When: Saturday & Sunday, Aug 21-22, 2004 9:30am - 5:00pm	
 
Where: 
 Hawk Woods Nature Center
 3779 Bald Mountain Road
 Auburn Hills, MI 48326 

 maintained by: 
 Auburn Hills Recreation Department 
 248-370-9353

See detailed directions
and map below. 

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Accomodations

Six cabins are available on the site. They each sleep four, and
can be rented for $30 per night. The cabins will be available
from 6:00 PM on Friday, August 20. Tent camping is also allowed,
for a fee of $10 per night. Hotels in the area are likely to be
booked, but we should be able to find space on some member's
couches, etc. 

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Meeting Agenda/timeline:  (subject to change)

Saturday, Aug 21 
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 9:30 - 10:00am    Registration and coffee
10:00 - 11:00am    Officer's reports & discussions; SCC reports 
11:00 - 12:00pm    Water Update         
12:00 -  1:00pm    LUNCH 
 1:00 -  2:15pm    Thirst, a film on water privatization
 2:15 -  2:30pm    BREAK 
 2:30 -  3:30pm    Energy workshop 
 3:30 -  5:00pm    Tour of solar cell plant

   Saturday Evening:  Dinner and music around the campfire
      
Sunday, Aug 22 
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 9:30 - 10:00am    Registration and coffee
10:00 - 11:00am    National Convention Delegate Reports  
11:00 - 12:00pm    Campaign Updates         
12:00 -  1:00pm    LUNCH 
 1:00 -  2:00pm    Social Forum of the Americas
 2:00 -  2:15pm    BREAK 
 2:15 -  3:45pm    Electoral Planning   
 3:45 -  4:00pm    Closing 

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Registration:
$10.00 BEFORE July 31, $15.00 after that date or at the door.

FEE WAIVERS AVAILABLE.  If possible, please consider paying
more than the minimum registration fee to cover expenses for
our members who need to use the feewaiver option. 

Mail registrations to: 
Meeting Manager Louis Novak
18662 Fairfield
Detroit., MI 48221, 
Phone (313) 623-4709,   
Email: meetingmanager@migreens.org
Email is preferred. If you call, please leave a message and I
will get back with you as soon as possible.

Registration information to include:

Your name, street address, membership status in GPMI, GPMI voting
status if known*

*According to our bylaws, there are two ways to be accorded
voting rights at SMMs:

1. Any member in good standing (dues paid) who has attended a
meeting within the last four quarters automatically has voting
rights

2. Other members may apply to the Meeting Manager, who will
request that one existing member who already has voting rights
vouch for the applicant's interest in and support of the party.

Unfortunately, we cannot accept credit card registrations EXCEPT
you can use your credit card via the GPMI web site by using
PayPal. 



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DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: (tentative deadline)

Saturday, July 31, 2004 via email or postal mail (no 
email attachments will be accepted; please send your
proposal/s in the body of an email) This will allow the
Meeting Manager time to compile all proposals and mail
them to registered meeting participants at least one
week prior to the meeting.

Proposals submitted after that time will be considered
for discussion on the floor of the meeting, and
proposers are responsible for bringing sufficient
copies of their submission. Please note that there is
absolutely no guarantee that proposals submitted after
the deadline will find time on the agenda.

Proposals submitted PRIOR to the deadline will be
accepted on first-received, first included basis as
follows: 1st emailed submission followed by first
postal submission, etc., until in the Meeting Manager's
estimation all available business discussion time has
been allocated. The Meeting Manager will then post a
tentative business agenda listing the proposed agenda
items for discussion along with any items that did not
seem to fit, and will follow the will of the membership
as much as possible in creating the final agenda.  




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Directions to Hawk Woods Nature Center

Map to Hawk Woods

From Detroit, Ann Arbor and Flint, it's an hour's drive or less.

The nature center and lodge is located in northern Oakland
County, near I-75 and near the Palace of Auburn Hills. The park
is owned by the city of Auburn Hills. From I-75 northbound or
southbound, take the exit to Lapeer Road. Northbound, this is
exit 81. Southbound, I'm not sure of the number; it may be 82
instead of 81.
 
In either case, you will head east, passing just to the south of
the Palace of Auburn Hills. You want to be in the right-hand
lane, to take the exit to "Pontiac-South." 
 
Down on the surface street, you need to move to the left lane to
follow the brown-background sign directing you to turn back north
(around the median) for Hawk Woods Nature Center. Now you want to
go for the right-hand lane, because you are going to take the
next right after this turn around the median. Most of the signs
for this lane appear to be directing you back to I-75, and that's
where you will be headed in this lane if you miss the turn to
Bald Mountain Road. Bald Mountain Road here is parallel to the
main highway, and the turn is just a short jog to the right
followed by an immediate left onto a two-lane blacktop headed
north.
 
There is a small sign at this last turn that says "Nature
Center," but this one might be easy to miss if you are watching
traffic. You were last headed north on the main road, and you
will continue north on Bald Mountain. Follow the two-lane, which
quickly turns from industrial to rural, for one mile. Hawk Woods
Nature Center is on the left, clearly marked with a large sign by
the driveway. It is screened by shrubbery until you are close
but, if you are driving at the 25 mph speed limit, you aren't
going fast enough to drive by.

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