[Stargate] populace meetings

[Charlene Charette]

Melody Soice wrote:

> I had not previously chimed in because, as the parents of elementary 
> school age children, regular attendance at a 7:30 meeting on a Monday is 
> problematic at best and completely impossible at most of the sites 
> recently discussed.  The hour + drive to an over-priced, disgustingly 
> dirty, poorly located restaurant certainly didn't help draw us out either.

A little bit of history (we are a history organization, right?).  :-)

For many a year populace meeting started at 7pm.  Then sometime in the 
mid-to-late 90's we noticed that the meeting was starting later and 
later.  Why?  After the meeting everyone quickly disbursed for 
restaurants and home.  Therefore, if you needed to see someone about a 
matter you had to do it before the meeting.  So the time from 7pm-7:30pm 
was set aside so that people could get check request forms, sign checks, 
deliver reports, get contracts signed, talk about business matters, 
etc., etc., etc.  Then the meeting would start at 7:30pm.  This also 
accommodated those traveling further who previously had to disrupt the 
meeting by coming in late.

If that first half hour is no longer serving a function, then perhaps it 
could be eliminated and the meeting could start at 7pm.  We just need to 
be careful that moving it earlier doesn't re-introduce past problems.  I 
have no strong feelings about the start time; whatever works for the 
functioning of the Barony.

--Perronnelle

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