In attendance: Andy & Trish, Bill, Jim, Jeremy & Emily, Randy White, Misi, Kathy & Steve from the Green Party, Gary, Marine, Norris, Teresa, Max, Pam, Carla, Alexander.

For any of the Wednesday meetings, someone needs to be to St. Francis by 6:30pm so the people cleaning the room don’t have to worry about handing off a key and we can just make sure the doors lock at the end of the meeting.

It was suggested that the Education/Outreach group help structure the general meeting.

Teresa suggests...

1st Wednesday would be education and outreach could be in part led by the green party.

3rd Wednesday would be preparation.

It was agreed that St. Francis would be reserved for general public functions, with the 2nd Wed. being the general monthly meeting.

Steve from the Green Party pointed out that the Green Party just wants to help out as peak oil clearly affects everyone.

Teresa has reserved the People’s Co-op the first Sunday of the month for the next three meetings starting at 5:30pm with the agenda pegged to start at 6pm.

General meeting - 2nd Wed. 7pm, St. Francis

Business meeting - 1st Sun. starting at 6pm, People’s Coop (wait for Teresa's e-mail to the list).

Training/Outreach meeting - 4th Wed. 7pm, (Emily will look into Meetro)

Preparedness meeting - 4th Wed. 7pm, (Jim’s house?)

Group selects Jeremy as facilitator. Emily will take minutes at meetings. Of course, this will stand only at meetings at which they’re present.

Discussing decision making in groups. Alexander will send a message out to the group regarding consensus democracy. We will restate decisions as a way of cementing them.

Jim shared a brief history of the meeting.

Carla proposes we start a steering committee whose purpose is to make decisions. Andy’s idea is that one has to attend a certain number of meetings before one can join the steering committee. Jim suggests a small, odd number of people in the committee. Carla recommends the committee be self-selecting.

Steering committee - when a snap decision has to be made; for the group to have a distinct core group to identify to others. 3-meeting requirement to be part. Bill will write up the functions of the committee by Sunday’s business meeting. Will table issue until Sunday July 3rd at People’s Coop

Misi, Pamela, Norris, and Bill will set agenda for next general meeting on July 13th by this Sunday. E-mail them with any suggestions.

Emily went over web site points. We will decide upon domain name at the next business meeting on Sunday.

Jeremy mentioned how Randall and Jeremy registered the domain name of www.thecrashcourse.org and pointed out the double meeting of crash course. This _might_ be a great place to put the preparation doc, but there was no discussion of this point.

Pam mentioned Heinberg and the Hirsch report.

We’re agreeing that Laughing Horse can table at our general meetings.