The night led off with a joyous announcement by Mike Pattison that the Teacher’s Credit Union has granted the Sky Dragon a three-month extension on the termination of the first mortgage. (I’ll double-check that number) Note that time is still running out – the Dragon still needs to secure alternative financing – but this extension gives us the desperately needed time to make that alternative financing happen.
The event was well-attended (maybe somebody can provide a better number but I would guess 100+) and there were some excellent presentations made by members of the board and some of the staff. Afterwords, people broke into themed discussion groups to provide feedback and questions on specific topics that arose during the presentations. All kinds of other wonderful things were taking place at the same time that brought a lot of positive energy to the night (a speakers corner video camera, fresh coffee, treats, lots of feedback and portrait shots for the art crawl).
There was definitely not enough time for people to express everything on their minds despite the event running over 3 hours. Integrating community input, participation, will be an on-going process for months to come.
Listen to the audio from that night:
[audio:http://skydragon.org/blog/wp-content/Sky Dragon Community Meeting (Mar-29-2010).mp3]
Downloads:
- Sky Dragon history by Kevin Mackay
- Audio recording as an MP3
- Sky Dragon Coffee Club signup sheet
- Sky Dragon Membership form
Download individual audio clips from the presentation:
- 01-Mike Pattison: Introduction
- 02-Kevin Mackay: History of the Sky Dragon
- 03-Amelia Widdershins: Workers Coop
- 04-Karen Burson: Bread and Roses Cafe
- 05-Marg Ann Roorda: Bread and Roses Cafe
- 06-Seth Veenstra: Mayday Magazine
- 07-Todd Bulmer: Ethical Consumers Coop
- 08-Amelia Widdershins: Being goal-oriented
- 09-Mike Pattison: Thoughts
- 10-Dan Smith: Finances
- 11-Mike and Kevin: Wrapup
- 12-Breakout groups: Final thoughts
