Minutes from April 9th meeting

CEP’s new lecture committee met on Friday, April 9th, and we decided on a name and tag line: Stanislaus Solutions, Town hall meetings to discuss and solve local issues.
Richard Anderson, Amanda Hughes, Karl Reitz, Dan Onorato, and Debbie Gilbert continued planning for our first lecture series -- around the issue of Local Unemployment -- which will take place Fall 2010.
Our strategy is to schedule one more meeting to which we will invite key community members involved in solving the local unemployment crisis. We will invite:
· Keith Griffith of Stanislaus Alliance;
· someone from the Chamber of Commerce;
· a city council member;
· someone from the Public Policy Institute of California;
· Michele Weber, a local micro-financing specialist;
· Lawrence Giventer, a Stan State political scientist who has done quantitative analysis around local unemployment;
· Dave Hosley of the Great Valley Center;
· someone from Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors;
· someone from Stanislaus Local Agency Formation Commission (or LAFCO).
We each agreed to contact one or two people from the above list and invite them to a brown bag lunch meeting from 12-2 on Wednesday, June 9th or Friday, June 11th; the ultimate goal is to plan out a series of town hall meetings, each focused on key elements of the local unemployment crisis.
Finally, Dan recommended the current issue of National Geographic which is about water: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/. And Amanda recommended Paul Krugman’s NYT cover story, “Building a Green Economy,” about the economic implications of carbon reduction: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/magazine/11Economy-t.html