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

[Shneor Sherman]

I believe that anything more than 50% of "educational" is now sufficient in light of the IRS' issues with right-wing organizations last year.
Shneor
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On Thu, 4/30/15, Douglas A. Walter via Davisgig <davisgig at list.omsoft.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Davisgig] City Staff Meeting Review + Davis Gig General	Meeting Wed May 6th
 To: davisgig at list.omsoft.com
 Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015, 11:10 PM
 
 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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