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Next Meeting and what happened with Directors Feb 18!

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Hey all,

Sorry I haven’t gotten to the email lately and updated to all on what happened at the meeting on February 18th.

Before I get to that though, I’d like to suggest our next meeting be:

Thursday, March 18 at 6PM

Thursdays seem to be working reasonably well for us.

So our last meeting was basically to put pen to paper and sign off on both the Constitution that we have all been working on, plus sign up our initial slate of Directors (who I must emphasize are tasked to do as little as possible… leaving the workings to Group Leaders!).

We did indeed sign off on the Alberni Valley Transition Town Society Constitution and Bylaws.

Everyone who was there (Dan, Bonnie, Colin, Edna, and myself) signed the document. We did make one change to the document which was to change the “Carbon Energy Reduction Plan” specified in the document to “Energy Reduction Action Plan”.

While there was only a need for 3 Directors, everyone in attendance actually volunteered to become a Director so, the Directors of the Alberni Valley Transition Town Society are:

Myself,
Bonnie Ruttan
Edna Cook
Dan Schubart – Secretary/Treasurer.
Colin Frazer

You’ll notice Dan is the only one with an actual title afterwards. As Secretary/Treasurer Dan has accepted responsibility for archiving the minutes of any AGMs and other meetings of the Society and has also accepted responsibility for handling any money raised, etc.

So there you have it.

Just today I have created an account for us on BCOnline so that our Society creation fee ($100) can be payed (I’ve put up the cash for it) once our application goes through.

We also have everything we need in order to send in our application to become officially recognized as a Transition Town so I’ll be sending that away shortly.

Hope that serves as a reasonable update.

I hope to see everyone at the next meeting! There is lots to do! The Food Group needs to get some traction again. The Energy Group going to have its first meeting very soon and talk about what we can do in town. The Housing Group has a Society now and I’d like to hear how things are progressing there.

Cheers.

Chris

Meeting, Minutes

Notes from the last Meeting.

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Below are the minutes and a brief description of the meeting of December 1 at the bottom. It was a great meeting!

#1: Introductions.
Attendance:
Bonnie, John, Colin, Edna, Dan, Myron, Chris, Julie, Guy, Kathleen, Andy

#2: Brief Announcements:
Edna on Canada World Youth Visit and
– Theme is Env. Sustainability for this year – Bike Safety, promoting biking – Theatre of Engagement – Pamela Walker – Work at Abbeyfield around gardens and recycling – Looking for work and projects from other groups – and host families – 11th Dec. to 10th March – Contact Leah Bratt : natural.wisdom@gmail.com

John on Richard Hebda presentation on Jan 28
– Global Warming impacts on Forests in BC – Support/Effort/Promote with AEC – in Dogwood Room – AVTT will support this as well.

#4 Candlelight vigil: December 11 – 350.org
– Jen Fisher-Bradley is helping John as well. – There will be an Open Mike, it might be in City Hall if weather is bad. We’ll ask the City for permissions – Inviting Churches to it as well.

#3: Working through and approval of Constitution.

This was the meat of the meeting. We only got through half of the document, which is fine! There was lots of great discussion about how we want to promote ourselves, what we’re really all about, how members should promote the group, activism, politics, etc etc. We got into pretty much everything! There were only minor wording changes made to the portions that we got to.

Please check out the updated constitution on the website (www.patransitions.net). PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SUGGEST CHANGES THROUGH THE EMAIL LIST OR WEBSITE. Now that most everyone has had a chance to read it and digest it a little I’m hopeful that we don’t *have* to do all the changes people might want at meetings. There’s no reason people can’t suggest changes through email or on the website. I will be sending another email shortly encouraging people to go to the website and put in their suggestions.

Dan and Bonnie (and husband Mike) are moving along with the Housing group. If you’re interested in helping retrofit houses to be super-energy efficient and building new ones as well, then get in contact with Dan, or Bonnie either through the list, on the website, or by phone.

That’s the update!

Chris