environmental organizations working on the wide number of solutions required with everyone in the community.

Cheers,
Kevin.

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On Jan 27, 2015, at 5:28 PM, John Jackson <jjackson at web.ca> wrote:

> On the basis of input received this afternoon, I plan to proceed as follows:
> 
> send out an e-mail to the paid members tomorrow morning with 3 parts: 
> the proposal for the meeting (Susan K: can you revise your first paragraph to describe the proposal without the reasoning behind it. It needs a bit about who the person is and a couple of line description of his book with a link to your book review as well as the description of the actual event, possible co-sponsors, etc.
> Susan K’s original reasoning behind the proposal: Can you combine a couple of the e-mails that you have sent us explaining why you think it is something we should do – a few paragraphs
> Kevin’s statement of concern: Kevin could you send me a few paragraphs to put in
> 
> Step 2: Give people 24 hours to make comments to the whole membership group if they so wish
> 
> Step 3: Cut off discussion and call for a vote. To keep some confidentiality around the vote, only send their vote to me and I will be sworn to not tell others how individuals voted. I won’t participate in the discussion over the previous 24 hours to make them more comfortable with sending their vote to me.
> 
> Does that sound fine to everyone? How long should we give people to vote?
> 
> I need to look up our minutes from our early meetings to check on what percent vote in favour has to be achieved to pass. I think it was around 2/3rds, but don’t quote me on that. I have to check it.
> 
> John
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