Post by Jim C on Oct 22, 2011 12:21:54 GMT -7
Minutes from Friday Oct 21st 4pm meeting of Occupiers
Series of questions with show of hands:
Are you camping or have you camped, how long?
Do you support Occupy Missoula and count yourself a participant? (100%)
Do you support our consensus process and decisions? (100%)
Have you been drug and alcohol free for the last 24 hours? (approx 25-30%)
Brief discussion.
It was noted that zero-tolerance is not “zero” if one can just “go over there” and drink etc and then come right back into camp. Concerns about people coming into camp intoxicated or otherwise under the influence of substances.
Consensus Decisions
We will Continue to Occupy the courthouse lawn.
We will Scale Back the camp-occupation in the following manner:
Galley Tent
clear out all “random” foods and donate
get rid of food that we are not cooking because we are not cooking in camp donate
all donations to go into pantry first not directly to galley
back supply/pantry tent up to info
(this may change slightly once we have 30x30 wall tent)
we will ask for $ donations to our account as preferred over food and will supply a list of preferred foods (easy to consume products)
2 meals a day at set times and put away after
coffee, hot water and a snack available at all times
tent available for rain shelter
Move Galley tent to “our” side of courthouse lawn
Supply and Pantry tents to merge
Info booth stays
We will have a Registry/Check-In Process
This will include:
a registry for people's belongings and their attendance
they will be supplied with a list of rules and asked whether they agree to comply
they will be asked to sign up for specific work/volunteering/participation
this will apply to everyone on “our” side or they will be asked to move
(it was pointed out that if they are not part of the occupation they have to have permission to use the amenities or else they are stealing)
other suggestions not decided on but which seemed to have support:
more distinction between personal tents of occupiers and others
other suggestions left for future meetings:
move signs on side-walk to “our” side
make it safer for people of religion to feel comfortable
Series of questions with show of hands:
Are you camping or have you camped, how long?
Do you support Occupy Missoula and count yourself a participant? (100%)
Do you support our consensus process and decisions? (100%)
Have you been drug and alcohol free for the last 24 hours? (approx 25-30%)
Brief discussion.
It was noted that zero-tolerance is not “zero” if one can just “go over there” and drink etc and then come right back into camp. Concerns about people coming into camp intoxicated or otherwise under the influence of substances.
Consensus Decisions
We will Continue to Occupy the courthouse lawn.
We will Scale Back the camp-occupation in the following manner:
Galley Tent
clear out all “random” foods and donate
get rid of food that we are not cooking because we are not cooking in camp donate
all donations to go into pantry first not directly to galley
back supply/pantry tent up to info
(this may change slightly once we have 30x30 wall tent)
we will ask for $ donations to our account as preferred over food and will supply a list of preferred foods (easy to consume products)
2 meals a day at set times and put away after
coffee, hot water and a snack available at all times
tent available for rain shelter
Move Galley tent to “our” side of courthouse lawn
Supply and Pantry tents to merge
Info booth stays
We will have a Registry/Check-In Process
This will include:
a registry for people's belongings and their attendance
they will be supplied with a list of rules and asked whether they agree to comply
they will be asked to sign up for specific work/volunteering/participation
this will apply to everyone on “our” side or they will be asked to move
(it was pointed out that if they are not part of the occupation they have to have permission to use the amenities or else they are stealing)
other suggestions not decided on but which seemed to have support:
more distinction between personal tents of occupiers and others
other suggestions left for future meetings:
move signs on side-walk to “our” side
make it safer for people of religion to feel comfortable