[Street] [Obgroups] Priority Proposal Process

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Wed Nov 23 01:53:21 EST 2011


Working Groups,

A Facilitation Working Group proposal was consented to at GA, on 11/8/11,
which details steps to follow if your working group would like one of it's
proposals to receive priority status, at a General Assembly.

Priority status simply means that the proposal is first or second "on
stack," at a GA of your choosing.  Per this proposal, there can be only two
Priority Proposals, per any given GA.  Quoting from the text of the
proposal, "Decide if you want your proposal to receive priority status.
Anyone, whether a group or an individual, can make proposals and gain
priority status. *Pre-announced, pre-posted, pre-scheduled proposals which
have had publicly announced meetings and passed consensus at the public
meeting*, will be considered prior to other proposals at General
Assemblies."


Go here to read the text of the proposal:

http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Wiki/Priority_Process_Proposal


The main steps you need to undertake to achieve priority status are as
follows:

• decide if you want Priority status for a proposal, if so
• have your proposal go through a consensus process at your working group,
• post copies of the consented proposal at the Library and Info tents, and
online at your WG wiki page,
• announce to other WGs the existence of the proposal and invite them to
attend a public meeting,
• choose the date of a public meeting,
• choose the date you want to present the proposal at GA,

• once all the above steps are completed, announce at a GA that you have a
proposal in the pipeline and what the proposal is about, and that copies
are available, and the dates of the public meeting and GA,

• at the public meeting, put the proposal through another round of
consensus,

• if consensus is reached at the public meeting, the proposal has gained
priority status. Present it at the GA you previously selected and
announced. If consensus is not reached, the WG still has the option to
present the proposal at a GA, it simply will not have priority status.


Please see the text of the proposal for more details about timing and
documentation.

Emergency (Safety, Medic, Legal, etc.) proposals have priority over all
other proposals.

This is mot a mandatory process.

Feel free to contact me, or come to a FWG meeting if you have any questions.

FWG is prepared to help any working group or individual with any of the
steps of the process.



Gregory Murphy
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