Community Village OCF Meeting Minutes 10-8-2026
Present: Tim, Erin, Sam, Sara, Karla, Kaitlyn, Kelsey David
Not: Kim, Adrian, Diane, Omo
+ 4 villagers
Agenda:
Introductions
Agenda Review
(Moved to October Council Meeting: Canopy Update, EAB update, Moon Lodge update)
Fair Announcements
No November Meeting?
Fair Debrief
Stand For Council
Rainbow Village
Workshops / Stage acts
Non-Fair Announcements
Strokes & Pokes & Fun Thing
Introductions
Agenda Review
(Moved to October Council Meeting: Canopy Update, EAB update, Moon Lodge update)
Fair Announcements
OCF Board of Directors election is underway. Please vote. Your ballots were sent via email.
Fair annual meeting: Oct 10, 6:30 at the Unitarian Universalist Church.
Stand For Council
Villagers have 1 week from the day of announcement (done Friday Oct 9 via CV drum and other village lists, concerns due by Friday Oct 16) to express concerns regarding any candidate who stands. If no concerns are expressed, council candidates will be confirmed. Our Village guidelines describe the steps necessary to communicate concerns and how to address them: https://communityvillageocf.org/coordinating-council-selection-process/
Candidates contact info:
Michael Omogrosso (Omo) 541-844-8719, omo@efn.org
Karla Caudell 541.337.5319 kjcaudell@gmail.com
Tim Mueller 541-521-7208 TGM@peak.org
Diane Albino iriedi@yahoo.com
David Hoffman 541-484-9204 fixit@efn.org
Sara Sweatt, 541-554-2012 saralynnsweatt@gmail.com
Kimberly Robles, 541-743-3913 lizzycordich@gmail.com
Sam Rutledge samuelrutledge@gmail.com
Adrian Acosta toomanyfun@gmail.com
Kaitlyn Caudell 541-515-0493 Kaitycaudell@gmail.com
Erin Moody 989-751-1709 erin.e.moody11@gmail.com
Each candidate’s remarks:
Erin: ”I’m happy doing work for the village, solving problems, working towards improvement.”
Kaitlyn: “I’ve been in the village all my life, and I plan on doing a real fire drill next summer.”
Kim (Tim): “Kim has been in the village many years, and on the council and shadowing also. She is dedicated and adds helpful perspective to every conversation.”
Tim: “I have been on the council for well over a decade, update the website and eligibility forms, and love the village.”
Omo (Tim): “Omo has been on and off the council for years, supervised construction and is a mediator. And he plays the dulcimer, holds space, helps kids.”
David: “Lotsa things I want to do, as I have for decades on council.”
Karla: “I’ve been on council a long time, the village is my family – I can decompress here. I also interact with OCF on behalf of the village.”
Diane (Karla) “I was part of the village founding and bring aa historical perspective to our discussions. I served in the Peace Corp in Africa long ago.”
Sara: Began service as a booth coord, 6th year on council. Loves helping and supporting my booth with positive solutions.”
Sam: Since 2002 in the village, on and off council, former OCF board member, arranges for facilitators, loves it here, home and family!”
Adrian (Karla): “Helps with the internet and loves the village.”
Rainbow Village
Rainbow Village has requested a larger space for their booth. Using the History Booth area next to the restaurant is the best option, though there would be reduced public seating there. Path Planning will be discussing adding camping for the restaurant staff on the opposite side of the restaurant, reducing public seating there. Construction Rick has supported putting Rainbow Village in the History booth space, using up about ½ to 2/3 of that space. A new booth would likely not get to build a loft, as per OCF present rules. And no camping added for the Rainbow Village booth. Where would we replace public seating? Maybe build some benches to go between the IC, LLL and H&H booths and the Master Gardener’s bamboo plants row? Prolly no capital budget money from OCF. Local fundraising would be needed. CONSENSUS to We will continue to work on this in support of Rainbow Village.
No November Meeting?
Because the September and October village meetings this Fall have included less that 15 non-council villagers total, Tim suggested a November meeting is unnecessary. The members agreed to leave the final decision up to the Council at its October 15 meeting. We also need to remind Booth Coords that they need to send at least one representative of their booth to every village meeting.
2027 meeting schedule will include, similar to last year, Zoom meetings for January & February, Growers Market (probably…) in person for March, Universalist Unitarian church for April and May, and on site in June (no in town June meeting).
Fair Debrief
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Workshops / Stage acts
Sara spoke with Beth, our workshop scheduler, who is eager to work with Pleado from the stage to coordinate workshop scheduling on the green with acts that need less volume and setup time. Awesome.
Non-Fair Announcements
Taylor: Youth Theater is performing “Pops” in November, “Beauty and the Beast” in December
Tim: Autism Rocks is doing their 9th Disco Halloween Extravaganza party October 29, 6pm at Whirled Pies. Tickets and info: https://www.kindtree.org/event-details/disco-halloween-extravaganza-9
Kid’s rights conversation 11-3… Saturday Youth Nights.
Shakey Graves at the McDonald theater Oct 21.
Romance Novels group “Most Ardently” Saturday Dec 12 at 4pm. 11th & Chambers book store.
November Art Walk includes Allies LLC November 6, 120 11th Ave
Strokes & Pokes & Fun Thing
Efficient and fun
Fun: Why do ducks have such long tail feathers? They’re just trying to cover their quack…
David told a story of Omo’s fun song….
Notes by Tim Mueller
