Meeting Minutes for 6/14/2007

The minutes are a little spare for our first meeting, which was more of an informal touching-base session. Nevertheless, for posterity, here they are.

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Jersey City DFA Agenda and Minutes

Date: 6/14/2007
Location: Brownstone Diner & Pancake Factory
Attendees:
Cheryl
Christian
Dale
Gina
Leila
Steve - Committeeman, Hamilton Park
Tavie

Meeting called to order at: ~7:00 pm

1) Agenda items:
a) Location principles: Near public transit, good parking
b) Common goals: transparency, openness (No moderators for email – i.e. anyone can email a member of the group at any time; public access to post blogs and calendar items for events without a go-between)
c) Set up complimentary Yahoo Group
d) Set up blog (Dale brought up it should contain whole name “JerseyCityDFA”)
e) Steve brought up the idea of tables at free events/public spaces such as Farmer’s Market at Hamilton Park.
f) Dale asked for volunteers to be Group Organizers: Gina, Leila and Christian volunteered to help Dale, who is started the group.

2) Tabled: N/A

3) Committee reports: N/A


4) Summary of resolutions and assignments:
a) Gina/Tavie set up blog
b) Dale set up Yahoogroup
c) Tavie will donate Flickr space for photos and webspace at her personal web domain to host files and images

5) Business to carry over to next meeting:
a) Set up regular monthly meeting time


End time: ~8:00 PM

(Recorded by Christian, Gina and Tavie; transcribed by Tavie)

Open Space

Open space is a very important issue for all of us in Jersey City. There are several groups around here that are working hard to help create parks and protect open spaces. Connect the Parks is having an event Sunday the 24th at the end of Washington St. & Pennisula Park.
Go here http://www.paulushook.net/meetings/2007/06/connect-parks-june-24th-noon-to-5pm.html for more info. I hope that people show up.
I also added a link to the Embankment under general links. Please support the Embankment!

Gina

Good Meeting

I just wanted to say that I walked away from our first mini-meeting feeling very good. I believe that there is a lot of potential for us to grow into a positive force in Jersey City politics.

Gina

Jersey City DFA formed June 14th!

Hey Tavie!

Great to meet you tonight and thanks for setting this up so quick; I'm going over to Yahoo to set up our yahoo group next as "Jersey City DFA". Also great to meet Cheryl, see Gina and all who came!

Good meeting tonight with our core in attendance, 6 and more to follow. I'm glad we all agreed on complete transparency in our DFA link, our blogs and our yahoo group: everyone will be able to email, post, create events, blog, comment, without moderator interference or delay. If we want transparency in good government we have to walk the walk and talk the talk. :-)

So I will send you links, etc, as I have time, but tired now and need to veg till later.

Bright Moments!
Dale
BrightMoment Link

Inaugural post

Welcome to the inaugural blog space for the newly-form Jersey City Democracy for America. Please join Jersey City DFA now!