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Planning To Deal With The Shut-Down Of The IMC's Performance Space |
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by Paul Riismandel
Email: paul (nospam) ucimc.org (unverified!)
Address: 218 W. Main St., Suite 110, Urbana, IL 61801 |
12 May 2003
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Anyone and everyone who wishes to help find a solution and plan for dealing with the recent shut-down of the IMC's back performance space and other code violations at the IMC should attend the next IMC Steering Group meeting, Wed. May 14 at 8:00 PM, at the IMC, 218 W. Main St., downtown Urbana. |
Anyone and everyone who wishes to help find a solution and plan for dealing with the recent shut-down of the IMC’s back performance space and other code violations at the IMC should attend the next IMC Steering Group meeting, Wed. May 14 at 8:00 PM.
Here are more details:
On Sunday night Meghan from the Shows group called an emergency meeting for IMC volunteers to come together and begin planning on how to deal with last Thursday’s shut-down of the IMC’s back room performance space by the City of Urbana for as yet not fully specified building code violations. There were 10 people at this meeting, including Paul R., Ellen K., Mike L., Cyrus, Meghan K., Jane, John M., Molly S., Jeff, and one person whose name I didn’t get.
At this time the full extent of the City’s findings on code violations are unknown, although many of them were discussed at a meeting with the City on Friday, attended by IMC volunteers Sascha, Mike L. and Danielle. According to Mike, the City has promised to give us a report of their findings this Tuesday, May 13. For the time being the back performance space is closed until further notice, but the main IMC space continues to be open.
At Meghan’s suggestion, the group assembled at Sunday’s meeting decided to begin drafting a statement from the IMC to give our side of the story, in part responding to some of the City’s assertions about the performance. Megan and Jane will draft this statement and post it to the IMC main e-mail list (imc (at) ucimc.org). Anyone wishing to see this draft and make suggestions on it should be subscribed to the IMC e-mail list – you can do this at this webpage:
http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/imc
We decided to ask the Steering Group to review and approve this statement at its next meeting, Wed. at 8 PM.
In discussing the known details about the violations the City says it has found, we agreed that there are two major decisions to be made. First, we must plan to do whatever work is necessary to keep the main portion of the IMC space open – that is, all of the space except the performance space: front room, production room and middle gallery. We should be able to address this question at Wednesday’s Steering Meeting.
Second, we must decide if the IMC wishes to do the necessary work to bring the back performance space up to code. We agreed that this decision cannot be made without knowing exactly what the violations are, what work must be done to fix them, and an estimate of what that work will cost. We will not have much of this information in time for Wednesday’s Steering Group meeting. Therefore it is unlikely that an informed decision about the future of the back performance space can be made at Wednesday’s Steering meeting.
The Steering Group is the body, made up of empowered spokespeople from all IMC working groups, that tackles the issues and decisions that affect the entire IMC. At the moment, anyone and everyone in the IMC community who wishes to help find a solution and plan for how the IMC will deal with this problem should attend the next Steering Group meeting, Wednesday, May 14 at 8:00 PM at the IMC
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