charlette, we can just ask to use the chac showroom (upstairs) next time…
…as to the candidates conversation, and similar to what i just posted to the steering committee yahoogroups site…
seems that we're already getting lost as to our priorities, and in the end, who or what the community council is really about.
why all this importance or emphasis given to a few so called elected officers?
you mentioned it before…it's about the larger community…
if a 'community council' is going to have any effect or real meaning on this hill it's not going to be about a few randomly elected folks changing anything, it's going to be about each one of us self-sELECTING ourselves at every opportunity we have, electing to show up at a meeting or gathering (and creating our own) to be that voice that we need to be.
each one of us ultimately holds the power over this new community body, the power of yay or nay, of the veto and then even ditching this, our latest capitol hill experiment in organizing, if it doesn't work out…
this last meeting was not just about listening to the voices of four new people getting elected but about us…we've got a whole lot more listening to do cut out for us here….
there are so many different ideas and opinions about how things ought to be done around here it's staggering,
our real work as a council is going to be about figuring out a truly representative way of capturing and hearing these voices…
let's not fall into any illusions about this election having a lot of importance, let's not waste too much time about it, let's just get on with getting the word out to a whole lot more people and then figuring out a REAL system to accommodate that, a REAL way to organize and then channel all these various, unique energies, perspectives and potential wisdom around here.
ok, so my 2 cents as to what's important if we want to change anything around here.
michael
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