[SeattleCityRepair-Weavers] Fwd: FW: SCR Questions & Draft Schedule

[John Howe, SCR]

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Hello Everyone- My apologies for the late information -it's a
"list-serve" thing.  Thanks Vanessa for doing such a great job marking up
my kitchen wall Friday night!  I compiled your jottage into this group of
questions.  And what a lot of great thoughtful questions.

What I think should happen on Friday is that of the list of original
questions, we select a critical few for the asking, stimulate some good
thinking and conversation, and save the rest for the off-line meeting of
representative volunteers from each stakeholder group.   The questions I
would  recommend we ask are numbers 1-4 below.  The remainder would be for
those who say "yes!" to item 4 to answer in subsequent meetings.

1. What are GPPA's assumptions about this grant?

2.  What are GPPA's expected outcomes?

3. What is GPPA's perception/belief about the role of SCR in the
implementation of the grant proposal?

4. Who will volunteer to carry the GPPA grant forward?

5. From GPPA's stance, what do you consider to be appropriate uses of the
funding?

6. What is your sense of how we can gain leverage with this grant to
"build social and economic vitality" in your neighborhoods?

7. What are all the ways you imagine reaching out to inspire your
various neighborhood groups to act? how will you find the "sparks" in your
neighborhoods?

8. What is GPPA's view of the use of consultants?

- For facilitating our process?
- For making presentations on behalf of our ideas?
- To assist in building our own process framework?

9. Are our assumptions around this grant congruent with GPPA assumptions
around the grant?

Responding to Bert's comment that we should arrive with some clear
recommendations I'm thinking we could present "recommendations" as SCR's
list of "assumptions" about our role in the process and just toss out the
first four assumptions (below) for Friday's discussion.  I say this
because I believe if we aren't careful, we'll not leave enough space for
the other stakeholders to get their say, and ask the questions that they
undoubtely have come prepared with.  We only have 90 minutes after all and
quite a beefy subject to cover. Here are the assumptions --

SCR's assumptions:

1. This is a neighbor-powered grant

2. This is primarily a process-oriented Grant, with the beginnings of one
or more placemaking projects in your neighborhood as one of the possible
outcomes.

3. SCR is not in place to "do" projects for neighbors.  The purpose of SCR
is to create an environment to inspire, educate and support
neighbors as the primary players in uniting to interpret, conceive, design
and fulfill their own place-making and gathering desires.

4. A subset of SCR members will lead the project collaboratively with
other GPPA constituents who are also interested in delivering any part of
the proposed outcomes in the SAS grant

5. Training/benefits derived from the talents of consultants brought to
the project are not just for Seattle City Repair folks, but for anyone
within the GPPA who wants to work on the development of a neighbor
facilitation process for the purpose of making gathering places.

6. SCR has a large constituent of volunteers that have been waiting for an
opportunity as this situation has presented, and will provide a large
share of support and effort to the implementation of the grant proposal.

7. SCR will remain in tact after the grant period has ended and maintain a
presence to support the completion of ideas not started or completed that
came about as a result of developing this process.

Most important of all: WHAT QUESTIONS DO WE STILL NEED TO ASK?

GPPA=Greenwood-Phinney Placemaking Alliance
SCR= Seattle City Repair
SAS= Small and Simple

If you want to make comments please write back and let's get some
disucssion on this with the little time we have before Friday.  Looking
forward to your feedback. Email me or my cell phone is 206-331-6464.

Later Weavers,
Cyn

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John Howe, B.S, M.A., Sr. Systems Administrator
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