Hello to all! Dean, Adam, Bob, Margaret, Spruce, Justin, and Jo all made it to our morning meeting yesterday. The BIG topic at hand is: getting the UO to substantiate the support that they put into writing last week. We need to try to get a more clear timeline for when we can get the house and what, exactly, it means that they are \"fully committed to identifying property for this project\" -- when and where? So... this remains our biggest challenge. We are waiting to hear back from Jan O and the Veep about whether one of them can meet with a group of us next week to discuss this. [Jan returned my previous inquiry by saying that getting her & Dan both in a meeting wouldn\'t be possible until the first week of September. I replied with a request that at least one of them meet with us next week if possible. I\'ll let you know as soon as I hear any word.] Related Topics and our \"TO DO\" list: -- We discussed the logistics of funding/nonprofit status and how we need to find out more about whether our chances of getting a house from the UO would be hurt at all if we go through another nonprofit besides the UO in our grants. Hopefully we\'ll get a better sense of this after Dean meets with Mary Farrington on the 19th (9am, TUESDAY, in Dean\'s office if you want to be there). -- We\'re getting a strategy devised as to how to leverage the house -- or at least a physical address of a house -- that we can use for the time being in our grants, etc until everything is definite. We want pictures. We want dimensions. We want something on the ground and real that we can frame our grants & thoughts around. We are much closer to this now that the UO has given us such clear support in writing. -- Justin continues to work on the brochure and between him & Dean, there should be at least a working copy to use soon which will be accessible via the webpage (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~casl/) -- Bob still awaits word from CCAT and the EDC webmaster about our new web link and photos to post. -- Dean will be working up a management structure and talking points/strategy after his meeting with Mary which we can use for our meeting with Admin. We discussed our thoughts on what this structure would look like. The main players that we see in the CASL picture are: student co-directors (with overlapping one year terms), a faculty advisor (1 yr term?), an advisory board, community partners (the neighbors association, BRING recycling, etc), possible work study students, Design Build classes and other UO groups, and a volunteer group. Eventually (soon??), we may want to develop a more formal business plan... -- Adam is going to be looking into getting a rough sketch of a hypothetical floorplan for CASL to bring our ideas more to life and provide a visual aid for our proposals in grants, etc. -- Margaret, Spruce & Jo continue to work on grants. -- More work on outreach continues including having some sort of presence at the Permaculture gathering Sept 12-14th, the Freshman Welcome Week, and possibly an article to get into the Emerald for the first week/month of class in the fall. We also need to talk to more faculty, especially in Arch & the Design Build program. WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN ANY WAY, BIG OR SMALL? Any of the things discussed above (and more!) could use a hand. Please contact me if you\'re interested (jrodger1@darkwing.uoregon.edu). OUR NEXT MEETING: who ever ends up meeting with Dan and/or Jan, we\'ll try to meet at least a half hour beforehand to gather our thoughts. We will NOT have a meeting two Thursdays from our last meeting as we normally would (too many folks out of town that week). I\'ll still be out of town the next Thurs (9/4) so we can either plan on Thursday, Sept 11th or you all can meet on the 4th or we can figure out a whole different day. I\'m back in town by Sept 7th. Thanks for reading and thanks for believing in this effort -- it will succeed! Whatever energy you\'re putting into it helps - even if it\'s just encouraging thoughts for now!! :) peace, Jo Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:15:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Jones Reply-To: casl-l@lists.uoregon.edu To: CASL-L@lists.uoregon.edu Subject: casl-l: Prospective East-Campus houses for CASL (in our minds) At this morning\'s meeting, several people thought it might be worthwhile to take another walking tour of East Campus some evening and see what UO-owned houses still look appealing for a CASL house. People wondered what houses had been identified already during earlier neighborhood strolls. If you\'re interested in taking such a stroll alone or with a group (no date/time was set for when to do such a tour), you can choose to use or disregard the following lists of houses which have already been identified by assorted CASL folks as candidates for our house: On 17-Mar-2003, Jo wrote: 4. Our \"munch & walk\" tour turned out to be a walking/biking one with Spruce, Peter, Bob & Jo turning up on Friday afternoon. We identified 5 houses on Moss street that seemed like good candidates. The addresses are: 1577, 1599, 1629, 1788, and 1801. Steve will run a check on those to see what energy audit info EWEB may have on those houses. <...snip...> 1577 Moss - R-38 attic, R-19 floor, R-11 wall blow (1984) 1599 Moss - thermal window replacements (1991) 1629 Moss - R-38 attic, R-19 floor, R-11 wall blow (1984) 1788 Moss - R-38 attic, R-25 floor, R-11 wall blow (1996) 1801 Moss - R-38 attic, R-25 floor, R-11 wall blow, thermal window replacements, (1995) On 22-Apr-2003, Jo wrote: So 5 of us (Jo, James, Kelsy, Dean, & Peter) walked around the east campus area today and saw several houses that would be potential CASLs. Top of the list (for me & Kelsy, at least) was 1830/1832 Columbia (a duplex) -- it has a welcoming front yard and nice side yard with good solar exposure along it\'s south side, long house with neat historical back (possibly old barn). Others on Columbia were: 1800 (looks a bit unkept and is a good size in terms of house & yard), 1753 (big yard, good roof for sun) and could possibly be joined with a connector to its neighbor (1731), and lastly, 1764 (old paint, neat historical structure). On Villard St.: 1598 (long e-w axis with continous attic -- remodeling possibilities, decid. tree on north side), 1662 (old farm house, definite fixer-upper), 1760/1761 (newer duplex, long, yard is relatively small but nice), 1812 (small but good yard, would probably have to add an addition to it partly to get better solar exposure). On Moss st., we identified 2 more houses: 1724 (currently the \"community education center\" -- anyone know about this? it looks rather unmaintained but we did see people working inside), and 1788 (attractive older house, good size yard).