---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: yar <yardenack(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 1:20 PM Subject: Next steps for buying the Omni: 3 proposals from the fundraising working group To: "consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org> Hello Omni Commoners! Did you know that we could seriously buy the Omni in the next few months? There are people with a lot of money who want to give and/or lend it to us. All we have to do is create the legal structures to make this happen. The fundraising working group has been meeting for the past month to talk about the details, and we're informally calling ourselves the "Buy the Building" working group (aka the "Until the Revolution" working group). We meet on Mondays at 6:30 PM. There are still many details to figure out, but we're ready to make some initial proposals to the Omni delegates, to be decided at the next scheduled delegates meeting, which is Thursday August 6th: PROPOSAL #1: The Omni community should decide if we actually want to buy the building PROPOSAL #2: The Omni should apply for federal 501c3 status PROPOSAL #3: The Omni delegates should go back to meeting weekly. There is a lot to do, and decisions will need to be made quickly. We are going to have more proposals soon. In particular, we think the land beneath the building should be given to a Community Land Trust. But we don't have all the details ready for a formal proposal yet. There's no delegates meeting scheduled tonight, but we will be meeting at 7pm anyway to provide information and answer questions. Please come. This is very important!