Good Evening SOS!

Our meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, November 26, 2013, is at the Newman United Methodist Church, located at 132 NE “B” Street in Grants Pass.

Agenda:

• ·     T-Shirts at the Book Lore Gordon Edstrom
• ·     SOS Strategic Plan Penny Mueller       

SOS Wheel of Fortune

Mission/Goal Statements

Website Webpage

Meeting Outside Main Meeting

Presentations

Flyers

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• ·     Justice of Peace Committee Dave Corsi; Dave updated us on hurdles we are overcoming, the first being a change in language to allow the Justice of the Peace Court to include the County Seat, which would be Grants Pass, like 8 other rural counties in Oregon are permitted to do; Continue reading SOS Public Meeting Agenda for Tuesday, November 26, 2013 →

Another great meeting!  Jim Frick led the Pledge of Allegiance.

Here are the notes:

·     SOS Strategic Plan: Cliff Thomason    

SOS Wheel of Fortune edits as follows: place Timber Resources at top; flip Justice Court and Biomass so not upside down on the wheel!

·     Lottery Committee: Cliff Thomason the language for this petition is still under review; we are going to need a Strategic Plan for this campaign; our time frame for the required signatures is 6 months—we will need 150,000 signatures to be safe (116,00 valid signatures is required); we must begin outreach to other counties and to other organizations such as The League of Oregon Cities, the Rotary, School Boards, etc.; Cliff said he was going to get Jon Bowen to help with the Lottery Animation Promotion Video

·     10K/5K Run for the Law Committee: Bill West ontherogue219@gmail.com March 15, 2014  for more information, visit Bill’s committee’s webpage on our website: www.securingoursafety.org  Continue reading Notes from the November 19, 2013, SOS Public Meeting →

Our next meeting is today, Tuesday, November 19, 2013, at the Newman United Methodist Church, located at 132 NE “B” Street in Grants Pass.

NOTE: We have a lot to cover.  We shall be holding everyone to their respective assigned time limits so we can finish the meeting in about an hour.

Here is the Agenda:

·     SOS Strategic Plan: Cliff Thomason    

(5 min.)

SOS Wheel of Fortune (Edits)

·     Lottery Committee: Cliff Thomason (1 min.)

·     St. Patrick’s Day 10K/5K Run for the Law Committee: Bill West ontherogue219@gmail.com March 15, 2014  for more information, visit Bill’s committee’s webpage on our website: www.securingoursafety.org (5 min.) Continue reading SOS Public Meeting Agenda for Tuesday, November 19, 2013 →

We had another great Meeting Tuesday!  Bill Ertel led us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Here are the notes:

·      Cliff Thomason unveiled a new SOS Wheel of Fortune (see Attached) this does not replace our Menorah, it enhances it! Great job Cliff!

·      Timber Committee Update Jim Frick; Jim reviewed recent timber sale contracts on county lands which netted us approximately $900,000, however, “reseeding” cost us $750,000; we asked Jim if the harvesting vs. “reseeding” was disproportionate and Jim said he would investigate that; Jim also indicated that we needed to begin to send letters to the Editor to put pressure on the BLM, who recently cut an approximate 300 feet swath of timber on the Highway, so that we can harvest and sell that cut timber, which is apparently, just sitting at a location decaying; Jim will be sending me a sample letter, which shall be posted on the SOS website Timber Committee webpage for all to get an idea as to what is needed; Josephine County Commissioner Keith Heck wanted the group to acknowledge the hard work of Vic Harris for the aforementioned timber sales!

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·      Citizen-Voiced Plan Jay Meredith discussed how our plan to achieve our Mission: “A citizen-voiced plan to provide for a secure, stable and sustainable Josephine County.”  is slowly but surely coming together; Jay unveiled a Summary of all of our efforts which was quite impressive; that document shall be posted on our website this weekend!

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·      Josephine County resident, musician and recent Victim Phil Newton, who won a Blues Tournament Competition recently in Eugene and the rights to compete Nationally in Memphis, Tennessee; he stopped by the meeting and reported how he had recently discovered his musical instruments were stolen out of his truck; Continue reading Notes from the November 12th, 2013 SOS Public Meeting →