Village Meeting Minutes - stand for Council candidates
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Village,
Below is the link to minutes from our October 9 Village meeting. This meeting included Stand for Council. Our guidelines state that anyone with concerns about anyone standing for Council needs to contact that person by before October 18 (7 days from now) to begin your discussion expressing your concerns. The guidelines for this process can be found HERE.
https://communityvillageocf.org/2025/10/11/community-village-meeting-notes-10-9-2025/
Council present: Adrian, David, Tim, Omo, Sam
Not: Kelsey, Karla, Kaitlyn, Diane, Sara, Nathan
Agenda:
Set Intention – 5
Agenda Review – 3
Intro of all here – 20
Site Report – 5
1 Fun Thing – 20
Fair announcements
Stand for Council – 10
Capital Projects (announcement/action request) – ?
Unfair Announcements-10
Strokes and pokes – 5
More?
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Set Intention – 5
Get to the point. Love each other.
Agenda Review – 3
Nothing added
Intro of all here – 20
Sam: Council for many years, Info Booth, too. Facilitating tonight. Taylor: Likes it here, Sam is cute. Omo: on and off council 3 times or so, was construction coord years ago, other duties, too. Barb: here since 1985, in Come-unity House. Arthur: here since before he was born. Sophia: third year coming to Fair, wants to be in Little Village, is a poet and performer and a pre-school teacher. Horst: Doors booth since 2012, traveled a lot this summer, glad to be here. Kim: co-coord in Intentional Communities booth, has been council shadow and attends their meetings, will stand this year. Jain: Since 1979…wow, in Little Village most of that time. Joe: 3rd Fair in IC booth, also a pre-school teacher. David: since 1983…told a long story about the Extension Service history, whew. Tim: Introduced to Fair by Nel Applegate who’s birthday was Tuesday, designed and coordinated the rebuild of the Info Booth, coord for Doors then on council since 2002-3.
Site Report – 5
David: Site looks good. Last weekend trees were wrapped in fencing to ward off beavers. Go Ducks. Ash Borer not here yet, but hundreds of tree seedlings ready to plant and care for to replace ash trees that will die.
1 Fun Thing – 20
Omo sang the Pete Seeger song, “Last Night I had the Strangest Dream”, we all sang and swayed along.
Fair Announcements
This Saturday, 10-11 at 6:30 at the Unitarian Universalist Church Eugene, 1685 W 13th, there is the OCF annual meeting featuring the candidates for the board, who will speak to all present about their qualifications, etc. Voting will occur at the end of the meeting. https://oregoncountryfair.net/event/ocf-annual-membership-meeting-3/
Fair feedback: the Coffee setup in the House was a success, with community interaction and effective volunteers.
Pass distribution info requested by the Fair was provided by Karla. The Fair is looking at crew staffing numbers in the hope of reducing volunteers needed to lower expenses as last summer the number of volunteers and workers was greater than the public ticket holders. (I think that is what was said)
Stand for Council – 10
Tim read the Council Selection Process (which needs updating going forward) clarifying that villagers who have concerns for any council candidate must contact them to begin discussions within 1 week of these notes being posted on the DRUM. (posted 10-11, concerns accepted before 10-19) Those candidates who receive no concerns in that period will be confirmed at the November meeting. Others will go through the process and either be confirmed or blocked at the January village meeting, depending on the outcome as they discuss the concerns. Candidates’ names and contact information listed below. See the full text of the process HERE. If you wish to call and no phone number is listed below, you can contact ocf...@gmail.com and you will be sent their phone number.
Candidates stated their experience and priorities, and stood on behalf of those who were not there. Kimberly Robles stood as well as all presently serving council people except Nathan Georgitis.
Michael Omogrosso (Omo) 541-844-8719, o...@efn.org
Karla Caudell 541.337.5319 kjca...@gmail.com
Tim Mueller 541-521-7208 T...@peak.org
Diane Albino iri...@yahoo.com
David Hoffman 541-484-9204 fi...@efn.org
Sara Sweatt, 541-554-2012 saralyn...@gmail.com
Kimberly Robles, 541-743-3913
Sam Rutledge samuelr...@gmail.com
Kelsey Kawders 541-579-8649, Littlevillag...@gmail.com
Adrian Acosta tooma...@gmail.com
Kaitlyn Caudell 541-515-0493 Kaityc...@gmail.com
Omo: Been on the council off and on for many years. Goals include finding another to host the Saturday night campfire, facilitate in and out parking, have fun.
Kim: Shadowed a few years, participated in and Co-coordinated IC booth for some years, facilitates booth coord gatherings, helped with orientation.
David: you know me
Tim: Council since 2002-3, does the registration forms, website, elist upkeep and loves seeing us all together.
Sam: Wants to make things easy and peaceful.
Adrian: 2 years on council, learned a lot, hopes to help update the eligibility forms online.
Capital Projects (announcement/action request)
Capital project requests needing funding, due in January, included the plan to replace the parachute that shades the Green with triangle shaped sails that would overlap and attach to booth posts somehow. This has been talked about with Construction, but not fully developed, so will be discussed further at next week’s council meeting.
Unfair Announcements-10
KindTree – Autism Rocks will have their 8th Disco Halloween Extravaganza event at Whirled Pies 5:30-8pm October 30. DJ music, dance and costume contests, and a new Palm reader, our very on Young Arthur. Come join the fun and help support this non-profit. https://www.kindtree.org/event-details/disco-halloween-extravaganza-8
No Kings Protest at the Federal building in Eugene October 25, 10am-1pm. Be an activist, Dress festively, there will be speakers and music and tables, so come make noise with your community.
Strokes and pokes – 5
Small meetings are great to talk with each other. You shoulda been there…
Tim Mueller 541-521-7208
Community Village Coordinating Council
Oregon Country Fair
https://communityvillageocf.org/