<div dir="ltr">FYI, for inspiration, and I concur we should draft something similar we can consense on:<br><br><br><div style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:114%"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:9pt">FINANCIAL
POLICY OF THE BAY AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL</font></font></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:114%"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:9pt">PASSED
: November 14, 2013</font></font></font></div>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:9pt"><i>The
Bay Area Public School is a free school.</i></font></font></font></div>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:9pt"><i>All
of its classes and events are always free of charge and free of
monetary solicitation.</i></font></font></font></div>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:9pt"><i>Our
space at 2141 Broadway is paid for by community members who have
pledged $20 a month for six months to make the School’s monthly
expenses of $1000.</i></font></font></font></div>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:9pt"><i>We
also welcome donations in any amount from individuals, with the
understanding that such donations are with no strings attached.</i></font></font></font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:114%"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:9pt"><i>The
Bay Area Public School is not a nonprofit and does not apply for
grants. Its members may autonomously pursue grants according to
their judgment. As with other kinds of donations, such funds must be
offered with no strings attached.</i></font></font></font></div>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:9pt"><i>Financial
contributions are not and will never be a requirement for
participation in the school's classes, events or in its
administrative process.</i></font></font></font></div>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:9pt"><i>We
are committed to total financial transparency. We will send a
quarterly report on our income and expenses to our announcement list.</i></font></font></font></div>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:9pt"><i>We
hope to make our space at 2141 Broadway available to other community
organizations for their events and projects. In order to use
the space, such organizations must consent to our terms of use : that
any events held in the space or in the name of the Bay Area Public
School are free of charge and free of monetary solicitation.</i></font></font></font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:114%"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:9pt"><i>The
Public School is structured as a commons. We want what everyone
needs to be free.</i></font></font></font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:114%"><i><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:9pt">Organizations
wishing to make items available for sale are asked to be conscious of
these core principles of the Public School. If such organizations
have questions about the appropriateness of certain items for sale,
they are encouraged to discuss their questions with their
bottomliner.</font></font></font></i></div>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:9pt"><i>The
Bay Area Public School is an anti-capitalist school. Our
politics are radical and contestatory. We acknowledge the
necessary evil of the use of money but are committed to a continuous
reexamination of the ways in which we use it. Among other
inspirations we collectively recall the money-free space created at
Oscar Grant Plaza during Occupy Oakland, and aspire to create such
spaces in the future, and to build the new world in the shell of the
old. </i></font></font></font><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br>---------<br clear="all"><div>Jenny<br>
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<a href="http://technomadic.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">http://technomadic.tumblr.com</a><br></div>
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