[Trees-executive] Tuesday night

[ISEN/Laura Huth]

Asking a State Senator to sponsor a bill, and to work to revise it 
from it's current meaning would be lobbying, and would definitely 
openly violate ISEN's 501(c)(3) tax status. I can and will talk more 
about this at Tuesday's meeting. Please do not do anything to 
jeopardize ISEN's tax status -- it would ruin our group (ISEN that 
is).

Thanks,
Laura

At 2:11 PM -0500 4/16/01, j-beauch at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu wrote:
>Dear ExCommers,
>
>I recommend spending time on two items of importance at the ExCom meeting
>Tuesday night. This is 7:30 PM at 166 Grainger Library.
>
>First, as we know, the 1776 Bill passed the State House on April 6th.
>However, as of yesterday there has not been a Senate sponsor of the bill.
>Since Sen. Stanley Weaver is our Senator, it seems that the obvious next
>step would be for some of us to approach him about being the primary
>sponsor.
>
>According to the News-Gazette's Sunday paper (see:
>http://newsgazette.com/ngsearch/story.cfm?number=9192),
>
>"Illinois Power Customers United to Save Our Trees supports the House
>bill, said group spokesman Carl Malmgren."
>
>But do we really support this bill? Carl says he does with certain
>qualifications, and these could be sorted out in the Senate version of
>the bill. If those who are able could study the bill, that would make
>for more intelligent discourse tomorrow night. We have a link to it on
>our web page, or you can go to it directly at
>http://www.legis.state.il.us/scripts/imstran.exe?LIBSINCWHB1776.
>
>The second thing that needs to be dealt with is the Arbor Day meeting on
>April 28. We don't have a real ding-dong speaker lined up, so it seems like
>the current plan is some kind of continuous entertainment. Who supplies the
>entertainment? Guess who? -- US! There needs to be at least 10 people
>putting in nontrivial time on this project. So far what we are thinking
>about is John McMahon's band and maybe a skit or two related to trees that
>talented members of our group would put on. Kyra is looking into
>amplification. Our time slot is 2-5 PM on the 28th, which is a Saturday,
>and it's right after a Roger Ebert "overlooked" family movie happening at
>the Virginia Theatre nearby WestSide Park, so we hope to corral some of
>those people. Hopefully, Outreach will be able to make some progress on
>this tonight. Can we pull it off? Does it have a payoff that merits the
>effort? How many people can we attract? That's what we need to discuss.
>
>Some other smaller things I can think of are:
>
>1) Earth Day table on Sunday, April 22.
>
>2) Shall we schedule ExCom and General Meetings for the rest of the Spring?
>
>3) Shall we shut down for the summer to the extent of not having regular
>    meetings?
>
>Jim
>
>PS I won't be able to make the meeting until near the end because of a
>    prior commitment.
>
>
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