Greetings Dear Siblings,
The next semi-annual in person GSV Council meeting will be held in Atlanta GA, Saturday June 24 and Sunday June 25 at Positive Impact, 1117 West Peachtree St. NW, Atlanta GA 30309. GSV council meetings are open for observation by members of our community and other invited guests. And we encourage anyone in the Atlanta area, or willing to travel who is interested in GSV leadership, future conferences, GSV long term planning, or just GSV workings in-general to attend.
The Saturday meeting is scheduled from 9 am to 5pm with a lunch break. On Sunday we will meet from 9 am to approximately 1pm to wrap-up.
If you plan to attend Saturday and/or Sunday, please notify the Council so we can make accommodations for seating and building access. Email the council at: [email protected]. A details agenda for both days will be available closer to the meeting dates.
If you plan to attend, please review the following from The GSV Policy Manual:
“Observers are welcome at Council meetings. However, observers are expected to observe and not to comment or participate in discussions unless invited to do so by the Chair of the meeting. Observers are different from guests who may be invited by the Council to present information or to share perspectives about items on the agenda.
“If an observer has an opinion or perspective to share, he may share it with a Council member before the meeting or at a break during the meeting. The Council member may choose to share the perspective with the Council or may ask the observer for a short summary of the perspective. Observers will receive a copy of the agenda if they have contacted the secretary beforehand. Observers will be reminded that the Council has a pre-agreed agenda with time allotments to carry out much essential work, some of which is time sensitive, thus, observers will not disrupt the ongoing work of the Council by asking for information or offering suggestions which might impede the normal processes of the Council.
“As a routine practice, the chair will ask for observer feedback with a limit of 5 minutes for all observations at the end of each major section of the agenda. If several observers desire to speak, each one can be given one or two minutes unless all wish to yield the full 5 minutes to one observer.”
Thank you for your support.