[fvc-wat-disc] Guelph Meeting Planning

[Paul Nijjar]

 	Given the good response to the Waterloo public consultation, it 
would be nice if we could get some people (Guelphites and Waterlooians who 
did not make the other consultation) out on the 20th. To that end, I have 
some ideas:

 	0. Carpooling: Even though I messed up when handing out 
information last time, it turned out that carpooling got two more people 
out to the Waterloo meeting. Is anybody planning to drive to the Guelph 
meeting? If so, are you willing to carpool? From where can you do pickups?

 	1. Outreach: My Guelph contacts are not so good. We should make a 
press release and get it out, and we should get in touch with local 
organizations that might be interested in getting their members out to 
this meeting. Can you help with this? You could contact some 
organizations, list some organizations to this mailing list, or
 	So far I have only contacted one organization: the Guelph OPIRG. 
But there are many more leads, I am sure.

 	2. Busing: a crazy idea I had was to maybe rent a SCHOOLBUS to 
take us to Guelph, for those of us who want to go. However, I have no idea 
whether this is feasible or not. I don't know how much this would cost or 
how we could arrange it. Would somebody be willing to chase down these 
details over the next few days? If it turned out that we could do a 
round-trip to Guelph for $5/person or less, it might be a good way to get 
some Waterloo/Kitchener/Cambridge people out. (Figuring out the pickup 
points for the schoolbus would be another big task.)

 	If you have more ideas on how to make this consultation a success, 
please share. We should probably get a public message out on the -announce 
list by Thursday at the latest.

- Paul

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