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What a Complete Participation Record Should Preserve
Participation can happen in many places, and no single item necessarily contains the whole record. A strong record should make those pieces traceable to one another.

Sharing Salish
6 days ago5 min read


After the Objection: Who Gets to Participate?
Who gets to participate when the rules themselves are still being developed? This post examines written participation, access, voting, accommodations, discipline, correction, and the need for a process that can be reviewed and corrected.

Sharing Salish
6 days ago6 min read


Record Status Notice — September 13 IBA Performance Review
A written performance review concerning the September 13, 2026 IBA meeting has been developed and preserved. This public Record Status Notice asks a larger question: how can we build a dependable process for acknowledgment, answer, correction, and disposition without turning every disagreement into a public dispute?

Sharing Salish
6 days ago4 min read


When Meeting Minutes Teach People to Stay Silent
Assembly minutes do more than preserve decisions. They can teach members what may happen when someone objects, escalates a concern, or speaks independently. This assessment examines the foreseeable effect of recording a participant’s dispute alongside instructions to stand down and restrictions on outside communications—without determining anyone’s private motives or guilt.

Sharing Salish
Sep 64 min read


After the CIR: What Is Supposed to Happen Next?
A Criminal Incident Report creates a record—but what is supposed to happen after that? This post examines the Assembly roles, support functions, handoffs, and performance questions that arise after a member documents a trespass, including unresolved questions about implementation and continuity.

Sharing Salish
Sep 511 min read


Public Redacted Copy — Proposed Study: Assistance Applications and Declared Americans
A public redacted copy of the proposal that opened the current Assembly Performance review, preserving the study question, voluntary participation, and substantive text while removing private recipient and routing information.

Sharing Salish
Aug 243 min read


WHEN POPULARITY REPLACES PROCEDURE
A practical proposal about assistance pathways for declared Americans became a larger test of Assembly performance: whether useful questions can be received, classified, referred and examined through functioning procedures rather than filtered through popularity or personal preference.

Sharing Salish
Aug 245 min read
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