<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all. I thought the items from the meeting with City staff were of great interest, but I wanted to focus in on this:<div><br><div><div>On Apr 30, 2015, at 7:03 PM, Robert Nickerson via Davisgig wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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2) General Meeting location TBA Wed May 6th, 6:30pm. <br>
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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. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
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Around the Corner<br>
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 ;) <br><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Gee, that sounds like a fun thing to do before a General Meeting!</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div class="moz-signature">
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