Steering Committee Meeting, 12/3/04

Present: Anne, Deb, Shelly, Katie, Steffan, John, David, Hanna, Bill, Malda

Location change - Our next meeting will be at Malda's, 633 S. Broad, (on the corner, across Broad from St. John's Catholic Church) on Friday, January 21 at 8:00 am. Free water,coffee or tea as an enticement.

Post Mortem of the Civic Center meeting. The meeting was very good but our efforts were not well coordinated in publicity. Attendance was insufficient.

In the future we should try to get an RSVP structure so that we could estimate the attendance.

We could hand out cards in order to get written question.

Use a walking microphone.

Let us make this particular program on ongoing effort. Clearly is is part of our mission to facilitate conversations among diverse people in the community.  We should hold a session on campus. We should focus on small groups so that we do not have to rely on public andvertizing or news releases. We should organize panels of seakers & make them available to groups as programs.

Malda will contact some churches & senior living facilities to see if there would be audiences for such programs before we attempt to involve international people.

Hanna & Katie presented the information on the transportation initiative of the Community Asset project. Two graduate students are researching to find models that are functioning in other communities. They have found four. These will be presented to the United Way Vision Council on December 15. After refinement they will be presented at a community meeting.

Citizens Voices will assist in any way possible.

Radio - David is working on this project but it is taking time.

End of suburbia. John will contact Pat, Paul & Brad to set up a viewing of the video with them. He will let us know the time & place. Could be Urban Studies or City Hall.

Next meeting of the NM Library Series is February 10th.