The Fish Bowl Room” Wednesday - April 18, 2007 – 5:00 to 6:00 pm
Present: Adina, Chris, Gail, Kelly, Michelle, Mitch, Patti, Randy, Richard
Agenda:
1) Establish our meeting schedule and content
2) Low-hanging fruit items that can be proposed for the budget
There is an opportunity to propose up to five items from each group to be proposed for the current budget cycle at the next council meeting. The deadline for this is May 24, and sooner is better to give the items a chance for approval. Michelle, Gail and Randy are forming a SWAT team to collate these ideas.
3) Adina; will do a Yahoo group for the coordinating team; all of the subcommittee heads and liaisons.
4) Press
release ideas
Kelly
will do a press release for the upcoming meeting.
Other PR ideas: take turns writing letters to the editor about MenloGRCC activities.
5) Plan
for the next plenary meeting agenda
News flashes up front. Rich and Patti will do it this time, and the role will circulate around. Ideas include Earth Day, trains.
Before the meeting, the stations should be set up with flip charts. Signon sheets should include a new column with the group each person is in.
The focus of the meeting is for city staff to present current activities and be available to answer questions. Up to four staff members might show up. They will start with a presentation and then sit in on the working groups.
It would be useful during the breakout reports to highlight ideas that a group has had that would be appropriate for another group.
Provide an inspirational ending, which brings us back to the vision, and look ahead to the next meeting.
There needs to be someone identified to take notes for the session.
6) The next meeting
Potentially invite IDEO to facilitate brainstorming. Invite them to the next coordinating meeting to plan their participation in the plenary session.
7) Check in for
each team
A quick check in from each subcommittee at each of our coordinating meeting.
Mitch: Energy and Materials
– primarily in the research phase; 8 people were at the last meeting, with 3 or 4 not present. Within four to six weeks, ideas will start taking form. The group will try to connect with Raleigh
and Tucson to get the
staff reports and the resolutions with what they did.
Randy: land use
and building will be dividing into sub committees; sub groups will
put together a process to think through the items and come to the
next meeting with a four to five step process to determine whose
going to do what. Intent
looks good and interest is high. We need someone interested in and or committed to water.
Green
Business has been quiet. The main person is underwater due to the Atherton project;
after Earth Day more activity is expected.
Communications.
Adina: The blog has
been updated with all of the minutes from every meeting. The priorities for blogging include reports on what MenloGRCC are
doing, local and regional activity; and traditional PR. Our group has been active and small in number; we’ve been limiting
our suggestions to what we can do.
Gail:
when the communication team reported it sounded more like a service
entity vs. a substance one – how the community learns about climate
change and can be mobilized to do something about it. There are additional opportunities to do proactive communication and education to community groups, such as schools, communities of faith, business groups, residents.
Mitch:
there is some kind of program called power walk – door to door with
free compact fluorescents;
Michelle: suggests creating program proposals. If the proposal is written, the city can get it going and then a
partner can help to take the idea/project to the next
level. Peter
is doing the sermon on Earth Day at the Unitarian U Church; It would be possible to Collect
sermons and distribute them around to communities of faith;
Someone can post the details for Valerie’s
event on Saturday night; Atherton Green.net
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