Minutes:20060305-2
From EcoReality
Minutes March 5, 2006
- Considering our attendees, we chose to do some brainstorming to make best use of the time that had been allotted on the agenda to sharing with potentially new advisory council participants
Brainstorm
- Ways to connect with Advisory other than current email reminders prior to meetings
- ACTION: members split up the existing list of Advisory council participants (each member took names) and will do phone call tree sharing/asking following questions:
- share update of member process
- check-in with Advisory Council member on their desired level of involvement
- ask if they still wish to be on Advisory council
- ask if they are interested in attending any Advisory council meetings
- ask same question if these meetings are held on Saltspring
- report back to members
- Membership procedure
- membership agreement signed, financial disclosure, etc etc see membership procedure
- membership probationary period was discussed
- once we have purchased land and are living in community, this period is to be three months living in community as Advisory Council - a proposal that needs ratifying at next meeting
- informal process interim procedure - get to know Advisory Council members who are interested in full membership, establish level of commitment and continue to "get to know" one another, if mutually agreed the membership application can be offered to interested Advisory Council members
- ACTION All members agreed to do their own membership applications in full by March 25 and will exchange them by Email for review by other members - note this is so that we are testing the process of the membership application ourselves prior to any others using this process
- Recruiting
- the wiki is working well, yet we need more connection to actual presence of all the Advisory council members, whether this is by virtual feedback and reading of meeting minutes and communication, or where possible meeting face to face with new (and not so new) Advisory council members
- Saltspring island community involvement is desirable
- we will do tangible involvement once we have a property, even if it is interim property and not the final island ecovillage building site
- we will offer programs at General meetings such as:
- show relevant films, such as the upcoming Escape from Suburbia in which Ecoreality members will be featured
- workshops about stewardship and study items of relevance to building community and living sustainably
- speakers, including some of our very own Advisory Council resource people
- more ideas? please share them with us!
- Wiki brainstorm for members: agreement to be on top of new changes on wiki in timely fashion, to email URLs to each other when changes of significance have been made, to use watch pages and recent changes page to keep in the loop
- Next general meeting:
- Facilitator: Jan
- Meeting adjourned.
