Sorry for the delay in this, but various life things got in the way and I am waiting on the notes from the meeting from someone else that took them.
We had a decent and interesting turnout at the meeting last week, several new people to the process that heard about the meeting from the interview with me on CFAX the afternoon before. I am impressed that the group is a serious and level headed one. The group of people that have been to either meeting or wanted to come is now somewhere over 100 people. This without any real publicity or a formal group in place.
At the meeting we discussed more about how we can move the issue of amalgamation forward and what the next steps should be. We have a couple of small groups working on different issues or researching information we need to know. In general we realize that we need to develop a grassroots approach to amalgamation and work on talking to people, researching issues, and starting the debate. We can not show up with the solution but find out what makes the most sense in this region.
The next meeting will be in the early new year, I am realistic that in December it is impossible to get people to come to meetings.
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What concrete action steps are underway right now? How do I join a 'sub-committee'?
I will get back to you on some details tomorrow, it is late and I am working on some other stuff at the moment
Hi Mike, Bernard will probably comment more, but basically some tasks were handed off to interested volunteers. For example, I'm supposed to try and find out what happened to the petition database over at lessgov.com. (This web site is out of date. It's leftover from the last amalgamation attempt a few years ago. That said, if the database can be salvaged it could help us get in contact with a lot of folks who are passionate about this issue.)
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