LAEV Bienvenidos Committee
consensed on April 9,2007
Note: “Bienvenidos”: Spanish for “those who are welcome”
Bienvenidos Committee Goals:
- To shepherd a smooth, clear and transparent process ensuring that the community is adhering to its process – The committee’s role is a more administrative function. All decisions will be made by the community as a whole.
- To advance the mission and vision of LAEV, and balance the diversity of our community.
- Insure that we don’t discriminate based on sex, age, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability or any other protected class.
- To make the process enjoyable and effective for the community and for the prospective members
Roles:
- Respond to interested people
- Provide necessary information about process (process document, answer questions, info about LAEV, info resources, LAEV values, etc.)
- Ask them to read rental agreement and fill out questionnaire
- Invite them to dinners and meetings
- Maintain the “LAEVfriends†listserve to keep people informed of semipublic events and activities
- Report to the community on status of people in process at a community meeting, include discussion on achieving diversity
- Assign liaison once questionnaire is complete
- Maintain demographic information
- Give people option to sign up for any LAEV-related electronic mailing list
Make-up of Committee:
- Rotate Committee participants
- We want to balance stability with new energy; encourage minimum cycling off to create opportunities for other folks to come on
- The committee will open up committee participation at least every 6 months or as needed. The opportunity to volunteer for the committee will be scheduled and announced at a Community Meeting.
- Rotation will initially be somewhat informal, process to be revisited and formalized as needed.
- Committee size- 3-5 people
Other Things:
- all committee meetings are open to LAEV members
- this committee is different from the POG/Membership process committees
- the committee’s mandate and process will be revisited after 1 year or as needed.
Bienvenidos Committee Central - Links for the Bienvenidos Committee