FYI - it would be great to have a new sudo room delegate! Anyone interested? An overview of what's entailed: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Omni_Delegate In the past, sudo room has stepped up when the larger Omni collective has lost its path, so to speak, toward stewarding an actual commons - wherein decisions are made collectively, and delegates are actually delegate representatives in a spokescouncil. Omni is slipping, and at the risk of a community group that is intimately tied with our very foundations. Please step up - we need all sorts of help right now: - Noise complaints and issues with the building manager across the way on 48th - Property insurance may pull out of insuring us given dilapidated state of building - Dilapidated state of building, general - Desperate need for funding / support for refinance before our mortage balloon payment in Jan 2022 - Upcoming fire inspection (Feb/March), property insurance inspection (2/13), and property tax exemption (county) inspection (Feb) - Upcoming property tax exemption app annual filing (massive amounts of work) - Stalled kitchen renovation (not enough funds) Reply here to this thread, talk with people, join an upcoming meeting or work party, or reach out privately if you'd like to help! Love and solidarity, Jenny ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jenny Ryan &lt;jenny(a)jennyryan.net&gt; Date: Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:00 PM Subject: Re: [omni-discuss] Late night basement events To: Laura Turiano &lt;scylla(a)riseup.net&gt; Cc: commons &lt;commons(a)lists.omnicommons.org&gt;rg>, discuss < discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org&gt;gt;, &lt;consensus(a)lists.omnicommons.org&gt; There are significant problems with this "decision," and since it did not acquire consensus in actuality (I blocked as remote sudo room delegate on the pad), I must speak up to revert this statement. Apologies, Laura, as I know very well how much effort you've put into this issue and attempting to resolve it. A) This proposal was never submitted to the Delegate's List a week prior to its decision-making process, as is protocol, but rather brought up suddenly at a Delegate's Meeting amidst a haze of elicited fear, uncertainty, and distrust by less-than-informed community members. B) All proposals must be submitted to consensus at least a week prior to being consensed upon, so that delegates have time to confer with their collectives. Just a friendly reminder: we are a collective of collectives experimenting with radical participatory democracy - not a standard nonprofit board in which representatives make uninformed decisions on behalf of uninformed groups. C) Not one of the basement events actually run by SPAZ has elicited any noise complaints - specifically, the events that have elicited noise complaints were SKAST (third-party, midsummer), Putivuelta (third-party, December) and FYE (December, and somehow exempt from this decision?). I am not trying to come at anyone - just merely clarifying the actual facts of the matter. Given that none of our actual processes for decision-making and self-governance were employed, this decision is, imho, moot. Nevertheless, SPAZ decided to hold off on any upcoming events (to the detriment of their own expenses for storage and equipment maintenance, despite events still being approved such as FYE's late-night event that will utilize SPAZ soundsystem on Friday), I call a hard block and look forward to having actual discussions with our respective collectives and seeing you all at the next delegate's meeting on Thursday to clear up the very many miscommunications clearly at play here. It is also likely that SPAZ will be ready to submit their membership application at this meeting - I will submit it on their behalf in advance of the meeting. Because that is, in fact, how we operate. Love and solidarity, On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 5:28 PM Laura Turiano &lt;scylla(a)riseup.net&gt; wrote: