[adcom] budget meeting #5

[Dan Corrigan]

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          to all mass green party members
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GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT - budget meeting #4

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From: MGP Treasurer - please distribute freely
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January 2, 2002

Dear Mass. Green Party Member:

On Friday the fifth in a series of meetings will be convened
to assist with drawing up the 2002 MGP budget, to be held
at the Dibner Building at MIT in Cambridge (see details
below.)

Topic of discussion:
   Post-patriarchal Values (keyword: GENDER)

The work of these meetings and of inputs by one of three other
means is summarized in the 'nominal chart of accounts'. To view
this list as it exists so far go to this url:
http://www.gogreens.com/mgp/bin/mgp.pl?

Your thoughts and suggestions on this list and the budget process
to date are encouraged (email to books at acircle.com).

All MGP members are invited to participate in this budget drafting
process by sending your thoughts on initiatives and projects that the
MGP should undertake (and budget for) over the next year.

You don't have to come to the meetings, or if you do you don't have
to stay for the whole thing. These meetings are presented as an op-
portunity for the rank-and-file of the MGP to have inputs into the
budget writing process. Come meet the Treasurer and share your ideas
of what the MGP should be doing in the upcoming fiscal year and
beyone.

If you are interested in attending any of the meetings, here is the
schedule:


Meeting 1: December 7 (MEETING HAS PASSED)
   Focus on Grassroots Democracy (keyword: CITIZEN)

Meeting 2: December 14, (MEETING HAS PASSED)
   Focus on Decentralization (keyword: DECENT)

Meeting 3: December 21, (MEETING HAS PASSED)
   Focus on Ecological Wisdom (keyword: ECOLOGY)

Meeting 4: December 28, (MEETING HAS PASSED)
   Focus on Focus on Sustainability (keyword: FUTURE)

Meeting 5: January 4, 4-8PM (THIS FRIDAY !!)
   Focus on Postpatriarchal Values (keyword: GENDER)

Meeting 6: January 11
   Focus on Social Justice & Equal Opportunity (keyword: JUSTICE)

Meeting 7: January 18
   Focus on Community-Based Economics (keyword: MARKET)

Meeting 8: January 25
   Focus on Nonviolence (keyword: PEACE)

Meeting 9: February 1
   Focus on Respect for Diversity (keyword: RESPECT)

Meeting 10: February 8
   Focus on Personal & Global Responsibility (keyword: SOCIETY)

Meeting 11: February 15
   Overview of Budget Process, Send to State Committee



ATTENDANCE IS NOT REQUIRED FOR BUDGET SUGGESTIONS, in other
words, any MGP member can suggest items for the 2002 budget,
even if they can't make it to one of these meetings.

Methods for Members to enter items into the budget process
include:

1. personal presentation at one of the Friday meetings

2. via local chapter contact person
        (http://www.massgreens.org/locals.html)

3. via MGP Delegate
        (http://www.massgreens.org/StateCom/members.html)

4. via regional rep or other Adcom member
        (http://www.massgreens.org/AdCom/members.html)

5. by email or other form of message delivery to the Treasurer:
   email: books at acircle.com
   mail:  Treasurer
          Massachusetts Green Party
          PO Box 1311
          Lawrence, MA 01842
   phone: (508) 432-2435

The Treasurer is directed by MGP By-Laws to ensure that a
budget is prepared for the next year. This is then reviewed,
modified as needed, and passed by the State Committee. The
process to do this has not yet been fully established although
there are certain practices and procedures that must be adhered
to incumbent with being a political party.

All solicitations are requested but no guarantee is offered or
implied that any particular proposal will make it into the
final document as an 'action item'.

If you can't come to the meeting, that's fine, but please take
the opportunity to suggest your favorite program or plan that
the MGP should undertake in the next fiscal year and beyond.
Proposals will be accepted until January 11, 2002 and beyond,
but, as always, 'early birds get the worm'.

Thanking you in advance for your enthusiastic contribution,

Dan Corrigan, Treasurer MGP


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Directions to meetings:
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Fridays 4-8PM

Dibner Building (MIT Building E56) - 4th floor
 38 Memorial Drive
 Cambridge
 (parking is available in the lot north of the building)

Go to the east end of Memorial Drive

Take the last left (Wadsworth) if heading easterly

Take the first right (Wadsworth) if heading westerly

Go down Wadsworth Street, turn right onto Main, then
the lot is on the right.

For public transport, the Kendall stop on the red line
lets you out onto Main Street.

online campus map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?state=0&pri.x=422&pri.y=146

For further info, call (978) 688-2068 (MGP office).