General Assembly Notes Tuesday, Oct 11 / 7pm -last night there was a decision made to remove the block gestures. -10 am solutions committee meeting tomorrow -last night after b"boston" statement produced by media comittee and was considered to be released as a press release. no vote has been made on whether they will post it -william hahn-mental health committee listening tent. found it necessary to set up support group for mentally unstable, handicapped. silver band with red stripe -long term organizational demands committee prop being suggested 230 by the obelisk point of contact-transparency accountability committee of media production- radio going out tomorrow social media advisor of the finance committee. putting a paypal donation button on website "transparent funds allocation viewer" -the parks department request that we not tie things onto trees. reported by the police liaison also concern about fire from generators and such have been reported. Also Concerns about chemical deterioration of the park. There is a urban forester who could come to talk to us about the preservation of these parks There is an antiwar march on the tenth anniversary on the war in iraq that has a permit and the march will be taken by a police escort through main street. it is a top priority by the mayors office to open up main street. someone asked whether or not we are in contact with the police. Clarification has been given that the point of contact between the police and the police liaisons only acts as a listener to the police. -constant rain dumping has been occurring. -clarification was requested for whether or not we'd like to hear from the parks a vote is occurring. 90 percent was not reached. -temperature check happened for time sensitive - Engineers have designed blueprints for a properly designed warming shelter . informational brochures have been made -5 fire extinguishers needed "no open flame" -10am meeting at obelisk if you are interested in being a Postie -etheria. sexual assault response team wearing pink armband. 1pm meeting if interested in joining in bravo camp tent behind medical -Transportation accommodations- transports supplies and accommodating parking working with the city to allow free parking around park. Need driver with pickup truck to help transport supplies call or contact through info booth if interested. PROPOSALS looking for 90 % approval 1 time sensitive--807 1 hour into meeting. the police liaison has expressed an ultimatum and constructed a proposal "occupy Portland will open up main street independent of any agencies request. done with interest of the 99% to maintain their livelyhoods." stack being made for clarifying questions "is there any concrete evidence that members of the community have showed concerned for opening the street" *answer "transportation union including trimet has lobbied to the mayor’s office to open up this street. 7 minutes for questions Question "when is the clarification of main street to take effect" "Ideally as soon as the vote occurs "the police have stated that they will take the street and it is the GA’s decision how that will happen" "will we be able to ensure our own safety while crossing" "we want to get something in exchange, for this street"* largely paraphrased* municipal workers union leluna local 483 sent a letter said a they stand in solidarity with the occupy together movement Asked do not greatly endanger health and welfare Concern raised stating that if we give up main street we won’t have a place to have GA -facilitator asking if we could move onto evolutionary amendments, then temp check then -amendment requested towards keeping the street and leaving a lane open for busses and emergency vehicles -amendment requested that we keep this street and keep open communication with emergency services and trimet but not let police speak for other organizations another stack of evo amends arranging amendment suggested to only open the street to the march and potentially bicycles and communication with unions amendment suggested that no matter what we eventually decide on we make a statement that we care about public safety temp check being taken on original proposal without amendment after it will be read again it is being read no consensus reached facilitator requested temp check towards amended proposal ***amendments restated another round will happen? `because of the 'contentious and involved nature of this proposal' POP we should take a temp check of previous amended proposal objections to the proposal+amdmts? original proposal read + (amendment #4 + (amendment #2 – keep the street) + amendment #3) re: 'only marchers and bicyclists': emergency vehicles and buses are important due to people's lives and livelihoods DR: this amendment includes these in dialogue 'is this street important enough to lose the whole camp for?' concerns: 10000 people on this street every day, line with protesters ask on website for feedback ambulances could go to hospital other ways tempcheck on amended proposal: not 90 but mostly pos arguments related to how many amendments we had discussion regarding language (consensus vs amendment) concerns: "this debate is of such caliber that i am not certain that a general assembly ... will be able to people out of the streets .. . makes it dangerous to open the streets to anyone" occupier parking on this street - DR vehicles are parked as a strategy "if we give up this street we are going to endanger this movement ... important to stand behind the march, but if we open this street up to any vehicle ... then we are setting ourselves up for trouble" "what happens if an ambulance ... tonight?" DR"the same thing they've been doing"" traffic open to bicycles after saturday? open to change "if the street is opened... a segue for people to take control of what we have..." "as outreach, it is my job to have those voices be heard of different organizations and communities ... in this city 82% were for the amended proposal, no consensus therefore it will be discussed again Wednesday General Announcements (at end, by Max) GA will be at 7pm tomorrow City Council will be at 2p at City Hall tomorrow (10/12) – suggested that we should attend At the next possible GA, a proposal will be brought regarding the Public Policy and Political Strategy workgroup A strategy center will be created to coordinate marches and actions and to discuss political and legal matters. Next to the library Medic tent and most of the wellness infrastructure has been moved to N park Quiet hours at 11 Smoking area still NW corner of S block 2 workshops next week regarding corporate rights: Tues and Thursday 2-4pm 4pm tomorrow a workshop regarding power structures and conscious consumption at ?Library?