Discussion Topic: Our General Goals

At our meeting on May 16 we proposed for discussion a list of some of our General Goals. The general goals will help us determine what our specific goals will be.

We will discuss this again at our next meeting and decide whether to adopt this list of goals, add to them, or change them. We need the input and ideas of everyone involved with Moving Saginaw Forward. Please post your comments about our Goals. We will read the comments that are posted and include them in our discussion at the meeting.

At our meeting on May 9 we started the discussion of our values as an organization. What we mean more specifically is: What is it that we value? What is it that we consider important? What is it that we want in our city?

We proposed the following at our May 16 meeting for more discussion:

We will discuss this again at our next meeting and decide whether to adopt this list of values, add to them, or change them. We need the input and ideas of everyone involved with Moving Saginaw Forward. Please post your comments about our Values. We will read the comments that are posted here and include them in our discussion at the meeting.

Discussion Topic: Mission Statement

At our meeting on May 16 we proposed a Mission Statement for consideration. The proposed mission statement is:

We will discuss this again next week at our meeting and decide whether to adopt it as our mission statement, make some changes to it and then adopt it, or decide whether to adopt a different mission statement. We need to input and ideas of everyone involved with Moving Saginaw Forward. Please comment on this BLOG at the link below about our Mission Statement. We will read the comments that are posted here at our next meeting.

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Moving Saginaw Forward has been around for 17 days and already we have had two meetings and have 820 friends on MySpace!

Yesterday we held our second meeting and 20 people came to show their support. It was a very productive meeting and we've come to some focus on our mission statement, values and goals. Our next meeting is planned for Wednesday next week (May 23) at 7:00 p.m. when we will continue the discussion about our mission, values and goals.

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Today is Day 10 for Moving Saginaw Forward.

Yesterday we held our first meeting and 17 people came to show their support. Thank You!

We have 602 MySpace friends so far and growing.

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Hosted By: Moving Saginaw Forward
When: Wednesday May 09, 2007
at 7:30 PM
Where: Saginaw YMCA—Conference Room
1915 Fordney St
Saginaw, MI 48601
United States
Description:
Meeting: Moving Saginaw Forward

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Today is the 5th day for Moving Saginaw Forward:

We have 325 MySpace Friends! (Thank you to all!)

35 people have messaged, posted comments, or commented on our blogs saying that they want to help or will come to a meeting!

Community activist spirit is still alive in Saginaw after all.

We're looking at a good meeting location to accomodate at least 35 people. Keep Wednesday May 9th at 7:30 p.m. on your calendar for our first meeting, location yet to be determined. Also, we are looking at scheduling a meeting on a weekend afternoon for those people who can't make a Wednesday evening meeting.

It seemed as though we might have too many people to comfortably meet at the Red Eye (especially if we get a lot more). Someone suggested that we meet at a park. Any other suggestions?

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QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS:
What is Moving Saginaw Forward all about?
What are our goals?
How will we generate interest and support for our organization in the community?
What kinds of things do we want to do besides the political campaign?

It's important to emphasize that at this point we have no mission statement, bylaws or any kind firm definition as to what this organization is or is not. When it was started it was launched with the idea of it genuinely being a grass-roots movement of the people to bring about positive change in the community and get people active.

Post some responses, either to this blog or message them to us and we can also discuss this at the first meeting.

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Okay, here is the latest on scheduling a meeting.

We have gotten several responses from people. Most people have indicated that a wednesday evening seems to work out ok. A couple people, however can't meet on Wednesday evening and have suggested a Saturday or Sunday afternoon.

QUESTIONS:
1. Should we hold a meeting on Wednesday evening and also another meeting on Saturday or Sunday afternoon?
2. A few people have suggested meeting at the Red Eye. Is this an acceptable meeting location for people? If so, does anyone know if anything is going on there on Wednesday evening that might conflict with our meeting?
3. What time should we meet? Does 7:30 pm sound about right? Should we meet at 8:00? The meeting should last about an hour to an hour and a half. After that, anyone who wants to stick around and keep discussing things would be welcome to do so.

We're really excited about the enthusiastic responses we've gotten from many people. Some people have shared interesting ideas. We've had about 20—so far—who've said they'd like to get involved in an active way or attend a meeting. As of 1:30 p.m. Friday we have 289 MySpace friends, and this is only our 4th day being active.

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Here's something amusing to discuss:

Has anyone ever mailed a letter addressed to an address in "Sag-Nasty", "The Nasty", or any similar nickname for Saginaw and the postal service still was able to deliver it because they recognized the nickname for the town?

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