[Davisgig] City Staff Meeting Review + Davis Gig General Meeting Wed May 6th

[Douglas A. Walter]

Hi all. I thought the items from the meeting with City staff were of great interest, but I wanted to focus in on this:

On Apr 30, 2015, at 7:03 PM, Robert Nickerson via Davisgig wrote:

> Hi All 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 2) General Meeting location TBA Wed May 6th, 6:30pm. 
> 
> [snip]
> Taking monies for our effort likely involves an existing 501c3 non profit to act as a Fiscal Agent, be able to provide a bank account to tie our paypal donation button into and provide receipts for donations. It could be Davis Community Network, That needs to be discussed, a larger group, and, since we are not an organizational entitiy, someone aside from myself needs to be the person to enter     into an Agreeement on DavisGig's behalf. 

Okay, I do think that this could be a productive direction. I want to be sure everyone understands, though, that all money donated to a 501(c)3 is "irrevocably dedicated to charity," and can have NO mixing with an effort to pass something in an election. Indeed, once a vote comes anywhere close, a charity has to be very careful to desist from educational efforts that might be misinterpreted as trying to influence voters to make a specific decision. Yes, there's a little bit of slop, but there's a good reason that political pros have so many forms of PACs and other organizations -- including 501(c)4s -- that are structured so that they can accept donations and then work on electoral issues.

So for what activities are we soliciting donations, and when/how are we going to separate "pure" education about muni gigabit fiber networks from the political question of financing a public utility that will construct such a network?

> 
> Around the Corner
> 5/6/15 Speaking about the project to the Progressive Business Exchange. Hopefully Ill pound out an  exciting 15 minute or so talk on it that is reproducible ;) 
> 

Gee, that sounds like a fun thing to do before a General Meeting!

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