Weaver Street Market/2008 Election Task Force
About
A special task force to examine questions surrounding the 2007 Board elections was proposed by employee-owner Geoff Gilson (GG) in 2007 in two emails to Weaver Street Market Board Chair Jacob Myers (one, two). In November of 2007, the Weaver Street Market Board of Directors agreed to convene a task force consisting of worker-owners and consumer-owners to consider and report the Board on issues in two areas:
- options for the creation of a clear set of rules for Board elections
- potential strategies for increasing voter turnout
The task force began meeting in late January of 2008, and met weekly for seven weeks (notes from the meetings are available online, below).
Management accepted the preliminary report and then disbanded the Commission without issuing a final report.1
Links
Official
- Election Task Force: very brief summary of TF's purpose, and links to all available documents
Unofficial
Members of the Commission set up an online forum as an example of what could easily and inexpensively done to facilitate communication between management and employees, and this forum is reportedly still live1, but I do not currently have the URL.
Outcome
- weekly committee notes:
- 2008-01-28
- notes from an individual: written by GG based on comments he made during the meeting which the management-appointed note-taker inexplicably refused to take down.1
- 2008-02-04
- 2008-02-11
- 2008-02-18
- 2008-02-25
- 2008-03-03
- 2008-03-10
- 2008-01-28
- preliminary summary
- "Tasty Platypus 2008": some personal thoughts by Geoff Gilson
News
Sources
- 1. 2011-05-26 f2f meeting with Geoff Gilson