There is more work to do in exploring the General Meeting venue solution
space. The Portland Building was nice, and vaguely workable, with some
downsides:
a) building access is at least as bad as PSU. Outside door locked,
calls to building security were not particularly welcome due to the walk
involved for the poor guy, meaning we had to station someone at the door
to let people in.
b) they are going to want to start charging, unless we can find a
bureau sponsor (which is possible);
c) they want a city employee to babysit us (which *might* be
possible, but it's hard to imagine, I have some feelers out);
I am going to keep pushing, because I think it's bad policy to treat
community groups as unwanted aliens in public buildings, but I'm just
one person. Victory is not assured.
On the plus side, no one was frisked for nail clippers.
I am going to ping the PSU people again, but I think the most likely
venue for April at this point is probably back at the Latvian Center.
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Russell Senior
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