SPC hears the process talk.
9:03 AM
As happens at every public meeting -- especially a public meeting in Seattle -- there was a lot of talk at last night's Seattle Pride public meeting about "process"
A couple of speakers scolded the large crowd gathered for the meeting for not being there before pride week. "These are dedicated people," said one speaker while pointing to the board members seated at a table. You need to talk to them. Get involved."
Others reminded the board of their sometimes-hefty resumes of pride event activism.
Sue Docecal [apologies for spelling] of Radical Women urged the SPC board to hold a larger public meeting with a vote and mentioned her "fifteen years of activism" on pride issues. She might have told those who scolded the crowd for not caring enough about pride that SPC would not have an event to move without her early and highly influential work on the Freedom Day Committee and its predecessor groups. She might have used the oppotunity to scold the scolders, but that kind of thing doesn't seem to be in her nature. Instead, she simply urged to the group to adopt a more open process.
Business owners at the meeting were critical of SPC's outreach efforts. "You've never come to us and asked us about this move," complained Carl Medeiros, who had given the board the thick pages of petition signatures opposing any change of locale.
A representative from the Broadway Business Improvement Area said that he was still in the dark about it all. "Nothing I've heard tells me the reason for this."
SPC board members answered a few specific questions about the organization after the list of speakers was complete. SPC board president Frank Leonzal told the crowd that the board "needs to discuss this among ourselves." He explained that, although SPC had obtained permits to use Seattle Center for pride weekend dates, it wasn't yet a firm commitment to hold the festival there.
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A couple of speakers scolded the large crowd gathered for the meeting for not being there before pride week. "These are dedicated people," said one speaker while pointing to the board members seated at a table. You need to talk to them. Get involved."
Others reminded the board of their sometimes-hefty resumes of pride event activism.
Sue Docecal [apologies for spelling] of Radical Women urged the SPC board to hold a larger public meeting with a vote and mentioned her "fifteen years of activism" on pride issues. She might have told those who scolded the crowd for not caring enough about pride that SPC would not have an event to move without her early and highly influential work on the Freedom Day Committee and its predecessor groups. She might have used the oppotunity to scold the scolders, but that kind of thing doesn't seem to be in her nature. Instead, she simply urged to the group to adopt a more open process.
Business owners at the meeting were critical of SPC's outreach efforts. "You've never come to us and asked us about this move," complained Carl Medeiros, who had given the board the thick pages of petition signatures opposing any change of locale.
A representative from the Broadway Business Improvement Area said that he was still in the dark about it all. "Nothing I've heard tells me the reason for this."
SPC board members answered a few specific questions about the organization after the list of speakers was complete. SPC board president Frank Leonzal told the crowd that the board "needs to discuss this among ourselves." He explained that, although SPC had obtained permits to use Seattle Center for pride weekend dates, it wasn't yet a firm commitment to hold the festival there.
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