Carpooling to DFL State Central Committee Meetings

Fellow State Central Committee Members,

On today, my birthday, I wanted to present a new tool to you to possibly aid in SCC travel.

WHEREAS: In Minnesota we have a beautiful, and big, state to travel to get to State Party Meetings. AND

WHEREAS: To help aid in the travel of Delegates and Alternates to SCC Meetings I have created a Google Group that I believe could help facilitate travel within our beautiful state. AND

WHEREAS: We can help the environment and our pocketbooks at the same time! AND

WHEREAS: We all know what a pain it can be to drive for hours to attend meetings, that's just how big beautiful Minnesota works.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT: If you are interested in joining, either to request a ride or to fulfill a ride request, please go to this link http://groups.google.com/group/dfl-carpool-group and Click on "Join the Group" on the right side of the Home Page.

After you click "Join the Group" you will be prompted to login to Google Accounts. If you do not have a Google Account (different from a Gmail Account) all you need to do is Create/sign up for a Google Account with your own e-mail address and create a password.

Just as you do not need a Yahoo E-mail address to join the SCC ListServe (which is a YahooGroup), you do not need a Gmail E-mail address to join the DFL Carpool List

For now, the main function of this list will be to let people Requesting a Ride to post to the list.

A person wishing to Fulfill a Ride Request would then Reply directly to the person requesting a ride (this ensures some privacy, and prevents accumulation of E-mails that would otherwise go to the whole group).

I've tried to make the instructions very specific to aid in the facilitation of ride requesting and giving.

This is what the Instructions for Usage will look like, for now, on the DFL Carpool Group:
_________________________________________________________________________

To post a request to this group, send email to dfl-carpool-group@googlegroups.com

When REQUESTING a Ride:

Format the Subject: RIDE REQUEST: Your Name, Meeting Title and Date, Your Congressional District, City, ZIP Code

EXAMPLE: RIDE REQUEST: John Doe, DFL Business Conference 2/5/2010, CD1, La Crescent, 55947

In the BODY of the E-mail Please list:

Your Name,
Meeting Title and Date, Your Congressional District, Your City, Your ZIP Code
Your E-mail Address
The Best Phone Number to Reach You At
The Best time to call

EXAMPLE:
John Doe
DFL Business Conference 2/5/2010, CD1, La Crescent, 55947
johndoe@fakeemail._com
507.867.5309
After 5pm

When FULFILLING a Ride Request please REPLY DIRECTLY to the person at their personal E-mail Address to make arrangements for a ride.

When a ride has been ARRANGED, the person requesting the ride should reply to their original Request with ARRANGED in the Subject Line
_________________________________________________________________________

This could work, or it could not, but I think it might be worth it to give it a try.

I've created this group to help facilitate better usage of our available natural, human, time and financial resources. At some point we all have to travel somewhere.

Sincerely,

Jacob Grippen
Chair - Houston County DFL
CD1 Male Delegate to State AAC (CD1 Executive Committee)

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