[Cynnabar] meeting minutes for 5/24/10

[Heidi Lemon]

We agree with His Excellency Gregoire.

I am speaking for Uillec (Knight Marshall) and myself.  If any of you know
us, we attended the meeting pretty regularly up until the meetings moved to
the League, now we very rarely go to the meetings.   We have commented to
numerous people and in the meetings about the problems with the parking.

While we do not whole heartily agree with the Ypsi site, (it will be close
to 20 miles for us to drive since we live in Dexter) we would much rather
drive 20 miles and know we have a parking spot than drive the 10 miles and
have to walk 3 to 5 blocks from a parking structure.  Maybe we could even
look into a spot that is in between Ann Arbor and Ypsi.   This is not the
first time that this topic has come up, but maybe it is time to do something
about it.

As His Excellency has pointed out, he does not believe that we even qualify
as a student group at this time.  We have never understood why we depend on
the University when we get so little return.   Other groups that do not have
a University in there area grow and even prosper.  Maybe it is time we stop
depending on the University so much.

We would like to suggest that we take a pole of the people that *REGULARLY
attend *the weekly meetings as to there preference.   Unfortunately, this
may be a point where the majority rules since there is no why to accommodate
everyone.

Uillec and Ilse



On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Greg Less <greg.less at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Eneko-
>
>   Unfortunately, you are right, the public transportation to the Corner
> Brewery is not as good as it is to the University.
>
>    Currently, we are getting no students from the UM to attend our
> meetings. In fact, as I understand it, we are currently not qualified to
> be a student group because we have no student members. The number of people
> who live in downtown Ann Arbor and come to our meetings is only slightly
> above the number of students who attend.
>
>    It is my opinion that while having good access to public transportation
> would be nice, it currently isn't really benefitting our attendance and is
> perhaps not as important as some of the other amenities a non-University
> setting might provide.
>
>    Additionally, I would encourage those people who don't have access to
> rides of their own, to send a message ot the list to see if anyone is
> willing to car pool from their end of town. In my opinion the group has
> become too isolated and needs to spend more time together anyways!
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Gregoire.
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Eneko Arteaga <intxitxu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Please note that for those gentles who use public transportation that
>> coming from the west (A2) the #3 bus is the one that probably comes the
>> closest; get off at Forest & Hamilton and walk about five blocks over the
>> Huron River. Coming from Ypsi east side, the #10 runs closest. Sadly, until
>> school resumes, the last cross-town #3 for the day leaves at 5:48p, arriving
>> at Forest at 6:20p or so. The last #10 comes near the Brewery around 9:30p,
>> however.
>>
>> Eneko
>>
>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Jen Conrad <luveday at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  *New Meeting Site*
>>>
>>> His Excellency Gregoire suggests we consider how we can make business
>>> meetings more fun and parking easier. Corner Brewery in Depot Town in
>>> Ypsilanti is willing to have the group meet without requiring us to make a
>>> purchase.  The group is open to ideas.  More discussion to follow.
>>>
>>>
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