Alberta Co-op Grocery

Letters, Oct. 19, 2010

Posted October 20th, 2010

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By now you have probably heard that there will be a special meeting of the co-op membership on Sunday afternoon, November 13.  We will be meeting at the Redeemer Lutheran Church on 20th and NE Killingsworth, at 2:00 p.m.  Any food will be potluck.

The purpose of the meeting is to consider ten proposed revisions to the co-op bylaws.  Several of these proposals go to the heart of who we are as a cooperative grocery in this community, and how we want the co-op to be governed and managed going forward.

The full text of these proposals will be sent to each member by mail in the next few days, together with a written ballot, which can be mailed in, or placed in a locked ballot box at the store, or brought to the special meeting.  The full text will also be posted to the co-op website, and to an online discussion group that has been created by the Owner Linkage Committee.

Because the board has authorized a mail-in ballot, we will not be voting “live” at the meeting itself.  Instead, the meeting will afford an opportunity for members to engage in some structured dialogue about the proposals.  There will be a facilitator and a scribe to help keep the discussion on track.

Members who have not already mailed in their ballots or dropped them off at the store can submit them at the special meeting.  Votes will be counted immediately following the close of the meeting.

I look forward to seeing you there.

R. Willis, member 7470

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Letters

Posted October 7th, 2010

Responses to last week’s Letter

by Amber Hersey, Marketing and Outreach

I received many responses to last week’s introduction of a Letter section to ACG News.  The vast majority of you who wrote in were in support of an open forum for us to comment on current events at ACG, and I appreciate the response!  Due to space constraints, we will only be printing two responses to last week’s letter.

Moving forward to next week, I would like to move this particular debate from the e-news, and encourage people to attend an Owner Linkage Forum, held twice monthly and always listed on our website and in the “Upcoming Events” section of ACG News.

Please do continue to submit Letters- about the future of ACG, about articles we print, about favorite products we have- the forum is yours to use as often or as infrequently as you want.

Thanks again for your responses, and happy reading!

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