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= Minutes for 30 June 2012 =

= Details =
Location: Community Church of Boston <br/>
Time: 5:30 - 7:00pm (approximately) <br/>
Note taker: Steve

= Summary =

Between 11--12 people attended. We passed two proposals, which I'll
summarize as

* To hold the April 14th general assembly at the Southwest Corridor Park (near the Stonybrook T station in Jamaica Plain).

* To cancel GA on Tuesday July 3rd and Saturday July 7th; and to dedicate the Tuesday July 10th GA to a discussion about Occupy Boston's decision making process.

= Minutes =

== Working Group Announcments ==

'''Chess'''. We're thinking about moving our meetings outside. It's
nice out.

'''Bank Actions'''. We're having an action on Monday that should be really
fun: it's a Going out of Business Bake Sale for bank of America.
We'll meet at Dewey square, 4:00 pm, then head over to the Bank of
America building at 100 Federal street. We'll be at Bank of America
from 4:30 - 6:00. For more information, see
http://www.occupyboston.org/2012/06/29/bake-sale-for-bofa/

'''OBIT'''. A couple of weeks ago, the calendar submission form on
occupyboston.org broke. The plans to fix it fell through the
cracks. In the last week, we were able to identify exactly what's
going wrong. We hope to have it fixed in a few days.

Question: in the interim, what should we do for calendar event
submissions?

Go to http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Media, and find the link for
"Calendar Admin List". Calendar admin list takes you to a google
spreadsheet, which lists the calendar admins. Find someone you know,
and ask them to post your event. (Note: the spreadsheet may be
somewhat out of date.)

== Individual Announcements ==

'''Carolyn (on behalf of Greg)'''. Tomorrow at 3pm, there's a meeting at E5
to discuss their eviction, and plans going forward. See
https://www.facebook.com/events/384661094928966/.

'''Carolyn (on behalf of Angela)'''. Angela has cancelled the discussion
that she was planning to lead at the July 1 SAA. A new date hasn't
been scheduled yet.

'''Matt'''. We're moving day camp from Saturday to Sunday. Day camp will
be held in Copley Square, starting at noon. There will be whiffle
ball, aka the Occupy Boston Red Sox.

== Consent bucket ==

Mike reads the list of proposals that we have on the agenda.

# To move the July 14th GA to Southwest corridor park, in support of the Bastille day event (Carolyn)
# Immediate freeze on new expenditures, and to reduce S17 allocation from $7 -> $2k (JS Dwyer, on behalf of Greg Murphy)
# Set aside some money for E5. (Jen Mazer)
# To cancel 7/3, 7/7 GA. Dedicate 7/10 GA to a discussion of decision-making processes (Carolyn)

We have previous proposals from Joe C and Terra. These proposals will
roll over.

Proposals (2), (3), (4) come out of the consent bucket.

Proposal (1) stays in the consent bucket.

=== Proposal (1) Questions ===

Question: is it worthwhile to have the July 14th GA at Southwest
Corridor park, given the low turnout at recent GAs?

Proposer: The GA would happen after the Bastille day event. People
could go from one event to the other.

Mike: Is there a special organization or structure planned for that
GA?

Proposer: No

'''Proposal Passes'''

== Regular Proposals ==

=== Quorum Check ===

Rich calls for quorum check.

Carolyn reads the definition of Quorum.

Some members of the group want to discuss the quorum check before
taking a vote.

Steve: Could we have quorum for making some decisions, but not others?

John: This process is as ritualized as a Greek Orthodox Mass. It used
to work for us, but now it's just a manicle.

Dana: Maybe we should talk about Carolyn's proposal, to get a larger
critical mass on the 10th, where we'd be discussing decision making
processes.

Mike: we can make decisions and hope they're upheld. But this is
stretching the process.

John asks if people agree with Carolyn's proposal. Uptwinkles from
nearly everyone.

Rich: If we cancel two GA's, then we'll spend the next two weeks
getting attacked for doing it. But then, no one is showing up
anyway. So F-it.

Rich withdrawls quorum check. We proceed to order proposals.

We decide to discuss Carolyn's proposal first.

There's a facilitation switch. Mike would like to step back from his
role as facilitator, so that he can discuss the proposal. Steve
offers to facilitate.

(Notetaker: I will summarize a few points from memory, since I was
facilitating and not taking notes.)

=== Proposal to cancel 7/3, 7/7 GA; and Devote 7/10 GA to discussion about OB's decision making processes ===

There was a concern that cancelling the 7/4 GA would inhibit S17
planning. Counter argument: September 17th still several months away.
If the planning starts a few days later, it shouldn't hurt.

There was an proposed amendment to cancel GA for the rest of the
summer.

Carolyn: That's a bigger decision than I want to make. This proposal
is concerned with getting us through the next week, and with starting
a discussion about what we want our decision-making process to be. I
don't want to go further than that. Amendment rejected.

'''Proposal Passes'''

=== Quorum Check ===

Rich asks for a quorum check. GA decides that we do not have quorum.

There is a very heated exchange after the Quorum check. GA ends
shortly afterwards.

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