COLEEN DOUGLAS HAS BEEN FACILITATING AN E-MAIL AND IN PERSON DIALOGUE BETWEEN STREET PERFORMERS AS A GROUP AND BETWEEN THEM AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY. THE NEXT MEETING OF STREET PERFORMERS IS 2 PM AT WIRED WASH CAFE ON SUNDAY JANUARY 12. ANY HELP FROM MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED. I AM TAKING THE LIBERTY OF PASSING ON HER APPEAL. --ROBERT NORSE

Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 08:04:41 -0800
>To: cdouglas (at) cruzio.com
>From: Coleen Douglas <cdouglas (at) cruzio.com>
>Subject: Pls send email to City Council TODAY
>
>Friends,
>
>As you may know, since November I've been working as a facilitator with Santa Cruz Street Performers to solve disagreements with merchants downtown by using mutual respect, common courtesy, and dialogue. Next Tuesday January 14th, the City Council may pass an ordinance revision that would kill this dialogue process. They need
to hear from citizens who support the dialogue option immediately.

>If you feel so moved, TODAY OR TOMORROW, cut-and-paste this letter into a new email, and send it to all the Council members via the email list below (also included is City Clerk, official record-keeper). I'd really appreciate it!

>Thank you, Coleen
>
>P.S. I'm off to Cuba tomorrow morning til Jan 19, so I'll miss the Council meeting itself. This is my final effort on behalf of dialogue downtown before the Council meeting.

PROPOSED E-MAIL TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS

>TO:
>TFitzmaurice (at) ci.santa-cruz.ca.us, MPrimack (at) ci.santa-cruz.ca.us,
>EPorter (at) ci.santa-cruz.ca.us, SKennedy (at) ci.santa-cruz.ca.us,
>CMathews (at) ci.santa-cruz.ca.us, EReilly (at) ci.santa-cruz.ca.us,
>MRotkin (at) ci.santa-cruz.ca.us, cityclerk (at) ci.santa-cruz.ca.us
>
>SUBJECT: No 1-hour Move-along law
>
>Dear City Council,
>
>On January 14, I urge you NOT to pass the 1-hour move-along section of the revised display device ordinance. Instead, encourage the merchants, street performers, and residents to engage in mutually-respectful dialogue to create agreements that work for all of them.
>
>I want my downtown to be lively, safe and inviting. The laws you propose are too rigid, and discourage talented musicians, as well as political tablers, from being a part of the downtown scene.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Your name and address
>