<font size="4">I was looking forward to clarification of Senior Center status during our GA meeting this Saturday so this is a little bit of a ramble.........</font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Is the Senior Center a Community Center which can be used by seniors or a rental facility? </font></div>
<div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Is there going to be a policy which prevents use by any political organization -->> like Mike Thompson's spaghetti feed fundraiser? </font></div><div><font size="4"><br>
</font></div><div><font size="4">Do 'service' groups have a political leaning? (Republican? for example?) and should 'they' no longer get to use the Senior Center because their "community service" or membership/recruitment has a right-wing bias?<br>
</font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Got to last Friday SC board meeting late and did not hear anything which assured me that OCCUPY Mendocino could go back to meeting at the Senior Center without paying more than the $20 we had been paying by passing the hat at our meetings...</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small"><div><font size="4">****Just got a call from someone asking where we are meeting Saturday? Where are we meeting?****</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">I had assumed we were planning to be at the Library cause I was /not/ at all clear with the Senior Center issues, but have seen nothing confirming location of Saturday meeting yet (on our list serve.)</font></div>
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<div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Also heard that an anonymous donor had pledged to pay the OM /Senior Center rental (potentially $50/meeting) for the short term until Senior Center policies were clarified. Did that mean OM /was/ going to meet at the Senior Center?</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">So - confirmation for Saturday re: location please AND what 'we' think was said/decided/offered from Senior Center board re: rental policies at the Senior Center. We've already decided our meetings are 1st and 3rd Saturdays but our choice of meeting space is a little unclear right now because of this Senior Center kerfuffle. </font></div>
<div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">What I 'saw'/heard was that the Senior Center board members (which voted to prevent OM and Move to Amend from meeting at the Senior Center) got 'busted' for the blatant discrimination and chose to blame Charles Bush for their efforts. Other board members were not in attendance at the meeting which voted for the exclusion policy and disagreed with that vote.</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">I was given to understand that the board 'heard' OM but I did not hear any assurance that OM would be allowed to use the facility for a reasonable donation (like many other groups have done historically/currently.)</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Surely, the point is that OM should not be discriminated against by a right-leaning Senior Center board majority.... Money aside, the SC policies need to be fair and equally applied.</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">We (OM) heard a board member ask us to become more involved with the Senior Center and that person is correct. If we don't like what's happening and being decided then we can OCCUPY the Senior Center board and bring OCCUPY issues and beliefs to the fore. Bea Erickson was a fantastic activist; Gloria Liner (SC board member) was Bea's assistant and mentee - lots of memory and history. Shall we turn some focus to Senior Center and keep it a non-partisan, activist, free speech, community-centric resource??</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Let's talk patiently please and thank you</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Jessie Lee</font></div>
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