[Occupymendocino] asking for email vote to reimburse Irene for pizza party expenses

[DANIEL BAKER]

ANYTHING for kidz, big YES on reimbursing IRENE 75% for pizza
party(POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT) !!!

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Jessie VanSant <vjessielee at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I donated as well personally.
>
> *Linda - do you agree with reimbursing Irene the 75% from OM coffers???
>  $134*
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> I’m sure Irene will give us an accounting when she gets various donations
> in hand.  The Pizza party happened on the 2nd of Feb.
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> Jessie Lee VanSant
> vjessielee at gmail.com
> 707-964-5511
> "The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of
> extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of
> creative extremists.” MLK Jr.
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> On Feb 12, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:
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> I donated.
> Linda
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> *Linda Jupiter Productions*
> P.O. Box 2822
> Fort Bragg, CA 95437
> phone 707-964-8985
> www.lindajupiter.com
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> On Feb 12, 2015, at 12:29 PM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:
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> I agree. I also think we should be updated about when it happened or will
> happen.
> I offered a donation and never heard anything...
>
> Richard
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Feb 12, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Mark Safron <mzs at mcn.org> wrote:
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> I vote yes with Jessie Lee. The kids did a good thing BUT the policy
> should be by prior approval in the future.
> Regards, Mark
> On Feb 12, 2015, at 10:31 AM, Jessie Lee VanSant <jessie at me.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Y’all,
>
> Please respond ASAP
>
> When we met last Saturday, we put off a couple of votes because “too many”
> of us were not in town or attending our meeting.
>
> One is to reimburse Irene for her costs in rewarding the kids who sing
> with her (who she sings with) for all their ‘work’ with MLK Jr. and other
> things.  She took the kids out for pizza.  It cost $186.
>
> We had a discussion about people ‘expecting’ to be reimbursed and how it
> is necessary to /ask/ ahead of spending one’s own money and then expecting
> to be paid back by OCUPY.
>
> The policy, even if we haven’t codified it, is that any reimbursement has
> to be agreed on /ahead/ spending the money.
>
>  Not targeting Irene at all, but it just makes sense to not reimburse
> expenses which haven’t been previously agreed to - it protects OM’s bank
> account.
>
> OM might have a ‘bump' of money right now but it will go away /fast/!!
> Especially when ‘people’ know we have a few bucks and start hitting OM up
> to help them pay for their projects etc.
>
> All of us at Saturday’s meeting were in favor of reimbursing Irene *at
> least* 1/2 of the costs.  I know some of us had already pledged to
> personally donate to help defray Irene’s out of pocket expenses.
>
>  I’m asking for a vote by email because of the time issue.  Sheila is
> opposed to email votes.  She is a minority and the majority feels OK with
> this kind of voting *now and then* when necessary or when it makes
> sense..   Waiting for another regular meeting means putting Irene on the
> hook for weeks (she put the tab on her credit card) because other people
> are going to be ‘away’ for the next meeting as well.
>
> So - can we have an email vote on this one??
>
> I make a motion that we reimburse Irene, *this one time*, at 75% of her
> costs which would = $134
>
> May we get a second?  And then call for the question?
>
> I vote YES to reimburse Irene $134 for taking out the kids.  And thank you
> so much for your work Irene in wrangling the wonderful kids!!
>
> Jessie Lee
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> Jessie Lee VanSant
> jessie at mac.com
> 707-964-5511
> “The time is always right to do what is right.”  MLK Jr.
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