Hi @reef-governance !
Apologies for how long this has taken me to do. Below are the minutes from the helping circle regarding the voting manuals for choosing feasibility studies and deciding on whether to buy a particular site:
Notes
- Sophie has done a great job putting together a coherent voting manual, which could be put into use as is.
- It would be ideal to add something about how to distinguish personal preferences, and what weight to give them, when voting on buying a site.
- On a related note, certain criteria concerning potential sites (such as safety for women, accessibility for cyclists and liveliness of neighbourhood) are subjective and difficult to quantify.
- There is also a lack of clarity about when to raise objections to a particular site, if concerns arise after it has gone for a feasibility study.
- And we may need to be clearer about what we will do in certain hypothetical situations, such as negotiating to buy two sites at the same time.
Action points
- Chris to research preferences/consent/voting in sociocracy.
- Sophie to present manual at next plenary regardless, in light of possibly imminent site-buying decision.
- Chris to get feedback from Coordination Group, and make request to Team Building regarding possible data on the subjective site criteria.
Proposals
- Have an online Full Members meeting a week before a site-buying decision, to share info about visiting the neighbourhood etc.
- Create a thread to be used in the 3 weeks between a feasibility study being presented and a vote-buying decision, with a link to a table for Full Members to indicated if they will be present at the vote-buying decision meeting or if they will be using a proxy, and if the latter, who that is.
- Team Governance to take up the discussion about hypothetical site-buying scenarios.
The manual and the proposals will be presented tonight at the plenary. Both are considered to be level 2 working methods, so this agenda item is about shared understanding rather than consent 