Monroe County Green Party
Meeting - February 20, 2001

Place:  342 S Madison
	Bloomington, IN

Time:  7:00pm - 9:00pm

Attendance:  Heather Drake, Peter Drake, Sean "Steps to Freedom"
Bagley, Ken Rogers, Isabel Piedmont

Facilitator:  Ken Rogers

Secretary:  Heather Drake

The meeting began at 7:16pm.  The agenda was approved with changes and
the minutes of the 6 February meeting were approved.

* Paper Recycling Committee

Isabel reported on her research about the City of Bloomington paper
use.  They use 30% post-consumer recycled paper.  The Public Works
department, responsible for ordering city supplies, buys it from
Bloomington Office Supply for $6.70/ream.  If the information supplied
is correct, this isn't a very good deal compared to the $2.70 that IU
pays for the same kind of paper.

Heather reported on the Monroe County paper use.  According to the
County Commissioners' office, each department is responsible for
ordering their own supplies.  Ken wondered if the county still has a
contract with Office Depot for discount rates.

Isabel also reported that at IU each department buys its own paper and
has the option of purchasing several kinds of recycled papers.  The
copy machines, however, do not use recycled paper.  When she asked the
IU supplier about hypothetical price breaks if IU switched to recycled
in the copiers, she was told that they might be possible.  The company
already has contracts with many large institutions and gives them bulk
discounts, so a switch at IU might not have as much impact on price as
one might expect.

* TV Turn-Off Committee

Peter reported that plans are proceeding well.  Heather has started to
line up speakers for the forum on Monday night.  Jeff is in charge of
organizing a nature walk on Wednesday night.  Peter has lined up
several gaming clubs and groups to cosponsor a board game night on
Friday.  

SEAC is also planning a free concert in honor of Earth Day on April
28.  Peter plans to contact them to find out if we could add their
concert to the TV Turn-Off calendar and get them on board as
cosponsors.

* Adopt-A-Road

Isabel reported that the waivers do not have to be turned in to the
Solid Waste department before the day of the first clean-up.  Peter
volunteered to pick up the signs, vests, cones, and other gear from
their office on Thursday afternoon.

The group will meet at 9:00am on Saturday, February 24, at 819 S
Washington to view the safety video and then head out for the
clean-up.  Isabel volunteered to send a few reminders to the email
lists.

* Charter

Ken reported that G/GPUSA had not yet returned his call to inquire
about how much freedom we have to modify the Ten Key Values if we want
to affiliate with them.  His reading of a passage from the bylaws,
however, lead him to conclude that we may not have much leeway.  

He suggested that we may want to adopt the Ten Key Values as is and
provide our context in the attached longer descriptions.  The group
decided that this might be a good idea and decided to proceed with
review of the remainder of the charter rather than devote more time to
the Ten Key Values discussion.

Many changes were made to the charter.  Significant changes included
adding a clause to state that dues waivers will be granted by the
Coordinating Council, revising the procedure by which Coordinating
Council members may be removed from their positions, and adding a
provision to define a quorum.

Heather will send out a revised draft to the discussion list for
members to review before the next meeting.

One issue that Ken brought up for possible further discussion is
whether the Coordinating Council should have members in addition to
the five currently specified in the charter.

The meeting concluded at 9:40pm.

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The next meeting will be held at 7:00pm on Tuesday, March 6, at the
Monroe County Public Library in Meeting Room 1-A.  Steps volunteered
to serve as facilitator.  He will send a tentative agenda to the
discussion list several days prior to the meeting date.
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