News & Notes 905:Report of the follow-up RAM
Report of the follow-up Entity::RAM
...in preparation for the RAD to stop all development work on the Crown until further notice from the RA
Dear Residents, here is the report of the follow-up Residents’ Assembly Meeting (RAM) that happened on Sunday 2nd of January 2022.
Residents’ Assembly Meeting (follow-up RAM)
Day/Date: Sunday, 2 January 2022
Venue: Bharat Nivas Auditorium
Time: 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Facilitators: Fif, Niva
Attendees: 320 attendees (in person at Bharat Nivas Auditorium), around 15 attendees (in person at Bhumika Hall) and more than 900 viewers joined online.
The follow up RAM was called by the Entity::Residents’ Assembly Service (RAS) to discuss the revised proposal as the next step in preparation for the decision-making.
For the background of this RAD, please refer to our previous communication.
320 residents attended the meeting in person (Bharat Nivas Auditorium) in full compliance with the new Covid restrictions requiring only 50% occupancy. Newcomers, volunteers, youth were welcomed, as stipulated in the RAD policy, as silent observers and were accommodated at Bhumika Hall. There were more than 900 viewers online. People started to gather and register their attendance in person from 2:00 pm on.
The RAM was formally opened at 3:10 pm by the facilitators, who set the intention, ground rules and get through the agenda.
Before entering into the subject matter of the meeting, the facilitators offered the stage to whoever wanted to voice general objections to the RAD process. Shankar (Aspiration) and Lavkamad took this space.
Suryamayi then presented a data analysis of the 207 survey responses, with feedback on the original proposal, that RAS received from the community.
Maël and Lili, on behalf of the Petitioners’ Coordination Team, presented the revised proposal they drafted, as per the RAD policy, to take into account this feedback, explaining what they did consider for the revision, what they did not, and why.
The revised proposal was read first in English, then in Tamil and finally in French, followed by a Q&A session as planned.
There was time only for a few questions to be answered – the neat flow of the meeting was disturbed by the information from the Bharat Nivas management that police were coming to check Covid-regulations compliance of the community gathering in the venue. To avoid further disruption, RAS and facilitators decided to move to the final point of the agenda. (Police did come later, with only RAS, Auroville Securuty and few others still at Bharat Nivas).
The facilitators explained how to express agreement or disagreement on the revised proposal to those physically present in the Auditorium (using tokens distributed at the beginning of the meeting) and those connected online (using a specific email announced during the meeting). The vast majority expressed a common agreement to accept the suggested refined proposal – for further details, please pass by the RAS office.
As per the RAD policy, the RAS will soon “disseminate an RAD announcement (along with the proposal, voting options and all relevant materials), containing a personalised voting link, through the RAS mailing system 2 weeks prior to the voting deadline. The same announcement will be published in News and Notes and Auronet”.
For a deeper exploration, please refer to the following:
- Revised proposal
- Presentation of petitioners post feedback (RAM2)
- Presentation of the petitioners (RAM1)
- Presentation of the ATDC (RAM1)
- Petition
- Clarification: What is an RAD, RAM, RAS (in English, French and Tamil)
- RAD policy (in English, French and Tamil)
End Of Report
~ Residents’ Assembly Service (RAS)