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Nomenus, the organization that owns and manages the Sanctuary in Wolf Creek has semi annual business meetings, called Great Circles, to decide the business affairs of the Corporation. The next Great Circle is to be held in Portland over the Martin Luther King weekend, January 19th, 20th, and 21st 2008.
At this point, we are looking to enlist local faeries to help with the logistics of the meeting. We need a place to hold comfortably somewhere between 15 and 40 people. If a fee is involved, it helps to make it as minimal as possible. The Nomenus Chief Financial Officer can give a letter for tax purposes to an owner donating all or part of the usual fees for a rented space. It helps enormously to have kitchen facilities available to GC.
We are anticipating having several members come to Portland for GC, who will need a place to stay. If anyone can put up GC visitors, please let me know.
Integrating food into a three day meeting can be difficult. There was one Great Circle where Path did a fabulous job of preparing the food in advance and essentially catering Great Circle. An unfortunate effect of this was that he could not participate fully in the meeting, although he did participate as much as he wanted.
I am volunteering to serve as Kitchen Queen for GC, and would love help! The way Path did it, almost all of the food was prepared at non-meeting times and then brought to the meeting, meaning that food people could be at almost all of the meeting. This is the method I would like to use. The menu I am envisioning will be simple, and address dietary concerns (Vegan, Veggie, allergies, etc.).
It is important to know how many people to expect for Great Circle. If you are planning on attending, please let me or the Caretaking Community at the Sanctuary know to expect you. Since the event in question is several months off, I will be posting periodic reminders of this.
I realize that “who can be a member of Nomenus” is an issue that has and continues to cause hurt feelings. I am posting below two sections from the Nomenus By-laws.
The first is the Mission Statement: “Nomenus exists to create, preserve and manage places of cultural/spiritual sanctuary, for radical Faeries and their friends to gather in harmony with nature, for renewal, growth and shared learning.”
When the By-laws were first adopted this is what it was:
“Article III. (original wording) [The specific purposes for which this corporation is organized are to establish and maintain a place for religious worship and assembly.]”
The second is the wording concerning membership:
Section 1. Qualifications and Number of Members/Directors.
A. A member of this corporation is any gay-identified man who signs and presents to an officer of the corporation, or another authorized person, a membership form agreeing to the purposes of the corporation as stated in Article III of these bylaws. In addition members of Nomenus agree to involve themselves actively in the implementation of the corporation’s goals and purposes, using the consensus decision-making process as defined in Article IV, Section 3.E.1-6, of these bylaws. Members further agree that to continue membership must be renewed annually.
I am not posting this thread to open up a discussion of Nomenus membership. I think that an ongoing discussion of membership is important and ask that a separate thread devoted to its discussion be posted.
Rula
Nomenus, the organization that owns and manages the Sanctuary in Wolf Creek has semi annual business meetings, called Great Circles, to decide the business affairs of the Corporation. The next Great Circle is to be held in Portland over the Martin Luther King weekend, January 19th, 20th, and 21st 2008.
At this point, we are looking to enlist local faeries to help with the logistics of the meeting. We need a place to hold comfortably somewhere between 15 and 40 people. If a fee is involved, it helps to make it as minimal as possible. The Nomenus Chief Financial Officer can give a letter for tax purposes to an owner donating all or part of the usual fees for a rented space. It helps enormously to have kitchen facilities available to GC.
We are anticipating having several members come to Portland for GC, who will need a place to stay. If anyone can put up GC visitors, please let me know.
Integrating food into a three day meeting can be difficult. There was one Great Circle where Path did a fabulous job of preparing the food in advance and essentially catering Great Circle. An unfortunate effect of this was that he could not participate fully in the meeting, although he did participate as much as he wanted.
I am volunteering to serve as Kitchen Queen for GC, and would love help! The way Path did it, almost all of the food was prepared at non-meeting times and then brought to the meeting, meaning that food people could be at almost all of the meeting. This is the method I would like to use. The menu I am envisioning will be simple, and address dietary concerns (Vegan, Veggie, allergies, etc.).
It is important to know how many people to expect for Great Circle. If you are planning on attending, please let me or the Caretaking Community at the Sanctuary know to expect you. Since the event in question is several months off, I will be posting periodic reminders of this.
I realize that “who can be a member of Nomenus” is an issue that has and continues to cause hurt feelings. I am posting below two sections from the Nomenus By-laws.
The first is the Mission Statement: “Nomenus exists to create, preserve and manage places of cultural/spiritual sanctuary, for radical Faeries and their friends to gather in harmony with nature, for renewal, growth and shared learning.”
When the By-laws were first adopted this is what it was:
“Article III. (original wording) [The specific purposes for which this corporation is organized are to establish and maintain a place for religious worship and assembly.]”
The second is the wording concerning membership:
Section 1. Qualifications and Number of Members/Directors.
A. A member of this corporation is any gay-identified man who signs and presents to an officer of the corporation, or another authorized person, a membership form agreeing to the purposes of the corporation as stated in Article III of these bylaws. In addition members of Nomenus agree to involve themselves actively in the implementation of the corporation’s goals and purposes, using the consensus decision-making process as defined in Article IV, Section 3.E.1-6, of these bylaws. Members further agree that to continue membership must be renewed annually.
I am not posting this thread to open up a discussion of Nomenus membership. I think that an ongoing discussion of membership is important and ask that a separate thread devoted to its discussion be posted.
Rula
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