25 Dec
2014
25 Dec
'14
12:48 p.m.
Hey all. Many thanks to everyone for following up. Matt Artz saw my email
to him and responded, and hopefully I will speak with him on Saturday.
According to him btw, permits and stuff were not the actually main gist of
his forthcoming article; he said he mostly wants to know all about Omni, so
that's good. Still, city folk have been ruffled and Ben and I have a big
task ahead of us and will need someone to go downtown to 250 with some
paperwork on Friday or Monday.
So far both Laura Turiano and Karissa McKelvey have reached out to me
saying they could print stuff out and go downtown if need be on Friday, so
I hope between the two of these folks we can figure it out. I'll be
emailing both of you (and anyone else who may want to help) privately with
links to various documents.
One thing we'll need for sure is John Givens to sign a few forms, so we may
need someone to meet up with him and get those.
More soon & love y'all
Best,
David
On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Tony Barreca <tony.barreca(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
In my opinion, this is an enormous learning experience
for all members of
Omni including people who are, at most, interested outsiders like me. The
lesson: Anything said to, or even in front of, a professional journalist is
fair game for further scrutiny. Anything!
It's not surprising to me that this professional journalist, working for
an old-school publication, would focus on the permit issue as the one
likely to generate the most heat, if not the most light. It was
predictable.
Omni people tend to be pretty open, generally a good thing. But here we
can see some potential downside. I think the respective Omni leaders would
be well-advised to discuss this event in depth, and develop a set of
guidelines for dealing with the press, whether of the old or new school
variety.
Just my $0.02.
On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Laura Turiano <scylla(a)riseup.net> wrote:
I should be clearer - we mentioned permits in
passing, like "we are
raising money to bring the kitchen up to code, and doing x to meet the fire
code" but he didn't express any particular interest in that aspect.
L
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On Dec 25, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Laura Turiano
<scylla(a)riseup.net> wrote:
Matt came to Omni and Jenny and I gave him a tour. He also come to part
of the
delegates meeting. He never said anything about permits or the city.
Jenny prob has his contact info. You give him much more credit than I am
right now. If he was going to delve into the permits he should have let us
know and talked to someone here first.
I can take the docs to the city if you explain exactly where they need
to go.
Love,
Laura
> On Dec 25, 2014, at 1:48 AM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> If anyone has spoken with Matt Artz or anyone at the Oakland Trib,
could you
let me know?
>
> As part of his due diligence as a reporter, he is contacting all sorts
of
bureaucrats downtown at the City about our permit situation and as a
result I am getting avalanches of emails from the City, there is confusions
all around generally and so I would like to speak with him if at all
possible.
>
> It's not his fault - I know he's just doing his reporter thing - but
because of inquiries I will now need someone totally reliable I can email
who can and printout a very large stack of paperwork and bring it downtown
to 250 on Friday 12/26 (tomorrow). If there are any volunteers who are in
town?
>
> Happy Xmas!
>
> David
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