Future of Village Surrey - 3rd meeting

The next meeting will take place on Thursday, June 6, 4-6 pm at Bear Creek Park (by the northeast entrance).
If attending please register: http://www.villagevancouver.ca/events/future-of-village-surrey-3rd-...

In this meeting the discussion of the issues of 1) How to make Village Surrey Transparent and Decentralized, and 2) Basic Transition Projects will be continued.

Minutes from the last meetings are available for members. Please study these beforehand for a constructive dialogue and contribution.
The discussion will be based on the content of following transition initiative documents (please study these documents before the meeting):
(a) Transition Primer:
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/resources/transition-primer
(b) The Five-Fold Path of Productive Meetings (A Guide for Collaborative Groups):
http://www.starhawk.org/Empowerment_Five-Fold-Path.pdf

The agenda includes:

Continue to establish a commonly shared email / contact list.

Discussion about 'membership' (rights / privileges vs. responsibilities) and the 'meeting process' (organizing, structuring, facilitating).

Creating a template for minutes (including rules for naming the file, and deciding on a good way to store them for easy review. This is important in order to keep the documents well organized and transparent for all members, and make it easy to join in for new members).

Continuing with Basic Transition Projects - further inventory of skills, interests, tools, and resources to start project groups on a priority basis.

We encourage carpooling and alternative ecologically-sensible transportation (biking, etc.).

For those who would like to attend but find location and/or time inconvenient, please let us know. We will always try to set meeting times to be most accessible for all of us.

Looking forward to see you,
Ira